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Subject Guide: American Studies INDEXES  |  REFERENCE WORKS   |  WEB LINKS  |  PERIODICALS The interdisciplinary nature of American Studies offers unique challenges to the researcher. This page is intended to introduce a few select resources, both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print collection, that are particularly useful for the study of American culture and civilization. INDEXES Arts & Humanities Search Indexes leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from social science and science journals. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials The premier index to journal articles, essays, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Coverage is from 1949 to the present, though not all publications begin in 1949. HAPI Online Online version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains records representing the contents of over 400 key journals relating to the Americas and Hispanics in the United States. JSTOR: Journal Storage Collection Online Access to the complete back files of almost 100 full-text scholarly journals with a heavy emphasis on the humanities and social sciences. MasterFILE Premier Of particular interest to the American Studies researcher is Essential Documents in American History, a database of over 1,100 full text original historical documents. To look for a document, at the search screen type your subject term in the Find box and type Essential Documents in American History in the Magazine box. MLA International Bibliography Indexes the world's research literature in language, linguistics, and literature. Access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. 1963-present. SocINDEX with Full Text The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers. REFERENCE WORKS In interdisciplinary fields such as American Studies, resources in many different subject areas will be useful. To find printed reference material relevant to your topic start with the library's online catalog. Do a Reference Materials search using keywords to describe your topic. You can also check the library's Web pages for subject guides for specific topics such as History, Political Science, Economics, etc. to find other suggested sources. Below are a few titles to get you started. To find call number and location information, search the Voyager catalog. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience REFERENCE, 1st floor, 291 En19 Encyclopedia of American Social History REFERENCE, 1st floor, 301.0973 En16 The Gallup Poll REFERENCE, 1st floor, 303.38 G138 (1931 „ present) Volumes contain the findings of all Gallup Poll reports. The reports present a view of changing American political and social thought since the New Deal. Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America REFERENCE, 1st floor, 305.8009 G131 Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America REFERENCE, 1st floor, 323.1196 En19 Westˆs Encyclopedia of American Law REFERENCE, 1st floor, 348.73 W52 Encyclopedia of the American Military REFERENCE, 1st floor, 355.009 En19 New Grove Dictionary of American Music REFERENCE, 1st floor, 781.773 N456 History of the American Cinema REFERENCE, 1st floor, 791.43 H629 American Literary Scholarship REFERENCE, 1st floor, 810 Am35 American National Biography REFERENCE, 1st floor, 920.073 Am354 The Annals of America REFERENCE, 1st floor, 973 An72 (23 volumes) A collection of over 2,000 original source readings drawn from the American past including articles, speeches, letters, songs, poems and official documents. American Decades REFERENCE, 1st floor, 973.92 Am347 Sources for American Studies 3rd floor, 973.07 So84 WEB LINKS American Studies Crossroads Project When searching for information on American Studies, start at this site, the Web's single most comprehensive AS resource. Sponsored by the American Studies Association, the site hosts the American Studies Web which provides links to sites related to American Studies in thirteen major subject categories with multiple subcategories. American Memory Online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. The American Memory Historical Collections are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. AS@UVA Hypertexts A collection of hypertexts produced by American Studies students at the University of Virginia. The collection includes classic American literature, lost texts, and full hypertexts: texts which have been linked to other materials (text, graphics, audio, and/or video) that either re-contextualize them -- place them back in the cultural context from which they originally rose -- or comment on them from a contemporary perspective. Documenting the American South An electronic collection providing access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Currently, DAS includes five digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, and materials related to the church in the black community. Making of America - University of Michigan site Making of America - Cornell University site A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collections are particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The combined collections currently contain approximately 8,800 books and 150,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Search collections separately. The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s Excellent site with extensive links to primary source materials. The Sixties Project Includes an archive of scholarly articles and essays, personal narratives, memoir, and fiction, and primary documents related to the 1960s and the Viet Nam war. WestWeb A topically organized web site about the study of the American West. WWW-VL History: the United States A Virtual Library site. Extensive listing of links for United States history with American Studies just one of many useful subheadings for the AS researcher. PERIODICALS To find holdings and location information for specific periodicals titles (both print and online), search the online catalog. To find citations or online full-text for articles in periodicals on your topic, try the resources listed above under Indexes.