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Voice of the Shuttle: Humanities Research
American Museum of Photography
A virtual museum with photographic exhibitions, a “masterworks” gallery
with images from famous artists, and links to a variety of other “photo” sites.
Art Institute of Chicago
Includes virtual collections, materials to aid teachers of art, news about
the museum, libraries, and the School of the Art Institute.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
An excellent site including over 3500 digital images, interactive
art projects, information about a variety of art history subjects,
activity programs for art teachers, and an annotated guide to web sites
in the arts.
Museum of Contemporary Art — Chicago
Provides information about the collections, exhibitions, and activities
at Chicago's modern art museum.
WebMuseum
Beautiful and informative site detailing the artwork and artists
of the Louvre.
World Wide Arts Resources
A gateway to art information providing links to sites for
artists, museums, galleries, and art history; includes links for
the performing arts, literature, and movies.
All-Classical Music Guide
Guide to all forms of classical music, composers and performers.
All-Music Guide
Comprehensive guide to all types of popular music and musicians.
Internet Movie Database
This database includes over 2 million filmographies covering
180,000 movies; also includes award and biographical information.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Provides information for students and career-changers on
nearly 800 occupations.
Petersons' Education Center
Guide to colleges and universities, private schools, summer
camps, study abroad and jobs and career search information.
AskERIC
Site of the Educational Resources Information Center,
which provides education information to teachers, librarians,
administrators, parents, and others throughout the world.
Blue Web'n
A database of over 1000 Internet learning sites categorized
by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects,
resources, references, & tools).
Kathy
Schrock’s Guide for Educators
An index of Internet sites useful for enhancing curriculum
and assisting in the professional growth of teachers.
Academy of American Poets
Searchable database of the works of selected major poets from
around the world.
Encyclopedia Mythica
Extensive encyclopedia dealing with mythology and folklore
from around the world.
Mr. William
Shakespeare and the Internet
An annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources found
on the Internet.
Online Literary Criticism Collection
Links to over 2000 biographical and critical web sites; links can
be browsed by author's name, title, literary period, or national literature.
Online Medieval & Classical
Library
A thorough site with texts of and links to texts of medieval
writing; includes links to the Online Reference Book for Medieval
Studies and The Labyrinth a helpful guide for students and teachers
in the field.
American Civil War Homepage
Gathers together links to the most useful Internet sites on the Civil War.
Distinguished Women of Past & Present
The site has biographies of women writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, civil rights crusaders, doctors, artists, entertainers, and more.
National Inventors’ Hall of Fame
POTUS (Presidents of the U.S.)
Background information, election results, cabinet members and links to other sites related to each of the Presidents.
Renaissance Links on the WWW
Extensive site with both medieval and Renaissance links on subjects like art, religion, heraldry, music, and daily life and customs.
State Dept. Background Notes
Current statistics and profiles of countries throughout the world.
Language Learning Lab
Contains resources and information for ESL students and educators
Spanish Links:
EnviroLink Network
Provides access to sites dealing with the environmental sciences.
General Chemistry Online
A thorough chemistry site, with great graphics to help both students and faculty understand chemistry principles, molecular structures, and much more.
How Stuff Works
Articles describing how common “stuff” such as car engines, modems, etc. actually work.
Math and Science Gateway
Provides links to resources in the sciences (including biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy and earth science) and mathematics for educators and students in grades 9-12.
WebElements
A very comprehensive site detailing the periodic table.
The World of Mathematics
Extensive interactive mathematics encyclopedia with over 8,880 entries.
PE Central
“The ultimate web site for health and physical education teachers, parents and students.”
Nutrition Navigator
Nutrition experts review and rate nutrition websites to help users find accurate, suitable nutrition links on the WWW.
Saints
Biographical information on a number of holy persons and saints.
The Theology Library
Thorough Catholic site with over 5,100 links to information about the Catholic Church, Saints, social justice issues, scripture, revelations, liturgy, theology, evangelization, official Church documents and doctrine, and other world religions.
The Vatican
Official site of the Vatican.
Virtual Religion Index
A very comprehensive list of annotated links relating to religions.
