In addition to our Electronic Databases, to which the library subscribes for you, there are a variety of research guides and materials which are available on the Internet to assist students with curriculum assignments and basic reference work. These sites are considered by librarians to be from reputable and sometimes scholarly sources.
Descriptions of some sites have been taken directly from the pages of those sites and are not the work of this web author.
Artchive
Art theory and criticism,
reviews, and verbal and visual essays on art and artists.
Artcyclopedia
Browse
artists alphabetically or by movement, medium, nationality, or subject. Includes
a glossary of terms and a museum search.
Art
History Resources on the Web
A well-structured
list of art historical resources with a broad geographic scope and coverage
of all periods from prehistory to the twentieth century.
AskArt
Allows one
to search for American artists, known and obscure, on the Internet. Includes
images, biographical information, a bibliography, and more.
Beazley
Archive
Material
relating to the study of classical archaeology and art. More than 5000 images,
an illustrated dictionary, bibliographies for classical archaeology, and illustrated
programs about pottery, sculpture, and engraved gems. Extensive, searchable
pottery database.
Digital
Gallery
The New York Public Library's collection of prints, maps, posters, photographs,
illuminated manuscripts, sheet-music covers and dust jackets (and more).
Eighteenth-Century
Art Resources
A selective
list of links on art, architecture and landscape gardening in the eighteenth
century.
Tigertail
Virtual art museum.
WebMuseum
A large
image collection comprised chiefly of Western art, indexed thematically and
by artist. There is also a section on Japanese art and architecture.
EDUCATION
Education
Week
Includes
Education Week, Teacher Magazine, hot topics, and archives.
Gateway
to Educational Materials (GEM)
A consortium effort to provide one-stop access to the substantial, but uncataloged,
collections of Internet-based educational materials available on various federal,
state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. This website is
a project of the U.S. Department of Education.
ABC
News
Find the latest
news and search for past reports.
Ask
A Librarian
An online
reference service from the Library of Congress. Includes links to the Library
of Congress web site and online catalog.
This site
also offers the opportunity to chat live with a librarian.
CNN.com
Find the latest
news and search for past reports.
Dictionaries
Link
to a multitude of dictionaries, including thesauri, foreign language dictionaries
and translators, and grammar guides.
Find
Articles.com
Search published
articles back to 1998.
Front
Pages of Newspapers
264 front pages from 37 countries presented alphabetically with links
to each newspapers website.
Librarian's
Index to the Internet
Provides a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy,
librarian-selected Internet resources.
Library
of Congress Webcasts
Over the past six years, the Library of Congress has documented several hundred
of the talks, discussions, and conferences that have taken place under its leadership.
On this site, visitors have access to all 303 of these talks in their entirety,
along with webcasts from the National Book Festival.
Newsweek
Access articles
back to 1993. You will be asked for an e-mail and password. Use pamela_starobin@horacemann.org
as the e-mail address and horace as the password.
Teen
Advice Online
A volunteer driven site operated by teens and young adults from around the world.
Time
Magazine Archives
Access articles back to 1923.
The
Wayback Machine
Over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present.
Government Documents
AMDOCS:
Documents for the Study of American History
Primary documents pertaining the the study of American history. Documents span
the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.
American
Factfinder
Population,
housing, economic and geographic data.
Cyber-Cemetery
Provides permanent public access to the electronic Web sites and
publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.
FedStats
The gateway to statistics
from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
First
Gov
Gateway site with links to historical documents, federal and state laws and
regulations, statistics, libraries, national atlases and maps, press releases,
publications, and other databases.
GPO
Access
Free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced
by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official,
published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used
without restriction
National
Archives and Records Administration
An independent
federal agency that manages all federal records, including the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights.
"This site ensures continuing access to essential evidence that documents
the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national
experience."
National
Security Archive
A library
and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information
Act.
State
Department Background Notes
These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government,
political conditions, economy, and foreign relations.
State
Department Freedom of Information Act Homepage
Links to State Department
records and information access programs.
Statistical
Abstracts of the United States
A collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States.The
Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau,
other Federal agencies, and private organizations.
