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Art
- African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
- Art and Art History
- Links for educators and students.
- Art Movements and Periods
- Castable Soda Kiln
- The following pages are of a castable soda kiln project that took place Spring 97' at Fresno City College.
- CHINA PAINTING
- China Painting is a very rewarding form of Porcelain Art that is as popular and treasured today as it has been in the past.
- Cool Art Resources
- Le Centre Du Silence - Samuel Avital, Director
- Major Jazz Composers and Performers
- masks.org
- Masks from around the world.
- Paris Pages Musee du Louvre
- The Incas Art & Culture
- Pictorial tribute to the pottery, gold work and masonry of the Incas. Includes history of Ecuador, links, and more.
- Timelines!
- Images and links to non-Western art before 1900.
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue!
- Famous paintings with info about the painters.
- Wildflower Photography
- Contains a collection of wildflower photography, including rare and endangered species of orchid in Northeastern North America.
Foreign Language
- AltaVista: Translations
- Translate French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish to and from English.
- Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student
- Learn Spanish from 50+ modules covering pronunciation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and other themes.
- Carrie Stacks
- Links to foreign language to American dictionaries.
- FL Resources
- Projects, links, and online homework help for Spanish, French and German.
- Joint Language Training Center
- Collection of foreign language related links, sorted by languages and other subjects.
- National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
- Resource for K-12 foreign language teachers.
- The World Language Resource
- This site provides links to the best sites available for learning to speak a foreign language
- Virtual Language Centre
- This site is dedicated to providing an integrated range of language learning and teaching materials which can be accessed for self-access study or by teachers for use in their classes.
- Welcome to GlobeGate
- This is the primary host site for the GlobeGate Project, a not-for-profit organization created to provide a centralized internet resource for students and teachers of foreign languages.
Government
- Center for Living Democracy
- The Center for Living Democracy inspires and prepares people to make democracy a rewarding, practical, everyday approach to solving society's problems.
- Central Intelligence Agency
- CIA 1997 World Factbook
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Government Resources on the Web
- Annotated list of federal, state, international, foreign, political science, and statistical resources.
- Library of Congress Home Page
- Peace Corps: The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love!
- Everything you need to know about becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer.
- Simplified Rules of Order--Principles of Parliamentary Procedure
- Study for the Citizenship Test
- There are multiple choice tests along with study pages to prepare you for testing on the American history and U.S. system of government.
- The American Experience/The Presidents
- 20 th century Presidents.
- The Federal Web Locator
- Comprehensive list of federal government web sites and info.
- The U.S. Legislative Branch
- US government web site with lots of links to and info on the US government
- Welcome To The White House
Literature
- Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
- Bartlett's Quotations - The latest edition, with an online search feature.
- Booknotes: A Cyber Companion
- America's finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas. Includes transcripts and and RealVideo clips from the C-SPAN show.
- CARRIE: Stacks
- Links to full text pages of many authors.
- CLA: English
- The goal of the English project is to assist K-12 teachers across the wide range of subjects and skills that they are called upon to master.
- Folk Tales/ Africa
- Ninth-grade students at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan wrote "folk tales" of their own invention, during a unit about African cultures, geography, and literature that was part of their interdisciplinary studies.
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Prepared by Professor of English/Humanities Charles Darling for his English courses at Capital Community-Technical College.
- HTGREP form for works by Robert Harris
- A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
- Index for The Electronic Journals Collection
- Mark Twain quotations
- Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, and Related Resources
- On-Book: Introduction to Literature Study
- These pages are designed to help students at the high-school and college level as they begin the formal study of literature.
- Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.
- The Cool Word of the Day Page
- Learn a new word a day! Also, vocabulary, spelling, and definitions.
- Young Writer's Clubhouse
- Welcome to the Clubhouse! If you want to be a writer, or even think you might want to be a writer, this is the place for you.
Mathmatics
- *MATHEMATICS LINKS
- ABSTRACT ALGEBRA ON LINE
- Based on the books Abstract Algebra & Abstract Algebra II
- Berkeley Preliminary Exams
- Geometry and the Imagination in Minneapolis
- This document consists of the collection of handouts for a two-week summer workshop entitled 'Geometry and the Imagination', led by John Conway, Peter Doyle, Jane Gilman and Bill Thurston at the Geometry Center in Minneapolis, June 17-28, 1991.
- History of Mathematics: China
- Primary sources are Mikami's The Development of Mathematics in China and Japan and Li Yan and Du Shiran's Chinese Mathematics, a Concise History.
