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Art

Artcyclopedia
A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
ArtSource
Internet resources for art librarians.
Internet Movie Database (IMDb), The
Searhable database of information on over 250,000 movies made since the dawn of cinema plus even more on over 900,000 people who helped make them.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Official web site of Smithsonian American Art Museum
Timeline of Art History
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
WebMuseum
Collection of artworks.

History and World Studies

19th Century American Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies
Materials available on the Web for studying and teaching about 19th century American literature, history and culture.
Africa Focus
A selection of the images and sounds that have been contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Africa Guide
This site has all information about Africa.
Africana.com
Gateway to the Black World.
American Family Immigration History Center
Contains the extraordinary collection of immigrant arrival records stored in the Ellis Island Archives.
American Historical Review, The
American Historical Review includes scholarly articles and critical reviews of current publications in all fields of history.
American Memory
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
Associated Press Images Archives
This is an online collection of images (mostly photographic) of persons, places, and events in the AP Archives dating back to the 1840s. There are over three-million images in this database and more than 3,000 images are added daily. In addition, there are over 100,000 graphics, including maps, timelines, logos, and graphs.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
Calendars through the Ages
Search for historic event calendars.
Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies
The Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies is a "virtual" space of scholarly electronic resources in text, multimedia, and interactive format to support students and faculty at the University of Iowa and scholars nationally and internationally.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Newspapers full-text from 1897 to 1910 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. In addition, one can find information on newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present.
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Systems
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War.
Country Studies
Contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army
Digital Library of Appalachia
The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
Eastern North Carolina Digital Library
Contains 399 fiction and non-fiction volumes, 150+ museum artifacts, maps and educational material pertaining to the history of the 41 counties in Eastern North Carolina.
Educational Resources on Asia
An extensive collection of annotated links to reference works, on-line periodicals, research and teaching institutions, government resources, and general interest sites about Asia.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
This site indexes articles from over 500 journals and several essay collections. It covers a variety of academic disciplines that relate to women, gender, and sexuality (including masculinity and male homosexuality) in medieval Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training
This American Memory Collection contains an electronic collection of transcribed interviews of foreign service officers who served in the diplomatic corps in the 1920s-40s, but the bulk of the collection features post-WW II FSOs.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
Historical Maps Online
Includes scanned maps related to the history of Illinois and the Northwest Territory, 1650-1976.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use.
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records
JACAR is a digital database of Japan's historical records testifying to its pre-war relations with the Asian countries. It is an ongoing project archiving official documents of the Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army and Navy, dating from the Meiji era through 1945.
JGuide Directory
WWW Virtual Library for Japan.
Library of Iberian Resources Online, The
The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula.
North Carolina History Project
An edited, evolving, and free online encyclopedia of North Carolina that also includes commentaries, lesson plans, and a community calendar.
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies, The
The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web.
Papal Encyclicals Online
This site provides papal encyclicals and other Catholic Church documents from 1226 to the present.
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
This site is an interactive gateway to the holdings of the extant 12 presidential collections of the National Archives.
The American Presidency Project
One of the most comprehensive resources on the US presidency. Its digital documents collection includes more than 67,000 documents to date, covering all 43 presidencies and including public papers, executive orders, proclamations, addresses, and press conferences from many of the presidencies.
THOMAS (Library of Congress)
THOMAS currently provides most full-text records back to the 101st Congress (1989), including public laws, bills, and the Congressional Record.
United Nations Scholars' Workstation
The United Nations Scholars' Workstation, developed by the Yale University Library and the Social Science Statistical Laboratory, is a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography.
Victorian Web, The
Resources about literature, history, & culture in the age of Victoria.
Vietnam-Era POW/MIA Database
This database has been established to assist researchers interested in investigating the U.S. Government documents pertaining to U.S. military personnel listed as unaccounted for as of December 1991.
WhiteHouseTapes.org
Some 5,000 hours of recordings of US presidents from Franklin Roosevelt (8 hours) to Richard Nixon (3,700 hours) are available at this site.
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources, The
This section of the WWW Virtual Library system presents over 2600 annotated links in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics.

