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General Humanities Resources

Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources (Seattle, WA) 1998-2002.
URL: http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html
...Humanities Gateway: http://www.academicinfo.net/subhum.html
...Art & Art History: http://www.academicinfo.net/art.html
...Classical Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/classics.html
...Comparative Literature: http://www.academicinfo.net/complit.html
...Drama: http://www.academicinfo.net/drama.html
...English Literature: http://www.academicinfo.net/englit.html
...English Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/englang.html
.......English as a Second or Foreign Language: http://www.academicinfo.net/esl.html
...Film & TV Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/film.html
...Foreign Language Study: http://www.academicinfo.net/lang.html
...History: http://www.academicinfo.net/hist.html
...Linguistics: http://www.academicinfo.net/ling.html
...Music History & Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/music.html
...Philosophy: http://www.academicinfo.net/phil.html
...Religion: http://www.academicinfo.net/religindex.html

EDSITEMENT: The Best of Humanities on the Web
National Endowment for the Humanities, National Trust for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, and WorldCom Foundation; 2002. Juried "online educational resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities," recommended for teachers, students & parents.
URL: http://edsitement.neh.gov/ [last accessed August 2002]
Art & Culture | Literature & Language Arts | Foreign Language | History & Social Studies

EServer.org: Accessible Writing (formerly The English Server; ed. Geoffrey Sauer, 2002), now based at Univ. of Washington, offers extensive arts, humanities, literature, & writing resources for students and faculty.
URL: http://eserver.org/ [last accessed August 2002]

Humanities (Stanford University Libraries) 
Directory of library & web resources organized by topics.
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/index.html

Humanities Dept. Courses & Disciplines (Central Oregon Community College)
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/courses/index.html

OneLook Dictionaries  OneLook.com, no date.
"A search engine for words"--definitions or translations--nearly 5 million words indexed in nearly 800 online dictionaries; plus if spelling is unknown, you can type in a pattern of letters with "wild card" symbols and OneLook will retrieve word list matching the pattern.
URL: http://www.onelook.com/

PBS Online [Public Broadcasting System], 1995-2002.
Root URL: http://www.pbs.org/
...Search: http://www.pbs.org/search/
...PBS Arts & Culture (programming & related web resources on art, drama, film, literature, photography, & more): http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/arts/
...PBS History: http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/
...PBS TeacherSource: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ 
...PBS TeacherSource Arts & Literature: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm 

VoS: Voice of the Shuttle - Web Site for Humanities Research  (Alan Liu, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara)
URL: http://vos.ucsb.edu/ [last accessed August 2002]
General Humanities Studies: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2712
Alan Liu's venerable & superb collection of electronic resources for studies in the humanities includes:

• Cultural Studies: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2709
• Gender Studies: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711
• History: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2713
• Literary Theory: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718
• Literature (in English): http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
• Literatures (Other Than English): http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719
• Media Studies: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2720
• Minority Studies: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2721
• Technology of Writing: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2733 

The World Fact Book 2002.  US Central Intelligence Agency. 
URL: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
This annual publication contains a wide range of information on every recognized country in the world, including maps of countries, their flags, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and international issues (e.g. international disputes and illicit drugs).  Public domain documents on this website can be freely downloaded, printed, and viewed by anyone. 

World Lecture Hall. Center for Instructional Technologies, Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment, Univ. of Texas-Austin.  2001. 
"[Y]our entry point to free online course materials from around the world." Search for specific courses or browse by area. 
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

African & African-American Studies

Africa, a Special Presentation of Nature (PBS Online, co-produced by Nature & National Geographic Television, 2002).  Rich web companion to the multi-part PBS television series, focuses on people's stories, cultures, environments, and countries from eight African regions, and includes photoscapes and educational resources.
Home: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/index.html
Africa for Kids: My World takes visitors into the worlds of kids from Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, & Uganda, and features telling a Swahili folktale, making a Dogon Rabbit mask, playing thumb piano tunes, plus Africa teacher tools. 
URL: http://pbskids.org/africa/myworld/index.html
Teacher Tools: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/tools/index.html 
For example: "Eco Challenges" - Africa: Lesson - addresses growing desertification and scarcity of clean water: http://pbs.org/africa/tools/eco/goals.html 

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Sources (Karen Fung, African Collection, Stanford University Libraries), 1994-2001.
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

African American Newspapers (B & L Associates, Renton, Washington, 1999).
This site offers connections to 200+ listings of African American U.S. newspapers & publications, organized by state.
URL: http://www.aasm.com/pubs.html

African Timelines: History, Orature, Literature & Film
Cora Agatucci, Humanities 211: Cultures & Literatures of Africa, Central Oregon Community College; 2002.
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm

Africans in America (PBS Online/WGBH Educational Foundation, 1998-1999)
Root URL: http://pbs.org/wgbh/aia/ 
Home: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html 
Companion website to PBS documentary that begins with the birth of America and examines the impact of the struggle over slavery and freedom in shaping the country, 1450-1865.  Site offers a timeline, essays and narratives, teacher's guide, and more.

