The Crossroads Project

The Crossroads site is the virtual home of the Crossroads Project, an international American Studies initiative sponsored by ASA and Georgetown University (with participation from NWSA), with funding from Annenberg/CPB and the US Dept. of Education, and aimed at integrating the use of information technology in American Studies curricula. The Crossroads site contains massed electronic resources for American Studies folks, including many of the publications traditionally published in paper form by ASA.

The Crossroads site URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads

(The panel proposals are linked at the Main page, under About the American Studies Association).

Here are a few of the titles of sessions currently in search of panelists and now available on the Crossroads website:

• * The American Middle Class: Who? What? When? Where? How? Why?
• * American Race Conceptions and the Problem of Color
• * Conversation: Teaching the Cultures of Early America
• * Capitalism and Sexual Identity
• * The Cultural Significance of Recovered Memory Syndrome
• * Disease and American Culture
• * Discretion Assured: American Morality and the Discourse of Decency
• * Educating the Eye: Visual Culture in 19th-Century America
• * Even Their Simplest Statistics Are Sublime: Democracy, Empire, and the Exploration Narrative
• * The Gendered Constructions of Militarism in American Society and Culture
• * Gendered Visions of Work and Leisure in Rock 'n' Roll Culture
• * Latin American Fictional Accounts of the U.S. Experience
• * Nervous Americans: Medicine, Popular Culture, and the Construction of Identities
• * The Politics of Illness: The Nation and the Body
• * "Race" and Religious Rituals in American Utopias
• * Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair: Intellectual Sophistication, Popular Paranoia, and the Ivory Tower
• * Women as Citizens in the Early Republic: An Interdisciplinary Forum