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A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico |
An online exhibit celebrating the art and culture of a diverse society. |
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African Studies WWW |
Cultural, educational, and statistical resources covering the African continent. |
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African Voices |
Explore African art, history, and political and social themes through essays, timelines, images, and games. |
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American Centuries: View form New England |
This website is unique in many design features that facilitate successful use by educators and students. It includes a large library of primary resources, curricula, and interactive student activities; most of them presented in age-appropriate, user-friendly formats. |
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American Collection: An Educator's Site |
Highlighting the works of six great authors—Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty—the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides. |
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American Masters (NEW) |
(NEW) An ongoing series of award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of America’s most outstanding cultural artists. |
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Anthropology Collection AMNHS (NEW) |
(NEW) Over 160,000 objects from North American, Mexican & Central American, South American, African, Asian, and Pacific Ethnographic Collections with images and detailed description, linked to the original catalogue pages, field notebooks, and photographs are available online. (American Museum of Natural History) |
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The Antislavery Literature Project (NEW) |
(NEW) Primary source texts on the antislavery movement as well as podcasts and videos. Accompanied by teachers’ guides. |
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ArchNet |
A virtual library of images and field data for archaelogical study. |
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Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution |
Resources on the geography, history, and peoples of the Arctic. |
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Art and Life in Africa Online |
African works of art in the context of the lives of African peoples. |
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Art History Resources (NEW) |
(NEW) Portal of web resources on art, organized by period. |
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Art Institute of Chicago |
Assembles a significant amount of interactive content associated with the collections at the Art Institute of Chicago. Visitors can view art, read descriptions of particular works, play art games, and explore the galleries. The site also offers a page devoted to students and teachers. |
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Art Safari |
The Museum of Modern Art designed this site to instruct young children in viewing and creating art. |
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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. |
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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. |
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AskAsia |
A gateway to educational resources on the history and cultures of Asia. |
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At Home in the Heartland Online |
In-depth materials on family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present. |
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Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events (NEW) |
(NEW) A comprehensive timeline on American history from the mid-17th century through 1920, as well as a robust listing of American literary movements. |
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The British Academy Portal |
The British Academy's directory of online resources in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed as an entry point to available resources for those working in higher education and research. |
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Building Big |
The site brings bridges, skyscrapers, tunnels, and dams to the Internet for those who want to learn more about man-made giants that fill our communities. It features introductions to the engineering of structures, interactive engineering labs, building designs challenges, a databank of large structures, and interviews with engineers. |
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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. |
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Cave of Lascaux |
Sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, the site contains captivating images and information about the cave of Lascaux. Links included are to other archaeological sites, the history of the discovery of the cave, and interactive exercises for teachers and students. |
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U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission |
This website, established to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ flight, has a “comprehensive collection of outstanding educational essays, multimedia and links regarding the history of flight.” |
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Center for the Liberal Arts |
Maintained by the University of Virginia, this site provides educators with a wealth of humanities resources for their classrooms and help in using technology effectively. |
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City/La Ciudad |
Highlighting the plight of four recent Latin American immigrants in the United States, the site tells stories of loss, love, frustration, hope, and the struggle to build their lives, communities, and their dreams. |
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The Cleveland Museum of Art |
The Cleveland Museum of Art permanent collection includes more than 36,000 objects. In this database you will find records for all of the objects in the collection. |
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Connecticut History Online |
Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Mystic Seaport, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society. |
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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. |
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Conversations with History |
Interviews with a broad range of historical figures from the latter half of the twentieth century. |
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Detroit Institute of Arts |
An electronic gallery of artwork from all periods and cultures. |
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Digital Classroom (National Archives and Records Administration) |
Historical documents, activities, and training for educators and students. |
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Digital Dante |
Texts and contexts for the study of the Italian Renaissance writer Dante. |
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Digital Scriptorium (Columbia U.) (NEW) |
(NEW) An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. |
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Do History |
The site centers upon the historical work surrounding the diary of Martha Ballard, an 18th Century midwife. The core of the site is Martha's actual diary, which can be browsed or searched online, but the site also includes a large archive of primary sources about Martha and colonial America. |
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Documenting the American South |