U.S.
Census Bureau
Maps, gazetteer
files, and the American
Community Survey, as well as statistics on income, poverty, housing, demographics,
genealogy, and economics.
World
Factbook (CIA)
Maps as well as
information about a country's geography, people, government, economy, communications,
transportation, military, and transnational issues. Includes flags of the world.
HISTORY / ANTHROPOLOGY Access
Middle East This cutting-edge site provides breaking news about
the Middle East, linking users to a wide variety of journalistic sources for
information as well as offering background information on major regional issues. African
Empires 6th
grade African Empires project. Links to websites. AMDOCS:
Documents for the Study of American History Arab
Culture and Civilization The
Avalon Project at Yale Current
Value of Old Money Documenting
the American South Encyclopedia
of British History Founders'
Constitution History
Link 101 History
of Women's Suffrage In
the First Person Lewis
and Clark Bicentennial Library
of Congress American Memory Project Library
of Congress Country Studies Making
of America Nations
of the World Our
Documents Purchasing
Power of Money Time
Magazine Archives United
States Historical Census Data Browser The
Vietnam Project Virtual
Jamestown Women
and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 The
World of World's Fairs Yearbook
of Immigration Statistics LAW AMDOCS:
Documents for the Study of American History Find
Law A comprehensive
guide to Congressional bills, including a history of the legislature. Information
on measures expected to be considered on the House floor this week, search of
text of bills, bill summary and status, public laws, house and senate roll call
votes, Congressional records, and committee reports. LITERATURE/ENGLISH/POETRY Bartelby.com:
Great Books Online The
English Server Harlem
Renaissance Internet
Public Library Criticism Collection Literary
Resources on the Net Victorian
Web Words
Without Borders
POETRY
(Several of these
sites offer audio. The library office has headphones available for your listening
pleasure.)
Academy
of American Poets The
American Museum of Beat Art The
American Verse Project Bartelby.com:Poetry Civil
War Poetry Favorite
Poem Project Fooling
with Words with Bill Moyers Literary
Kicks: The Beat Generation Poems
of Grief and Consolation Poet's
Corner Poetry
180 Poetry
Daily Poetry
Out Loud Poetry
Written by Teens United
States of Poetry MAPS David
Rumsey Historical Maps Gateway
to Maps
Library of Congress American Memory Maps Online Map Catalogues Perry
Castaneda Map Collection U.S.
Census Bureau World
Factbook (CIA) MATHEMATICS Eric
Weisstein's World of Mathematics Famous
Problems in the History of Mathematics MacTutor
History of Mathematics Archive Math
Forum PlanetMath
MUSIC
An
American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, 1490-1920 Aria
Database DW3:
Classical Music Resources Jazz
The
Leonard Bernstein Collection ca. 1920-1989 Music
for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 Musicals
101.com
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists Worldwide
Internet Music Resources
RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY
Ethics
Update Fordham
University Links to Religion Websites Religion,
Religions, Religious Studies (University of Florida) Sacred
Texts of Many Religions Sikhism
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Access Excellence at The National Health Museum Alcohol
and Drug Issues
Alcohol
and the Adolescent Brain The
Cool Spot Center
for Disease Control and Prevention Drugs
of Abuse Freevibe Go
Ask Alice Merck
Manual of Medical Information American
Society for Microbiology Astronomy
Lunar
and Planetary Observations
The
Originally Nine Then Ten but Now Maybe 8 Planets Science@NASA
Planets
- Science and Nature Solar
System Exploration Eating Disorders Center
for Disease Control and Prevention Dying
to be Thin Eric
Weisstein's World of Science Evolution Evolution
of Modern Humans Freevibe GMO
Project Health Center
for Disease Control and Prevention Family
Doctor.org Health
Links Merck
Manual of Medical Information Sexulalityandu Health
Links How
Things Work Influenza Lunar
and Planetary Observations MadSciNet Merck
Manual of Medical Information Microbial
Literacy Collaborative National
Science Digital Library Population
Reference Bureau
Rainforest Resources click here for links to rainforest web pages. Rites
of Passage links to the Rites of Passage topics. Science@NASA
Science.gov
Science
Watch Scientific
American: Ask the Experts Sexulalityandu The
Shape of Life Social
Issues Online Planets
- Science and Nature Teen
Advice Online World
Maps
Primary documents pertaining the the study of American history. Documents span
the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.
