Useful Web-links for American Studies

1. General

http://vos.ucsb.edu/: “Voice of the Shuttle” A comprehensive humanities resource with huge number of links. A good starting point for most searches

www.promo.net/pg: “Project Gutenberg” - Huge online text resource. Ongoing project which is being continually updated with new texts

www.english.upenn.edu/Resources/lit-resources.html: Excellent resource for conferences/calls for papers, and comprehensive links to for all English Literatures

2. American Studies

www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw: The largest collection of American Studies links.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/: University of Virginia American Studies site, includes excellent e-text resources

http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/CAS/: Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies, University of Glasgow - includes good links

www.nottingham.ac.uk/American: Univ of Nottingham’s School of American and Canadian Studies. Good film resource

3. American Literature

www.wwnorton.com/naal: Companion site to the Norton Anthologies. Huge reference resource, including historical timeline to help contextualize literature

www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML: Perspectives in American Literature” - Large American Literature resource arranged chronologically & by genre

www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html: student-centred site providing good overview on American Literature

www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/ashome.html: Keele University American Studies site. Good links and particularly strong on Black American literature

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/amlitweb.htm: US Government Resource. A gateway to American Literature resources and sites hosted by American institutions

4. Black American Literature

www.nypl.org/schomburg/: Large resource on Black American culture, and particularly strong on women writers (especially 19th century)

http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/: Site of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard, leading African American Research Centre. Of special interest to postgraduate students

http://www.husdsupport.org/african_american_journals.htm: Concise & comprehensive listing of African American Journals

5. Women Writers

www.unl.edu/legacy/legacy.htm: “Society for the Study of American Women Writers”. Provides detailed studies of American women writers, and many useful links

6. Native American writing

www.ipl.org/ref/native: Exhaustive resources on Native American Authors

7. American Studies Associations

www.let.uu.nl/eaas: European Association for American Studies - Conferences and other links

www.baas.ac.uk: British Association for American Studies

www2.cas.arts.gla.ac.uk/sasa/: Scottish Association for the Study of America


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