The fifth issue of "American Studies" is a certain result of the activities of the scientific laboratory - the Center for the Study of the United States at Kursk State University, so it opens with an article characterizing his work. This publication publishes articles on topical issues in modern Russian American studies. The collection brought together specialists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk, Samara, Saransk, Saratov, Kirov, Bryansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad, as well as colleagues from Belarus (Minsk) and Ukraine (Kiev, Kirovograd, Lugansk) . Its peculiarity is the cooperation of historians, philologists engaged in the study of the United States of America. The problems of the articles are of interest for their diversity and scientific significance of the subjects considered in them .. For the convenience of readers, the materials of the collection are divided into separate headings. The presented studies reflect the realities of the domestic and foreign policy history of the United States in the 18th and 21st centuries. , as well as such areas of American life as history, literature, culture. A number of articles are based on archival materials. In the light of new approaches to the study of history, one should highlight the narrative, discursive approach, gender studies, comparativeism and polydisciplinarity, achievements of intellectual history .. The materials of the collection are designed for American historians, researchers, teachers of higher and secondary schools, students, bachelors, masters and graduate students, as well as all those interested in the problems of US history.