Celebrating Black History - Time.com Reports
A web journey into the lives of influential African Americans, like Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Morrison, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, drawn from Time Magazine's cover stories (but note that some of the navigational links don't work, as of August 2002).  
URL: http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhistory/
Profile of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Jack E. White
URL: http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html
Reading Room:
URL: http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhistory/readingroom.html
Information Resources on African American Studies (Stanford Univ. Libraries & Academic Information Services), 2002.
This reference and research guide on historical and contemporary experiences of African Americans, is a solid introductory guide for students of African American studies.  Organized by categories such as race/identity, press, literature, and history; the annotated bibliography includes encyclopedias and handbooks, biographies, videos, and links to related sites.
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/adams/shortcu/afam.html

The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress - American Memory, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, 2001.
This online collection of over 2,000 items includes a partial handwritten draft of his third autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, and a biography of his wife, Anna Murray Douglass, written by their daughter, Rosetta Douglass Sprague; plus related writings by Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B. Wells, Lydia Maria
Child, and Horace Greeley.  Visitors can search the collection or browse by series.
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ 

Hall of Black Achievement Gallery: HOBA  (Office of Affirmative Action//Equal Opportunity/Minority Affairs, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA), 2002.
HOBA is a repository of significant achievements and contributions of people of color--particularly African Americans, Cape Verdeans, and Hispanics of African descent.  HOBA offers a forum for research and discussion, and a gallery of historical figures, with chronicles of their lives, contributions, and historical periods.
Root URL: http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/
URL: http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/gallery.htm 

The History of Jim Crow: Explore the Complex African-American Experience of Segregation from the 1870s through the 1950s ("an educators' site" supported by New York Life, no date).  This site - created by historians, social studies and English educators from all over the country -  presents historical essays, personal narratives, literature book lists, lesson plans, maps, image collections, & links concerning Jim Crowism - the "era of segregation, lynching, and disfranchisement of African Americans that tore at the very fabric of the nation."
URL: http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm

Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet (Noir Productions, 2002)
This site presents hundreds of links organized by subject, including Arts & Entertainment, Books & Literature, Education & Research.  Searchable by subject or keyword.
URL: http://www.javanoir.net/guide/index.html

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH; 2002.
Companion website to the Freedom Center (scheduled to open in Cincinnati, Ohio, summer 2004), presents Underground Railroad history "to teach lessons of courage and cooperation, and inspire contemporary freedom movements through collaboration, dialogue, and action."  Exhibits include pre-slavery African Kingdoms and post-slavery freedom movements in North America, Poland, South Africa, and India; a timeline dating 1501 - 1865; Underground Railroad Movement character profiles, resources, family stories, and links to related history sites.
Root URL: http://www.undergroundrailroad.org/ 
URL: http://www.undergroundrailroad.org/main.asp

See Reviews: Africa & the African Diaspora 
under construction, Humanities Instructional Resources, 2002.
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Reviews/Africa.html

A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. (Prof. Melvin Sylvester, B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University -  C. W. Post Campus), June 1998.  
This page offers a brief tribute to King and his writings, historical data, plus an extensive reading list.
URL: http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm 

Urhobo Waado,  Urhobo Historical Society (Peter P. Ekeh, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo), 1999 - 2001.
This site offer information about the Urhobo peoples of Southern Nigeria, including history, economy, political systems, religion, and Urhobo art forms--paintings, sculptures, literature, poetry, and music.
URL: http://www.waado.org/Contents.html

American Experience | Marcus Garvey | Film & More
... More about the film Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind He was both a visionary
and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In just ...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/filmmore/ - 17k -

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Places, Spaces & Changing ...
Visit Your Local Station, PBS Home, ... JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns. Places,
Spaces and Changing Faces. Jazz Lounge. Jazz in Time. ...
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/places/ - 28k -