Literature

Bibliomania
Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts.
Chaucer MetaPage
This project was initiated at the 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies by a group of medievalists interested in promoting Chaucer studies on the WWW.
Citing Sources, Guide to Library Research
Citing sources within your paper.
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A unique and vital gathering place for books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature.
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series and equally strong holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger and Saturday Night.
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
Edith Wharton Society
The Edith Wharton Society offers Wharton scholars and other interested persons an opportunity to share in the study and appreciation of the life and works of this author.
Gothic Literature Page, The
A website devoted to study of Gothic fiction in England from 1764 to 1840 which is intended to provide students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of resources available on the web.
Internet Classics Archive
441 searchable works of classic literature by 59 different authors.
Into the Wardrobe
A web site devoted to C. S. Lewis.
Life and Works of Herman Melville
The Life and Works of Herman Melville is a publication dedicated to disseminating information about Herman Melville on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Literary Criticism
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Literary Index
An index to Gale's literature series. A free service provided by the Gale Group.
Literary Resources on the Net
This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.
Literary Traveler
Literary Traveler is dedicated to the exploration of the literary imagination. It brings you inspiring, informative articles about writers, creative artists, and the places that they lived and traveled. Literary Traveler has been featured in The New York Times, and The USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.
Literature Online
A fully searchable library of more than 330,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. (Restricted Access)
Modern American Poetry
a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Internet resources about Shakespeare.
Online Books Page, The
Contains listings of free online books.
Online Literature Library
An online library of literature.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the internet. There are more than 13,000 eBooks in the collection.
Romantic Circles
A Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
Shakespeare: Internet Editions
Scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet.
Shakespeare Resource Center
Collected links from all over the World Wide Web of information of all sorts on William Shakespeare.
Sources
Provides a rationale for why, and offers principles for determining when and how, you should cite sources.
SSSL (Soc. for the Study of Southern Literature): Bibliography
The SSSL Bibliography is an annotated checklist of scholarship on writings and writers (novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, diarists) of the American South. There are over 1,000 writers currently in the checklist. This checklist represents thirty-five years of collection by the Bibliography Committee of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Numerous journals are indexed here that may not be easily found via other sources.
Victorian Web, The
Resources about literature, history, & culture in the age of Victoria.

Music

Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
The Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature (CHMTL) brings together various activities, publications (both electronic and conventional), and projects centered at the School of Music at Indiana University.
Classical Composers Index
Classical Net
Classical Net features more than 6000 files including more than 4000 CD/SACD/DVD/Book reviews and over 5300 links to other classical music web sites.
Classical USA
Classical music on the web.
Digital Scores Collection
This site provides scanned images of rare and unique musical scores.
Internet Broadway Database
IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Directories of internet music resources.

Philosophy and Religion

American Religion Data Archive
The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).
Analyses of Cults and Religions
Watchman Fellowship is an independent Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age.
Barna Research Online
Barna Research Group, Ltd. (BRG) is a full-service marketing research company located in Ventura, California. BRG has been providing information and analysis regarding cultural trends and the Christian Church since 1984.
Bertrand Russell Archives
Searchable database of Bertrand Russell's works.
Biblical Studies Foundation
The Biblical Studies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded for the purpose of distributing sound, evangelical Bible study materials in electronic format so those with small personal libraries or without access to a local Bible college or seminary library, etc., may have access to sound biblical studies from their home. Home of NET Bible Project.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
List of classic Christian books.
Christus Rex
CHRISTUS REX, INC. is a a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world.
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
Directories of internet philosophy resources.
Internet Christian Library
ICLnet was developed as an archive to support research, and then expanded as a ministry function of ICL.
Papal Encyclicals Online
This site provides papal encyclicals and other Catholic Church documents from 1226 to the present.
Philosophical Dictionary
Guide to technical terms and personal names often encountered in the study of philosophy.
Religion Gateway
Gateway to internet religion resources.
Religious Freedom
The content of this site is concerned with issues of religious freedom in the U.S. and around the world.
Women in Philosophy
A project in collaborative scholarship with a database now containing over 16,000 records representing the work of over 5,000 women.

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