Abraham Lincoln's assassination
http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln.html
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination is an online resource which sets out to explore the events leading up to and resulting from Lincoln's murder in 1865. The site links to two other sections, The Abraham Lincoln Research Site and the Mary Todd Lincoln Research site. The resource arose from the site author's experience re-enacting the trial that followed the assassination with his history students and will be valuable to undergraduates researching this major event in American history. The material on the site includes transcripts of primary source accounts, original photographs and secondary analysis. It is thoughtfully laid out and assumes an audience with little prior knowledge, so includes a one page overview of the assassination, with links to references on key players in the events. It also considers various theories and responses and undertakes a detailed analysis of the conspiracy trial of 1865. While the author is very modest about his work in his introduction to the site, the resource he has created is comprehensive, with source material meticulously referenced and credited. The site is straightforward to navigate and user-friendly.
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American studies electronic crossroads
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/
The American Studies Electronic Crossroads Project contains pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies Community, along with full information about the American Studies Association (ASA). Crossroads is an international networking and curriculum development project of the American Studies Association with sponsorship from Georgetown University. This includes: information about the American Studies Association (ASA), the ASA newsletter, and news about the annual conference; links to American Studies organisations and information about degree programmes around the world; news of fellowships, jobs and professional opportunities; essays on American Studies; an American Studies virtual library; and resources and materials for teaching.
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American studies journal
http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/
'American Studies Journal' is a full-text ejournal, published from the Center for United States Studies, at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. At April 2009 there are three recent issues freely available online, and tables-of-contents for issues from November 1996 until Winter 2001. This elegantly presented journal ranges widely into fields such as politics and education, but also appears to regularly publish substantial scholarly articles on arts and cultural issues. Some issues are themed, with themes such as 'The Outlaw and the American Cultural Landscape'. Articles available online include: 'Political Outlaws: Beat Cowboys' (on the Beat writers); 'From Subterranean to Suburban: The Landscapes of Gay Outlaw Writing'; 'Outlaw Artists and the Urban Landscape: Does One Have to be Bad to Be Good?'; and 'The Reflection of Race and Law in African American Literature', among others. Until 1995 the publication was titled 'American Studies Newsletter'.
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Ameriquests
http://www.ameriquests.org/
'AmeriQuests' is a peer-reviewed academic journal, one that is described as being about... "real and metaphorical quests towards 'America,' defined as either an absolute but an achievable objective, or as some place in the Americas." At April 2009 the journal has published nine issues. Issues are themed, with the latest being 'On Manliness: Black American Masculinities' and the forthcoming issue is being themed 'Migration of Movement: Dance Across Americas'. Articles are available as abstracts only, but book reviews are freely available in full-text form. There is a keyword search facility that searches the full-text of an article, even if only the abstract is freely available. The website has all the details one would expect to find on the website of a substantial academic journal.
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Atlantis : journal of the Spanish association of Anglo-American studies
http://www.atlantisjournal.org/
'Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies' is a full-text online ejournal, published by the Ciudad Universitaria in Madrid. Online back-issues date from 1979 onwards. An inspection of the contents pages for online articles shows a mix of Spanish and English articles and reviews, with an increasing preponderance of English articles in issues after 2000. Articles are freely available for download in PDF format. Example article titles from recent issues are: 'Shelleys Orientalia: Indian Elements in his Poetry'; 'From Balaclavas to Jumpsuits: The Multiple Histories and Identities of Doctor Whos Cybermen'; 'Making Something Out of Nothing: Lesbianism as Liberating Fantasy in The Childrens Hour'; and 'Roger Waters Poetry of the Absent Father: British Identity in Pink Floyds The Wall', among many others. This will be an interesting journal for those seeking fresh scholarly perspectives on British and American culture. The website also has details of the Editorial Board and submission procedures.
