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History
ART
Legacy of light: master photographs
http://www.clemusart.com/exhibit/legacy/bios/bios-a.html
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the first major exhibition to focus on the museum's distinguished photography collection.
Masters of photography
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/
Includes summary information about several famous photographers, with examples of their photographs
A history of photography from its beginnings till the 1920s
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
Good source of biographical information on early photographers.
Smithsonian Museum—Archives of American Art
http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/exhibits/exonline.htm
On-line selections from the exhibit currently showing at the New York Research Center.
Art Museums on the Web
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/links/museum_list.html
Listings of links to museums world-wide.
Art Cyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Great art on-line from over 8,000 famous painters, sculptors, and photographers at art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
Comic Art & Graffix Gallery—history of comics
http://www.comic-art.com/history.htm
The origins of sequential art begin with prehistoric man almost 20 thousand years ago. From paleolithic cave paintings to Egyption heiroglyphs to the X-Men and even Spawn, this is the history and story of the creation of the comic art form.
The Comic Page
http://www.dereksantos.com/comicpage/comicpage.html
Your guide to the history and details of the American comic book medium.
WebExhibits
http://webexhibits.org/
An on-line museum with exhibits that encourage people to ask questions and examine issues from several points of view. Collaboration with Brandeis University, Massachusetts, Museo del Prado and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/
Select on-line tours for a thorough treatment of artists, works, and themes.
LANGUAGE ARTS
HOLOCAUST
Holocaust web site
http://members.aol.com/jamij71754/holocaust/index.htm
This link is part of the Lely High School Electronic Media Page. It contains an extensive collection of links to resources on the Holocaust. The experience of Holocaust survivor Abe Price are chronicled in this site. Photographs of Holocaust victims, links to other sites, and Holocaust curriculum are included in this web site.
Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://remember.org/
Covers the holocaust in extensive detail. Provides images, eye-witness records and interviews, educational material, a book list, a discussion forum and various articles.
Holocaust (Shoah) research resources
http://www.igc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.html
Links to holocaust related resources, including organizations, archives, conferences and documents.
Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
http://www.phdn.org/histgen/schmitz/indexeng.html
A selection of photographs and documents relating to the Holocaust. Descriptions are available in French and English.
Florida Holocaust Museum
http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/
Web site of the Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Site includes general information about the museum and its aims, a list of exhibits and events over the coming year and details of forthcoming conferences.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org
America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history. Includes information about the museum, and a range of online exhibitions on specific aspects of the Holocaust.
LITERARY CRITICISM
IPL online literary criticism collection main page
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Contains thousands of critical and biographical web sites about authors and their works searchable by author, title, or nationality and literary period.
KING ARTHUR
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
Designed to provide a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information in electronic format.
King Arthur & the knights of the round table
http://www.kingarthursknights.com/
Dedicated to King Arthur…contains links to the historical figure as well as the legendary figure. Includes information about other Arthurian characters and a timeline.
Legends: King Arthur and the Matter of Britain
http://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/index.html
Guided access to primary source material and up-to-date scholarship, personal essays and extended reviews, historical surveys and thoughtful commentary. Also includes links to other sources on the Internet.
AUTHORS
Digital Schomberg African American women writers of the 19th century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19
A digital collection of approximately fifty published works by 19th-century black women writers. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest. Also includes biographies and autobiographies of several authors.
American Writers
http://www.americanwriters.org/
From C-SPAN, this is a companion website to the television series. You may search according to the period, the location or historical document name.
VICTORIAN ENGLAND
Victorian times
http://www.victoriantimes.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXSESSION_=&_IXFILE_=index.html&_IXACTION_=file
Victorian Times is a NOF-Funded Digitisation project examining social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901). Six major areas are covered in depth including: health, transport, education, trade unions, work and industry, and housing.
Charles Dickens
http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html
A large collection of Dickens-related material--his life, family, work, homes, and more, compiled by a Finnish scholar.
Victorian web sites
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html
A personal web site, created under the auspices of "The Dickens Fellowship: Japan Branch", that contains a wide assortment of links to web sites related to Charles Dickens and the Victorian era.
David Perdue's Charles Dickens page
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens
This personal web site includes information about Charles Dickens including his work, illustrations, maps, and a timeline. Also includes an alphabetical list of characters from Dickens's works.
GRAMMAR
Big Dog's grammar: a bare bones guide to English
http://aliscot.com/bigdog/
Includes a quick quick to MLA, as well as explaining basic points of English grammar.
MLA style guide
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htm
From the University of Illinois, this site offers examples of MLA bibliography format.
