Brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present.

Table of Contents

• A
• Aaron, Daniel
• Abortion
• Addams, Jane
• Adolescence
• Advertising
• Affirmative Action
• African American Dance
• African American Folklore and Humor
• African American Literature
• African American Music
• African American Religions
• African American Speech and Language
• African American Visual Art
• African Americans and Sports
• African Americans in Film and Theater
• African Americans: An Overview
• African Americans
• Afro-Caribbean Culture
• Afro
• Afrocentrism
• Agrarians
• Agriculture
• AIDS
• Ailey, Alvin
• Airplanes and Aviation
• Alcott, Louisa May
• Alger, Horatio
• Ali, Muhammad
• Alternative Medicine
• Amateur and Home Photography
• America Perceived
• America, The Idea of
• America
• American Character
• American Culture Abroad
• American Dream
• American Eagle
• American Gothic
• American Language
• American Studies Association
• American Studies in Canada
• American Studies in China
• American Studies in France
• American Studies in Germany
• American Studies in India
• American Studies in Israel
• American Studies in Japan
• American Studies in Korea
• American Studies in Scandinavia
• American Studies in Spain
• American Studies in the Netherlands
• American Studies in the United Kingdom
• American Studies: A Discipline
• American Studies: An Overview
• American Studies: Approaches and Concepts
• American Studies
• Americanization
• Amish, The
• Anderson, Sherwood
• Angel Island
• Anglo-Americans
• Animal Rights
• Animation
• Anthony, Susan Brownell
• Anti-Catholicism
• Anti-Intellectualism
• Anti-Semitism
• Arab Americans
• Arcade Games
• Architecture: An Overview
• Arms Control
• Armstrong, Louis
• Art Music in the European Tradition
• Art, Society, and Culture
• Arts and Crafts Movement
• Asian American Art and Literature
• Asian American Politics
• Asian Americans in Film and Theater
• Asian Americans: An Overview
• Asian Americans
• Assassinations
• Assimilation
• Atheism in America
• Atomic Bomb
• Audubon Society
• Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Diaries
• Automobiles and Recreational Vehicles
• Avant-Garde Movements
• Baby Boom
• B
• Baldwin, James
• Banks and Banking
• Barbie
• Barnum, Phineas Taylor
• Baseball
• Baxter, Annette K.
• Beaches
• Beat Writers
• Beauty Contests
• Beauty Parlors
• Bellamy, Edward
• Bellow, Saul
• Benton, Thomas Hart
• Bible
• Biculturalism
• Bilingual Education
• Bilingualism
• Bill of Rights
• Bioethics
• Birth Control
• Black Arts Movement
• Black Colleges and Universities
• Black Intellectual Tradition
• Black Muslims
• Black Nationalism
• Black Panthers
• Black Power
• Blues
• Body, The
• Book Clubs
• Boone, Daniel
• Boorstin, Daniel J.