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Biographies
Visit Your Local Station, PBS Home, ... JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns. Places,
Spaces and Changing Faces. Jazz Lounge. Jazz in Time. ...
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/ - 29k -

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography ...
... Audio Feature, Wynton Marsalis, musician Reflections on Louis
Armstrong (Audio Excerpt from JAZZ A Film by Ken Burns). ...
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_armstrong_louis.htm - 33k -
[ More results from www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/ ]

Arts & Art History

Artchive.  Mark Harden. 
"Webmaster Mark Harden has collected an impressive group of Web sites and book suggestions on artists and schools of art including Impressionism, Cubism, Photography, and Abstract Expressionism. The Artchive includes both public domain and copyrighted works of art and you can search by artist or by style. Take a landscape tour or begin with the favorites tour. This is a great place to start for those who may be unfamiliar with art history."   [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: References & Research, 2002.] 
URL:  http://artchive.com/core.html
Art Links: http://artchive.com/links.htm 

"ARTISTE: Image Retrieval System Puts European Galleries in the Picture," by M. Addis, P. Lewis, and K. Martinez.   Cultivate Interactive, issue 7, 11 July 2002.
ARTISTE's image retrieval system, still under development, will link, integrate, and make searchable the holdings of London's National Gallery, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, Paris's Louvre, and Florence's Uffizi Gallery.  The database already contains 60,000+ images, and aims to promote new ways of studying art and the relationships among works, themes, and artists.
URL: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/artiste/

ArtsEdge.  John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, & U.S. Dept. of Education, 2002.
"The mission of ArtsEdge is to help artists, teachers and students gain access to and/or share information, resources and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. Teachers will find thorough information on current issues in arts education, curriculum resources and even an online arts community. ArtsEdge is developed under a cooperative agreement between the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts."  [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: Drama & Performance, 2002.]
URL: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization (IAAO)
IAAO encourages study of Islamic arts and culture, offering extensive bibliography, chronology, listing of worldwide museums featuring Islamic exhibits, and of schools and institutes worldwide that teach Islamic arts and architecture, plus downloads.
URL: http://www.islamicart.com/

Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz.  Northwestern Univ. 
Explore the making of art by prisoners of war in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, many created in secret, others with knowledge of the Nazi officials. There is biographical information on the artists who worked there, interviews with survivors, and essays on other forms of art in the concentration camps, particularly musical and theatrical endeavors. The section on Auschwitz includes information on the place, tours, and a glossary. The virtual tours require QuickTime. Some essays are in pdf format. Many images are disturbing.
URL: http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/

Asian & Asian American Studies

Asian Story Theater (San Diego, CA; 2002).
"Teachers hoping to prepare their students for a trip to the theater will find this to be a useful site. You can find out more about educational theater, and theater in general, but moreover, you can learn more about Asian culture and fine arts. Students studying these areas can take museum tours through the Internet to examine Chinese artifacts, look at pictures of different Buddhas, and find interesting Asian food recipes."  [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: Drama & Performance, 2002.]
URL: http://sd.znet.com/~ast/

The Central Asia Caucacus Analyst (Central Asia-Caucacus Institute [CACI] and Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies [SAIS] at The Johns Hopkins University), 2002.
This  biweekly journal, aiming to "link the business, governmental, journalistic and scholarly communities," offers articles, field reports, and news bites.  Users can download each issue in .pdf format.
URL: http://www.cacianalyst.org/ 
.pdf versions: http://www.cacianalyst.org/Issue_ad.htm 

Digital Asia Library - DAL (joint project of the Libraries of Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, The Ohio State University, & University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
A valuable and searchable catalog of annotated internet resources for Asian studies.
URL: http://digitalasia.library.wisc.edu/

Kurosawa, Great Performances (PBS Online)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/kurosawa.html
Great Performances Home: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/index.html
Companion website to the PBS Great Performances broadcast (first aired March 2002) celebrates "A giant of 20th-century cinema"-- Akira Kurosawa, internationally acclaimed Japanese director.  With the participation of Kurosawa's children,  this "definitive two-hour profile" "explor[es] Kurosawa's work in its entirety."  Interviews and excerpts from Kurosawa's autobiography are enhanced by multimedia presentations, comment on & clips from his greatest films, lesson plans for teachers, and recommended web sites, including:
British Film Institute: Kurosawa: http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/kurosawa/index.html
Akira Kurosawa Database: http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~adk/kurosawa/AKpage.html 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collections Online [LACMA]
Over 10,000 images from LACMA's South and Southeast Asian, Japanese, Islamic, Photography, and Costume & Textiles collections are now available online, with another 20,000 to be added in 2002.  Visitors can browse, or conduct searches via key word or drop-down menus of general terms.
URL: http://mweb.lacma.org/ 
LACMA Collections Online: http://mweb.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe 