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Australasian journal of American studies
http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/docs/contents.htm
'The Australasian Journal of American Studies' is a full-text ejournal. At January 2009, full-text issues date from 2002 to 2008, with simple tables-of-contents available for issues from 1991 to 2001. Issues contain scholarly essays, book reviews, conference reports and lecture transcripts, not all of which are relevant to the arts and humanities. Example scholarly article available on cultural and historical topics are: 'Jazz and the New Negro: Harlem's Intellectuals Wrestle with the Art of the Age'; ''You Can't Steal a Gift': Narrative(s) of Nation in Ken Burns' Jazz'; 'Breech Birth: The Receptions to D.W. Griffiths 'The Birth of a Nation''; 'The Irish Films of Martin Scorsese'; and 'Feature Films and Eugenics in the 1920s', among many others. The journal is published by the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, and the website has details of the editors, the Editoral Board, and the submissions process.
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Bulgarian journal of American and transatlantic studies
http://www.jatsbulgaria.org/
The Bulgarian Journal of American and Transatlantic Studies is a publication of the Bulgarian American Studies Association (BASA) at Sofia University. It aims to promote US Studies in Bulgaria and internationally. It was established with the support of the American Embassy, Sofia and the Fulbright Commission, Sofia in 2006 and is the result of the work of a team of dedicated US Studies scholars from the University of Sofia, Fulbright alumni and members of the Fulbright Commission in Bulgaria. The journal is released sporadically starting with Issue One in December 2006. The articles are mostly written in English but some are in Bulgarian. The journal is fully archived and full text is available for all issues.
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Caribbean online - routes to roots
http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/carib_web/default.htm
This online exhibition, Caribbean Online: Routes to Roots, focuses on archival material related to Caribbean history and politics is from the Commonwealth Institute. The exhibition examines a number of themes in Caribbean history in a broadly chronological sequence, including slavery and abolition, agriculture and trade, the experience of soldiers from the Caribbean in World War One, independence and the development of trade unions and political parties. A highly user-friendly resource, there is a wealth of information on all things Caribbean. A number of images under various different headings can be browsed, along with a bibliography of further reading and a number of links to relevant Web pages.
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Century dictionary online
http://www.global-language.com/century/
This website hosts an online version of the complete Century Dictionary. The Century Dictionary was one of the most impressive dictionaries of the English language compiled in the USA. First published in 1889, the version reproduced here in facsimile form is the revised 1911 edition. The dictionary boasts over half a million definitions, many of them accompanied by illustrations. It also includes a biographical cyclopaedia and a world atlas. The site includes the texts of the various prefaces that introduced the print editions, and the key to pronunciation. The online dictionary may be searched or browsed alphabetically. The online dictionary is made available in jpeg or DjVu format, which requires the DjVu plug-in to be installed before it may be viewed. A link to the site from which the plug-in may be downloaded is provided. The DjVu format enables the user to magnify and manipulate the onscreen facsimile images of the original print dictionary. This resource is intended to be of value to general users, although its accuracy of reproduction should also ensure it is of interest to scholars studying lexicography and dictionary history.
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CultureCanada.gc.ca: : languages
http://www.culturecanada.gc.ca/display.cfm?lang=eng&prov=20&category=9
This is the languages section of the CultureCanada website, which is the official portal for information on Canadian culture and heritage. This searchable site can be viewed equally in English or French, and acts as a gateway to online resources for languages of Canada, as well as the social and political issues affecting them. The site provides information on official and minority languages in Canada as well as information on: communities' educational rights; aboriginal culture and linguistics; bursaries; political, legal and social aspects of bilingualism; and others. Searches may be refined by region, type, and language, or a combination of these fields, or may be browsed via an alphabetized list. Annotated side navigational links lead to parallel CultureCanada sections on: Canadian culture; books and publishing; film; video and multimedia; multiculturalism; music; heritage; archaeology; architecture; archives and libraries; historic sites; history; museums and recreation; and others. CultureCanada's language section will be of use to those interested in Canadian languages and culture in particular, and indigenous languages and official biligualism in general.