• Borderlands
• Bracero
• Brand Names
• Bread and Roses
• Bridges
• Broadway Musicals
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Brown, John
• Buddhism
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Bureau of Indian Affairs and Federal Indian Policy
• Business Cycles
• C
• California
• Canals
• Capitalism
• Carnegie, Andrew
• Carnivals and Fairs
• Carson, Rachel
• Catalogs, Mail-Order
• Celebrations and Holidays
• Celebrity
• Cemeteries
• Censorship
• Central American and Caribbean Immigrants
• Central Park
• Chávez, César
• Chaplin, Charles
• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
• Chicanismo and the Chicano Movement
• Chicano Literature
• Chicano Performing and Graphic Arts
• Chicanos: An Overview
• Chicanos
• Childhood
• Children's Literature
• Chinese Americans
• Chisholm, Shirley
• Christmas
• Church and State
• Circuses
• Citizenship
• City, The Idea of the
• City
• Civil Religion
• Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Movement: An Overview
• Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Movement, the Aftermath
• Civil Service
• Civil War
• Class and Culture
• Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
• Clinton, William Jefferson
• Clothing
• Coca-Cola
• Coins, Currency, Stamps, and Commemorative Medals
• Cold War
• Colonialism
• Coltrane, John
• Columbia
• Comic Strips and Comic Books
• Commercial Architecture
• Communitarianism
• Community
• Computers
• Coney Island
• Congress
• Conservation and Conservation Movements
• Conservatism
• Constitution
• Consumer Technology
• Consumerism
• Contemporary Religious Movements
• Cooper, James Fenimore
• Corporations
• Cotton
• Counterculture
• Country Music
• Country-rock
• Cowboys
• Crèvecoeur, Jean de
• Crazy Horse
• Credit Card
• Crime
• Critical Approaches to Literature
• Critiques of Technology
• Crockett, Davy
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cultural Pluralism
• Cultural Resource Management
• Culture and Cultural Studies
• Currier and Ives
• Cyberculture
• D
• Dance
• Dating
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Daughters of the Confederacy
• Davis, Miles
• Declaration of Independence
• Decorative Arts
• Democracy
• Department Store
• Design, Commercial and Industrial
• Disney, Walt
• Disneyland
• Divorce
• Docudrama
• Documentary Film
• Documentary Photography and Photojournalism
• Domestic Architecture
• Domesticity
• Dorson, Richard Mercer
• Double Consciousness
• Douglass, Frederick
• Draft
• Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Drama in the Twentieth Century
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Dreiser, Theodore
• Du Bois, W. E. B.
• Duel
• Dylan, Bob
• E
• Eakins, Thomas
• Early America
• Easter
• Eastern Orthodox Christianity
• Ecocriticism
• Edison, Thomas
• Education and Public Policy
• Education, The Idea of Universal
• Education
• Eisenhower, Dwight David
• Electrification
• Ellis Island
• Ellison, Ralph Waldo
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• Engineering
• Environment and Environmentalism: An Overview
• Environment and Environmentalism: UPDATE
• Environment and Environmentalism
• Environmental Art
• Environmental Studies
• Erie Canal
• Ethnic Studies
• Ethnography
• European Americans
• Evangelicalism
• Exceptionalism
• Exploration
• F
• Family
• Fans and Groupies
• Farms
• Fashion
• Fast Food
• Faulkner, William
• Federal Arts Projects
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Federal Government
• Federalist Papers
• Feminism and Women of Color
• Feminism: An Overview
• Feminism
• Feminist Art
• Feminist Press, The
• Filipino Americans
• Film and History
• Film and Its Audiences
• Film and Reality
• Film and the Construction of Identity
• Film Technology
• Film: An Overview
• Film
• Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key (F. Scott)
• Five-and-Dime Stores
• Flag
• Flappers
• Folk Art
• Folk Culture
• Folk Musical Traditions
• Folk Religion
• Foodways
• Football
• Ford, Henry
• Foreign Policy and Cultural Diplomacy
• Foundations, Philanthropic
• Fourth of July
• Foxfire
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Franklin, John Hope
• Free Enterprise
• Free Love
• Freedom of the Press
• Freemasons
• Friedan, Betty
• Frontier and Folk Heroes
• Frontier Thesis
• Frost, Robert
• Fundamentalism
• G
• Gambling
• Gangs
• Gardens and Horticulture
• Garvey, Marcus
• Gates, Bill
• Gay and Lesbian Literature and Studies
• Gay and Lesbian Movement: An Overview
• Gay and Lesbian Movement
• Gay and Lesbian Rights
• Gender and Culture
• Genteel Tradition
• German Americans
• Geronimo
• Gershwin, George
• Gettysburg Address
• Ghost Dance
• Gibson Girl
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
• Global Relations
• Globalization
• Goetzmann, William H.
