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

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Guide to American Studies Resources The American Studies Association maintains a comprehensive listing of print journals
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A Directory of American Studies Journals  Comprehensive listing maintained by the American Studies Association (ASA)
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American Quarterly (American Studies Association)
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American Studies (University of Kansas)
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Common-place (American Antiqaurian Society) 
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Encyclopedia of American Studies (ASA; Johns Hopkins University Press) 
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The Japanese Journal of American Studies (The Japanese Association of American Studies)
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Journal of Asian American Studies (Asian American Studies Association)
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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 

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American StudiesUniversity of Virginia
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American Verse Project The University of Michigan
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Archive of Early American Images, John Carter Brown Libary, Brown University
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American Memory National Digital Libary, Library of Congress
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The Avalon ProjectYale Law School
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Documenting the American SouthUniversity of Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Encyclopedia of American Studies (ASA; Johns Hopkins University Press)
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The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites Maintained by Richard Hathaway
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MIT, Visualizing Cultures Includes units on the Rise and Fall of the Canton Trade System; the Opium Wars; and Matthew Perry in Japan
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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.
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Virtual Jamestown.org  including John White's watercolors and Theodor DeBry's engravings.
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• 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)
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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
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American Studies Center Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外国语大学)
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Center for American Studies Fudan University
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American Studies Programme Unversity of Hong Kong
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Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies Nanjing University and Johns Hopkins University
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American Studies Center Peking University
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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
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- 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)
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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
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Department of American Studies, Unvieristy of Alabama
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American Studies, American University
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American Studies, Amherst College
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American Studies,  Barnard College (Columbia University)
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American Studies Boston College
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American Studies Program, Brandeis University
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American Studies, Brigham Young University
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American Studies,  University of California, Berkeley
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Department of Ethnic Studies,  University of California, Berkeley
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Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
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Department of Ethnic Studies,  University of California, San Diego
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American Studies Major,  University of California, Santa Cruz  Latin American and Latino Studies
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American Studies,  Carleton College
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American Studies,  Colby College
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Department of Ethnic Studies,  University of Colorado at Boulder
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American Studies Program, Creighton University
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American Studies,  Dickinson College
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American Studies Department, The George Washington University
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American Studies Program, Georgetown University
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American Studies,  Hamilton College
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American Studies,  Hampshire College
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American Studies, The University of Hawaii at Manoa
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American Studies Program,   Hofstra University
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Asian American Studies,  University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignDepartment of African American Studies
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American Studies,  University of Kansas
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American Studies,  Lehigh University
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W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies,  University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Boston
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American Studies,  Miami University (Ohio)
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The Program in American Culture University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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American Studies, Michigan State University
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American Studies University of New Hampshire
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American Studies Certificate Program,  The City University of New York
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American Studies,   Brooklyn College
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American Studies,  Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University; Africana Studies
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American Studies Program,  Oklahoma State University
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Native American Studies,  University of Oklahoma
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American Studies,  Penn State University at Harrisburg
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Program in American Studies, Princeton University
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American Studies,  Reed College
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American Studies, University of Richmond
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Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
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College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University
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American Studies, Temple University
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American Studies Program,  University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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American Studies Program, Tufts University
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American Studies, University of Virginia
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Program in African and African-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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American Studies (AMS), University of Washington at Bothell
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American Studies,  Wayne State University
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American Studies Program,  Wesleyan University
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American Studies, William and Mary
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American Studies Program, Williams College
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• 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  University of Arkansas, Little Rock   Sequoyah National Research Center,


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