Endowment Fund for Americana

Make a donation to the Endowment Fund. Our Institute is dedicated to education through the publication of American Studies scholarship and creative writing.

We are a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation; as such, your donations are tax deductible.

Americans have long held as true that the study of American history is not only a worthy endeavor it is a critical one. Only after knowing and understanding our past can we insure positive change for the future.

We, at Americana, believe that there exists no better record of the history of America and Americans than in our popular culture. There we will find the hopes, needs, dreams, and desires of the people.

Through the careful analysis of our twentieth and twenty-first century American popular culture, we can more clearly understand where we have been and who we have been and thus consciously consider where we want to go, who we want to be, how we want to live, and what public policies we want to endorse as twenty-first century Americans. This process will also help us formulate our identities and find our political, sociological, and spiritual direction.

In addition to our scholarly pursuits, we believe that creative writers are the creators of our future popular culture; thus we support exceptional artists by publishing their work in Review Americana: A Creative Writing Journal and the Press Americana imprints Hollywood Books International as well as The Poetry Press. By donating to the Endowment Fund, you will also be supporting outstanding creative writers.

Become a Member of Americana

When you donate to Americana, you will become a member of a professional organization and receive a quarterly newsletter containing current events in the popular culture world, advance articles that have not yet been published on the site, advance articles that have not yet been published in the journal, and articles that are reserved for the newsletter alone.

Bronze Donations $20-$50 = six months of membership, six months of the monthly newsletter

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Gold Donations $101-$200 = two years of membership, two years of the monthly newsletter

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Leslie Kreiner Wilson, Ph.D., Pepperdine University, Chairman

Randy Fallows, Ph.D., UCLA
Laura Hapke, Independent Scholar
Marilyn Kallet, Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Alexandra Chusid, M.A., Private Sector Grant Specialist