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution (Jennifer Locke Jones, Online Exhibit Curator; Smithsonian National Museum of American History [NMAH]).   This exhibit, available in rich-media and text-only versions, "explores a period of U.S. history when racial prejudice and fear upset the delicate balance between the rights of a citizen versus the power of the state. Focusing on the experiences of Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps during World War II, this online exhibit is a case study in decision-making and citizen action under the U.S. Constitution."  The Story Experience section offers music, text, images, and personal stories; the other sections are Reflections, Collection Search, and Resources.
URL: http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html 

My America: About the Film
... About the Film Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña Hits The
Road And Discovers Asian America "What ...
http://www.pbs.org/myamerica/honk/about/ - 14k -

PBS - PRECIOUS CARGO: About the Filmmakers
... winning documentary producer known for her work on Southeast Asia. Her most recent
film was Dancing Through Death: The Monkey, Magic & Madness of Cambodia, a ...
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/preciouscargo/film.html - 11k -

Copyright & Intellectual Property Laws; Avoiding Plagiarism & Citing Sources

United States Copyright Office.  Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ [last accessed 24 April 2002].

Copyright & Fair Use.  Stanford University Libraries, co-sponsored by Council on Library Resources & FindLaw Internet Legal Resources, 2002.
Key Links to Primary Materials, Current Legislation, Internet Resources, & Overviews of Copyright Law.
URL: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Citing Electronic Sources.  Learning Page of the Library of Congress.  2000.
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/resources/cite/index.html 
[last accessed 24 April 2002].

Copyright, Fair Use, and Responsible Use of American Memory Collections.  [This section will be most useful if read in its entirety.]  Learning Page of the Library of Congress.  2000.
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/resources/cpyrt/index.html 
[last accessed 24 April 2002].

Avoiding Plagiarism.  Murphy Library, Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 1999-2002.
URL: http://perth.uwlax.edu/MurphyLibrary/plagiarism.html

Avoiding Plagiarism: Student Judicial Affairs, Univ. of California-Davis, 2001.
URL: http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm

Plagiarism and the Web.  Bruce H. Leland, Western Illinois Univ., 2002
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm

Research & Documentation Online.  Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister, Bedford-St. Martin's, 2002.  Finding Sources, Documenting Sources, & Example Papers demonstrating academic documentation styles in Humanities | Social Sciences | History | Science.
URL: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
A Writer's Online Resources.  Diana Hacker, Bedford-St. Martin's, 2002.
URL: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resources.htm

OWL: Writing Across the Curriculum / Writing Across the Disciplines.  Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab, 1995-2002.
URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/wac/index.html
...Resources for Documenting Sources
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docsources.html
...Using MLA (Modern Language Association) Format
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
...Using APA (American Psychological Association) Format (updated to 2001)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
...Formatting in Sociology
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docsocio.html
...Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docelectric.html
...Avoiding Plagiarism.  OWL: Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab, 1995-2002.
URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html

Library & Information Science: Citation Guides for Electronic Documents, 2002. INFLANET - The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/I/ training/citation/citing.htm

Art Rights and Wrongs.  ThinkQuest Junior Entry, 2000.
"An elementary school team for ThinkQuest Junior has put together a set of resources that is easily understood by most students about copyrights, trademarks, and licenses. There is a Webmasters' Advice Page, Counterfeit Information, an interview with librarians at the National Digital Library at the Library of Congress, and a Class Activities Page. This is information every student should understand in a digital environment in which it is easy to copy and paste material. Be sure you know how to give credit to others where necessary."  [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: Reference & Research, 2002.]
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/J001570/

Copyright with Cyberbee.  Linda C. Joseph, 1996 - 2002
"Intended for elementary students, this simple page provides eleven questions and answers to copyright issues for students in terms that are understandable. Topics include fair use, public domain, attribution, and use of photos, songs and video clips. Copyright is an issue elementary students need to learn about and adhere to proper use of materials. Don't postpone the issue until secondary school!"   [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: Reference & Research, 2002.]
URL: http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf

About This Site:  Donna M. Campbell (Associate Professor of English, Gonzaga Univ., 2002), has constructed this web page to provide complete information about her course web site on American Literature that conforms to MLA's "Minimal Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages," MLA Newsletter, Fall 1999. 
URL: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/about.htm
Cora's Comment:  One persistent difficulty in trying to cite and evaluate WWW sources according to guidelines of various academic documentation systems, is that web sites--including academic web sites--rarely offer complete and easily accessible "about this site" metacommentary -- i.e. rhetorical analysis and documentation information -- needed to evaluate a site and construct a complete citation.  Campbell's is one admirable attempt to provide such information in systematic fashion.

