Online resources for American Studies

Subject guides

• American Studies Electronic Crossroads - a comprehensive information platform on the World Wide Web maintained at Georgetown University.
• Subject Guide - History - an extensive set of links on all aspects of North American history from Rhodes College
• Social Sciences Information Gateway - SOSIG is an online catalogue of hundreds of high quality Internet resources relevant to social science education and research.

Congressional sources

• Congressional Record - online from US Government Printing Office
• THOMAS - Legislative Information on the Internet - from the Library of Congress
• US. House of Representatives
• US. Senate

Government sources - contemporary

• FedWorld Information Network - a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal Government
• FirstGov - 'your first click to the US government'
• Government Resources on the Web - courtesy of the University of Michigan
• Official US Executive Branch Web Sites - links provided by the Library of Congress
• Government Periodicals - access to online full-text periodicals from the University of Louisville
• US Government Manual (1995 to date) - searchable, from US Government Printing Office
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents - from the Office of the Federal Register
• The White House

Historical sources

• AMDOCS : Documents for the Study of American History - courtesy of WWW Virtual Library
• American Memory - from the Library of Congress, a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
• CIA Electronic Reading Room - declassified documents from the Central Intellegence Agency
• Core Documents of US Democracy - from the US Government Printing Office
• FBI Electronic Reading Room - provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Making of America - a significant body of primary sources related to the development of U.S. infrastructure, from University of Michigan and Cornell University.
• NARA Archival Information - provided by the National Archives and Records Administration
• National Security Archive - from George Washington University
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States - courtesy of the Library of Congress

Statistical sources

• FedStats - the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies 
• Statistical Abstracts of the United States - from the US Census Bureau

News / media

• CNN
• NPR - National Public Radio for pod casts, program transcripts etc
• Tompaine.commonsense - an online public affairs journal from the Institute for America's Future
• Fox News
• The Atlantic.com - the Atlantic magazine online
• ABC News
• Salon.com - news, politics, opinion
• United States newspapers - from Marchex Inc

Flinders Resources

• American Studies Department at Flinders
• Databases and article searching - full text access for Flinders University Library staff and students. Try Proquest, Expanded Academic ASAP, CIAO, Oxford University Press Online, Blackwell Synergy and Factiva (for newspapers such as LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, IHT etc)

When you're in the Library, some useful call numbers to browse for books are:

• 973 - United States history general
• 973.7 - American Civil War
• 320.973 - United States politics
• 306.0973 - United States popular culture
• 327.73 - American foreign policy
• 810 - American literature general
• 813 - American fiction

Need further assistance? Ask for help at the Information Desk or contact

Tony Giorgio
Liaison Librarian, American Studies
Level 1 , Central Library
Tel: 8201 3542
Email: tony.giorgio@flinders.edu.au

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