Growing collection of primary materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. |
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DSOKids, Dallas Symphony Orchestra (NEW) |
(NEW) Music room feature offers clickable room features that lead to an instrument encyclopedia with sound samples, orchestra seating chart, and more. |
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Earth Works (University of Cincinnati) (NEW) |
(NEW) Making these hidden or vanished Ohio Native American sites visible again through virtual computer reconstructions, as never before since they were conceived in the imaginations of their builders. |
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The End of Europe's Middle Ages |
The End of Europe's Middle Ages is designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history. |
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Episteme Links |
Comprehensive resources related to philosophy. |
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Explore Art (NEW) |
(NEW) This interactive feature on the Rubin Museum of Art website offers the opportunity to journey behind works of Himalayan art, revealing the stories, ideas and beliefs that inspired them, and then consider how peoples of other cultures have expressed ideas on similar issues through their own artistic traditions. |
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Explore DC |
A one-stop guide to the history, heritage, and culture of Washington, DC, this site features 450 pages of text, nearly 300 images, 50 audio and video files, and 24 different intermediate to senior high school lesson plans. |
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Explore PA History |
Demonstrates the rich historical importance of Pennsylvania via maps, timelines, essays, primary documents, and lesson plans. |
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Exploring Ancient World Cultures |
A collection of essays, images, and primary and secondary sources focusing on a range of ancient cultures. |
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Freer Gallery of Art and Sackler Gallery |
The gallery houses a world-renowned collection of art from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Near East. |
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French Ministry of Culture |
A gateway to the cultural resources of France. |
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Geoffrey Chaucer Website |
Texts and contexts on Chaucer and life in the Middle Ages. |
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The Getty |
One of the World's greatest collections of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, and European and American photographs. |
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Goethe Institute |
An international collection of resources for study of the German language and German culture. |
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Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories |
Created by the Oakland Museum of California, this site gives a comprehensive look into the California Gold Rush of the nineteenth-century. |
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Great Websites for Kids |
Created by the American Library Association, this portal website helps parents and children find age appropriate educational materials on the Internet. |
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Guggenheim Museum |
The museum took as its basis the radical new forms of art being developed by such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian in the 20th century. |
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Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community |
Created by the School of Information at the University of Michigan with exhibits from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site gives students an exhaustive overview of the culture, community, and organizations of the Harlem Renaissance. |
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Harpweek |
Created by Harper's Weekly as an online archive of 18th and 19th century issues of the magazine, the site contains ten free features utilizing rich primary sources and scholastic commentary on topics that range from Immigrant and Ethnic America to The World of Thomas Nast. |
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Humanities Interactive (NEW) |
(NEW) The Texas Council for the Humanities places its resources in the hands of teachers and librarians in an interactive format. |
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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. |
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Internet Medieval Sourcebook |
A library of texts and translations recording all aspects of medieval life. |
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Internet Public Library |
Produced by the University of Michigan School of Information, this site contains a vast collection of online texts, including novels, newspapers, magazines, and tutorials for students of all ages. |
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Jazz: A Ken Burns Film |
This highly interactive site offers many ways to introduce jazz as a musical genre and cultural tradition. An interactive map features hot places for jazz in America; a lounge defines jazz with recordings of key elements and genres; and audio files feauture nine different songs of nine artists. Artists featured on the site include: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan. |
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Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies |
Texts, images, and commentary for the study of the Middle Ages. |
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Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) |
Resources for the study of South American, Central American, and Caribbean culture. |
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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. |
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Learner.Org |
A collection of interactive exhibits on topics ranging from the collapse of empires to the art of writing screenplays. |
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Learning from London Town |
This site presents opportunities for study of the 18th century lost town of London, Maryland, fron the integrated perspective of archaelogical find, archival records, and material culture. |
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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. |
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The Living Room Candidate |
The Internet is no longer a novelty, but is rather a necessary campaign tool. Campaigns have learned how to operate in an increasingly complex online ecology, getting their messages across through a variety of means. |
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Livius.org |
Livius, Articles of Ancient History. A website on ancient history written and maintained since 1996 by the Dutch historian Jona Lendering. |
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Lost and Found Sound (NPR-All Things Considered) (NEW) |
(NEW)An online treasure of recordings that were thought lost or obscure which covers almost the whole spectrum of the American experience since the beginning of recorded sound. |
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The Lost Museum |
This museum is a fascinating, interactive 3-D look at what was once the United States’ most visited museum – until it mysteriously burned to the ground in 1865. Visitors can explore the virtual reconstruction and embedded resources, which can be used with classroom lessons, along with clues to the mystery of who set the fire.