- Mathematic and Pattern Based Reason
- For grades 9-12.
- Mathematics
- The Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math
- Answers to lots of questions from students.
Philosophy
- Buddhism
- Chinese Philosophy
- These are mainly interpretations of Chinese Philosophy, particularly Daoism (Taoism) and Classical Chinese theories of language and mind.
- Greek Philosophy Archive
- Download the works of Greek philosophers, visit the sculpture garden.
- Philosophy Page
- A Collection of Philosophy/Religion E-books.
- Philosophy Pages
- This site offers helpful information for the study of traditional Western philosophy.
- Rutgers Philosophy Resourcess - Electronic Texts
- Western philosophy.
Reference
Dictionaries
- AmeriSpeak: expressions of our American ancestors
- Here�s a place to record those phrases that have been passed down through the generations in your family!
- Carrie Stacks
- Dictionaries and Thesauri.
- Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru)
- You type in a definition, and Casey's dictionary will tell you which word you are trying to think of!
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- The Dictionary is based both on face-to-face interviews carried out in all fifty states between 1965 and 1970, and on a comprehensive collection of written materials (diaries, letters, novels, histories, biographies, newspapers, and government documents).
- Hypertext Webster Gateway at UCSD
- This hypertext Webster interface provides a point-and-click client interface (for non-linemode browsers) for accessing various dictionary services on the Internet.
- New Words in English -- Intro
- The words on this page give a good picture of the creative aspects of word formation and use in present day English.
Encyclopedias
- Encyberpedia(tm) by Bob Kerstein
- The Living Encyclopedia from Cyberspace.
- FREE Internet Encyclopedia
- This is an encyclopedia composed of information available on the Internet.
- Information Please Home Page
- From the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
- Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia
- From here, you can access information on a variety of really cool subjects right from your computer. It's a great homework helper!
- Smithsonian FAQs: Encyclopedia Smithsonian
- Frequently Asked Questions and Research Topics
Libraries
- The Campus Library: Newsstand, Information Services
- The campus library is a great way to save a tree and hours looking up material for that research paper due next week.
- The Internet Public Library
- Ask a reference question, relax in the reading room, or search the catalog for online texts.
- The Michigan Electronic Library: Main Menu
- Librarian created directory of Web resources; designed to be a comprehensive electronic information tool for the state's libraries, schools and citizens.
- WWW Virtual Library
- A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions
- An explanation of the principle systems of units, their history, standards, and conversion factors for changing from one to the other.
- ERIC -- Educational Resources Information Center
- National information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature.
- NAA�: Hotlinks to Newspapers Online
- The Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Search on place and feature names worldwide. Results identify location contextually, ie what state or province a city is in, and by coordinates.
- U.S. Community Colleges, by State
- This page of UT Austin Web Central lists all regionally-accredited community colleges in the U.S. and provides links to those with a Web presence.
- USGS Mapping Information
- Find out where a city or other feature such as a mountain or lake is in the United States.
- Web U.S. Universities, Alphabetic
- This page of UT Austin Web Central contains an alphabetic list of regionally-accredited U.S. universities.
Science
Astronomy & Space
- Astronomical pictures & animations
- An online 4.8 gigabytes astronomical server
- Astronomy - What's UP This Month ??
- This page is updated on the FIRST of every month.
- Astronomy Camp Home Page
- Spend a week at the University of Arizona learning about astronomy from scientists during the day, and studying the sky at night.
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Homepage
- NASA Homepage
- PDS Mars Explorer for the Armchair Astronaut
- The Mars Explorer allows you to get an image map of any area on Mars at a variety of zoom factors, image sizes, and map projections.
- Stephen Hawking's Universe
- Where do we come from? How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way it is? How will it end?
- The Nine Planets
- The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
Biology
- *Virtual Library: Biosciences
- A Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms
- Searchable database of genetic terms with hypertext cross references and pictures.
- CELLS alive!
- Fun Facts About Fungi Catalog
- We find fungi so fascinating that we wanted to share some fun facts about fungi with you.
- Living Things
- If it's alive, it's in here.
- Netfrog--The Interactive Frog Dissection--Title Page
- The Interactive frog Dissection was designed for use in high school biology classrooms.
- The Albatross Project
- Kids from all over are joining with scientists to track ocean-going albatrosses in Hawaii !!!
