History & American Studies
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Provided by the National Park Service. Provides a tour of historic sites and includes coloring pages.
Hosted and maintained by Crossroads,Georgetown University affiliated program, the American Studies Web was originally created by David Phillips, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, in 1994. The American Studies Web represents one of the single best resources on the Web for subjects related to American Studies, Art & Material Culture, Regional and Environmental Studies, Sociology and Demographics, Philosophy & Religion, History, Economics, Political Science, and Literature and the Performing Arts.
Created and maintained by the faculty of the Arts and Humanities program at Goteborg University, in Sweden. Like the American Studies Web, the Wold Wide Web Virtual Library on the Humanities offers a broad range of materials on Archaeology, History, Philosophy, Religion, Art History, History of Science, and Literature and Language, albeit with a far more global emphasis.
A general reference site from the University of California, Santa Barbara, The Voice of the Shuttle website provides materials on a broad range of traditional (History, Art and Classical Studies, Literature, and Philosophy) and non-traditional subjects, including Cyberculture, Media Studies, Postindustrial Business Theory, and Music and Dance. In addition to subject pages, the Voice of the Shuttle site offers links to teaching resources, libraries and museums, and reference resources.
THE LITERATURE & CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN 1950s
Although this site is designed for upperlevel university students, the site offers a wealth of primary and secondary documents dealing with America in the 1950s, most especially in terms of anti-communist movement and McCarthyism, the atom bomb, the Eisenhower presidency, and baseball.
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