A comprehensive source of reference that 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

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