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Louvre Museum (NEW) |
(NEW) Official site of the world-famous gallery with imaginary exhibitions and an “A Closer Look” feature. |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art |
The site displays over 3,500 objects from its collection; in addition, it offers online overviews of its recent exhibitions, a detailed timeline of art history illustrated by images from the museum's collections, and an educational section called Explore and Learn, which is a separate EDSITEment site. |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art's Explore and Learn |
This site, created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, takes advantage of the newest web technology to help elementary students explore and learn about the many styles and techniques of fine art. |
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Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast (NEW) |
(NEW) Opera streaming on-demand and a comprehensive collection of opera study guides. |
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Modern American Poetry |
Described as an online journal and multimedia companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry, produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the site includes articles analyzing specific poems and the oeuvre of 161 modern American poets. |
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Mozart Forum |
It is the intent of the Founders of the MozartForum to improve the intelligent discussion of Mozart and his world on the Internet. The Founders, coming from all backgrounds and with different perspectives on the subject of Mozart, have pooled resources and talents to create and maintain such a website. |
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet |
Annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet, including links to primary texts, information on the Globe Theatre, and aspects of Shakespearean theatrical performance. |
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National Gallery of Art |
The site spans a wide variety of topics with many in-depth studies and online tours of particular artists, media, and movements from exhibits housed in the National Gallery of Art. |
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The National Gallery, UK (NEW) |
(NEW) Official site of one of Britain’s most famous art galleries, with an educators section providing high-resolution zoomable pictures and more. |
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National Geographic Society Xpeditions |
Cultural, educational, and informational resource for teaching geography, as well as world history. |
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National Museum of African Art |
Working from the collection, the museum has many kinds of resources that it makes available. These include teacher workshops, videos for loan as well as online curriculum you can use in your classroom. |
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National Museum of the American Indian(NEW) |
(NEW) Interactive exhibits on the history, arts, and culture of the Native Americans. |
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National Portrait Gallery |
Portraits in all media, and archives dedicated to the portraits of men and women who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people of the United States. |
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Native American History (NEW) |
(NEW) Major research databases and other resources for finding primary and secondary sources in history. |
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Native Web |
Links to resources concerning indigenous peoples from around the world. |
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New Deal Network |
Documentary resources for the study of FDR and his Depression-era programs. |
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New York Philharmonic for Kids Zone |
A comprehensive education on the workings of a major orchestra. Includes interactivities and games. |
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NGAKids |
Affiliated with the National Gallery of Art, the site hopes to make art and its concepts more accessible to young, self-directed Internet users. |
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NOVA: Pyramids |
Jointly designed by NOVA and PBS, this site gives elementary and middle school students an overview of Egyptology and the continuing archaeological excavation of the Pyramids at Giza. |
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NYPL Digital Gallery |
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of digital images from NYPL collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints and photographs, and more. |
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NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans |
Sponsored by the New York Public Library, this site contains an extensive primary source archive of photographs, woodcuts, and other images of 19th century African-Americans from the Schomburg Collection. |
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Odyssey Online |
Resources for elementary and middle school students to study ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Sub-Saharan cultures. |
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The Online Library of Liberty |
Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty makes available at no charge to the public hundreds of full-length classic texts which have contributed to our understanding of the nature of individual liberty, limited and constitutional government, and the free market. |
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Oriental Institute |
The Oriental Institute, dedicated to studies of the ancient Near East, maintains a vast collection of artifacts from the region as well as a valuable Teacher Resource Center. |
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Outreach World (NEW) |
(NEW) A comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom. |
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Perseus Project |
Maps, texts, translations, and commentary for students of the ancient world. |
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Picturing America (NEW) |
(NEW)An exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities which brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art. |
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Plymouth Colony: Archive Project |
The site presents a collection of searchable texts, including court records, Colony laws, 17th century texts, research and analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, and architectural and material culture studies. |
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Pompeii Forum Project |
Archeological resources for the study of Roman civilization. |
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Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 |
