Useful Links

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Grant Opportunities for Post-Graduates

  • Scholarship/Fellowship and Funding Opportunities from within the University of Hong Kong
  • The History Department (HKU), keeps an excellent directory of external grants and fellowships that are outside of the United States
  • The History Department (HKU), also keeps excellent track of US-based grants and fellowships

    Journals and Resources (accessible through the University of Hong Kong Library system)

  • Guide to American Studies Resources
         The American Studies Association maintains a comprehensive listing of print journals

  • A Directory of American Studies Journals
          Comprehensive listing maintained by the American Studies Association (ASA)

  • American Literature
  • American Literary History (ALH)
  • American Quarterly (American Studies Association)
  • Arizona Quarterly
  • American Studies (University of Kansas)
  • Common-place (American Antiqaurian Society)
  • Encyclopedia of American Studies (ASA; Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • European Journal of American Studies
  • Journal of American Studies
  • The Japanese Journal of American Studies (The Japanese Association of American Studies)
  • Journal of Asian American Studies (Asian American Studies Association)
  • Journal of Transatlantic Studies
  • Studies in American Indian Literatures (Association of the Study of American Indian Literature)

    Worldwide American Studies Associations

  • American Studies Association
  • Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
  • Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association (ANZASA)
  • Austrian Association for American Studies
  • Association for the Study of American Indian Literature (ASAIL)
  • Belgian Luxembourg American Studies Association (BLASA)
  • British Association for American Studies (BAAS)
  • California American Studies Association (CASA)
  • European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
  • French Association for American Studies
  • Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS)
  • Network on North American Studies in Canada (NNASC)
  • Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS)
  • Scottish Association for the Study of America
  • Society for Early Americanists
  • Spanish Association for English and American Studies
  • Swedish Association for American Studies

    Useful Resources for On-Line Research

  • American Native Press Archives
         Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
  • American Studies
         University of Virginia
  • American Verse Project
        The University of Michigan
  • Archive of Early American Images, John Carter Brown Libary, Brown University
  • American Memory
          National Digital Libary, Library of Congress
  • The Avalon Project
        Yale Law School
  • Documenting the American South
         University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Encyclopedia of American Studies (ASA; Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1945)
        by Felix Cohen
  • The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
        Maintained by Richard Hathaway
  • The Making of America
         Cornell University and the University of Michigan
  • MIT, Visualizing Cultures
           Includes units on the Rise and Fall of the Canton Trade System;
           the Opium Wars; and Matthew Perry in Japan
  • Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
        Sponsored by The University of Oklahoma Law Library
           and The National Indian Law Library of the Native American Rights Fund
           This site includes Felix's Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942) in PDF format.
  • Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
  • Native American Writers, Internet Public Library
  • The Nineteenth Century in Print, the Making of America in Books and Periodicals
         Library of Congress, United States
  • Osher Map Library, Smith Center for Cartographic Education
         University of Southern Maine
  • Purchasing Power of the Dollar in the United States from 1774 to 2009:
         www.measuringworth.com
  • Relative Value of Old Money
  • Virtual Jamestown.org,
        including John White's watercolors and Theodor DeBry's engravings.
  • Yale University Guide to American History and American Studies
        Yale University

    Research Libraries:

  • The American Antiquarian Society
  • The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Viriginia
  • Friends Library Swarthmore College
  • The Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, New York, New York
  • Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin,
  • The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
  • The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
  • The Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
  • The Newbery Library, Chicago, Illinois
  • The Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Winterthur, Delaware

    American Studies Programs:

    General Guide to American Studies Programs
    This comprehensive listing ismaintained by the American Studies Association (ASA)

    Asia-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    China

    All-China American Studies Directory: An Overview of American Studies in China
      A comprehensive listing edited by Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch
        US-China Education Trust and F.Y. Chang Foundation: Washington, DC, 2008

  • American Studies Center,
        Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外国语大学)

  • Center for American Studies,
        Fudan University

  • American Studies Programme,
        Unversity of Hong Kong

  • Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies
        Nanjing University and Johns Hopkins University

  • American Studies Center,
        Peking University

  • Center for American Studies of the School of Asia-Pacific Studies
        Sun Yat-sen University

  • American Corner,
        University of Macau

    Japan

  • The Japanese Association for American Studies

  • Center for Pacific and American Studies,
        University of Tokyo

  • American Studies, Graduate School of Global Studies,
        Doshisha University

  • The Institute for American Studies,
         Rikkyo University

  • Department of American Studies,
        Tohoku University

    Korea

  • American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)

    Taiwan

  • Graduate Institute of American Studies,
        Tamkang University

    Canada------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  • Center for the Study of the United States,
         University of Toronto

  • North American Studies,
         McGill University

  • American Studies,
        University of West Ontario

  • Network on North American Studies in Canada (NNASC)

    Europe---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Austria

  • Institute for American Studies,
         University of Innsbruck

    Belgium

  • Center for American Studies, Royal Library

    Denmark

  • Center for American Studies,
        University of Southern Denmark

    France

  • French Association for American Studies

    Germany

  • German Association for American Studies

  • Department of English and American Studies
         Humboldt Unviversity

  • John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies
         Freie Univeristy, Berlin

  • Centre for American Studies,
        Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  • American Studies,
        University Regensburg

  • American Studies
        University of Stuttgart

  • Heidelberg Center for American Studies,
        University of Heidelberg

    Scotland

  • American Studies,
         University of Edinburgh

    United Kingdom

  • British Association for American Studies (BAAS)

    United States----------------------------------------------------------------------

