From: Jeff Finlay, Administrator/American Studies Crossroads Project
<finlayji@guvax.georgetown.edu>
I recently compiled a list of American Studies programs that have
created web pages. This list is by no means comprehensive, and I
would very much like to hear of omissions and further suggestions,
but I certainly found many more URLs (addresses) than I expected,
and it seems to me that the web is proving a popular medium for
American Studies communities both in the US and elsewhere.
I append the addresses, followed by some comments.
Websites of American Studies Programs in the United States:
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University of Alabama
http://ua1vm.ua.edu/gradamst.html
Bowling Green State University, Ohio
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/
Brown University, Rhode Island
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/AmCiv
U. California-Santa Cruz
http://www.ucsc.edu:80/ucsc/catalog/amst/
Georgetown University, Washington DC
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/amer_studies/amer_studies.html
Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu:80/~amrstudy/
U. Maryland-College Park
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/AmericanStudies
U. Michigan-Ann Arbor
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/amculture/
Michigan State University (American Thought & Language program)
http://atl46.atl.msu.edu
University of Minnesota (American Studies, College of Liberal Arts)
http://cla-net.cla.umn.edu/depts/amst.htm
University of Pennsylvania
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/amcv/
University of Texas-Austin
http://www.dla.utexas.edu:80/depts/ams/
Trinity College, Connecticut
http://www.trincoll.edu/amst/
University of Virginia
http://xroads.virginia.edu
College of William & Mary
http://warthog.cc.wm.edu/visiting/GradStudies/AmericanStudies/
AmericanStudies.html
University of Wyoming, Laramie
http://www.uwyo.edu/a&s/ams/index.htm
Yale University
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/as.html
Websites of American Studies Programs outside the United States:
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Australian Center for American Studies
http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/acas/
John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de:8080/~jfki/
Keele University, UK
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/ashome.html
As I say, this is a somewhat selective list and I would like to
hear of omissions. But nonetheless I have been very pleasantly
surprised. Some departments have not only loaded information
about their own faculty and courses but invested time in making
available samples of student work and papers from conferences.
Several websites that particularly drew my attention:
Georgetown
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/amer_studies/amer_studies.html
Check out in particular the Civil War course assignments at
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/amer_studies/civilwar.html
U. Maryland-College Park
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/AmericanStudies
There are some brilliant models for courses incorporating the web at
the following URLs, representing the work of David Silver and Professors
Jo Paoletti and Mary Sies:
Diversity in American Culture
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~jpaolett/AMST212.html
Growing Up American
http://otal.umd.edu/~jpaolett/AMST418D.html
The Greenbelt Museum
http://otal.umd.edu/~googie/vg/intro.html
The website of the Australian Center for American Studies
(http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/acas/) contains, in a well-hidden
submenu the entire proceedings of their 1993 Fulbright conference:
The News Media: Responsibility And Power
http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/acas/fulbright/index.html
Lastly, I cite my favourite of all the sites I found. People in
the United States need to be reminded that our field is not seen
in exactly the same terms, or subdivided the same way, as we
are in the habit of doing. This site does an excellent job of
presenting a European perspective on American Studies:
John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de:8080/~jfki/
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(Editor's Note)
This is an excellent list. On behalf of H-USA, I would like to give
special thanks to Professor Finlay for sharing this list with us.
Yone