Introduction

General

• American History online – A massive collection of online primary sources/collections from the University of Illinois
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History – A helpful starting point for the study of many key topics in U.S. history
• Making of America – A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
• Picturing United States History – A resource for integrating  visual evidence into the study of American history from City University, New York
• The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press  - An extensive range of surveys of American opinion on a range of contemporary issues.
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery – A massive collection of digital images organised by topic
• American Studies Recommendations – A helpful  and wide-ranging set of  links from Richard  Horwitz at the University of Rhode Island
• American Rhetoric – Extensive database of full-text American speeches
• Crossroads – An archive of American Studies hypertext projects, from the University of Virginia.
• The New Deal Network – A multi-disciplinary site developed by the Roosevelt Institute and Columbia University.

Literature

• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide – A wide-ranging site including bibliographies and study guides linked to key topics in American literature
• American Authors on the Web – Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan
• VG / Voices from the Gaps, Women Writers and Artists of Color – From the University of Minnesota
• American Literature – American Authors, Literary Movements and Timelines, from Donna Campbell at Washington State University

Cultural Studies

• Cultural Politics – An excellent site with extensive links to sub-sites in Popular Culture, Digital Culture, Social Movements and Culture, Environmental Justice Cultural Studies, and Interdisciplinary Cultural Theory
• Media and communications studies site  - Very helpful site from the University of Aberystwyth. Has a British focus, but contains a wide range of materials on key cultural studies approaches.
• Voice of the shuttle: cultural studies  - Wide-ranging site which provides a  guide to ‘the intersection between cultural criticism/theory and selective resources in sociology, media studies, postcolonial studies, economics, literature, and other fields.’
• Americana : the journal of American popular culture  - Full-text ejournal published by The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture, with articles on a wide range of topics