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American Studies Virtual Classrooms @ UVA
- AS@UVA Syllabus Archive -- Alan B. Howard
- List of undergraduate and graduate AS program courses.
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- Cultural Objects:
The Electronic Journal for AS@UVA.
- AS@UVA students write volumes on American Culture.
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- The Invention and Design
Project -- Michael Gorman
- Site geared to promote a better understanding
of the invention and design process. Includes active learning
modules with a "hands-on" approach.
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- LAR 513 History of American
Landscape Architecture -- Reuben Rainey
- Traces American architecture from 1500-1995 with images.
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- The Garren Collection of Historic Dress.
-- Kathryn Rohe
- A collection containing well over 1,000 garments housed and managed by the students in the
Department of Drama.
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- Fixing Shadows:
Still Photography -- David Sapir
- Site devoted
to photographic topics including individual photographers and photographs
of historical and ethnographic interest.
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- HIUS 403 Digital
History and the American Civil War -- Ed Ayers and Will Thomas (F97)
- Projects on the Valley Project containing letters,
photographs, diaries and records of the Civil War.
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- Mark Twain and His Times -- Stephen Railton
- An archive that allows readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each
other. Contains texts, manuscripts, contemporary reviews. images, and
interactive exhibits.
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- Roanoke Island Freemen's Colony -- Patricia C. Click, TCC
- Includes history, documents, maps, projects and links related to RIFC.
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- HIUS 323
The Rise and Fall of the Old South -- Edward L. Ayers (F01)
- Course exploring the emergence and destruction of the most powerful slave
society of the modern world, the American South, from the 17th century through the Reconstruction.
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- ENAM 312
American Revelations -- Jennifer Wicke (S00)
- Another course on American literature, featuring first editions, lectures, image galleries, and syllabus.
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- ENTC 312 20th Century
American Literature -- John Unsworth (S00)
- This course uses 20th-century American literature as a means of understanding 20th-century America.
Contains list of best-sellers from 1900-1994.
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Interdisciplinary and Multimedia Courses
@ UVA
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AS Classrooms Elsewhere
- American
Studies Crossroads Project
- A project of the American Studies Association, sponsored by Georgetown University. Features teaching and learning,
reference, curriculum, and community resources.
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- Library of Congress American Memory Collection
- Offers primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States, including more
than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
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- Formation of Modern American Culture--Yale
- Courses on the formation of American culture from 1760 to present.
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- Americanisation and the Teaching of American Studies Project
(AMATAS)
- This HEFCE funded project is the only Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning in the American Studies subject area,
housed in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of
Central Lancashire.
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- Women Artists in the American West
- An internet course and interdisciplinary resource featuring the vital contributions that women have made
to the art and history of the American West.
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- AMST102 American
Studies 102 -- Berkeley
- A course tracing the social, economic, and political organization and representation of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands from the 1820s-1990s.
Complete with syllabus, images, and resources.
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- Reel American History:
- A site from Ed Gallagher at Lehigh Universty focusing on film and Public Memory. Resources for students and teachers including projects on individual films with extensive analysis, filmography, reviews, images and audio files.
In addition, Professor Gallagher edits SiteScene, An Electronic Review of Resources in American Studies and Teaching Early American Literature, an excellent portal for resources in this area of American Studies. |
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Interdisciplinary and Multimedia Courses
Elsewhere
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Hypertext and Multimedia Resources
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