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A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico 

An online exhibit celebrating the art and culture of a diverse society.

African Studies WWW 

Cultural, educational, and statistical resources covering the African continent.

American Association of Teachers of French 

Resources on France and global French culture.

Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution 

Resources on the geography, history, and peoples of the Arctic.

Art and Life in Africa Online 

African works of art in the context of the lives of African peoples.

Asia For Educators 

An initiative of the East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels.

Asia Source 

Information about all aspects of Asian culture, from Asian current affairs to pronunciation guides for Asian languages. This site also contains constructive activities for elementary grade students.

AskAsia 

A gateway to educational resources on the history and cultures of Asia.

Bucknell Russian Studies Department 

Multi-layered reference on the history, culture, and language of Russian people.

Casa de Joanna 

The site is a portal to French and Spanish language resources on the Internet. The topics include art, French and Spanish, and teacher resources. The links are annotated and indexed as an activity, resource, teacher link, or tool.

Civilisation française (NEW) 

(NEW) Multimedia French language and cultural activities and resources developed by Marie Ponterio at State University of New York, Cortland.

Conquistadors 

Focussing on the Spanish Conquistadors' entry into the New World and their impact on indigenous populations, the site is geared towards middle and high school classrooms.

DanteWorlds (NEW) 

(NEW) A richly visual site providing compelling images, both new graphics and classic artwork, to supplement a classroom reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Includes character studies.

Dartmouth Dante Project (NEW) 

(NEW) A searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

Digital Dante 

Texts and contexts for the study of the Italian Renaissance writer Dante.

Français Interactif 

Explores the French language and culture by following the lives of real students from the University of Texas who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. In addition to following the exploits of these UT students, you will also watch interviews of native French speakers, as well as scenes of day-to-day interactions in France.

French as a Second Language Activities for Kids (NEW) 

(NEW) Site for learning French with crossword puzzles, drawing, and quizzes. Also includes an extended discussion of pedagogical strategies for teaching French.

French Ministry of Culture 

A gateway to the cultural resources of France.

Goethe Institute 

An international collection of resources for study of the German language and German culture.

Humanities Interactive (NEW) 

(NEW) The Texas Council for the Humanities places its resources in the hands of teachers and librarians in an interactive format.

Ile en Ile 

This French-language site, designed and hosted at the City University of New York and associated with a French non-profit educational association, focuses on the history, society, and literature of various French-speaking islands located throughout the world.

International Children's Digital Library 

The mission of the ICDL is to select, collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook 

A library of texts and translations recording all aspects of medieval life.

Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies 

Texts, images, and commentary for the study of the Middle Ages.

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) 

Resources for the study of South American, Central American, and Caribbean culture.

Latin Literature 

Sponsored by Kentucky Educational Television, this site supports an online course in the study of Latin and offers additional resources on Roman culture.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution 

Provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution.

Lire les Femmes Écrivains et les Littératures Africaines 

Bilingual collection of material on Francophone African literature written by women since the 1970s.

LitGLoss 

The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English. The texts are of literary, cultural, or historical interest to speakers of English, and likely (we think) to be better appreciated if read in the original language.

Livius.org 

Livius, Articles of Ancient History. A website on ancient history written and maintained since 1996 by the Dutch historian Jona Lendering.

Outreach World (NEW) 

(NEW) A comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom.

Perseus Project 

Maps, texts, translations, and commentary for students of the ancient world.

Pompeii Forum Project 

Archeological resources for the study of Roman civilization.

SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet 

Links to information about India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries.

VRoma 

Take a tour through a virtual reconstruction of Rome! A community of scholars, both teachers and students, created these on-line resources for teaching Latin and ancient Roman culture.

The World of Dante (NEW) 

(NEW) A multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site.