Columbia Guide to Online Style
Note well: Columbia University's CGOS is in competition with other academic professional organizations' guidelines for citing electronic sources.
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

XREF Link to HIR Assignments re: CiteSources - Under construction!!!

European Studies

Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries (CENL: Conference of European National Librarians, 2002) presents information on the services, online exhibitions, and collections of 41 European national libraries of the 39 CENL member countries, accessible in English, French, and German.  The search engine is maintained by the British Library.
Root URL: http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/
...Treasures from Europe's National Libraries is a current Gabriel online exhibition offering some stunning artefacts from CENL collections: rare and precious books, illuminated manuscripts, bookbindings, drawings, prints and decorated papers.
URL: http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/treasures/entree.html
...Bibliotheca Universalis aims to make accessible "major works of worldwide cultural and scientific heritage, comprising text, images and sound . . . ."
URL: http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/bibliotheca-universalis/en/bibliotheca_universalis_accueil.htm

Living Words: The Website for Schools from the British Library
URL: http://www.education.bl.uk/index.html
Welcome page - http://www.education.bl.uk/welcome/index.html - 
previews & links to Curricular Projects in History, Religious Education, English
...Curricular Projects: http://www.education.bl.uk/projects/index.html
...Living Words: What's New - Index
URL: http://www.education.bl.uk/new/index.html 
Scroll down in this framed web environment to find Voices of the Holocaust, offering personal oral testimonies of Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to reside in Britain. These true stories, which may be read or played using RealPlayer, are divided into six categories: life before the Holocaust, ghettos and deportations, the camps, resistance, liberation, and testimonies by Edith Berkin.  

Middle Ages: What Was It Really Like to Live in the Middle Ages?  Annenberg/CPB Learner.org, 1997-2002.
"In film and in literature, medieval life seems heroic, entertaining, and romantic. In reality, life in the Middle Ages, a period that extended from approximately the fifth century to the fifteenth century in Western Europe, was sometimes all these things, as well as harsh, uncertain, and often dangerous."  Enter this site and learn...about feudal life, religion, homes, clothing, health, arts & entertainment - plus resources for further study.
URL: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/

The Napoleonic Guide, 1999-2001
This reference site for Napoleon and French history focuses on the period 1796-1815, with information on the period's major powers, armies, soldiers, battles and wars; plus personal information on Napoleon, his career, opponents, marshals, and family; digital images, maps, and relevant movies, books, and music.
URL: http://www.napoleonguide.com/ 

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe, SEVENTH UPDATE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB,
REVISED EDITION (Christos Nussli), 2001.
Available in English and French, this site offers maps in expandable thumbnails, "depicting with accuracy the states of this continent every first day of each centennial year from AD 1 to AD 1700."  Aids include legends, with links to bibliographies and maps from De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors.
URL: http://www.euratlas.com/ 

Remembering the Holocaust.  PBS Holocaust Remembrance Site.
Home: http://www.pbs.org/holocaust/index.html
....Schindler's List (aired April 2001)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/holocaust/schindler/index.html
...Schindler's List: Behind the Scenes
"Hear from director Steven Spielberg and others about Schindler and the making of the film, watch video clips, and review the movie credits."
URL: http://www.pbs.org/holocaust/schindler/behindthescenes.html

Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order?  Annenberg/CPB Learner.org, 1997-2002.  "'Renaissance,' French for 'rebirth,' perfectly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries."  Explore this site to discover "the forces that drove this rebirth in Europe, and in Italy in particular."
URL: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture.  Library of Congress, 2001.
With the support of the Sigmund Freud-Museum, Vienna; and the Freud Museum, London; this Library of Congress exhibit focuses on Freud's legacy and the influence of psychoanalysis on 20th-century popular culture in three main sections: Formative Years (Freud's early professional development in late 19th-century Vienna), The Individual: Therapy and Theory (key psychoanalytic concepts & Freud's most famous cases), and From the Individual to Society (Freud's ideas about the origin of society, social functions of religion and art, and human nature revealed through crises).  The exhibit offers photos, prints, original manuscripts, film & television clips, and excerpts from newspapers, magazines, and comic books.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/ 