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Dirksen center projects, The
http://www.dirksencenterprojects.org/
This Webpage is devoted to special projects associated with the Dirksen Congressional Center, named for the American Senator and Congressman. The Center promotes research on, and education about, the US Congress. It is non-partisan and non-profit. This subsite presents several multi-media projects and Web-based resources on topics ranging from civil rights to editorial cartoons. Six main subsites are connected to this page, each of which contains online exhibitions of the Center's archival resources and learning materials available for the following projects: The Civil Rights Documentation Project; Editorial Cartoon Collection; Facing the Post-War World: Everett M. Dirksen Abroad, 1945; The 1960s: A Multi-Media View from Capitol Hill; Understanding Congressional Decisions Through Vectors; and 14 Units to Learn How a Bill Becomes a Law. These sites will serve starting points for teachers and students in these fields as well as researchers and provide important information on the Center's holdings that connect the history of the state to the history of civil society in the United States.
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Dirksen center, The
http://www.dirksencenter.org/
This is the homepage of the Dirksen Congressional Center, an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation based in Illinois. The Dirksen Center is named after Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969), a Republican Congressman and Senator from Illinois, who served from the 1930s to the 1960s. The site states the Center's aims as the improvement of public understanding of Congress through archival, research, and educational programs. This educational mission is revealed through subsites devoted to primary and secondary students; online teaching and learning materials concerning Congress; a newsletter dubbed 'Communicator'; and large annotated links lists. Most notably, a section for researchers outlines the scope of the Center's archival collections with guidelines for use. There is also a subpage describing grants and other research funding available for study of the collections and lists of scholarly publications which have resulted from such work.
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Electronic texts for the study of American culture
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
Published through the American Studies department at the University of Virginia, this site makes available in html format an extensive collection of works by key figures in American history. The texts are divided alphabetically according to author, and featured authors include, for example: Mark Twain; H.D. Thoreau; H.B.Stowe; Gertrud Stein; Upton Sinclair; Tom Paine; E.A. Poe; H. Melville; D.H. Lawrence; Thomas Jefferson; William James; E. Hemingway; F. Scott Fitzgerald; R.W. Emerson; W.E.B. DuBois; John Dewey; and many others. This is a fabulous resource for students.
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Electronic texts in American Studies
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/
The Digital Commons collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is an online archive. It is comprised of electronic texts including documents, primary sources and literature concerned with the culture and history of the United States. It is fully open-access and is aimed at teachers, students and researchers at all levels. The texts are presented as PDF files and may be downloaded and saved or printed out without restriction except the request that they are not re-posted or re-published elsewhere without permission. The collection may be browsed by year of posting or author's name and includes an eclectic range of material, much of which is transcribed and edited by the collection's administrator and general editor, Paul Royster. At the time of writing, this is not a huge collection, but it is developing and well-presented, with a variety of user-options.
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European journal of American studies
http://ejas.revues.org/
This is the website of the European Journal of American Studies (EJAS), produced by the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and hosted by Revues.org. Commencing in 2006, the Journal is issued three or four times a year and full text is archived on this site. Articles can be found by searching the 'Author', 'Name' and 'Keyword' indices. Access to EAAS Newsletters and EAAS Reviews is available through this site as is 'The European Library of American Studies': a bibliography listing full-length publications in English by European scholars of American Studies whose native language is not English. Each issue of EJAS is, apparently, "...either thematically composed or incrementally evolutive..." and aims to foster European views on US society, culture, politics and history by forming a forum for "European Americanists" of all generations.
