Research by Subject: American Studies
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| BL 2500 - BL 2529 | American Religions |
| E | American History |
| E 75- E 100 | Native American History |
| E 184 | Asian American and Hispanic American History |
| E 185 | African American History |
| F1-F 975 | U.S. Local and State History |
| HC 102- HC 109 | Economic History (U.S.) |
| HN - HV | Social History, Family, Marriage, Gender, Sexuality, Age, Crime, Substances |
| JK | Political Institutions and Public Administration (U.S.) |
| KF | Law (U.S.) |
| LA 201-LA 398 | History of Education (U.S.) |
| ML 200 | American Music |
| N 6500 | American Art |
| PS | American Literature |
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Microfiche copies of Senior honors theses are maintained in the Library. For details on the Library's theses holdings, formats, access, photocopying restrictions, and searching for a thesis in the online catalog, see the Thesis Search page.
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Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
Aims away from "event history" and toward ideas and their expression, employing both a chronological and a thematic approach in three volumes.
CALL NUMBER: Ref E 169.1 .E624 2001
Encyclopedia of American Folk Art
Covers both artists and genres from three centuries of "vernacular", "non-academic", or "outsider" art; few living artists are treated, and the work of Native Americans is considered out of scope.
CALL NUMBER: Ref NK805 .E6 2004
Encyclopedia of American Social History
Concentrates on the history of everyday life and of ethnic and other American subpopulations.
CALL NUMBER: Ref HN 57 .E58 1993
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History
Treats antecedents, performers, composers, promoters, and consumers of rock and roll as well as its ascendancy in the American culture of the 1950s and beyond.
CALL NUMBER: Ref ML 3534 .G754 2006
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Discusses authors, works, movements, and related phenomena for 400 years of writing in English; "American" in the title means within the boundaries of the present United States.
CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 21 .E537 2004
Subject Dictionaries
Congress A to Z
Parallels "The Presidency A to Z", "Elections A to Z", etc., all located nearby.
CALL NUMBER: Ref JK 1021 .C554 2008
Dictionary of American History
Surpasses the usual idea of "dictionary" on the strength of eight volumes of substantial articles--nothing brief here; a ninth volume of historical maps and primary source documents adds more value yet.
CALL NUMBER: Ref E 174 .D52 2003
Dictionary of American Regional English
Lists slang and regionalisms heard around the U.S., indicating in words and maps the origin and geographic extent of each of thousands of colorful expressions ("D.A.R.E." is still in the course of publishing though now approaching completion of the alphabet).
CALL NUMBER: Ref PE 2843 .D52 1985
Handbooks
American Attitudes: Who Thinks What about the Issues That Shape Our Lives
Reports findings from the long-administered General Social Survey; together with four previous editions held at this number, provides a growing longitudinal picture of U.S. public opinion.
CALL NUMBER: Ref HN 90 .P8 M58 2008
American Song; the Complete Companion to Tin Pan Alley Song
Accompanies the nearby "American Song: the Complete Musical Theatre Companion" as a chronological record of titles and composers from two longtime major traditions in American musical culture.
CALL NUMBER: Ref ML 128 .P63 B550 2001
Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present
Joins the adjacent and long-running "Statistical Abstract of the United States" in providing invaluable retrospective social, economic, and political data of use to students of U.S. history and more.
CALL NUMBER: Ref HA 202 .H57 2006
How Much Is That in Real Money? : A Historical Price Index for Use As a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States
Delivers longitudinal price conversions accompanied by clear methodology; a reprint from "The Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society" and a contender for longest title in the collection and nearly the fewest pages (76).
CALL NUMBER: Ref HB 235.U6 M350 1992
World Almanac
Constitutes a treasury of data of moment--or just of the moment--in our nearly complete run (from 1887) of the country's gold-standard almanac.
CALL NUMBER: Ref AY 67 .N5 W7 (current year at Reference Desk)
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Atlas of American History
Depicts major U.S. historical trends and events cartographically together with written analyses, photos and art reproductions.
CALL NUMBER: Ref G 1201 .S1 N37 2007
Footnotes to American History
Summarizes hundreds of historical incidents in U.S. history up to 1976 from the widely known (the Dred Scott Decision) to the obscure (the San Elizario Salt War) to the bizarre (the Snyder-Gray Sash Weight Murder).
CALL NUMBER: Ref E 179 .S480 1977
Global Perspectives on the United States: a Nation by Nation Survey
Reports past and present overseas opinion of the U.S. relative to opinion-influencing events and developments on the international stage; cites both literature, opinion polls, and "man on the street" interviews to capture overseas views of U.S. policy and culture.
CALL NUMBER: Ref E 895 .G56 2007
Who Was Who in America
Outlines the lives of well-known Americans after their deaths in a continuing series of volumes covering back to 1607.
CALL NUMBER: Ref E 176 .W64
The Women's Atlas of the United States
Discusses and maps gender patterns in population, education, employment, health, crime, and politics.
CALL NUMBER: Ref Atlas G 1201 .E1 G5 1995
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American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Studies websites ignore at their risk this Library of Congress treasury of images, maps, and other historically and culturally illustrative content.
American Quarterly
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/
The key journal of American Studies, "AQ"'s articles published since 1996 can be accessed at this link in full text from Union campus computers through the Project Muse database; earlier issues are held in paper by the Library and on JSTOR.
American Studies Recommendations
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/rhorwitz/
This portal site created by an American Studies scholar from the University of Iowa serves ably as a gateway to scholarly websites (mostly).
ARNet; Online Resources for American Studies
http://www.americansc.org.uk/
The UK's Liverpool John Moores University brings a European perspective to this website of American Studies links.
Intute: Best of the Web; American Studies
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/american/
Three institutions of higher learning in the UK including Oxford are responsible for this gateway to websites on American history, culture and literature.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Studies websites ignore at their risk this Library of Congress treasury of images, maps, and other historically and culturally illustrative content.
American Quarterly
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/
The key journal of American Studies, "AQ"'s articles published since 1996 can be accessed at this link in full text from Union campus computers through the Project Muse database; earlier issues are held in paper by the Library and on JSTOR.
American Studies Recommendations
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/rhorwitz/
This portal site created by an American Studies scholar from the University of Iowa serves ably as a gateway to scholarly websites (mostly).
ARNet; Online Resources for American Studies
http://www.americansc.org.uk/
The UK's Liverpool John Moores University brings a European perspective to this website of American Studies links.
Intute: Best of the Web; American Studies
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/american/
Three institutions of higher learning in the UK including Oxford are responsible for this gateway to websites on American history, culture and literature.
News Alerts
American Studies Association's "News and Events"
http://www.theasa.net/events/
This calendar of conferences and symposia comes from the professional society that describes itself as the "oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history."
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/teaching-and-learning/
Georgetown University provides links to online syllabi, course modules, and other pedagogical materials for consultation by those teaching in American Studies.
American Studies Today Online
http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/index.htm
This "keep-you-current" vehicle for short notes and working papers from the American Studies Resources Centre at the Liverpool John Moores University, UK, comes with a ten-year archive.
http://www.theasa.net/events/
This calendar of conferences and symposia comes from the professional society that describes itself as the "oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history."
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/teaching-and-learning/
Georgetown University provides links to online syllabi, course modules, and other pedagogical materials for consultation by those teaching in American Studies.
American Studies Today Online
http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/index.htm
This "keep-you-current" vehicle for short notes and working papers from the American Studies Resources Centre at the Liverpool John Moores University, UK, comes with a ten-year archive.