- Tropical Rainforest in Suriname
- A multimedia tour through the rainforest in Suriname (SA).
Chemistry
- A Periodic Table of the Elements
- Click an element for more information.
- Chemical Education Resource Shelf
- This site provides high school and college-level chemistry educators with various teaching resources
- CHEMystery: An Interactive Guide to Chemistry
- We have created CHEMystery, a virtual chemistry textbook, to provide an interactive guide for high school chemistry students.
- General Chemistry Online!
- An interactive guide and Web resource for students and teachers of introductory college chemistry.
- Welcome To ChemWeb Online
- This site was put together by a group of high school students as a ThinkQuest project.
Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Environmental Education at the BLM
- Teacher resources on topics such as Great Basin ecosystems, gold mining, fire ecology, and lots more.
- EPA Wetlands - Table of Contents
- This site will give you a better understanding of the rich variety of wetlands
- Geography Education @ nationalgeographic.com
- Globe Program Welcome
- Since 1995, GLOBE students have been engaged in assisting the scientific community and expanding their own knowledge of the Earth by regularly taking and reporting environmental data at their schools.
- USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), Home Page
- USGS website monitoring the Hawaiian volcanoes.
- Welcome to UCMP! (Paleontology)
- University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Health & Medicine
- *The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Epidemiology
- ADOL
- Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL) is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues.
- HIV | InSite | Home
- Gateway to AIDS knowledge.
- Human Anatomy On-line - InnerBody.com
- Ideal reference for students studying human anatomy and for those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions commonly used by doctors and nurses.
- Scientific American: Explorations: Closing in on Addiction.
- Explores the possibility of common a biochemical basis for substance addictions.
- The W.U.S.M. Neuroscience Tutorial
- An illustrated guide to the essential basics of clinical neuroscience created in conjunction with the first-year course for medical students.
- Virtual Hospital Home Page
- Presented by the Electric Differential Multimedia Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa.
Meteorology
- GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE BROWSE SERVER
- Live from Earth and Mars
- Educational materials based on real time and retrospective atmospheric sciences and space sciences data and information.
- Meteorology Guide: the online guides
- An Online Guide to Meteorology with all kinds of weather information.
- Severe Weather!
- This page gives an in depth view of the world of severe weather.
- The University of Michigan Weather Underground
- Curriculum, services, and resources in support of K-12 science education.
- The Weather Channel - Weather Maps
- Surface weather maps from The Weather Channel.
- Weather Satellite Imagery
- This is a collection of satellite information and images. We have made this collection in order for people to learn about what satellites do and how they operate.
Physics
- Help for Physics Students
- Web Pages to Help Physics Students.
- How Things Work Home Page
- Think of this site as a radio call-in program that's being held on the WWW instead of the radio. If you ask how something works, using the button below, I'll try to provide an explanation.
- Nuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future
- A number of lessons on how and why our nuclear technology works.
- Physics 2000
- Welcome to Physics 2000, an interactive journey through modern physics! This is a place to have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th Century science and high-tech devices.
- The Interactive Physics Problem Set Contents Page
- This web contains almost 100 practice problems for physics students.
- TIPTOP/VLAB:
- Java Applets, VRML and ShockWave for visualization and demonstration in the world of Physics.
- Visual Physics
- Tool for physics students and teachers which integrates Internet resources while learning the science.
- Automotive Learning On-line - InnerAuto.com
- Explore the engineering marvel of the automobile.
- Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway
- This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12, although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful.
- Exploratorium: ExploraNet
- The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 500 interactive "hands on" exhibits.
- Keirsey Temperament Sorter II
- The Keirsey Character Sorter is designed to identify different kinds of personality.
- MadSci Net: Ask-A-Scientist (and more) on the WWW
- A great area for getting answers to all kinds of science questions.
- Science Education Gate-Way
- Learning adventures in Earth and Space science from a NASA-sponsored partnership of museums, researchers and educators.
- Science Resources
- This web site is for science teachers to share teaching materials.
Search Engines
- AltaVista: Main Page
- GTE SuperPages�: Interactive Yellow Pages
- HotBot
- Infoseek
- Lycos Home Page
- MetaCrawler
- Switchboard White Pages, Yellow Pages
- WebCrawler
- Welcome to Excite!
- Yahoo!
Study Help
- Homework Help
- Volunteer teachers will help get you through some of your hardest problems.
- Study WEB
- Find what you're looking for as quickly as possible.
- TRFN - Homework Help
- Homework Help by Subject Area.
