Useful Links

There is obviously a wealth of information that can be gathered from the Internet, but it is often time-consuming using search engines and there are many links to superficial reviews or commentaries on American texts and themes. As a consequence, we have provided a few useful links below that you may want to visit. These will be useful resources throughout your American Studies degree at the University of Leicester.

History | Politics | Literature | Film and Visual Culture | Associations and Institutes | Journals | Research Libraries | Media

History

• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• The Historical Society
• Center for the Study of History and Memory
• American Jewish Historical Society
• Archives of African-American Music and Culture
• Institute for Research in African American Studies
• Center for History and New Media
• Center for the Study of the American South
• Common-place
• National Park Service
• EASE History
• Women and Social Movements in the US
• Making of America

Politics

• The White House
• US State Department
• US Defense Department
• The CIA
• Foreign Policy Association
• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Literature

• Project Bartelby Archive
• University of Virginia Library
• Project Gutenberg
• British Library Database
• The Academy of American Poets
• Modern American Poetry
• Lannan Foundation

Film and Visual Culture

• The Internet Movie Database
• Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
• Film Literature Index
• British Film Institute
• Screen Online
• BUBL Link: Film Studies Internet Resources
• National Archives Historical Films on Google Video
• Public Moving Image Archive & Research Centers
• The Opper Project: Editorial Cartoons
• Art History Resouces on the Web
• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Musuem of Modern Art, NY
• Smithsonian Institution

Associations and Institutes

• British Association of American Studies
• European Association for American Studies
• International American Studies Association
• Organisation of American Historians
• American Historical Association
• American Studies Association
• British International Studies Association
• British American Nineteeth Century Historians
• Rothermere American Institute
• Eccles Centre for American Studies
• Institute for the Study of the Americas
• H-Net

Journals

• Journal of American Studies
• American Quarterly
• Comparative American Studies
• Guide to American Studies Resources Online
• American Studies Today Online
• US Studies Online
• 49th Parallel

Research Libraries

• Library of Congress
• US National Archives and Records Administration
• American Antiquarian Society
• Herbert Hoover Library
• Franklin D Roosevelt Library
• Harry S Truman Library
• Dwight D Eisenhower Library
• John F Kennedy Library
• Lyndon B Johnson Library
• Nixon Presidential Materials
• Gerald R Ford Library
• Jimmy Carter Library
• Ronald Reagan Library
• George Bush Library
• William J Clinton Library
• Roosevelt Study Center
• New York Public Library
• Seeley G Mudd Library (Princeton)

Media

• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Wall Street Journal
• LA Times
• The Nation
• National Public Radio