Film & Media Studies

See Film Studies: Online Handouts, Reviews & Links
Under Construction
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Film/
...Film Adaptation of Literature
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Film/filmadaptation.htm
...Film Links
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Film/links.htm

History

Best of History Websites (Thomas Daccord, History teacher & Instructional Technology consultant, Noble & Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts)
This site links to and rates--for "quality, accuracy, and usefulness"--700+ online history-related resources in ten categories: Prehistory, Ancient/ Biblical, Medieval, US History, Early Modern European, 20th Century, World War II, Art History, General Resources, and Maps.
URL: http://www.besthistorysites.net/

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820. (American Memory, Library of Congress, 2002).  This collection, donated by the Univ. of Chicago Library and Filson Historical Society of Louisville (KY), offers thousands of pages of original historical documents on the European exploration and settlement of the Ohio River Valley - including bills, journals, political broadsides, letters, advertisements, affidavits; Daniel Boone's A collection of some of the most interesting narratives of Indian warfare in the West: containing an account of the adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, one of the first settlers of Kentucky; excerpts from Audubon's Birds of America, and drawings by other naturalists.
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html

Making of America. Cornell University Library, 1999.
"...a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. . . .  particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."  The extensive collection of 19th-century periodicals is searchable," and files are available in several formats.
URL: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/

Trails to Utah and The Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869.  American Memory, Library of Congress.
Online archive and exhibit offers 49 diaries of pioneers who crossed America to Utah, Montana, and the Pacific, from 1847 to 1869.  The collection (from materials held at Lee Library, Brigham Young Univ.; and Utah Academic Library Consortium) also offers photographs, essays, and interactive maps.  Good introduction to mid-19th century realities of overland travel and source of primary documents.
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/overhome.html

Immigrant Studies

"Almost a Woman" [based on Esmeralda Santiago's memoir].  ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre:  American Collection.  PBS Online (airs 15 Sept. 2002).
"Based on Esmeralda Santiago's courageous memoir, this film tells the story of a thirteen year old Puerto Rican immigrant who serves as her family's liaison in their adopted city of New York."  The companion website includes a timeline of Puerto Rico, the writings of some of its many fine authors, and a teacher's guide."
URL: http://pbs.org/masterpiece/

The New Americans (PBS Online, KCET)
Beginning from the premise that "that immigration is not a fundamentally good or bad thing thing for America—it is a fundamentally American thing," this project focuses on "the intimate stories of a diverse group of immigrants and refugees"--from Nigeria, India, Dominican Republic, Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Mexico--to "capture the lives of contemporary immigrants in all their complexities" and "put a human face on the breadth and scope of immigrants' and refugees' experience in America—not just the sensational stories that make headlines."
Root URL: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/
About the Project - The New Americans
URL: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/1.0/1.01description.html
Immigration: America's Story - Introduction to The New Americans
URL: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/3.0/3.0timeline.html
Coming to America: Voices of Immigrant Authors
Mexican and Caribbean writers offer unique perspectives on the American experience.
URL: http://pbs.org/newamericans/kcet/6.0/literature.html 
Immigrants in Film.  PBS: The New Americans: Teacher Guide.
"Lesson by Chris Davis, who teaches English and history at Clark Magnet High School in Glendale, California";  "holds a B.A. in history and English from the University of California, Riverside and a masters degree in history from the California State University in Los Angeles. A native Californian, he is a third-generation immigrant with family from Russia and England."
URL: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/6.0/html/immfilm.html
Perceptions & Misconceptions - Film Study
URL:  http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/4.0/4.02film.html

Tolerance in Times of Trial, America Responds: Lesson (PBS Online)
This lesson plan uses the treatment of citizens of Japanese and German ancestry during World War II -- looking specifically at media portrayals of these groups and internment camps -- as historical examples of ethnic conflict during times of trial, and about the problems inherent in assigning blame to populations or nations of people.  Students are asked to look at contemporary examples of ethnic conflict, discrimination, and stereotyping at home and abroad.
URL: http://pbs.org/americaresponds/tolerance.html 
America Responds (to the 9/11/01 tragedy, PBS Online)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/

