Selected Internet Resources

OAIster

OAIster (Open Archives Initiative) is a digital resources include items such as:electronic books online journals audio files (e.g., wav, mp3) images (e.g., tiff, gif) movies (e.g., mpeg, quicktime) reference texts (e.g., dictionaries, directories). more==>

The American Heritage Project

American Studies Crossroads Project

Columbia University - American Studies Sites

Humbul Humanities Hub

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Social Science & Humanities

A Roadmap to African-American Resources

University of Virginia - American Studies

Voice of the Shuttle: Cultural Studies

Ad*Access (database of advertisements from 1911-1955)

Adflip - covers advertisements from the 1940s to today

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915

The American Experience

American Folklife Center

American Memory

American Popular Culture: Online Resources

American Rhetoric

American Roots Music

American Women's History: a Research Guide

Baby Boomer Headquarters (BBHQ) - Presents information about the baby boom generation

The Costumers Manifesto - Costume History

DeeT's 70s Page - Provides information on American culture of the 1970s.

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920

Fashion-Era

Fifties Web

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920

glbtq: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

History of Fashion

Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH)

The Literature and Culture of the 1950s

merrycoz.org: Works for Children and Adults 1800 - 1872

The New Deal Stage

The NYPL Picture Collection Online

Performing Arts in America, 1875 - 1923

Popular Culture

Post World War II American Literature and Cultural Database

The Psychedelic 60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change

The Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library/Duke University

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture

Solemates: The Century in Shoes - Discusses shoe styles in the 20th century

Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment

Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home

Women Working, 1870-1930

Yahoo Directory>Cultural Studies>Popular Culture

American Popular Music

divided into three databases:

• Before 1900
• 1900-1950
• 1950-present

Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920

I Hear America Singing

Lyrics World

Tin Pan Alley