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The Department of American Studies provides undergraduates with an opportunity to explore and interpret the American experience from multi-disciplinary perspectives such as the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences. In addition to support for undergraduate study and teaching the library strives towards providing resources that encourage and facilitate the interdisciplinary study and research of the American experience. Three library endowments support the collections in three distinct areas of American studies: the Sacher Family Endowment for Southern United States History and Culture, the Jodi and Ivan Ludington, Jr.Family Endowment for the Study of the Great Lakes and the Twist Family Endowment for American Studies, focusing on the American presidency.
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Access to these resources is governed by license agreements which restrict use to the Notre Dame community and to individuals who use the Notre Dame Libraries' facilities. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that he or she uses these products only for individual, noncommercial use without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information. Acceptable use forbids downloading contents of entire issues of a given journal title. The use of software such as scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in loss of access to these resources for the entire Notre Dame community.
Please see the ND Copyright Policies webpage for more information on the creation and use of copyrighted materials at Notre Dame.
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Provides selected text from newspaper collections: Pennsylvania gazette 1728-1800; The Civil War: a newspaper perspective (Nov. 1860-Apr. 1865); African American newspapers: the 19th century; The Liberator (1831-1865).
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Coverage:
1954-
Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present and citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations. Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
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Coverage:
Contains content through series no. 24,032, published in 1873 (50,073 pages).
Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection - the most extensive in existence - American Broadsides and Ephemera offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. The remarkably diverse subjects of these broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Featuring many rare items, the pieces of ephemera include clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations.
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Biographical resource for more than 17,000 notable people in American history; updates include recently deceased notables as well as figures from the past who were not subjects in the print edition.
Online Teaching Guide
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Consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers and periodicals in the original microfilm reproduction series, American periodical series, I, II, and III. When completed in 2003, this database will have more than 7,000,000 pages of full text periodicals.
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Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early 20th century and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
Link to list of LION collections
Link to LION home page
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"Black Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders form the mainstay of this corpus. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art."--'About the database' page.
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Coverage:
1680s to 1930s
"... provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. ... British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals ..."--Home page; "about" page.
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Coverage:
1970-
Provides citations to articles, book reviews, and documents on Hispanic American topics in over 400 social science and humanities journals.
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Coverage:
1863-1905 and 1913-Sept. 1922
Fully searchable database of index entries to the New York times for the available date range; valuable reference material for students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history.
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Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.
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Coverage:
1851-three years before present
Searchable database with access to every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF from the first issue in 1851 to three years before the current year. Additional year of coverage added once a year.
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Provides access to 120,000 pages of letters and diaries of more than 600 women writing from Colonial times to 1950. Writers reflect all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.
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"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions ..."--Gale databases description.
Other American Studies Resources
General and local information:
Genealogy
Places:
Canada
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Indiana
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United States
Formats:
Audio recordings (CDs, records, etc.)
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Data, statistics and survey results
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Electronic books and texts
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Electronic journals
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Manuscripts
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Maps and GIS
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Photographs and images
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Software
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Video recordings (DVDs, films, etc.)
Research tools:
Bibliographies
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Biographies
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Catalogs
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Directories
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Encyclopedias
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Guides and finding aids
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Indexes and abstracts
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Newspapers and news sources
E-Journal Collections:
Blackwell Synergy
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Cambridge University Press
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Duke University Press
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HighWire Press
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History Cooperative
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
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JSTOR
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OUP (Oxford Univ. Press)
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Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text)
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Project Muse
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Routledge
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Sage Publications
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Univ. of California Press
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University of Chicago Press
Genres:
Collected works
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Drama
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Fiction
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Poetry
