Research resources

Lectures and interviews

• Insecurity in Canada's Past: James Douglas Keeps the Peace on Vancouver Island (PDF format) 863KB by Stephen A. Royle
• Citizen Reader: Canadian Literature, Mass Reading Events and the Promise of Belonging (PDF format) 148KB by Danielle Fuller
• 'America, Empire of Liberty' and the challenges of 'popular' history (PDF format) 94KB by Professor David Reynolds
• Revolutions! US and Spanish-American Independence Movements Compared (PDF format) 133KB by John Elliott, Simon Newman and Anthony McFarlane
• Marathon: Looking Back at the Historic US Election of 2008 (PDF format) 250KB by Larry J. Sabato
• Mouthy Enemies: Canadian writers and the power of being, belonging, and celebrity (PDF format) 108KB by Professor Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, De Montfort University
• The Special Relationship: what does America teach us about ourselves? (PDF format) 364KB by Professor Janet Beer, Oxford Brookes University, and Jon Snow, Channel 4
• Governance, globalization and unruly populations: governing the aboriginal cross-border economy in Canada (PDF format) 2.11MB by Doctor Jane Dickson-Gilmore, Carleton University/University of the West of England
• John Cage was all the rage (PDF format) 160KB by Professor Emeritus Peter Dickinson, Keele University and University of London
• Constitutions: Does America's Work? Does Europe Need One? And What About Us?(PDF format) 255KB by Lord Kerr of Kinlochard
• The New Security: A Post-Cold War Understanding of Security in the 21st Century (PDF format) 273KB by Gary Hart
• Ken Vandermark in London (PDF format) 468KB
• Postmodernism vs. evangelical religion in post-1960s America (PDF format) 136KB by Professor Richard H. King, University of Nottingham
• Hunting, shooting and phishing: new cybercrime challenges for cyber-Canadians in the 21st century (PDF format) 181KB by Professor David Wall, University of Leeds
• How Digital Life Innovations Can Shape The Future Of Libraries (PDF format) 136KB by John Sculley
• At home at the wheel: the American woman and her car in the 1950s (PDF format) 283KB by Professor Margaret Walsh, University of Nottingham

Bibliographical guides

In fulfilment of its first aim, to promote the Library's North American materials, the Eccles Centre produced a series of bibliographical guides to the Library's collections. Many of these guides were distributed both to academic and public libraries in the United Kingdom and to centres of American Studies throughout Europe.

United States and Canadian Newspaper Holdings at the British Library
The U.S. newspapers listed in this bibliographic guide became the foundation for the British Association for American Studies database: US Newspaper Holdings in UK and Irish Libraries. For the British Library's holdings of U.S. and Canadian newspapers, see Early American Newspapers and use Explore the British Library selecting Newspaper Library from the drop-down content scope.

• Early American Science: a selective guide to materials at the British Library
• "For Myself, For My Children, For Money":
  a bibliography of early American women's writings
• The American City in the Twentieth Century
• United States Immigration, 1840-1940
• United States Immigration, 1941-2001
• American Women in the Twentieth Century
• U.S. Politics and the Media
• The American Colonies, 1584-1688
• An Era of Change: Contemporary UK-US-West European Relations
• The Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' during the Second World War
• The United States and the 1930s
• The United States and the Vietnam War
• American Slavery: Pre-1866 Imprints
• The Harlem Renaissance
• African American History and Life, 1878-1954
• The American Civil Rights Movement
• United States Government Policies towards Native Americans 1787-1900
• Mormon Americana
• Imagining the West
• Conserving America
• Mining the American West
• Women in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1900

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