• Gospel Music
• Gospel of Wealth
• Graffiti
• Grateful Dead, The
• Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
• Great Depression
• Great Society
• Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of
• Gun Control
• Guthrie, Woody
• H
• Hacienda
• Halloween
• Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem
• Hasidim
• Hate Speech
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Health Care
• Hearst, William Randolph
• Hemingway, Ernest
• Heritage Studies
• Heroism
• Highways
• Hinduism
• Hip-Hop
• Hirabayashi, Gordon
• Historic Preservation
• Historical Subjects in Painting and Sculpture
• Hockey
• Hollywood
• Holocaust Memorials
• Home Economics
• Home, The
• Homeland Security
• Homelessness
• Hoover Dam
• Hornung, Alfred
• Hospitals and Asylums
• Houdini, Harry
• Howells, William Dean
• Hudson River School
• Huerta, Dolores
• Hull-House
• Humor in Everyday Life
• Humor in Literature
• Humor
• Hunting
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• I
• Ideology
• Immigration and Immigration Law
• Imperialism
• Improvisational Theater
• Independence Hall
• Independent Film
• Indian Activism
• Indian Education
• Indian Lands and Sovereignty
• Indian Wars and Treaties
• Individualism
• Industrial Towns
• Inner Cities and Ghettos
• Integration
• Intellectual History
• Intellectuals
• International American Studies Association (IASA)
• Internet
• Internment Camps
• Iraq, War in
• Irish Americans
• Islam
• Italian Americans
• Iwo Jima Memorial
• J
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jackson, Jesse
• Jackson, Michael
• James, William
• Jamestown
• Japanese Americans
• Jazz Age
• Jazz
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Jewish American Folklore and Humor
• Jewish American Literature
• Jewish American Speech and Language
• Jewish Americans in Film and Theater
• Jewish Americans: An Overview
• Jewish Americans
• Jim Crow
• Johnson, Robert
• Judaism
• K
• Kennedy, John F.
• Keynesianism
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• Kinsey Reports
• Klezmer
• Kochiyama, Yuri
• Korean Americans
• Korean War
• Kroes, Rob
• Ku Klux Klan
• Kwanza
• L
• Labor Day
• Labor Movement
• Lacrosse
• Land Use
• Latino Activism
• Latino Graphic Arts
• Latino Literature
• Latino Muralists
• Latino Performing Arts
• Latinos: An Overview
• Latinos
• Law
• Legend
• Lenz, Günter H.
• Letter Writing and Correspondence
• Levittowns
• Liberalism
• Libertarianism
• Liberty Bell
• Libraries
• Library of Congress
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Literary Canon
• Literature and Popular Culture
• Literature and the Construction of Identity
• Literature, Science, and Technology
• Literature: An Overview
• Literature
• Locke, Alain
• Lomax, Alan
• Lomax, John
• Lost Generation
• Louisiana Purchase
• Loving v. Virginia
• Lyceums and Chautauquas
• Lynching
• M
• Mafia
• Magazines
• Magic and Magicians
• Malcolm X
• Malls
• Manifest Destiny
• March on Washington
• Mardi Gras
• Maritime Culture
• Marriage
• Marshall, Thurgood
• Marx, Leo
• Marxism
• Masculinity
• Mason-Dixon Line
• Mass Transit
• Material Culture Studies
• Materialism
• Mather, Cotton
• Matthiessen, F. O.
