Selected Resources for American Studies Students
This list was assembled to expedite access to significant library resources
for one American Studies seminar. Users may access a more complete range of
Research Resources from the library’s web page concerned with American Studies
Specialized Indexes
America: History and Life
Art Abstracts
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Covers more than 250 key international, English-language arts publications, includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, etc.
General Indexes
Academic Search Premier
This is a multidisciplinary database which contains listings for articles in over 7,000 scholarly journals, nearly 4,000 of which display full text articles.
JSTOR contains full text backfiles for significant academic journals
Project Muse Online journals from Johns Hopkins University Press
Primary Sources
Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. This was the definition found at the Reference and User Services Association of the American Libraries Association. Two examples of useful tools:
Historical New York Times, 1851+ contains digitized text
American Memory; a product of the Library of Congress with more than 7 million digital items
List was revised 22 January 2004
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