Literature & Geographical Regions: American

Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada. A good place to get biographical as well as cultural info.

Biographies of noteworthy Americans

Includes the full-text of books, such as the Cambridge Companions to:
American Poets, American Gothic, American Novelists, Transnational American Literature, American Modernism, American Literature of the 1930s, American Realism and Naturalism, and more.

Full-text of articles for the full-runs of many seminal journals. See all JSTOR's American Studies titles.

A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.

Modern Language Association's index to literature

Provides full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Literary criticism, authors' biographies, reference resources with citations

Offers coverage of sociology, including ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, religion, social development, social psychology, social structure, sociological history, sociological research, addictions, violence and many more.

Find books, journals, and archival collections from libraries around the world. Request items through interlibrary loan. Great for English majors because many records include a book's table of contents.

Provides digital access to a highly comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912

Offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

American serials from 1741-1900

American history & literature, full-text

Books, pamphlets, & broadsides, full-text

Newspapers published from 1690-1922

Online primary and secondary sources and collections in American history and culture. "American Founding Era" presents digital editions of the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Dolley Madison, and John Adams, with other collections by Founders planned. "American Century" focuses on figures of the 20th century, and "19th-Century Literature and Culture" includes correspondence and works by American and British authors of the era.