19th Century United States Historical, Literary
and Cultural Studies Online
(Washington State University)
An online directory to Web resources on the literary and cultural
history of the U.S. in the 19th century, including links to historical
documents, maps, photographs, and posters.
AdFlip.com
From the site: "adflip.com is the world's
largest searchable database of classic print ads. We love ads and
the pop culture they represent. You can search by category, by
decade, even by year."
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The African American Registry
Website
designed to present information on African American contributions to
American culture. Includes basic and in-depth information organized
in over sixty categories, including education, business, the arts, and
politics.
American Experience
Sponsored and maintained by the Public
Broadcasting Station (PBS), this site is a companion to the PBS
television broadcast of “The American Experience.”
American Folklife Center: Archive of Folk
Culture Collections
Online collection that includes over one million
photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. From
the site: "It is America's first national archive of traditional life,
and one of the oldest and largest of such repositories in the world."
American Folklore
From the site: "This folklore site contains
retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends,
tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one
of the 50 United States. You can read about all sorts of famous
characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James, Davy Crockett,
Daniel Boone, and many more."
American Memory
Digital collection from the Library of Congress
relating to the history and culture of the United States. Broad topics
covered in the collection include agriculture, art and architecture,
business and economics, education, geography, history, languages and
literature, performing arts, philosophy and religion, political
science and law, recreation and sports, social sciences, and
technology and applied sciences.
American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress
Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United
States
Searchable version of the print publication from
the Library of Congress.
Documenting the American South
(University of North Carolina)
From the site: "...a collection of sources on
Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period
through the first decades of the 20th century."
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1950-1920
(Duke University)
Site presents over 9,000 images, with database
information, relating to the early history of advertising in the
United States.
The Library of Congress
This link provides access to the books, photos,
audio files, and online exhibitions compiled by the Library of
Congress. Search the THOMAS online catalog, browse primary source
material on the American Memory site, and examine topical online
exhibits with photos, sounds, and sites from America's past.
The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
(University of Pennsylvania)
Find readings from the 1950s, arranged
alphabetically, on the culture of the period. The site also contains
election reports, contemporary fiction and reviews, synopsis of
anti-Communist films, information on the Hollywood Black List, and
more.
The Making of America Project
(Cornell University)
The Making of America Project
(University of Michigan)
Digital library of primary sources in American
social history from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction; a
joint effort of the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
According to the site, the Michigan collection focuses on education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and
technology, while Cornell focuses mainly on digitizing general
interest periodicals.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
From the site: "...provides online access to
collections of unique and rare materials of value to students,
creators, scholars, and educators through searchable archival finding
aids, full-text documents, digital surrogates and guides to images,
and born-digital materials."
Touring West: Performing Artists on the Overland
Trails
From the site: "This online exhibition
celebrates the creators, promoters, and performers of professional
theater, music, and dance who toured the American continent. The time
frame is defined at one end by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which
brought the West into the realm of possibility for America, and at the
other by the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, just before the
twin inventions of cinema and recorded sound changed forever the
relationship between performer and audience."
Visual Culture and Public Health Posters
From the site: "This online exhibit is designed
to introduce you to the history of images used in public health
posters in the twentieth century. It utilizes the world's largest
collection of poster art dealing with questions of health in the
United States, housed at the National Library of Medicine."