This site
focuses primarily on the culture and civilization, as opposed to the political
arenas, of the Arab world. Divisions include history, ethnicity and identity,
Islam, Arab Americans, literature and philosophy, family and society, art and
architecture, the Arabic language, and geography.
Primary documents
relevant to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government from
pre-18th to the 21st century. Includes text comparisons of some documents. Also
links to Project DIANA: An Online Human Rights Archive.
Includes
calculator for comparing the purchasing power of money in the United States
(or colonies) from 1720 to any other year including the present, the cost of
living in London in the mid 1700's to the 1900's and many more links.
Primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the American South
from the
collections of the University of North Carolina. It features diaries, memoirs,
autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery, and regional literature.
Shows the history of Britain through first person narratives, illustrations
and photographs. Includes primary
sources and bibliography.
Complete copies of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights together
with commentaries and criticisms.
A resource site for the cultures/time periods of Prehistory, Africa, China,
Egypt, Greece, Aztec, Mayan, Olmec, Native Americans, Mesopotamia, Middle Ages
and World War II. It is divided into six categories, art, biographies, daily
life, maps, pictures and research for each culture or time period.
On overview of the movement is presented here through biographies of
important suffragists. Includes timelines from 1792 to present.
In-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in
English from around the world.
More than 30 federal government organizations have partnered to create this
portal to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Primary
source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. Includes
Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Geography, Philosophy and Religion,
and Social Sciences and Technology.
A description
and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political,
and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world
published between 1988 and 1998.
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the
subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion,
and science and technology, containing approximately 8,500 books and 50,000
journal articles
Part of the Law Library of Congress's Global Legal Information Network,
this site provides links to information on all the countries' consitutions as
well as their legislative, executive and judicial bodies.
100 milestone documents of American history
In the United States from 1774 to 2006
Access articles back to 1923.
This
site describes the people and the economy of the U.S. for each state and county
from 1790 to 1960. Includes history and development of the census from it's
inception.
A
site devoted to promoting the study of American's involvement in Southeast Aia
before, during, and after the conflict and to finding, collecting, preserving
and providing access to the historical materials that allow that study.
A unique combination of archival research and cutting-edge technology. Focusing
on the legacies it helped to foster, such as slavery and indentured servitude.
For the Memorable Events project, information about the New York World's Fair.
Primary documents pertaining the the study of American history. Documents span
the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.
A guide to Supreme Court decisions, the Constitution, federal and state laws,
cases and codes, legal subjects, and foreign and international legal resources.
The classics
of literature, nonfiction, and reference, all full text and free of charge.
44 collections
covering such topics as race, multimedia, accessible publishing, and current
political and social issues. An alternative publishing site for written works,
hypertext, audio, and video.
Links to Harlem Renaissance resources.
Contains
critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be
browsed by author, title, or nationality and literary period.
A collection
of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American
literature, excluding most single electronic texts. Limited to collections of
information useful to academics.
Political and social history, gender, religion, and science as it relates to
the Victorians in literature, art, and theater.
Voice
of the Shuttle
Links to humanities
and humanities-related resources on the Internet. Attempts to bridge the humanities
as they interact with the sciences, social sciences, and new digital media (i.e.,
Sci-Tech, Cyberculture and Technology of Writing).
A free online magazine with the goal of increasing understanding of
other cultures through the English translations of foreign literature and commentary.
Search by continents or environments.
A link to
full text poems, information about poets, poetry events, discussion forums,
and audio versions of poets reading their poems.
An archive and collection
of works and artifacts pertaining to the Beat Generation, it's writers, poets,
artists and their offspring.
The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry
prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into
digital form and can be searched by author, title, single word and phrase searches,
co-occurrence of two or three
words or phrases, combinations of two or three words in a given paragraph or
verse or through lists of all unique words in the texts.
