LibGuides: American Studies: Other Resources

Box of Broadcasts

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new window Box of Broadcasts (BoB) - a huge library of over 2 million TV and radio programmes and feature films that have been broadcast by BBC, ITV, Ch4, Ch5 and over 70 other channels. Create playlists to watch later or edit clips and embed in your presentations.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) - a huge library of over 2 million TV and radio programmes and feature films that have been broadcast by BBC, ITV, Ch4, Ch5 and over 70 other channels. Create playlists to watch later or edit clips and embed in your presentations

Guide to Finding Theses

Try our online guide to finding Theses.

Finding theses

Dissertations & Theses

Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Dissertations & Theses incorporates two databases which can be searched individually or cross searched. Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland covers theses accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland. It covers the years from 1716 up to almost the present. Dissertations & Theses: A&I covers American and International theses from 1861 to the present date. Dissertations & Theses: A & I is strong on theses from the USA but poor for the rest of the world. For post 1997 theses, 24 page previews are included in both databases. For a minority of theses, links to the full text are provided.
EThOS This link opens in a new window
Search over 400,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.

Primary Sources

Library of Congress Catalog This link opens in a new window The Library of Congress website provides access to online historical sources for American History. It includes the "American Memory" collection - a digital library of historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video clips related to American history. It also includes the "Chronicling America" project, providing access to a selection of digitized historic newspapers.

Digital Public Library of America The Digital Public Library of America site aims to bring together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to the world. It provides access to photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images etc from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Browse and search the DPLA's collections by timeline, map, format, and topic.

American History 1493-1945 This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary sources documents American History from 1860 to the mid-twentieth century. It is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. *Note: Despite the title, our access only covers 1860-1945.
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window The Digital National Security Archive gives access to declassified U.S. government documents, providing primary source material to advance research in twentieth and twenty-first century history, politics, and international relations. The digitized documents are made available in over 40 topic-based collections, with two new collections added each year.
Popular culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 This link opens in a new window
This resource contains digitizations of popular culture collections from the U.S. and U.K. between 1950 to 1975. These original archival materials are from various libraries and archives. Topics include student protests, civil rights, consumerism, and the Vietnam War. The collection includes pamphlets, letters, government files, eye witness accounts, underground magazines, visual and video materials and ephemera and memorabilia. Part II contains additional material, such as music, press kits, mail order catalogues, advertising proofs, additional photos from the Mirrorpix archives, and documents on student unrest and the Troubles in Northern Ireland from the National Archives.

United Nations documentation research guide
The UN Documentation Research Guide presents an overview of selected UN documents, publications, databases and websites.
Valley of the Shadow
Explore the lives of people swept up in the great American dramas of slavery, war, and emancipation. The two communities, one in the North and one in the South, experienced every national challenge from secession through Reconstruction.

Keeping up to date

JournalTOCs JournalTOCs is the biggest searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). It contains article details for over 19,500 journals directly collected from over 1115 publishers. JournalTOCs has taken special care to include all the highest rated journals in their fields, guaranteeing quality results. You can search it or use RSS feeds to keep up to date. The site allows you to go directly into articles where we have a subscription.
Scout Report Archives The Scout Report is published on the web every two weeks by the Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. You can register your details and receive the report by email, free of charge. The website catalogues and indexes quality academic resources for effective searching and browsing.