The American Studies Web is the largest directory of web-based resources in the field of American Studies.http://lamp.georgetown.edu/asw/aspeers is the first, and currently only, graduate journal in European American Studies. Published by an all-student editorial team and embedded into Leipzig's American Studies MA program, it aims to give a platform to the best scholarly work done by European students of American Studies (and related fields) below the PhD-education level.4/18/08, 7:00 AMhttp://www.aspeers.comTop 100 speeches as .mp31/5/08, 1:05 PMhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.htmlThis collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave.12/16/07, 11:02 PMhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/The digital archive contains 150 oral history interviews and sixteen collections of documents that address the civil rights movement in Mississippi.12/16/07, 10:36 PMhttp://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/History blog by Sterling Fluharty, a PhD candidate who discusses history graduate programs and the state of academia.7/13/07, 5:10 PMhttp://phdinhistory.blogspot.com/AHA Today is a blog focused on the latest happenings in the broad discipline of history and the professional practice of the craft that draws on the staff, research, and activities of the American Historical Association.6/29/07, 5:11 PMhttp://blog.historians.org/Terra Nova is a collaborative weblog experiment. It is about an emerging social phenomenon called "virtual worlds" -- computer-generated, persistent, immersive, and representational social platforms. Currently, the most popular virtual worlds are massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs), such as Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies.6/29/07, 4:54 PMhttp://terranova.blogs.com/Dave Lester created the American Studies Tagline. You can drag the slider to visualize the frequency of words from canonical texts included in Lucy Maddox's Locating American Studies: the Evolution of a Discipline.6/26/07, 12:02 PMhttp://tagline.davelester.org/The history of the Erie Canal, created by the University of Rochester's history department. Includes chronology of the Erie Canal, boats used, and maps.4/4/07, 5:03 PMhttp://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/The full-text of a Frederick Douglass speech recited at a meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester Hall, Rochester, N.Y. To illustrate the full shame of slavery, Douglass delivered a speech that took aim at the pieties of the nation -- the cherished memories of its revolution, its principles of liberty, and its moral and religious foundation. The Fourth of July, a day celebrating freedom, was used by Douglass to remind his audience of liberty's unfinished business.4/4/07, 2:55 PMhttp://afgen.com/douglas.htmlFounded by Ed Falco in 1996, the New River was the first journal devoted exclusively to digital writing and art.3/27/07, 12:17 PMhttp://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/index.htmlThe CDDC provides one of the world's first university based digital points-of-publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis. At the same time, it supports the continuation of traditional research practices, including scholarly peer review, academic freedom, network formation, and intellectual experimentation.3/27/07, 11:59 AMhttp://www.cddc.vt.edu/index.htmlThis tag cloud shows the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2007 AD3/26/07, 12:09 AMhttp://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/This site designed to bring together the a wide variety of materials available on the Web for studying 19th century American literature, history and culture.3/26/07, 12:07 AMhttp://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/19th/19th.htmlSite features exhibits and interactive multimedia on a variety of American topics.3/26/07, 12:07 AMhttp://www.humanities-interactive.org/The Avalon Project collects documents in law, history and diplomacy.3/26/07, 12:07 AMhttp://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htmThe National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, and public programs in the humanities.3/26/07, 12:07 AMhttp://www.neh.gov**This timeline provides a broad overview of American culture in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.3/26/07, 12:07 AMhttp://www.yale.edu/amstud/formac/amst190a/download/Default.htmAn interdisciplinary on-line journal of North American Studies.3/26/07, 12:07 AMhttp://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/The purpose of this web/library guide is to help the user gain a broad understanding of the Roaring 1920s.3/26/07, 12:07 AMhttp://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html