Art Department Home page of the Art department at the College. [http://faculty.ccp.edu/dept/art]
ArtCyclopedia Over 80,000 works by 7000 different artists on 700 leading arts sites. Each artist is included in an arts museum collection somewhere in the world. Search artist by name, title of artwork, or art museum located. Browse by movement (e.g. Pop Art, Impressionism), medium (e.g. sculptors, illustrators), subject (e.g. landscape painters), nationality, name, alphabetically and women artists. [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/]
African Art: Asthetics & Meaning The Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia sponsors this online exhibition of African art with both images of the works as well as educational text descriptions. [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html]
Chinese Ceramics Collection of ceramics from the Pacific Asia Museum – includes useful Webliography and bibliography. [http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/chineseceramics/]
Humanities Links of Museums From the Guide to Internet Resources in the Humanities, Community College of Philadelphia.
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Timeline of Art History provides a basic geographical and chronological context for the history of art around the world, from prehistory to the present. The content of the Timeline of Art History is based on the collection and scholarship of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is not encyclopedic. Occasionally, works in the Museum's collection are supplemented by non-Museum artworks. The structure of the Timeline of Art History is based on geographical divisions, which allows for intuitive investigation while highlighting strengths in the collection. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm]
National Museum of African Art From the Smithsonian Institution, this site has a wide array of exhibitions and collections, a portion of which are accessible online and can be viewed as images with accompanying text. [http://africa.si.edu/]
National Museum of Women in the Arts The site provides web access to an extensive database of historic and contemporary women artists. The collections are arranged chronologically with an Artist Index as well. [http://www.nmwa.org]
New York Foundation for the Arts From the website: "NYFA’s mission starts with individual artists in the visual, media, performing and literary arts. This site offers access to the most comprehensive list of resources for artists in the nation, opening doors to the widest range of financial, educational, technological, and institutional resources and information." Note: This site has several databases of practical importance to artists, ranging from job opportunities to insurance programs targeted at artists and cultural workers. [http://www.nyfa.org/]
Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia's premier fine arts institution offers a wide range of permanent and special exhibitions, collections, and educational events. Information regarding all these activities is available at this site. [http://www.philamuseum.org]
Public Moving Archives and Research Centers Fast access to major film archives listed by country of origin. [http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/arch.html]
Smarthistory: a multi-media art history resource Created by art history professors as a supplement to art history textbooks, this site contains downloadable videos and explanatory text on a variety of artists and artistic time periods. [http://smarthistory.org/]
Vatican Museums Online Web site provides both photographic and virtual tours of the best known Vatican Museums, such as the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Ethnological Missionary Museum, Raphael's Rooms, and the Sistine Chapel. [http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html]

American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP) includes investigation of the syntactic structure of ASL and development of multimedia tools to facilitate access to and analysis of primary data for sign language research. [http://www.bu.edu/asllrp]
Gallaudet University Library From the world's only liberal arts university for deaf and hard of hearing students. [http://library.gallaudet.edu]
Voice, Speech & Language The National Insitiute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders offers health information on issues of current concern regarding voice, speech and language. [http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/]

      Reading
Interlink Language Centers On-Line Lessons - Reading Skills Interactive exercises include mini-stories with cloze exercises, speed reading exercises, extensive reading in fiction, US newspapers, International Newspapers, Science, and Law as well as Science reading and Read and listen. The lessons on this site, created for students studying at INTERLINK Language Centers, may be used by anyone interested in practicing English/ESL skills. New lessons are added regularly. [http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/READ.HTM]
      Writing
Developing an Outline From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab. Includes a sample outline. [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_outlin.html]
Proofreading Strategies From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab. Offers strategies to use before handing in that final paper. [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_proof.html]
Nuts and Bolts Guide of College Writing Looking for information about the processes involved in writing? Start here. There are sections of information on Thinking (with pages on arguments and the process of writing); Style (with pages on clarity, concision, and Rhetoric); Evidence (including pages on plagiarism and using quotes effectively); and on a variety of citation styles. (Maintained by Michael Harvey at Washington College.) [http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/]
Writing Tips/Paragraph Builder This site takes the "tell me just what I need to know" approach and gives definitions and examples without giving too many details. It explains the different parts of paragraphs, how to write paragraphs and different kinds paragraphs. Maintained by ACT360°Media. [http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm]