AMERICAN POETS AND POETRY
The Academy of American poets: find a poet
http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm
Includes biographies, photos, and other information on more than 200 hundred poets
Twentieth-century poetry in English
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm
A personal page with examples of poems and links to sites about poets.
Perspectives in American literature: a research and reference guide
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
Outstanding database searchable by author names, literary periods, themes, topics, motifs, dates, places, and titles.
Introduction to poetry online!
http://occ.awlonline.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedy2_awl/chapter1/deluxe.html
This web site is designed to supplement Kennedy and Gioia's Anthology of Poetry. It provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical material, but the selection of poets is limited. "Critical Casebooks", audio readings, and links are also available.
The Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/
Click on “Related Links” to access to find further poetry links in addition to the on-line exhibit about Langston Hughes.
SHAKESPEARE
Absolute Shakespeare
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/index.htm
The essential resource for William Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
A complete annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet. Includes The Shakespeare Canon, genealogy, timeline and a biographical quiz, in addition to prefatory material from the First Folio. There are quick links to criticism, his life and times, and the Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide: Internet Resources
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/Criticism/guide.html
Besides Shakespeare, includes links to renaissance sites and specific sites for Shakespeare studies.
British Library: Shakespeare’s life in quarto
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html
Contains links to Elizabethan and Jacobean England, English drama, life and works of William Shakespeare.
Tales from Shakespeare: by Charles and Mary Lamb
http://www.eldritchpress.org/cml/tfs.html#notes
Originally written as a prose adaptation for children by the Lambs, the edition presented here is illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Lynch Multimedia Adaptations
http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/shakespeare.html
A free access website for teachers and students. This site contains adaptations and originals of Shakespeare’s plays to enhance learning and reinforce meaning.
GENERAL REFERENCE
RefDesk: The Single Best Source for Facts
http://www.refdesk.com/
Contains links for hundreds of subjects: Quote of the Day, Breaking News, Current Event, news sources, weather resources, Facts at a Glance, just to mention a few.
Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This is a free content encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit. You may search by subject or browse alphabetically.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
yourDictionary.com is a language products and services company that maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, and games that build language skills.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
Convert just about anything to anything else.
http://www.bartleby.com/
The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
MATH
http://mathforum.org/mathtools/index.html
Math Tools is a project of The Math Forum @ Drexel, funded in part by the National Science Foundation. The goal is to create a community digital library that supports the use and development of software for mathematics education. This is a community library of technology tools, lessons, activities, and support materials for teaching and learning mathematics.
http://www.mathpower.com/index.htm
This site provides information about basic math, algebra, study skills, math anxiety and learning styles. Also includes student-generated tutorials about elementary algebra functions and math fundamentals like fractions, decimals, percents and prime factorization.
MATH & SCIENCE
http://www.studyworksonline.com/
Discover the math and science behind everyday activities. Meet people who use math and science as they work and play. Better yet, just explore
SCIENCE
http://www.arkive.org/
ARKive is leading the ‘virtual’ conservation effort - finding, sorting, cataloguing and copying the key audio-visual records of the world’s animals, plants and fungi, and building them into comprehensive and enduring multi-media digital profiles. It is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era - a unique global initiative, gathering together into one centralized digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
There are thousands of species accounts and descriptions of levels of organization according to phyla, classes, orders and families.
http://www.bulimiaguide.org/
This Web site provides a one-stop comprehensive resource on bulimia nervosa for anyone who wants to understand the disorder and how to support a family member or friend with bulimia nervosa.
http://www.junglewalk.com/
Are you interested in nature and wildlfife? JungleWalk is the site for wildlife lovers which will give you quick access to animal sound clips, animal movie clips, animal information and animal pictures. We have a large gallery of links to animal movies, animal sound clips, categorized and arranged for easy reference, make it a great resource for teachers and students.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/windows.html
Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public. Windows to the Universe has been in development since 1995. The goal is to build an internet site that includes a rich array of documents, including images, movies, animations, and data sets, that explore the Earth and Space sciences and the historical and cultural ties between science, exploration, and the human experience.
http://www.chemicalelements.com/index.html
Originally created as the webmaster’s 8th grade project, the website includes atomic number, mass, electron configuration among other details. Most element descriptions include further internet links.
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/
DNA from the Beginning is organized around key concepts. The science behind each concept is explained by animation, an image gallery, video interviews, problems, biographies and links.