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Five Points site, The
http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm
The Five Points Site is the American government's official site on the archaelogical dig beneath the present-day Foley Square Courthouse, exploring the remnants of the notorious nineteenth century Manhattan Irish slum of the Five Points. The slum generally occupied what is now the area of Foley Square, Columbus Park, Collect Pond Park, and various Lower Manhattan correctional facilities, including the Tombs. The area, which was razed in a slum clearance in the 1890s, was the focus of an archaelogical dig conducted by the United States General Services Administration and various contracted companies in the early 1990s. The description of the archaelogical work conducted is accompanied by scanned historical images provided by the New York Historical Society and the New York Public Library. Researchers, teachers, students and interested members of the public will find photographs here of excavated lodgings and unearthed artifacts to be of special interest. Among items uncovered here, some are surprisingly expensive and precious, and were possessed by well-off artisans who chose to live near their businesses in the late eighteenth century, despite the increasingly grim reputation of the neighbourhood. Remnants here point to the rough character of daily life as much as they do to the history of immigration, politics, industry (such as the first garment district), all of which shaped the character of New York City. A short biography of recommended reading is provided.
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GARM : Group of archivists of the region of Montreal
http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/500ans/portail_archives_en/accuei
Established in 1982, the Group of Archivists of the Region of Montreal (GARM), in Montréal, Québec, Canada is a professional association of 18 Montréal area institutions which collect private archival fonds. They are: Archives nationales du Québec; Bibliothí èque nationale du Québec; the Jewish Public Library; Canadian Centre for Architecture; Centre de recherche Lionel-Groulx; Canadian Jewish Congress; École des Hautes Études Commerciales; Hydro-Québec ; McCord Museum; Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe; Concordia University; Université de Montréal; Université du Québec a Montréal; Osler Library of Medical History, McGill University; Canadian Architecture Collection, McGill University; Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University; Archives, McGill University; and the City of Montréal. GARM oversees acquistions practices and acts as a lobby group for its members. The site has posted a call to members of the local community to donate all historical documents. There is a list of historical themes and users can click on them to discover which archives deal with which field. The list - ranging from aboriginal matters, to cultural communities, French America, literary works, religion and science - among other entries, will help members of the public and researchers in Canadian History identify local archives and their areas of specialty.
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Institute for the study of the Americas
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/
The Institute promotes, coordinates and provides a central focus for research and postgraduate teaching not just on the USA and Latin America but on the Americas as a whole, including Canada and the Caribbean. It was formed by the merger of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) and the Institute of US Studies at the School of Advanced Studies in the University of London. It plays a national role as a co-ordinating and information centre for American Studies in the UK and maintaining links with universities and research institutes in Canada, Latin America, continental Europe, the United States and other parts of the world. The website provides information about the Institute and its research programme and links to the American Studies Research Portal and Latin American and Caribbean Research Portal.
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Japanese Association for American Studies
http://www.jaas.gr.jp/
The website of the Japanese Association for American Studies provides information about the activities and publications of this academic association, which brings together scholars from many disciplines looking at different aspects of American societies and cultures. Most of the site is accessible in English and Japanese versions, including contents lists of one of the publications, the 'American Review'; however, the contents lists of the newsletter are Japanese-only. Full-text versions of current and past issues of 'The Japanese Journal of American Studies' (English-language) can be accessed via the site. Programmes of annual conferences since 1999 are also available, and there are links to the websites of other relevant organisations within and outside Japan.
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Japanese journal of American studies
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jaas/periodicals/JJAS/
The Japanese Journal of American Studies is a peer-reviewed English-language ejournal devoted to American studies from the perspective of Japanese scholars, particularly the interaction between the two countries. This website provides full-text versions of journal articles. The journal is published by the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), whose members include specialists in humanities areas (for example: history; literature; religion; philosophy; and popular culture) and in social science areas (for example: international relations; economics; political science; sociology; women's studies; and ethnic studies). Journal issues are mainly thematic, and themes have included: Japanese immigrants; postwar US-Japan relations; media and American society; gender; trans-Pacific perspectives; and America at war.
