Archivist and Humanities Librarian
Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections
Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections
Welcome to the AMST 100 Course Guide
Welcome to the library guide for AMST 100: Introduction to American Studies. This guide has been developed to help students succeed in the course, which emphasizes learning about the foundational theories, terminology, methods, and sources for research in American history and American culture as part of the American Studies Program in the School of Humanities at Penn State Harrisburg. This course will also utilize different "lenses" (e.g, art, consumer and popular culture, folklore, gender, religion, etc.) to analyze historical events and time periods in the United States.
Click on the buttons on the left-hand side of the page to see the library's resources that will help you to complete assignments in this course.
If you need more help using the library, contact Heidi Abbey Moyer, hna2@psu.edu, Archivist and Humanities Reference Librarian and Faculty Liaison Librarian to the School of Humanities.
Course eTextbooks and Supplemental Reading
Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition by Call Number: PE1449.K49 2014ISBN: 0814708498Publication Date: 2014-12-19The latest vocabulary of key terms in American Studies. As scholarship has continued to evolve, this revised and expanded second edition offers indispensable meditations on new and developing concepts used in American studies, cultural studies, and beyond. As a whole, Keywords for American Cultural Studies provides an accessible A-to-Z survey of prevailing academic buzzwords and a flexible tool for carving out new areas of inquiry.
American History: A Very Short Introduction by Call Number: E178.B782 2012ISBN: 9780199908547Publication Date: 2012-01-01In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country.
