American Studies Program Resources

The following links are all to external sites.

• SJSU Library Recommended AMS Sites
• American Studies Crossroad Project
• Smithsonian Institution
• Library of Congress

Pre-Columbian Native America & the Oral Tradition

• Re. petroglyphs in Coso Mountains of California, possibly 10,000-19,000 years old
  http://www.desertusa.com/magdec97/dec_pap/du_artists.html
  http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/coso/
• Re. Misssissipian Culture, 700 A.D. to 1200 A.D.
  http://state.il.us/hpa/hs/Mounds.htm
• Re. Anasazi culture of the American Southwest, 900 A.D. to 1150 A.D.
  http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/up/upb.html

Land Use & Settlement Patterns

• Sipapu -- Anasazi Emergence,
  http://sipapu.gsu.edu/
• Law of the Indies,
  http://www.arc.miami.edu/Law%20of%20Indies.html
• Plymouth Colony Archive,
  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/
• Virtual Jamestown,
  http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html

New England -- King Philip's War

• History Matters -- Metacom Relates Indian Complaints,
  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6226/
• Plimouth on the Web,
  http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Wampanoag/wamppost.htm
• Narragansett Tribe
  http://www.narragansett-tribe.org/history.htm

Salem Witchcraft Trials

• Salem Witch Trials Documents,
  http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

Early California History

• Map of tribal territories:
  http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/ca/calprecontact.gif
• Brief history of California Indians:
  http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/ca/calprecontact.gif
• Mission map:
  http://missions.bgmm.com/.
• A glossary of material culture relating to California missions:
  http://www.ca-missions.org/illusgl.html

Transcendentalism / Utopian Communities

• Women and Social Movements, 1775-2000,
  http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
• Handbook of the Oneida Community,
  http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/collections/h/Hand-bookOfTheOneidaCommunity/

Civil War

• Civil War Photos, Library of Congress,
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

AMS1b Websites

California: Early Statehood

• California Constitution,
  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const.html
• New Deal: Homes, Communities, Regions
  "New Deal Network" website,
  http://newdeal.feri.org/.
• World War II: War Workers, War Housing
  "Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historical Park",
  http://www.rosietheriveter.org/

Second Wave Feminism

• Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
  http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst203/documents/friedan1.html
  http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst203/documents/friedan2.html

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