  • Guide to American Studies Resources
    The American Studies Association (ASA) maintains a comprehensive listing of domestic American Studies and American Ethnic Studies programes

  • Department of American Studies,
        Unvieristy of Alabama

  • American Studies,
         American University

  • American Studies,
         Amherst College

  • American Studies,
         Barnard College (Columbia University)

  • Department of American Studies,
         Baylor University

  • American Studies
         Boston College

  • American and New England Studies Program,
         Boston University

  • American Studies Program,
         Brandeis University

  • American Studies,
         Brigham Young University

  • Department of American Civilization,
         Brown University

  • American Studies,
         University of California, Berkeley

  • Department of Ethnic Studies,
         University of California, Berkeley

  • American Studies Program,
         University of California, Davis;
        African American and African Studies;
        Asian American Studies;
        Native American Studies

  • Program in African American Studies,
         University of California, Irvine;
         Asian American Studies

  • Interdepartmental Program Afro-American Studies,
         University of California, Los Angeles;
         UCLA American Indian Studies Center

  • Department of Ethnic Studies,
         University of California, Riverside

  • Department of Ethnic Studies,
        University of California, San Diego

  • American Studies Major,
        University of California, Santa Cruz
         Latin American and Latino Studies

  • American Studies,
        Carleton College

  • American Studies,
         Colby College

  • Department of Ethnic Studies,
         University of Colorado at Boulder

  • American Studies Program,
         Cornell University
        Asian American Studies Program;
         American Indian Program

  • American Studies Program,
        Creighton University

  • American Studies,
        DePaul University;
         Latin American and Latin Studies

  • American Studies,
        Dickinson College

  • American Studies,
        Emory University;
         Department of African American Studies

  • American and Florida Studies,
        Florida State University;
         African-American Studies Program

  • African and African-American Studies,
        George Mason University

  • American Studies Department,
         The George Washington University

  • American Studies Program,
         Georgetown University

  • American Studies,
        Hamilton College

  • American Studies,
        Hampshire College

  • History of American Civilization,
        Harvard University

  • American Studies,
        The University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • American Studies Program,
        Hofstra University

  • Department of Afro-American Studies,
        Howard University

  • Asian American Studies,
        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
         Department of African American Studies

  • American Studies Program,
        Indiana University;
         African American and African Diaspora Studies

  • Department of American Studies,
         The University of Iowa;
         African American Studies

  • American Studies,
         University of Kansas

  • American Studies,
        Lehigh University

  • W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies,
        University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  • American Studies,
         University of Massachusetts at Boston

  • American Studies,
         Miami University (Ohio)

  • The Program in American Culture
         University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • American Studies,
         Michigan State University

  • American Studies
         University of New Hampshire

  • American Studies
        University of New Mexico;
        Africana Studies
        Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies

  • American Studies Certificate Program,
        The City University of New York

  • American Studies,
        Brooklyn College

  • Department of American Studies,
         State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo;
         Department of African and African American Studies

  • American Studies Program,
        SUNY, Fredonia

  • American Studies,
        Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University;
         Africana Studies

  • Department of American Studies,
         University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
         Department of African and Afro-American Studies

  • American Studies,
         Northwestern University;
         The Department of African American Studies

  • Department of African American and African Studies,
         Ohio State University

  • American Studies Program,
         Oklahoma State University

  • Native American Studies,
        University of Oklahoma

  • American Studies,
        Penn State University at Harrisburg

  • Program in American Studies,
        Princeton University

  • American Studies,
         Purdue University;
         African American Studies and Research Center

  • American Studies,
        Reed College

  • American Studies,
         University of Richmond

  • Department of American Studies,
         Rutgers University

  • Department of American Studies,
         Saint Louis University

  • College of Ethnic Studies,
         San Francisco State University

  • American Studies Program,
        Smith College

  • American Studies; African American Studies; Asian American Studies; Chicano/Latino Studies,
         University of Southern California

  • American Studies Program,
        Stanford University:
         African & African American Studies

  • American Studies,
        Temple University

  • American Studies Program,
         University of Tennessee at Knoxville

  • Department of American Studies,
        the University of Texas at Austin;
         Center for Mexican American Studies

  • American Studies Program,
         Trinity College

  • American Studies Program,
         Tufts University

  • American Studies,
        Vanderbilt University;
         African-American Studies

  • American Studies,
         University of Virginia

  • Program in African and African-American Studies,
         Washington University in St. Louis

  • Program in American Studies,
         Washington State University;
         Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies

  • Department of American Ethnic Studies,
        University of Washington;
        Department of American Indian Studies

  • American Studies (AMS),
         University of Washington at Bothell

  • American Studies,
        Wayne State University

  • American Studies Program,
        Wesleyan University

  • American Studies,
        William and Mary

  • American Studies Program,
         Williams College

  • American Studies Program,
         Yale University;
         Department of African American Studies

    Contemporary News Media

  • The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (Washington, DC)

  • National Public Radio
  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia)
  • The Baltimore Sun (State of Maryland)
  • The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)
  • Chicago Sun-Times (Illinois)
  • Detroit Free Press and Detroit News (Michigan)
  • Houston Chronicle (Texas)
  • Los Angeles Times (California)
  • Miami Herald (Florida)
  • New York Times (note: there are "Glogal" and "U.S." editions)
  • Philadelpia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)
  • San Francisco Chronicle (California)
  • Wall Street Journal (New York)
  • Washington Post (Washington, DC)
  • American Native Press Archives
         Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

    Major Television Channels

  • ABC
  • CBS
  • CNN
  • Fox
  • HBO
  • MTV
  • NBC
  • PBS