University of Virginia - American Studies Hypertext Project

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This site is an ongoing project and contains an archive of American Studies hypertext projects of great American literature, all produced at The University of Virginia. The site contains an annotated directory of resources for American Studies, as well. In particular, there are selective, current and annotated resources in Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, Philosophy and Religion, Popular Culture, The Social Sciences, and Science and Technology.The archive of American Studies section of the site contains or will soon have available works by Crevecoeur, Twain, Poe, Henry Adams, Melville, Joel Chandler Harris, Alexis de Tocqueville, Stephen Crane, Cooper, Dickens, Poe, Jefferson, Charles Brockden Brown, Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, Thorstein Veblen, D.H. Lawrence, Sinclair Lewis, Max Weber, Booker T. Washington, Francis Parkman, and more.There are also two interesting cumulative projects, one based on Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth and Alan Trachtenberg’s The Incorporation of America.There is a Cultural Maps section, as well, which includes a set of maps relating to U.S. territorial expansion and an exhibit portraying the development of the cartographic representation of America up through the Jeffersonian Era. They are looking for help constructing an electronic American Historical Atlas.Additionally, there is a section that is an exploration of the National Capitol as the central icon of our civic religion. This site now has a variety of projects on the social construction of The Capitol. Some projects focus on art objects found in the Rotunda, others explore the ideological threads that connect objects throughout the building, while still others examine sites on and beyond the Mall that support or contest the ideology manufactured within The Capitol.The 1930s in America were a time of unparalleled contradiction and complexity. From Black Tuesday of the Great Depression to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the years between 1929 and 1941 were characterized by cultural richness. While the 1930s is often ignored in contemporary discussions of America’s artistic, cultural, political, economic, and social development, that decade is important to modern American thought and culture.The site contains American Studies at UVA undergraduate and graduate program descriptions as well as course syllabi and sample student and faculty projects.