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/
The Genetic Science Learning Center is an outreach education program located in the midst of bioscience research at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Our mission is to help people understand how genetics affects their lives and society. Information is presented in an unbiased manner and written for non-research audiences. Also included is a Teacher Resource section which includes PDF sheets for classroom activities and teacher guides for all activities.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/home.rxml
Formerly known as the Guide to Meteorology, these resources are being expanded beyond the scope of meteorology to other disciplines like climate, remote sensing and global change. The Online Meteorology Guide is a collection of web-based instructional modules that use multimedia technology and the dynamic capabilities of the web. These resources incorporate text, colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio and video to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences.
http://www.nineplanets.org/
The Nine Planets is a collection of information about our Solar System intended for a general audience with little technical background. No special expertise or knowledge is needed; all technical and astronomical terms and proper names are defined in the glossary.
http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/%7Eelmer/pendulum/
The Pendulum Lab is a virtual laboratory where you can do hands-on experiments at rigid pendula. Together with the material presented in the lecture room, you can learn basic issues like harmonic oscillator and resonance but also advanced topics like parametric resonance, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Politics/Government
FactCheck.org (Annenburg Political Fact Check)
http://www.factcheck.org/default.html
A nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. The factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases is monitored by the Annenburg Foundation. Their goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
The Dirksen Congressional Center
http://www.congresslink.org/
CongressLink provides information about the U. S. Congress—how it works, its members and leader and the public policies it produces CongressLink is divided into three major sections: Congress: The 109th, Congress: The Basics ; Congress: Teaching It.
C-SPAN
http://c-span.org/
C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Our mission is to provide public access to the political process.
Open Secrets
http://www.opensecrets.org/index.asp
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.
My Florida
http://myflorida.com/
The official portal to the State of Florida.
The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
In addition to links and information directly affecting the White House, there are archives of all areas of the American government; State of Union addresses, special exhibits on former presidents, and virtual tours of the Cabinet room, West Wing and the White House.
Orange County Government
http://www.orangecountyfl.net/
Contains information and links to all aspects of the county government.
City of Orlando
http://www.cityoforlando.net/
Contains contact information for city services, including the police department and City Hall officials.
HISTORY
America’s Story from America’s Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library. Includes links to “Jump Back in Time” (take a trip to an era in American History), “Explore the States” (treasure hunt and further information and links for each state), and “See, Hear and Sing” (watch a movie, hear a song, play a tune from America’s past).
Florida Memory Project
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/memory/about.cfm
Provides a web-based structure for primary records that illustrates significant moments in the state's history, provides educational resources for students of all ages, and makes available collections for historical research.
Life in Elizabethan England: A compendium of knowledge 1558 – 1603
http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html
A well-organized site with information about daily life during Elizabethan times.
Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
From the National Archives and Records Administration, includes a timeline that preserves 100 historical documents that are at the heart of American history.
Did you know….history?
http://www.didyouknow.cd/history/year.htm
Search for what happened on a specific date—search back as far as Before Christ.
World War II Timeline
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html
From a history professor at the University of San Diego, this timeline actually begins during 1917 and continues through 1945. Includes notable events and photographs for each era.
The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/
Maintained by author Phillip Gavin, The History Place includes “Homework Help”, The American Revolution, U.S. Civil War, 20th Century History, the Vietnam War, Photo of the Week and Speech of the Week.
The Newseum
http://www.newseum.org/cybernewseum/
The Newseum celebrates the value of the First Amendment. Read today’s front pages from over 250 newspapers, look through editorial cartoons, and even play a news trivia game.
American Cultural History—20th Century
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html
Compiled by the reference librarians at Kingwood College, covers the 20th century with basic facts and photographs plus links to other sites on the web. Links are arranged by categories including art and architecture, books and literature, fads and fashions, education, historic events and technology, music, persons and personalities, and theater and film.
The World War I document archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi
An archive of primary documents from World War I. Includes conventions, treaties and official papers as well as memorials, personal reminiscences, a biographical dictionary, and image archive.
Temperance and Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu/
Brief descriptions of various issues related to Prohibition and the temperance movement. Includes links to other web sites.
Film History of the 1920s
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
Information on the film-making industry of the 1920s.
The New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/default.cfm
Maintained by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, this website contains links to further web sources as well as an excellent photographic database.
The 50s Web
http://fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm
An overview of the 1950s with sections devoted to music, television, pop history, fashions and fads, trivia and games, biographies and "Burma Shave" slogans.
The Whole World was watching: an oral history of 1968
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/
"Contains transcripts, audio recordings, and edited stories of interviews conducted in the spring of 1998." The stories contain personal references to issues of the 1960s including the Vietnam War, the civil rights struggle, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy as well as many more personal memories of the period.\
The Super 70s
http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/
Includes information on the 1970s. Specific sections include culture, movies, music, news, science, sports, TV, and a timeline.
The Awesome 80s
http://www.Awesome80s.com/Awesome80s/
Includes information on the 1980s. Specific sections include culture, movies, music, news, science, sports, TV, and a timeline. | 