Daniel Webster College
 

American Cultural History Web Sites

Also see library resources on specific decades in American History:

Ad Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

America in the 1930s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/home_1.html

America's Story from Americas Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
 
American Life Histories (1936-1940)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
"...a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." Also see American Memory: The 19th Century in Print:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncpmquery.html

Google Directory: Cultural History
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Topic/Cultural_History/

Kingwood College Library: American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown/

Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
"...a digital library of 8,500 primary source books and 50,000 journal articles in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."

Open Access Journals in Ethnology

PBS: The American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/

A companion website to the long-running PBS history series.

The Sixties Project
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/

 

Updated 08/24/2007