Instructional Technology

EBONI: Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines (Joint Information Systems Committee: JISC; created by Ruth Wilson and Monica Landoni, Computer and Information Science Department, University of Strathclyde, UK), 2002. 
Standards for the design of hypertext books on-screen and hardware, available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format and WS Word, may be of interest to creators of scholarly digital resources. 
URL: http://ebooks.strath.ac.uk/eboni/guidelines/

International & Inter-Cultural Studies

BBC News - International
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/

Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural
Understanding (Paul Coverdell World Wise Schools program of the Peace Corps)
Online 48-page workbook containing 13 lesson plans to introduce students (grades 6-12) to studies of their own and other cultures around the world, is valuable for social studies, geography, and language arts;  workbook can be downloaded free.  Site also offers other free downloadable Peace Corps publications:  Insights from the Field: Understanding Geography, Culture, and Service; Culture Matters: The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook; Voices from the Field: Reading and Writing About the World, Ourselves, and
Others; and Looking at Ourselves and Others.
URL: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/bridges/index.html
Peace Corps' World Wise Schools "seek to engage U.S. students in an inquiry about the world, themselves, and others."
URL: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/index.html
Peace Corps: http://www.peacecorps.gov/indexnf.cfm

CountryReports.org, 2002 edition. (Emulate Me, 1997-2002).
A+ Country Reports is a great resource for students, teachers, travelers, offering in depth information on all the countries of the world: population, geography, economy, history, politics, plus extras like audio clips of national anthems, current weather reports, a discussion area, and links.
URL: http://www.countryreports.org/ 

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (Cartography Associates, 2002).
This searchable online collection of GIS and historical maps offers rare historical materials on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartography; historical maps of the world, Europe, Asia, and Africa;  categories of original materials include antique atlases; globes; school geography; maritime charts; state, country, city and manuscript maps.
URL: http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Historical Text Archive (Don Mabry), 2001
This searchable site offers history research papers and reports, articles, books, maps, photographs, and country-specific international information on a myriad of subjects-- including genealogy, history, religion, rock-n-roll, wars, and women's studies--plus thousands of links related to its database topics.
URL: http://historicaltextarchive.com/index.php
...Archive:  http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php 

International Religious Freedom Report (U.S. Dept. of State, 2001)
Annual Report submitted to Congress in compliance with the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998, surveys religious freedom in 195 countries, grouped by region, with information on Religious Demography, Status of Religious Freedom, Societal Attitudes, and U.S. Government Policy; plus appendices on U.S. Refugee Policy, the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service), and the International Religious Freedom Act.  Valuable resource for visitors interested in human rights issues and religious practices in other countries.
URL: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2001/index.cfm 

International Resources from the Library of Congress (LOC)
A gateway to LOC international resources, organized in five sections: Portals to the World offers links on 46+ countries selected by LOC subject specialists; Special International Guides includes Handbook of Latin American Studies & Vietnam-Era POW/MIA Database; Gateways to the World presents LOC's reading rooms & international collections; Fellowships in International Studies; and an FAQ.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/ 

OnlineNewsHour Extra (PBS Online: MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, 2002).
"A News Hour with Jim Lehrer Special for Students," featuring national and international top stories, reports, & discussions.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/
Global Cafe (World Wise Schools: Peace Corps, & MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, 2001). 
Collects stories, letters, photographs from students all over the globe, and facilitates international discussion and mutual aid.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/globalcafe/peacecorps/index.html
OnlineNewsHour Extra for Teachers
URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/
...Arts & Literature: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/arts_literature/index.html
Online NewsHour is the searchable "web site of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer."
URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

Tolerance in Times of Trial, America Responds: Lesson (PBS Online)
This lesson plan uses the treatment of citizens of Japanese and German ancestry during World War II -- looking specifically at media portrayals of these groups and internment camps -- as historical examples of ethnic conflict during times of trial, and about the problems inherent in assigning blame to populations or nations of people.  Students are asked to look at contemporary examples of ethnic conflict, discrimination, and stereotyping at home and abroad.
URL: http://pbs.org/americaresponds/tolerance.html 
America Responds (to the 9/11/01 tragedy, PBS Online)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/

United Nations, 2002-2002.  Multilingual site
English version: http://www.un.org/english/
Root URL: http://www.un.org/

