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 a wide array of people whose lives have shaped America.

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.

The Modern Language Association's index to literature. Search MLA to find literary criticism, book reviews, and just about anything relating to communication.

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

Literary criticism, authors' biographies, reference resources with citations. PQ1L provides useful information for researching literature.

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.

Consists of searchable, full-text reproductions of more than 1,500 American magazines and journals from 1741-1900.

Covering American history and literature from the colonial period up to the eighteenth century, this is a full-text digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography.

Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America from 1801 through 1819.

More than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.

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.