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American Studies: Web Sites

"Created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to 'preserve and present' the great heritage of American folklife through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training." American Folk-life Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Browse by century or document collection. The text comparison feature allows readers to view two versions of the same documents simultaneously. Maintained on Yale Law School's Lillian Goldman Law Library web site.

"Calisphere contains hundreds of thousands of primary source materials from libraries, archives, and museums across California."

"Primary resources for the study of Southern history, literature, and culture." University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Smithsonian Institution.

"Digital Commonwealth is a Web portal and fee-based repository service for online cultural heritage materials held by Massachusetts libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives."

"Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." Cornell University.

U.S. Federal Government website providing access to Federal Government Records and more. Select the Research Our Records option at the top left and, then, Research a Specific Topic.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University and American Social History Project, City University of New York Graduate Center.

"The Valley project presents the complex historical record of the people of a northern community and a southern community, one in Pennsylvania and another in Virginia, both in the Great Valley that stretches across the Mason Dixon line, throughout the era of the American Civil War" (about).

"[C]ollects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War, and supports and encourages research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam Experience." Texas Tech University.

Contains historical photographic exhibits online along with a guide to Protecting and Preserving Photographs.

Designed “to foster a deeper understanding about how changing cultural values, notions of identity, laws and policies have shaped and influenced the experience of people with disabilities, their families and their communities over time."

"The Forbes House Museum explores America’s birth as a global economic power in the 19th century through the prism of one family’s inspiring stories of adventure, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and civic leadership."

"The Gibson House Museum is a private, nonprofit house museum in Boston's historic Back Bay neighborhood."

Includes the "oldest African Meeting house* in America" along with the "Abiel Smith School."

"The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art fosters the discovery and appreciation of the visual arts of Africa, the cradle of humanity." Smithsonian Institution.

Explore Collections and Exhibitions. Smithsonian Institution.

"This museum educates visitors by providing a unique glimpse into the domestic life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on Boston's historic Beacon Hill." Boston, MA

"In the eighteenth century, the Royall House and Slave Quarters was home to the largest slave-holding family in Massachusetts and the enslaved Africans who made their lavish way of life possible." Medford, Massachusetts.

Searchable gateway of the Smithsonian research collections of libraries, archives, photographs, 600,000 records comprising the National Inventory of American Painting and Sculpture databases, and specialized research bibliographies.

First collection of American art in the United States with works by over 7000 artists from colonial times to the present. Explore the Research and Collections tabs in the top menu. Smithsonian Institution.

United States Census Bureau.

Explore Economic Accounts by Type for national, international, regional, and industry data. Presented by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Explore the Datafinder link in the top menu. Presented by the Population Reference Bureau in partnership with the University of Michigan.

Contains "statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States." Continues annually as ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States, beginning with 2013. REFERENCE HA 202 .S73