American Studies / Amerikanistiek

∎ = open access

➤ PRIMARY SOURCES/PRIMAIRE BRONNEN

Adam Matthew Explorer
Historical collections, for instance on colonialism, slavery, gender, Jewish life etc

Archives Unbound
Historical collections, for instance on American foreign policy and American civil rights etc

Anthony Angel Collection database ∎

60,000 Photographs taken between 1949 - 1967 of New York. Almost 1400 rights-free pictures.

Chronicling America (newspapers) ∎

American newspapers between 1789 - 1963.

Digital National Security Archive ∎

State documents on Foreign en Security Politics United States.

Colonialism and imperialism, sources from 16th to 21st Century

Foreign Relations of the United States ∎

Series on Foreign Relations of the US in the 20th Century.

Harvard Library Project - Colonial North America ∎
Digitilized manuscripts of 17th and 18th Century

Biographies, fiction and memoirs throughout the 20th Century until recent.

Library of Congress Archives ∎
building surveys, maps, newspapers, photograph's, civil war documents etc

New York Times (newspaper)

NY Times (archive: 1851 - 2002)
Since September 2019 we have a subscription to the complete articles of this newspaper, including recent news. The archive -with the articles in its original layout- can be accessed via the Times Machine. I advise you to make an account within the UvA domain. With it, you can have access to the latest news, book reviews etc from your mobile phone and tablet as well.
Proquest historical newspapers: NY Times (archive 1851 - 2015)
The Proquest database version offers a more extensive archive.

Public Papers Presidents United States ∎

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) ∎
U.S. Army’s institute for geostrategic and national security research and analysis

Archive 2014 - current issue. From 1980 indexes are available.

➤ LITERATURE/LITERATUUR

DATABASES / DATABANKEN

Full articles and/or abstracts from 3.500 journals.

Cambridge Histories Online

E-books. Go to: Browse subject > History > Americas

Gale Academic Onefile
Journal articles. Go to: Browse by discipline > History

JSTOR
full-text journal articles. Go to: Browse by subject > Area Studies > American Studies