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Six nations writers
http://www.sixnationswriters.com/
The Six Nations Writers' website is dedicated to the storytelling tradition of the Six Nations of the Grand River area of Canada. As the storytellers of today, the writers' intent is to maintain the continuity of their heritage while contributing to the development of their own stories, by contemporary and traditional means. As a resource, this site offers an insight into ways of reclaiming heritage through writing that seeks both to recover material appropriated away from its origins, and to write for the future. Features of the site are information on the Tuscarora, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk nations, with details of the featured writers from each one and samples of their work. Young writers' work is featured also, as well the Six Nations Radio Programme, CDs and Magazine. The Moccasin telegraph gives information on more local events and opportunities. The strong element of supporting both tradition and practitioners through the writing offers a useful perspective on the creation of literature, which will be of interest to cultural as well as literary researchers. While aimed particularly at First Nation literary communities, this site is interested in the work of other native traditions and offers a perspective on the creation of literary material with a thought-provoking and philosophical approach, with links to other culturally based sites. An additional bonus is the aesthetic enjoyment offered by the visuals and soundtrack which add to the holistic sense of this site as having a broad cultural, as well as literary focus.
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Southern spaces
http://www.southernspaces.org/
Southern Spaces is an innovative electronic journal and scholarly forum devoted to the "regions, places, and cultures of the American south". Using ideas of place and space as organising principles, the journal employs diverse media to explore issues within such areas as: geography; African American, and Native Studies; Women's Studies;, regional studies; and public health. Users may browse the journal by subject area, publication type, author, or date of publication. Subject areas include: arts and media; gender and sexuality; history; literature and language; music; race and ethnicity; religion; and politics and government. Publication type includes: multimedia essays (text, image, sound and video); video clips, audio samples and texts from conferences presentations, seminars, events, lectures, interviews, and performances; gateways listing annotated Web resources; and "timescapes", which are short documentaries on particular locations. Well-presented and comprehensive, Southern Spaces makes excellent use of available technologies to disseminate a wealth of research on the American south.
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Texas German dialect project
http://www.tgdp.org/
Established by the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP) is an organisation which researches linguistic patterns in German speech communities in central Texas. Rooted in local history, it works to preserve the dialect and cultural heritage of German immigrants who arrived in the region in the 1830s. Most notably, the site offers the Texas German Dialect Archive (TGDA). "The TGDA is an online digital archive of audio and textual materials documenting sociolinguistic interviews with native speakers of Texas German." Users of the archive have to register, but it is free and the site is a treasure trove of interviews, not only with valuable linguistic, but also historical, information. The TGDA is unusually easy to navigate and presents its data in a clear and comprehensive fashion.
The site has a what's new page which lists all upcoming events, articles, workshops and lectures. This work contributes to the larger sub-field of linguistics which looks at endangered language pockets. Besides linguists, historians and scholars working in German Studies and the social sciences will find this material useful, along with the site's strong links list. The TGDP also offers educational and outreach programs for the public, teachers and students.
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Thoreau society
http://www.thoreausociety.org/
This is the website of the Thoreau Society, a society founded in 1941and dedicated to the promotion of the life and work of the American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). The Society collects books, manuscripts, artifacts and publishes two journals: 'The Thoreau Society Bulletin' and 'The Concord Saunterer'. The website has a brief biography, a chronology, a page containing his selected thoughts, and a list of references. The 'Resources' page contains links to other important Thoreau sites including the 'Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods' and 'The Thoreau Reader'. The regularly updated 'News' and 'Activities' sections provide information about upcoming events organised by the Society and others. Henry David Thoreau is best known for 'Walden' (1854), an account of his experiment in simple living, and the essay 'Civil Disobedience' (1849), advocating passive resistance, which much influenced Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Junior. He also wrote many essays, poems and reviews, some of which were published in the transcendentalist magazine 'The Dial'. "To be awake is to be alive," he wrote, "I have never yet met a man who was quite awake".
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US studies online : the BAAS postgraduate journal
http://www.baas.ac.uk/resources/usstudiesonline/
This section of the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) website provides free online access to the catalogue of the BAAS postgraduate journal: U.S. Studies Online. The online and refereed journal, published biannually, since 2001 aims to provide postgraduates from a great many disciplines (including, but not limited to, history, literature, film and cultural studies) with a chance to get their articles published in a suitably academic environment. The back-catalogue of issues is available via a drop-down option, and information on how to submit a paper can be found on the website.
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