Academic Support Center – Writing Assistance From Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, MD. Handouts on The Writing Process ; Essay Worksheet; Helpful Tips for Writing a Critique; Writing a literary analysis; Evaluating Internet sources; Verb Worksheet, Essay Planning and Outlining, and more. [http://www.chesapeake.edu/asc/writing/]
English Usage Rules and Quizzes Free, online English usage rules. [http://grammarbook.com/]
Nuts and Bolts Guide of College Writing|Composition and Writing Looking for information about the processes involved in writing? Start here. There are sections of information on Thinking (with pages on arguments and the process of writing); Style (with pages on clarity, concision, and Rhetoric); Evidence (including pages on plagiarism and using quotes effectively); and on a variety of citation styles. (Maintained by Michael Harvey at Washington College.) [http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com]
Guide to Grammar and Writing From the Capital Community College Foundation, this site includes exercises. [http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/]
The University of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide This is a simple and well organized site providing information about many kinds of writing issues. From the first page, choose from a list of topics like essays, paragraphs, documentation, summaries, and logic. Once you've chosen one of those topics, you'll have sub-topics to choose from. For example, under the "logic" category you'll see more topics to choose from, like undefined terms, generalization, analogies, circular arguments, and non sequiturs. Maintained by Department of English, The University of Victoria. [http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/]

BabelFish Translation tool from AltaVista. [http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr]
BBC Languages Provides a variety of interactive tutorials for learning and improving language skills in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and other languages.
BABEL:arabic An online course in Arabic, where basic knowledge of the language of Arabic can be discovered. Grammar lessons, as well as sound files, are available. [http://www.i-cias.com/babel/arabic/]
China Today Online version of print periodical. [http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/ctenglish.htm"]
Chinese Multimedia Tutorial From the University of Maryland. [http://otal.umd.edu/chintut]
Contacts French. From Houghton-Mifflin. Corresponds to the textbook being used here at the College. [http://college.hmco.com/languages/french/valette/contacts/7e/students/index.html]
Ethnologue Language Name Index Listing of 6,800 main languages [http://www.ethnologue.com/language_index.asp]
French Tutorial Produced by a French non-profit organization based in Melun, France. [http://www.helio.org/education/french/]
Oggi in Italia Italian. From Houghton-Mifflin. Corresponds to the textbook being used here at the College. [http://college.cengage.com/languages/italian/merlonghi/oggi/7e/students/index.html]
Japanese Online Japanese language resource and community. Includes lessons. [http://www.japanese-online.com/]
Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese Corresponds to the textbook being used here at the College. [http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/index.en.html]
¡Apúntate!: Español introductorio Spanish. From Mc-Graw-Hill. Corresponds to the textbook being used here at the College. [http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073385336/information_center_view0/]

Guide to Internet Resources in the Humanities Humanities Website Project of Community College of Philadelphia. [http://faculty.ccp.cc.pa.us/dept/resourceguide/]

The Academy of American Poets Searchable db by poet or poem. [http://www.poets.org/]
American Literature The timeline provides a short chronology of events in American history and literature. It is linked to course pages and bibliographies as well as to a set of more general linked resources: pages on American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites. Award winner from Gonzaga University, but a modified gateway. [http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/litfram.html]
Internet Public Library/Online 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. [http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/]
Gale Group Literary Index is an index [only] to the Gale literature series which contain entries on literary works and/or their authors. Check our catalog to make sure we have the series. [http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex]
Geoffrey Chaucer Web Site This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. (Others of course are welcome to use it.) It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page. [http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/]
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet is an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet. Includes the best Shakespeare related sites on the web as Five Diamond Sites. [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/]
Poetry Through the Ages Offers a multi-disciplinary approach to poetry relating to 21st century issues/events. Provides basic information about poetic rhyme, structure and themes. [http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/index.html]
Project Gutenberg is a searchable database of selected materials in the public domain (mostly pre-1923). It includes classic books from previous centuries to the start of this century. [http://www.promo.net/pg/]
The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive Hosted by the University of Central Florida, this site provides biographical, critical and contextual materials related to Zora Neale Hurston. [http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~zoraneal/index.php]