Latin American Studies

Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection.  Cuban Heritage Digital Collection (CHDC), Otto G. Richter Library, Univ. of Miami.  The collection of Manual R. Bustamante presents over 600 photos, as well as documents and memorabilia, of Cuba, from turn of 20th century to 1930s, divided into six categories: churches and altars, cities and towns, faces of Cuba, industry and economy, landscapes, and rural life.
URL:  http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chc5017_main.html

Literature

See Literature Links: General Web Sources for Literary Study | Writing about & Reading Literature being updated, Humanities Instructional Resources, 2002.
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Links/literature.htm

See Study Guides, Essays, Introductions & Lecture Notes under construction,  Humanities Instructional Resources, 2002.
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/StudyGuides/index.htm

Middle East

Global Connections: The Middle East (PBS Online / WGBH Educational Foundation, 2002)
This PBS Online site "integrates and contextualizes the rich body of public broadcasting resources to provide a global and historical perspective that will help teachers, students, and the general public explore and understand seminal events of national and international significance."  Middle East pages address economics, stereotypes, the role of women in the Middle East; & offer a timeline and an interactive socio-political map on the Middle East. 
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/
...Connecting Questions offers lesson plans & perspectives on the Middle East.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/questions/index.html
...Explore a Theme essays & timelines on M.E. economics, geography, religion, & cultures.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/themes/index.html
...Timeline key events in Middle Eastern History since 1900:
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/timeline/index.html

Islam: Empire of Faith (PBS Online).  Companion web site to the PBS Empire series.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/

Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization (IAAO)
IAAO encourages study of Islamic arts and culture, offering extensive bibliography, chronology, listing of worldwide museums featuring Islamic exhibits, and of schools and institutes worldwide that teach Islamic arts and architecture, plus downloads.
URL: http://www.islamicart.com

Music

Andante.  Concise Grove Dictionary of Music, Andante Corp., 2002.
"The Reference section of the Andante site allows access to thousands of searchable definitions and biographies from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Music. This reference work covers many types of music, not only classical. You can find information about jazz, rock, the blues, ragtime, and many more styles. The Andante site also provides detailed information about particular composers and analyses of compositions, operas, and some in depth profiles of musicians. There are also some translations of operas. With RealAudio, you can hear clips of music."   [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: Reference & Research, 2002.]
URL: http://www.andante.com/reference/index.cfm

Native American & Indigenous Studies

Anthropology Collection Database.  Dept. of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2002.  An extensive collection of ethnographic and archeological materials--including 7,000 digital images--of indigenous cultures of the US Southwest, western North America (exclusive of Mexico), Central & South America, the Pacific Rim (Pacific Islands & East Asia), East Africa, Middle East, & Europe.  Searchable by category, object name, materials, maker's name, collection, culture, global region, country, state, county.
URL: http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/collections/collintro.htm
...Highlighted Collections: http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/hcollection.htm

Philosophy

Kemerling, Garth (Ph.D., Philosophy, Univ. of Iowa, 1974).  A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names.  1997-2002.  Accessed: 1 Nov. 2002.
URL: http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/
"This is a concise guide to technical terms and personal names often encountered in the study of philosophy. . . . everything is meant to be clear, accurate, and fair, a reliable source of information on Western philosophy for a broad audience."  "Although the entries are often brief, many include links to electronic texts and to more detailed discussions on this site or in other on-line resources, . . . "  Dr. Kemerling also provides a bibliography of primary and secondary works and Internet links.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism. Sharon Stoerger, MLS, MBA.  Adapted from document originally created for Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 30 Sep. 2002.
Extensive annotated list of links to resources for instructors and students, including plagiarism detection tools.
URL: http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism

Women's Studies

Women's Law Initiative - WLI (Elizabeth Martin, President & Executive Director)
This online resource provides easy-to-understand legal information to women and girls living with or escaping domestic violence in the U.S., designed to "empower women and girls to lead independent and productive lives, free from abuse."  Includes state-specific step-by-step legal instructions in "plain language translations" of domestic violence statutes, plus links to services, downloadable court documents, and legislation news.
URL: http://www.womenslaw.org/index.htm

Women's Studies Database. University of Maryland, 2002.
This database, "begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues."
URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/index.html
...Bibliographies: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Bibliographies/
...Film Reviews: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/
...Gender Issues: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GenderIssues/
...Other Web Sites, directory of web resources organized by topic
URL:  http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/OtherWebSites/
...Reference Room: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReferenceRoom/
...Syllabi collection for interdisciplinary Women's Studies courses
URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Syllabi/

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