American Studies   Tags: american_studies, cooking, food  

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Professional Associations

• The American Studies Association:  ASA
• Americana:  An Institute for American Studies and American Creative Writing
• European Association of American Studies
• Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association

American Cultural Resources

• The American Folkart Museum
• The American Folklife Center - from the Library of Congress
• The American Memory Project - from the Library of Congress
• American Rhetoric - includes the online speech bank
• The American Social History Project - from CUNY
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - Contains numerous oral histories from the Civil Rights Movement
• The Mexican Migration Project
• National Film Preservation Board: National Film Registry - Library of Congress

Food and Culture

• America the Bountiful: Classic American Food from Antiquity to the Space Age
• Americans at the Table:  Reflections on Food and Culture - from the U.S. Dept. of State
• America's Eating Habits: Changes and Consequences - from the USDA
• Culinary Historians of Washington
• Feeding America:  The Historic American Cookbook Project - from Michigan State University Libraries
• Food Timeline - from Lynn Olver
• Food Consumption, Prices and Expenditures - from the USDA
• Key Ingredients:  America by Food - from the Smithsonian
• The Kitchen Sisters - includes the Hidden Kitchens program as heard on NPR
• Milestones in U.S. Food and Drug Law History - from the FDA
• New York Food Museum
• Not by Bread Alone:  America's Culinary Heritage - from Cornell University Libraries
• Recipe for Victory:  Food and Cooking in Wartime - from University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• The Southern Foodways Alliance
• Traditional State Foods and Recipes - from Lynn Olver
• World Food Habits:  English Language Resources for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition

Statistics

• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• United States Census Bureau
• FFIEC Geocoding System -for Census tract numbers
• County and City Databooks
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• County Business Patterns
• Economic Indicators
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Annual Demographic Survey
• Current Population Survey