African-American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 - This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook. Twentieth century titles feature many photographs of African-American musical performers, often in costume. Part of American Memory Project. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html]
AllMusic is a comprehensive guide to all forms of popular and classical music & musicians. Searchable by artist name, album or song title, genre or record label. Detailed biographies, reviews, and links. [http://www.allmusic.com/]
Classical.Net features more than 8200 files including more than 5600 CD, SACD, DVD and Book reviews and over 5500 links to other classical music web sites. [http://www.classical.net]
Cuyahoga County Public Library Music Websites An extensive collection of links and databases covering a variety of musical genres. [http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/MusicExpert.aspx?id=278]
Essentials of Music Basic information about classical music. [http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/]
Gramophone: The Classical Music Website The web-based arm of the respected, well established Gramophone magazine provides access to reviews of classical recordings, industry information and offers free access to a concise version of Grove. [http://www.gramophone.co.uk]
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 consists of 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 band and orchestra. It is searchable by keywords as well as author, subject, or title. Part of American Memory Project. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html]
Online Music Theory Reference Provides both written and audio examples of the basic components of music theory. [http://www.teoria.com/reference/]

The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the U.S., includes in its website information on meetings, governance, resources, publications, services and professional data and issues. From the University of Delaware. [http://www.apaonline.org]
The American Philosophical Society A major resource in promoting knowledge in the sciences and humanities through scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach. Based in Philadelphia. [http://www.amphilsoc.org/]
British Library Learning Sacred Text Interactive - Wonderful source for experiencing stories from sacred texts from 6 major religions. [http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/sacredbooks/sacredintro.html]
Critical Thinking Web Page of the San Jose State University includes exercises and has as its goal to create a "virtual lab," capable of familiarizing users with the basic concepts of critical thinking in a self-paced, interactive environment. [http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html]
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy are currently (1) adaptations from public domain sources, (2) adaptations of material written by the editor for classroom purposes, and (3) original contributions by professional philosophers around the Internet. [http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/]
Internet Sacred Text Archive The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. [http://www.sacred-texts.com/]
Religion Online An extensive library of resources, representing many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship. [http://www.religion-online.org/]
Religions of the World Provides an introduction to the major world religions, specifically Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Animism, Christianity, and Hinduism. The history, basic beliefs, terms, and other information including links to sites is provided. [http://emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/cultural/religion/]
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy From the Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University. In this dynamic reference work, each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. [http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html]

American Association of University Women Promoting education and equity for all women and girls. [http://www.aauw.org/]
NOW, the National Organization for Women. NOW is dedicated to making legal, political, social and economic change in our society in order to achieve our goal, which is to eliminate sexism and end all oppression. [http://www.now.org]
The Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993 is excerpted from a larger work in progress, the Feminist Chronicles of the 20th Century. Both Chronicles dramatize the ever-on-going, day-by-day, year-by-year effort of feminist women to improve the lives and status of all women and to empower them as equal players in the world's affairs. [http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/chronicl.html]
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia "Spoiler" site bibliography that lists, cites and describes science fiction and critical work from a feminist perspective. [http://feministsf.org]
Feminist Theory Website is divided into 31 fields, including traditional disciplines such as education, history, and law, and topics such as Post-Colonialism, Separatism, and Body Studies. Updated weekly. [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/enin.html]
GenderStats Database of gender Statistics. Searchable by country and topic. [http://genderstats.worldbank.org/]
Institute for Women’s Policy Research Research findings, resources and publications. [http://www.iwpr.org]
Jewish Women’s Archive Profiles sixteen trailblazing Jewish women. Includes a Virtual Archive which provides links to primary source material. [http://www.jwa.org]
WOW Museum: Western Women’s Suffrage The struggle for Western women's suffrage, 1860-1920, includes biographies and a timeline. [http://www.autry-museum.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage]
WSSLINKS: women and gender studies Web sites Sites are broken down into topical pages.- general, archives, art, business, culture (mostly literature), education, film, health, history, international, lesbian sites, music, philosophy, politics, science & technology, and theology. [http://libr.org/wss/wsslinks/index.html]

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