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HISTORY and AMERICAN STUDIES


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HISTORY and AMERICAN STUDIES

The Marshall Plan's 60th Anniversary, web page compiled by the Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State
The Marshall Plan: Rebuilding Europe, Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State
Jamestown 2007 - America's 400th Anniversary
400th Anniversary of Jamestown, A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America, The White House, April 6, 2007

GENERAL INFORMATION

VISUAL MATERIAL

PRESIDENTS, SECRETARIES OF STATE AND CONGRESSMEN

STATISTICAL INFORMATION

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

  • Gateway to African American History - web page compiled by the Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State. The Gateway includes documents, articles, Internet sites and other resources, which honor and acknowledge the accomplishments of African-Americans.
  • The Amistad Revolt: A Historical Legacy of Sierra Leone and the United States, published by the Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State. A brief factual history of how 53 slaves - captured by the Spanish, principally from the African colony of Sierra Leone - revolted aboard the transport ship Amistad, were interned in the United States, and eventually won their freedom through the U.S. judicial system.
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., published by the Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State. A history of the contemporary civil rights movement in the United States, including a chronology of key events, brief biographical information on two centuries of African-American leaders, and excerpts from King's speeches and writings.


  • The Library of Congress
  • Africans in America - The Web site from the Public Broadcasting Service chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States - from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865.

NATIVE AMERICANS

USEFUL LINKS

Foreign Relations of the U.S.
  • American Family Immigration History Center (The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation) - This website makes the millions of immigrant arrival records in the Ellis Island Archives available to everyone.
  • Foreign Relations of the United States (Office of the Historian/U.S. Department of State) - The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 350 individual volumes.
    • Foreign Relations of the U.S. - This digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States (an incomplete run from 1863-1958) is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries.
  • The National Security Archive (The George Washington University) - The National Security Archive is a non-governmental, non-profit research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

HISTORY OF THE STATES

Many of the official state websites include links to historical information, e.g.:

AMERICAN STUDIES

ASSOCIATIONS/UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

(published by the Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State)

AMERICAN LITERATURE

  • Outline of American Literature - Follows the path taken by American literature as it has moved from the pre-colonial days of orally transmitted tales of Native American cultures, through the periods of realism, romanticism, and experimentation, to the prose and poetry of the past 50 years (published by the Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State).
  • USA Literature in Brief - USA Literature in Brief pinpoints and describes the contributions to American literature of some of the best-recognized American poets, novelists, philosophers and dramatists from pre-Colonial days through the present. Major literary figures are discussed in detail, as are their major works. Brief discussions of cultural periods and movements such as romanticism, transcendentalism, and modernism put individuals in context and lend perspective. This condensed version of Outline of American Literature highlights major achievers and important works in the canon (published by the Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State).
  • Writers on America
  • Writers on America - Presents 15 essays by a diverse group of contemporary American writers, poets, essayists, and intellectuals, on how being an American has affected their decision to write and what they have written during successful careers (published by the Bureau of International Information Programs/U.S. Department of State).
  • The Cambridge History of English and American Literature - An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes - one of the most important works of literary history and criticism; it contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
  • American Verse Project - a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
  • Hyperizons, Hypertext Fiction
  • English Language Resources - Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  • Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures - contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States



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