Thousands
of poems by hundreds of authors spanning six centuries of English-language poetry.
Poetry that poignantly describes the experiences of battle, patriotism, and
emotions of both sides.
Created by Robert Pinsky as his poet laureate special project. This site features
ordinary people reciting the poems they love. Includes 50 Favorite Poem Videos.
1998 Dodge Poetry Festival.
The site is devoted to a few experimental literary movements that tried to uncover
some deeper truths about life.
Contemporary poetry dealing with the September 11th tragedy.
Best known classics to obscure ballads in Middle English. Search by author,
title, first line or subject.
Created by current
Poet Laureate Billy Collins. This site provides the texts of 180 poems by contemporary
American poets, one for each day of the school year. Guidance on how to read
poetry aloud.
An anthology
of contemporary poetry which each day brings a new poem from books, magazines
and journals currently in print. Also includes an archive to past poets, journals,
and interviews.
Poets perform their own work "out loud", including a remarkable,
rare recording of Lord Tehhyson reciting The Charge of the Light Brigade.
More than 2000 poems written by teens from around the world in a variety of
forms and styles. Students can join the forum and comment on the work of their
peers.
From the PBS series.
Rare 18th and 19th century
North and South America cartographic history materials.
Links to
an extremely large amount of map collections, just in case the following sites
aren't enough.
Map
collections from 1500 to 2002. Sorted by cities and towns, cultural landscapes,
military battles, conservation and environment, transportation and communication,
discovery and exploration, and general maps.
Over 20,000 cartographic links.
A portion of the
printed map collection at the University of Texas has been scanned and made
available on the Web. Currently, this amounts to about 5,000 map images.
Maps, gazetteer
files, and the American
Community Survey, as well as statistics on income, poverty, housing, demographics,
genealogy, and economics.
Maps as well as
information about a country's geography, people, government, economy, communications,
transportation, military, and transnational issues. Includes flags of the world.
World
Maps
Infinity and beyond! Links to maps of the continents, the earth, and the universe,
including astronomy and satellite photos.
An interactive
mathematics encyclopedia with mathematical exposition and illustrative examples.
Exactly what
the title says!
Biographies
of mathematicians, mathematics in various cultures, math history, special topics,
and a famous curves index.
Math resources by grade and topic, ask Dr. Math, links to math discussion groups,
and problems of the week.
An online mathematics community of knowledge and learning with an emphasis on
collaborative creation of content. The main feature is the mathematics encyclopedia
with entries written and reviewed by members.
A collection
of over two hundred social dance manuals housed at the Library of Congress,
as
well as a number of antidance manuals, histories, and treatises on etiquette.
75 video clips
demonstrate steps from selected manuals.
The
Aria Database is a searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language,
and
voice type, including word-by-word translations into English, libretti, and
MIDI files for many
of the arias. The database includes the complete set of operatic arias of Verdi,
Mozart, and
Puccini, as well as many others.
Includes links
to composer homepages, chronologies, organizations, and electronic journals.
An interactive website based on the PBS television series Jazz by Ken
Burns. Includes audio clips,
biographies and historical notes.
More
than 400,000 items, including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence,
photographs, audio and video recordings, and fan mail.
Over 47,000
pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885.
Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo
instrumental
music, method books and instructional materials, and music for orchestra and
band.
History
of musicals, reviews, essays, and many photographs.
This is
not a complete list of Internet music resources, but from here you can travel
almost
everywhere. Includes links to academic job listings, dissertations, choirs,
instruments,
women in music, and more. Very extensive.
One
of the finest, most well-organized collections of music sites available. Created
at Indiana University School of Music.
Links to a wide
array of resources in both ethical theory and applied ethics. Includes online
classic texts in ethics and a link to
"Philosophers
Speak Out about War, Terrorism, and Peace".
Includes links to
psychology of religion; Lives of the Saints; Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian
Internet resources; and searchable versions of the Bible, Koran, and Bhagvat
Gita.
