December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
November 2006
Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger
views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today
DONA SCHWARTZ | PHOTOGRAPHER
with a social eye, she looks at a kitchen changing with a blended family, being a soccer mom, and shooting with a hidden digital camera in a strip club at the customer-woman interactions there
Dorothea Lange, Collections -- Oakland Museum of California
archive of large collection of her photos
William Eggleston (Getty Museum)
Southern photographer of the everyday, commonplace
The History Place - Child Labor in America
online collection of Lewis W. Hine photos
Roadside Architecture
documenting roadside architecture in the US, under many whacky categories; this is a favorite theme of mine in photography
Documenting America
by 1 otherhuge photographic archive from Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection
"The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs"
theoretical study from the Netherlands about functioning and origins of blogs in US
October 2006
African-American Material, Visual, and Literary Culture on the World Wide Web
innovative approach to exploring cultural expression over many forms
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