On February 29, 1704, a force of French and Native allies launched a daring raid on the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. This interactive site recounts the events, individuals, and historical background to this incident. A superb overview of early colonial America. |
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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam |
The Rijksmuseum is the largest museum in the Netherlands, and is internationally renowned for its exhibitions and publications and not only are these high quality products, but are also areas in which the museum extends the boundaries of scholarship and encourages new insights. |
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River of Song |
A companion site to the PBS series tracing American musical traditions along the Mississippi River. |
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SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet |
Links to information about India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries. |
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Simon Schama's Power of Art (NEW) |
(NEW) With lesson plans, classroom interactives, and an essay contest, this site specially features a venture into the lives and works of eight famous artists. |
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Smithsonian American Art Museum |
The Smithsonian American Art Museum website is a colorful, comprehensive collection of over 3,000 of the museum's digitized works that includes an online calendar showcasing different artwork for each day of the month. |
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Smithsonian Education (NEW) |
(NEW) Provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for the education and museum communities. |
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, was designed from its inception (September 1995) as a dynamic reference work. In a dynamic reference work, each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. |
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Tate Online (NEW) |
(NEW) Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art. All works can be found on this site, each with its own information page. |
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TEACHERSERVE from the National Humanities Center |
Teacher guides that provide balanced perspectives on a range of humanities topics. |
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Teaching (and Learning) about Japan |
A storehouse of information on Japanese culture. |
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Texas Beyond History |
A public education project of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin that interprets and shares the results of archeological and historical research on the cultural heritage of Texas. |
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Traditions of the Sun (NEW) |
(NEW) In our fast-paced modern world, we have become disconnected from the natural world, hence it is easy to take the Sun for granted. In ancient times, however, people understood and honored the Sun’s life-giving power and majesty. |
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Trail Tribes (NEW) |
(NEW) Historical maps and pages on the traditional culture of Native Americans along the Lewis and Clark trail. |
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Treasures@Sea |
This site provides clear, multi-layered humanities and scientific content that seeks to educate elementary school students about the ocean and the life it contains. |
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The Truman Presidential Library |
Created by the Harry S. Truman Library, this site teaches K-6 children about the life and times of President Truman. |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture |
This website from the University of Virginia presents a vast multimedia archive of primary material, 1830 to 1930, organized around Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal work. Educators should preview the material, particularly the various representations of race and slavery in the archive, to determine what is appropriate for use in their own classroom discussion. |
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Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online (NEW) |
(NEW) Games, resources, and exhibitions dedicated to uncovering da Vinci’s life and thoughts. |
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University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection |
This site features photographs, primary source documents, and audio/video resources focused on the humanities, natural sciences, and regional cultures of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. |
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Victorian Web |
Resources on literature, politics, science, and art during the Victorian age in Great Britain. |
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Visualizing Cultures |
On July 8, 1853, residents of feudal Japan beheld an astonishing sight – U.S. warships entering their harbor under a cloud of black smoke. These wonderful visual materials have never before been brought together in a comprehensive manner. This exhibit weaves Japanese and American graphics together with an analytical text to show how each side depicted the other at this moment in history. |
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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. |
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We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement |
The National Park Service produced this virtual tour of the historic events and sites of the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Western History: The Photography Collection |
Created through the joint efforts of the Western History/Geneology Department of the Denver Public Library and the Colorado Historical Society, this site is an archive of more than one million images documenting the history of Colorado and the American West. |
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Whole Cloth |
Learning units explore American technological history through developments in textile manufacturing. |
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Witchcraft in a Salem Village |
The site provides accurate information about the history of the Salem witch trials using primary documents almost exclusively. These texts include complete court documents, profiles of those involved, rare books and treatises about witchcraft and the Salem trials, and original maps. |
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Women of the West Museum |
Online exhibits about the experiences of women in the American west. |
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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. |
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