• McCarthyism
• McGuffey Readers
• McLuhan, Marshall
• Mead, Margaret
• Media and Politics
• Media: An Overview
• Media
• Medicine
• Melting Pot
• Melville, Herman
• Memorial Day
• Mennonites
• Mental and Intelligence Testing
• Mercantilism
• Mestiza Consciousness
• Mexican War, The
• Mid-Atlantic Region
• Middle Age
• Middletown
• Midwest, The
• Military Forces
• Military-Industrial Complex
• Militia
• Millennialism
• Miller, Arthur
• Miller, Perry
• Mills, C. Wright
• Mining
• Minstrelsy
• Miscegenation
• Mitchell, Margaret
• Moby Dick
• Monroe Doctrine
• Monroe, Marilyn
• Mormonism
• Morrison, Toni
• Moses, Robert
• Mother's Day and Father's Day
• Mott, Lucretia Coffin
• Mount Rushmore
• Movie Stars
• Moynihan Report
• Muckraking
• Muir, John
• Multiculturalism
• Mumford, Lewis
• Murals
• Museums
• Music and the Construction of Identity
• Music Videos
• Music, The Business of
• Music: An Overview
• Music
• Myth and Symbol
• N
• National Archives
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Organization for Women
• National Parks and the National Park Movement
• National Rifle Association
• National Road
• Nationalism
• Native American Architecture and Design
• Native American Art
• Native American Creation Myths
• Native American Languages
• Native American Literatures
• Native American Music
• Native American Religions
• Native Americans: An Overview
• Native Americans
• Nativism
• Natural Rights
• Naturalization
• Nature in Literature and the Arts
• Nature, The Idea of
• Nature
• New Deal
• New England
• New Journalism
• New Urbanism
• Newspapers
• Niagara Falls
• Noble Savage
• Nuclear Age
• Nuclear Energy
• Nye, Russel Blaine
• O
• Obama, Barack
• Old Age
• Olmsted, Frederick Law
• Olympic Games
• Organization Man
• Orientalism
• Orvell, Miles
• P
• Pacific Islands
• Pacific Northwest, The
• Pacifism
• Paine, Thomas
• Painting
• Parades
• Paredes, Américo
• Parenthood
• Parker, Charlie
• Parrington, Vernon Louis
• Patriotic Songs
• Patriotism
• Pattee, Fred Lewis
• Paul, Alice
• Peale, Charles Willson
• Pearl Harbor
• Pentecostalism
• Performance Art
• Periodization and American Studies
• Philanthropy
• Philosophies of Education
• Photography and the Construction of Identity
• Photography and the Old West
• Photography: An Overview
• Photography
• Physical Culture
• Pilgrims
• Plantation
• Plastics
• Plays and Playwrights
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Plymouth Rock
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Poetry
• Police
• Polish Americans
• Political Cartoons
• Political Correctness
• Political Culture
• Political Parties
• Poor White
• Pop Art
• Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
• Popular Culture
• Popular Literature
• Popular Religion
• Popular Song
• Popular Theatrical Traditions
• Populism
• Pornography
• Postal System
• Postindustrial America
• Postmodernism
• Pragmatism
• Prejudice
• Presidency, The
• Presley, Elvis
• Prigg v. Pennsylvania
• Print Culture
• Prison Literature
• Private Communities
• Private, Religious, and Independent Schools
• Progress
• Progressivism
• Prohibition
• Proletarian Literature
• Prostitution
• Protestant Ethic
• Protestantism
• Public Art
• Public Buildings
• Public Health
• Public Heritage
• Public Intellectual
• Public Lands
• Public Memory
• Public Relations
• Public Schools
• Public Space
• Public Sphere
• Puerto Ricans
• Puritanism
• Q
• Quakers
• Queer Popular Culture
• R
• Race and IQ
• Race Riots
• Racism
• Radical Tradition in Literature
• Radio
• Railroads
• Reader's Digest
• Realism and Naturalism in Literature
• Reality Television
• Reconstruction
• Recording Technology
• Recreation and Leisure
• Reform Movements
• Regionalism
• Religion and Popular Culture
• Religion and Religious Movements: An Overview
• Religion and Religious Movements
• Religious Architecture
• Religious Writing and Sermons
• Republicanism
• Revolutionary War
• Rhetorical Criticism
• Riis, Jacob
• Rites of Passage
• Robber Baron
• Robeson, Paul
• Rock Music
• Rockefeller, John D.
• Rockwell, Norman
• Rodeos and Wild West Shows
• Roe v. Wade
• Roman Catholicism
• Romance Novels
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Rourke, Constance
• S
• Sacagawea
• Salem Witchcraft Trials
• Sandburg, Carl
• Saxton, Alexander P.
