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Links & Literature

Literature research

1. Helpful American Studies links

a) Research

• KVK - Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
• MLA Bibliography
• HeBIS Verbundskatalog
• ProjectMuse

b) Terminology and scientific writing

• Free Dictionaries and Reference Sources online
• Manfred Jahn's Website (Project Page)
• William Strunk, Jr.: The Elements of Style
• MLA - Style
• Dartmouth College Composition Center
• Advice on Academic Writing (University of Toronto)
• Writer's Handbook (Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Basics of English Studies (Englisches Seminar, Uni Freiburg)

c) Tips for critically evaluating internet sources:

• Library of Georgetown
• Library of Cornell

d) Scientific associations in the area of American Studies:

• American Studies Association
• European Association for American Studies
• Modern Language Association
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
• Collegium for African American Research
• MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas)
• MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.)

2. Literature online

a) General literature

• Project Gutenberg
• The Library of Congress
• University of Virginia Library - Electronic Text Center
• The Heath Antology of American Literature Online
• Noam Chomsky Website
• Bibliomania

b) Special literature

• Thomas Pynchon
• The Modern World - Thomas Pynchon

 c) Purchasing books

• Barnes & Noble
• Bookbutler
• Abe Books
• Borderstores
• Central directory of antiquarian books
• Libri

3. Culture

a) Universities:

• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Yale University
• Johns Hopkins University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Stanford University

b) Newspapers/ Magazines:

• The New York Times
• The Los Angeles Times
• The San Francisco Chronicle
• The Washington Post
• The USA Today
• The Boston Globe
• Newsweek
• The Nation
• Foreign Affairs
• Move On
• New Republic
• Monthly Review
• The Socialist Register
• American Journalism Review – Links to almost all news sources

c) Film / Theatre:

• Indymedia
• Internet Movie DataBase
• Rotten Tomatoes

d) Television:

• Public TV
• ABC News
• CBS News
• CNN
• FOX News
• MSNBC News
• USA today

e) Radio:

• Public Radio

f) Satire:

• The Daily Show
• The Colbert Report

4. History

• The Library of Congress: American Memory – considerable collection of original documents and photos
• Smithonian Institute Washington
• Digital History – elaborately designed pages of the University of Houston, meant for instructors and research

5. Politics

a) Political parties:

• US Government Web Portal
• The Republican Party
• The Democratic Party
• The Green Party
• The Libertarian Party
• The Socialist Party USA
• The Communist Party USA

b) Groups of interest / government institutions:

• The President
• The Senate
• House of Representatives
• US Departement of Defense
• US Departement of the Treasury
• National Archives and Records Administration
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• The Library of Congress
• New American Century
• The Christian Coalition
• Noam Chomsky Website
• Headquarters of the American Labor Union