- WebWare SAT Skill Lessons
- These skill lessons are provided to help you review the math and verbal skills tested on the SAT test.
US History
Military History
- http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/
- Deals with military aviation history.
- Launching the new US Navy
- Primary Sources, Activities, and Links to Related Web Sites for Educators and Students.
- Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier in the U. S. Civil War
- Welcome to the Center of Military History
- US Army military history site.
- Welcome to the U.S. Civil War Center!
- This site has an index of links to civil war sites on the internet. Very comprehensive.
Presidential Libraries
- Bush Presidential Library and Museum
- Carter Presidential Library
- Clinton-Gore Internet Archives
- Eisenhower Presidential Library
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
- Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
- Home Page for the LBJ Library
- Hoover Presidential Library
- John F. Kennedy Library Home Page
- Presidential Libraries IDEA Network
- Info about each of the presidents of the US.
- Reagan Presidential Library
- The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation
- Truman Presidential Library
- *US INDEX
- A Journey Towards Freedom
- his This site is designed to be an online reference tool and a forum for discussion on American History around the time of the Revolution (1763-1810).
- American Civil War Information Archive
- American Historical Documents
- American History, Page 1, Spanish Conquest of Native America
- American Indian History Resources
- Links to maps, timelines, tribal histories, and written and oral histories.
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- Site with text, pictures, video and more dealing with american history. Lots of interesting stuff.
- American/Canadian History
- Links to sites for teachers and students.
- An Abridged History of the United States
- Mostly information from about 1900 on.
- Ben Franklin Documents
- Includes Poor Richard's Almanac
- From Revolution to Reconstruction
- Great Seal of the United States
- Origin of the Great Seal of the Unites States.
- Historical Maps of the United States
- Historical maps of the United States from the Perry Castanedan Library Map Collection at the Univ of Texas at Austin. Includes pre-colonial American Indian dipersement. Also has some historical city maps.
- History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993
- History of USPS including the pony express.
- Hot Links for American Indian Tribal Libraries
- This site includes links useful to librarians and other providers of information who serve North American Indian populations.
- Impact of McCarthyism
- An essay by Ellen Schrecker.
- LIBERTY! The American Revolution
- Norwest Corporation and PBS Online are pleased to present the official online companion to LIBERTY! The American Revolution.
- Library of Congress Home Page
- Making of America
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
- National Archives and Records Administration
- NPS - Golden Gate NRA - Alcatraz
- Out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, the island of Alcatraz is a world unto itself.
- The American South Home Page
- Links to sites dealing with the american south.
- The Flag of the United States of America
- Chronological history of the flag.
- The History of The United States Penny Online
- Everything you always wanted to know about that penny in your pocket.
- The Smithsonian Institution Home Page
- United States - History - Colonial Period
- Good collection of links to maps, papers, etc. from the colonial period (1600-1775).
- WIC - Women's History in America
- WPA Life Histories--Home Page
- Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project (1936-1940).
Wars
- E. Kenneth Hoffman - Vietnam Portfolio
- Portfolio of 80 photographs taken in Vietnam (1969-70).
- Edwin Moise Bibliography of the Vietnam War
- Final Solution Table of Contents
- Collection of articles and original documents pertaining to the Final Solution. From the Jewish Student Online Research Center.
- German Propaganda Archive (Guide Page)
- Collection of English translations of German propaganda materials from the Third Reich and East German eras.
- index to internment
- This is the homepage of Arthur D. Jacobs , Major, USAF Retired; Researcher: Internment in the United States during World War II, December 7, 1941 - July 1948
- Internment and Evacuation of San Francisco Japanese � 1942
- collection of 1942 newspaper articles which details the evacuation of the Japanese from San Francisco, and other West Coast cities.
- Japanese War Crimes
- This page is for the memorial of the victims of the Japanese atrocities in the Second Sino-Japan War and their families, and for Justice and Peace, and for our humanity.
- Korean War FAQ Korean War History Korean War History Korean War FAQ
- Frequently asked questions about the Korean War, campaign stories from Chinese perspective, factual descriptions of political asepects unavailable from US sources.
- NORMANDY: 1944
- Remembering Pearl Harbor
- The Battle of the Bulge
- The Great War (Latest revision: 29th June, 1998)
- Battle accounts, list of hostile nations, maps and pictures, and the story of the 36th (Ulster) Division.
- The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
- The U.S.-Mexican War began on April 25, 1846.
