Professional Development
Humanities on the Web
Humanities Directories
EDSITEment
edsitement.neh.gov/
This site from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
ThinkQuest Library
www.thinkquest.org/library/
Studnet-designed sites explore a wide variety of content areas, including the humanities.
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
This directory is edited by Alan Liu, Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It is focused on providing educators and researchers links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet.
Humbul Humanities Hub
http://www.humbul.ac.uk
Links to resources in archaeology, history, religion, languages, literature, the classics, philosophy, linguistics, and comparative literature.
H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Discussion groups, job postings Websites, reviews and more.
USA Today Web Guide
www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/front.htm
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General Resource Sites
BBC Learning
www.bbc.co.uk/learning/
PBS Teacher Source
www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Surfing the Net with Kids
http://www.surfnetkids.com/
This site reviews Websites for children and organizes them into thematic categories.
African American History Through the Arts
http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/african-american/index.htm
Take a look at African American history at this site created by high school students
Cultural Studies Central
http://.culturalstudies.net
This site, maintained by Robin Markowitz , Ph.D., presents original interactive commentary and analysis, links to the cultural studies resources, and pointers to exciting and superior World Wide Web projects devoted to special cultural studies interests.
African Studies Web
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
Collection of annotated and indexed links from the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, includes resources for K-12 teachers.
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Original Materials
The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
This site has links to over 13,000 books and other print materials online. The site is searchable by author, title, or topic.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org
This site features images and information about works (and the artists that created them) in the museum's permanent collection, you'll also find an Explore and Learn section that gives students and adults a closer look at art and artists.
Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Images and information about some of the works in the Louvre's collection. You can take a virtual tour, learn the history of the Louvre or view art from the permanent collection.
J. Paul Getty Museum
http://www.getty.edu/museum
This Los Angeles museum features Greek and Roman antiquities, contemporary American and European photographs, paintings, decorative arts, manuscripts, and sculpture. The site includes images and essays for some of the art from the museum's permanent collections.
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Government Resources
American Memory Collection from the National Digital Library
http://rs6.loc.gov:80
Wide collection of online exhibits on American history including images, sound recordings, movies, maps, and documents from the Library of Congress.
Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
This online series presently contains studies of 101 countries. The studies provide a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
Archives of American Art
http://artarchives.si.edu
This site contains primary source documentation on the visual arts in America. Resources include: letters, diaries, sketches and sketchbooks, photographs, exhibition catalogs, scrapbooks, business records, art periodicals, and other types of documents.
National Endowment for the Arts
http://arts.endow.gov
Arts features, interviews, new work in the Gallery and Writer's Corner. Learn about the work being done by artists and arts organizations across the country. Find out about funding and grant opportunities and find resources for a variety of art forms.
National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.fed.us
News, grant info, training and other info.
THOMAS
http://thomas.loc.gov
Legislative Information from the Library of Congress, including the text of current bills, summaries and status reports, home pages of legislators, and historical documents.
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
Take a tour of the art in this museum by artist, medium, or time period. The site features thousands of images, essays, artist profiles and lots more.
Humanities Interactive
http://www.humanities-interactive.org
This site from the Texas Council for the Humanities contains exhibits on a wide-variety of topics including: Ancient Cultures; the Medieval World; the New World; and Literature. The site is intended for use by students and includes lesson plans, essays, games and more.
Films for the Humanities and Science
http://www.films.com
You can locate and purchase films looking at a wide-variety of humanities and science topics here. |