A gateway to a multiplicity
of religious sites. Links to information about major and minor
religions, religious experiences, and contemplative sources.
From Bahai through
Ethiopian to Zoroastrian texts.
Links include articles on
its founding, the role of women, holidays, rituals and ceremonies and basic
principles.
A work in progress.
However, the contents currently available are very thorough.
Sites relating to bioscience, health, math, and careers in the sciences.
Alcohol affects teens differently than it does adults. This is a good place
to learn about adolescent brain development, as well as the impact of alcohol
on this process.
Information on alcohol and peer pressure.
Information on
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and related topics.
2005 edition of Drugs of Abuse. This DEA magazine delivers clear,
scientific information about drugs in a factual, straightforward way, combined
with scores of precise photographs shot to scale.
Links to advice and facts concerning illegal substance use, as well as teen-related
news and suggestions on how to help someone in need.
Columbia University's Health Center Q&A. This link goes directly to the
alcohol and drug use Q&A.
The second edition with every topic updated and new ones added.
Geared to a middle
school audience. Information
about microbes, experiments, news and careers.
Records the motion of comets and asteroids, partial rotations of planets,
the dance of Galilean satellites, both solar and lunar eclipses, and close-up
views of the myriad shadows during sunrise over a moonscape.
An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of
each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
Science done through or at NASA, covering basic scientific principles, scientific
methods, debates, and questions. Includes biology, chemistry, Earth Science,
technology, astronomy and physics.
Your travel guide to the solar system.
Excellent visual representation
of the planets and their moons in the solar system.
Examines life threatening eating disorders and seeks to reveal the reasons
patients are consumed by their obsession with weight.
Contains budding
encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics
University of California Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology web site provides
educators with lesson plans and other tools needed to teach natural selection,
along with strategies for countering the misconceptions that often surround
this controversial issue.
Walks users
through history from Homo erectus of 600,000 years ago to the dawn of Homo sapiens
100,000 years ago. Covers both physical and cultural evolution.
Links to advice and facts concerning illegal substance use, as well as teen-related
news and suggestions on how to help someone in need.
Links to web pages for the Genetically Modified Organisms project.
Written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals. Comprehensive
coverage of medical topics relevant to teens.
Links to the Social Issues page of the of Multnomah County Library. Excellent
resource.
The second edition with every topic updated and new ones added.
An excellent site that answers many questions about STIs.
Links to the Social Issues page of the of Multnomah County Library. Excellent
resource.
"Think of this
site as a radio call-in program that's being held on the WWW instead of the
radio". Previously answered questions are searchable by keyword or topic.
Topics are extensive and very specific.
The 1918 influenza outbreak in the US killed more than half a million people.
Records the motion of comets and asteroids, partial rotations of planets, the
dance of Galilean satellites, both solar and lunar eclipses, and close-up views
of the myriad shadows during sunrise over a moonscape.
Scientists provide answers to your questions, or you can search their archive
of previously asked questions, link to their science library, or search the
Internet.
The second edition with every topic updated and new ones added.
Microbial facts, images and information on MLC initiatives.
A comprehensive
source for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Funded
by the National Science Foundation.
The
(Nine) Now Ten Planets
An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each
of the planets and moons in our solar system.
The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population,
health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance
the well-being of current and future generations.
Science done through or at NASA, covering basic scientific principles, scientific
methods, debates, and questions. Includes biology, chemistry, Earth Science,
technology, astronomy and physics.
A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government
agencies, including research and development results.
Tracks trends and performance in basic science research.
Users are invited to e-mail questions and the "most interesting" are
answered by scientists and other experts. An archive of previous questions and
answers is arranged by broad scientific discipline. Some answers link to related
web sites.
An excellent site that answers many questions about STIs.
The evolutionary development and history of animal life on earth through the
breakthroughs of scientific discovery.
Arguments supporting both sides of controversial subjects. Topics include cloning,
abortion, genetic testing, and more
Your travel guide to the solar system.
A volunteer driven site operated by teens and young adults from around the world.
Infinity and beyond! Links to maps of the continents, the earth, and the universe,
including astronomy and satellite photos.