- The War from a Parlor
- Stereoscopic Images of the Philippine-American War and Soldiers' Letters Home.
- THE WARS FOR VIET NAM
- Historian Robert Brigham's overview of the Viet Nam War with links to numerous official documents, including several Hanoi documents unavailable elsewhere.
- World War 1 Political Cartoons
- WW2 Timeline
World History
Africa/Egypt
- *Africa: History
- Byzantine Alexandria and Egypt (312 - 641 CE)
- Egypt After the Ptolemies Byzantine Egypt and Afterwards.
- Color Tour of Egypt
- Choose one of the Egyptian sites below. You can also browse this exhibit by way of a clickable map.
- Egypt Under Roman Rule (30 BCE - 312 CE)
- Egypt After the Ptolemies Egypt Under Roman Rule.
- Historical Overviews of Ptolemaic Egypt (323 - 27 BCE)
- Historical Overviews of Ptolemaic Egypt.
- Oseland Ancient History Classics
- This page focuses on the civilizations of the ancient Near East.
Americas
- American Indian History Resources
- Links to maps, timelines, tribal histories, and written and oral histories.
- Maya/Aztec/Inca
- Welcome to the Maya/Aztec/Inca Center of the Lords of the Earth, a Web site, which deals with the Archeology and Anthropology of the Americas.
- The Maya Calendar
- The ritual calendar that developed in Mesoamerica used a count of 260 days.
Asia
- China5K Pro Home Page
- China 5K Pro is the first interactive timeline representation of Chinese History, including culture, art, education, science, and government reference of China.
- Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan
- The Heritage of Genghis Khan.
- History of China: Table of Contents
- Internet Indian History Sourcebook
- This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks listed below, along with added texts and web site indicators.
- Philippine History
- Culled from various sources, these colorful recountings of social customs and historical timelines provide an introduction to the history and culture of the Philippine people.
- Voice of Hibakusha
- Eye-witness accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima, from the video HIROSHIMA WITNESS produced by Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and NHK.
Europe
- Ancient Roman History Timeline
- Provides a chronological index of the history of Ancient Rome with extensive links to internet resources. Emphasis is placed upon the use of primary source material and new perspectives upon the roles of women in ancient time.
- Croatia - Historical and Cultural Overview
- Overview of its History, Culture and Science
- Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
- These documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the workings of one of the largest, most powerful and long-lived political machines of the modern era.
- The Ancient Greek World Index
- The Chauvet Cave
- A Decorated Paleolithic Cave in the Ard�che Region of France.
Maps
- Bodleian Library Map Room - The Map Case
- A selection of worldwide historical maps from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library Map Room.
- Heritage Antique Map Museum - Viewing Gallery
- Map Collections Home Page
- From the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
- Oddens's Bookmarks
- The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping.
- Rare Map Collection
- The Hargrett Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at the University of Georgia maintains a collection of about 800 historical maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century.
- Welcome to TerraServer
- Did you ever wonder what your neighborhood looked like from space, or wished you could get an aerial shot of your favorite vacation spot?
- *: A2Z : Arts & Humanities : History
- *Electronic Text and Image Collections
- 1997 World Factbook
- CIA World Factbook
- Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations
- How would you have behaved if you had lived in ancient Sparta? (Lie, cheat, steal, because that is the Sparta way!) Or in ancient Athens? Or in Corinth, Argos, or Megara? Meet the Greeks! They were a riot! And choose your city-state!
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures
- Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- We live in a time of unparalleled instances of democide, genocide and ethnocide.
- Index of Resources for History
- This index consists of a single large file (approximately 200 Kb) offering about 3000 connections arranged alphabetically by subject and name.
- Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series
- Series of studies on nations that include facts-at-a-glance and comprehensive sections on history, society and culture.
- Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is now part of ORB, the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
- NATO Official Homepage
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- ORB--Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students.
- The Ancient World Web: Main Index
- Deals with anything having to do with the Ancient World: art, history, law, archaeology, etc.
- The History Ring
- Hundreds of links to history pages on the web.
- The Peloponnesian War
- The war was a catastrophe for Athens. She lost her empire so thoroughly that she never regained it.
- The World Wide Holiday and Festival Page
- This site was awarded a Times Pick by the Los Angeles Times on January 28th, 1998.
- Welcome to FOTW
- FOTW (Flags Of The World) is a site devoted to vexillology. Here you can read more than 1500 pages and view more than 2500 images about flags.
- World History