Are you a current ASA member?
Forgot your password?

Register

Register here for the annual meeting and to begin or renew an ASA membership

Register here for JHU Press and ASA membership services, including online access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online.

Register here to join an ASA community. Only current ASA members may contribute to the community blogs. Registration is not required to submit display or text ads or news and events or to view many pages. We will refuse posts that are not of professional interest to ASA members.

Click here for membership FAQ's

Events

Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due

Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due

Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
Applications for the 2012 Community Partnership Grants Program to assist American Studies collaborative, interdisciplinary community projects due

About: Header Images

Protect Your Hands!

Protect Your Hands! : You Work With Them,
Robert Muchley, artist,
Pennsylvania: Federal Art Project, [1936]

Source on the Web

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Mr. Fanfani, Sculptor at National Cathedral II

National Cathedral. Mr. Fanfani, sculptor at National Cathedral II,
Theodor Horydczak, photographer
ca. 1920-ca. 1950.

Source on the Web

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Litha Lowe Piecing a Quilt Top

Litha Lowe Piecing a Quilt Top,
Lyntha Scott Eiler, photographer,
1978.

Source on the Web

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

“Lightnin’” Washington

“Lightnin’” Washington, an African American prisoner, singing with his group in the woodyard at Darrington State Farm, Texas,
Alan Lomax, photographer,
April, 1934.

Source on the Web

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.