Under the sponsorship of the American Studies Association (ASA), the Encyclopedia of American Studies, brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. With over 660 online, searchable articles and biographies and accompanying bibliographies, the Encyclopedia of American Studies supports research and study in a wide range of courses and assignments at all levels.

Featured Article: Transnationalism and American Studies

The "transnational turn" in American studies refers generally to scholarship in the past twenty years that has stressed the comparative study of the different "Americas"—Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States—and Canada as the appropriate objects of study for the discipline. "Transnationalism" also refers to American studies done by international scholars outside the United States, especially scholarship that emphasizes the influence of the United States abroad... READ MORE

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