• Scalping
• Scandinavian Americans
• Schooling
• Science and Public Health
• Science and Religion
• Science and Technology
• Science Fiction
• Science: An Overview
• Science
• Scouting
• Sculpture
• Segregation
• Self-Made Man
• Sentimental Tradition in Literature
• September 11, 2001: An Overview
• September 11, 2001: Media Representations
• Serial Killers
• Service Academies
• Sexual Harassment
• Shakers
• Sharecroppers
• Silent Films
• Sinatra, Frank
• Sixties, The
• Skateboarding
• Slave Narratives
• Slavery, Apologists for
• Slavery
• Slotkin, Richard
• Small Town
• Smith, Henry Nash
• Smithsonian Institution
• Social Class
• Social Media
• Social Mobility
• Social Purity
• Social Register
• Socialism
• Soul Food
• South Asian Americans
• South, The
• Southern Writers
• Space Program
• Spirituals
• Spock, Benjamin
• Sports: An Overview
• Sports
• Standing Army
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
• Star-Spangled Banner, The
• States' Rights
• Statue of Liberty
• Steel
• Steinbeck, John
• Steinem, Gloria
• Stereotypes and Stereotyping
• Stieglitz, Alfred
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
• Strike
• Structuralism and American Studies
• Studio System
• Suburbs
• Suffragist Period
• Sullivan, Louis
• Sunbelt
• Superheroes
• Supreme Court
• T
• Takagi, Yasaka
• Talented Tenth
• Tammany Hall
• Tar and Feathers
• Tattoo Parlors
• Taylor, Frederick Winslow
• Taylorism
• Technology and the Visual Arts
• Technology in American Business
• Technology: An Overview
• Technology
• Telephone
• Television in the Post-Network Era
• Television
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Terrorism
• Thanksgiving
• The Masses, The Liberator, and The New Masses
• The Occupy (Wall Street) Movement
• Theater and Its Audiences
• Theater: An Overview
• Theater
• Think Tanks
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Tobacco
• Tocqueville, Alexis de
• Tourism
• Transcendentalism
• Transgender Studies
• Transnationalism and American Studies: The View from Abroad
• Transnationalism and American Studies
• Transnationalism in American Studies
• Tribal Gaming
• Trusts
• Truth, Sojourner
• Tupperware
• Turner, Frederick Jackson
• Turpie, Mary C.
• Twain, Mark
• U
• U.S. Government and Native Americans
• UFO Phenomenon, The
• United States-African Relations
• United States-Asian Relations
• United States-Canadian Relations
• United States-Eastern European Relations
• United States-Latin American Relations
• United States-Middle East Relations
• United States-Western European Relations
• Urban Architecture
• Urban Folklore
• Urban Parks
• Urban Planning and Design
• Utopias and Utopianism
• V
• Vampire and Vampirism
• Vegetarianism
• Venturi, Robert
• Vernacular Architecture
• Veterans
• Victorian Period and the Gilded Age
• Video and Computer Games
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Vietnam War
• Vietnamese Americans
• Violence
• Voting and Elections
• W
• WAC and WAVES
• Walker, Alice
• Wall Street
• War and the Representation of War
• War of 1812
• Ward, John William
• Warhol, Andy
• Washington Monument
• Washington, Booker T.
• Washington, D.C.
• Washington, George
• WASP
• Watergate
• Welles, Orson
• West, The
• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
• White-Collar Crime
• Whiteness
• Whitman, Walt
• William Penn's Treaty with the Indians
• Williamsburg
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Women in the American Labor Movement
• Women's Literature
• Women's Movement: An Overview
• Women's Movement
• Women's Studies
• Women's Suffrage
• Wong, Anna May
• Wood, Grant
• Woodson, Carter G.
• Woodstock
• Work and Workers
• World Trade Center
• World War I
• World War II
• World's Fairs and Expositions
• Wright, Frank Lloyd
• Wright, Richard
• Writers and Politics
• Wyeth, Andrew
• Y
• Youth Culture