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HUMANITIES
ORGANIZATIONS LINKS
American
Association of Museums
Dedicated to promoting excellence within the museum community
through advocacy, professional education, information exchange,
accreditation, and guidance on current professional standards
of performance, AAM assists museum staff, boards, and volunteers
across the country to better serve the public.
American
Council of Learned Societies
National umbrella group of learned societies in humanities
and social sciences is dedicated to promoting humanistic study.
American
Library Association
Provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement
of library and information services and the profession of
librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access
to information for all.
History
Matters
Designed for teachers of U.S. History Survey courses at high
schools and colleges around the world, History Matters provides
an excellent starting point for exploring American history
on the Web. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources
and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary
documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.
It emphasizes materials that focus on the lives of ordinary
Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting
evidence. History Matters recently received a substantial
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is
excited to announce plans to expand the site. Visit often
to see the latest additions.
Institute
of Museum and Library Services
Provides distinct programs of support for libraries and museums
and also encourages partnership between museums and libraries.
MHRA
Modern Humanities Research Association homepage contains booklists
of MHRA publications, and links to humanities research guides.
National
Endowment for the Humanities
Fosters public appreciation and understanding of the humanities
through high quality public programs of broad and significant
reach and impact. The Endowment supports projects that are
grounded in solid scholarship, present important ideas in
exciting and accessible ways, and promise excellence in content,
format, broad public appeal, wide access to diverse audiences,
and opportunities for lifelong learning.
Voice
of the Shuttle - Humanities Resources
Describes the minutiae of intellectual property, plus style
guides, translation services, and software for writers.
Other
Humanities Organization Links
African-American
Art
American
Treasures
Architecture
Virtual Library
ArchNet (archaeology resources)
Art History
The
Arts (many links)
Auguste
Renoir's Paintings
Black
Star's 60th Anniversary Exhibit (world's largest photo agency)
Bryn Mawr
Classical Review
Christian
Classics
Community
College Humanities Association
CultureFinder (latest info on opera, dance, theater and concerts)
Duke Ellington
Society
Electronic
Text Center (Humanities)
The English
Server
Great
Day in Harlem (Jazz)
H-Net,
Humanities OnLine Homepage
Human
Languages Page
Humanities
HUB
Illusion
Works
Images
of Medieval Art & Architecture
International
Center for Research on Women
Internet
Movie Database
Islamic
Texts and Resources
Jazz Online
Literary
Review
NPR Online
National
Gallery of Art
National
Museum of American Art
The Noam
Chomsky Archive
PBS Online
Perseus
Project (Ancient Greece and Rome)
Playbill
Online (theater)
Reel.com (film information)
Roger
Ebert's Movie Reviews
Rolling
Stone Magazine
Stanford
Humanities Review
UT-Lanic (Latin-American Studies)
Voice
of the Shuttle (Humanities links)
World
Wide Arts Resources
The World's
Columbian Exposition, 1893
Humanities
Education
the Internet
for K-12
Maintained by the Smithsonian Institute, the select list of
Web sites, each with a brief annotation, is a sample of what
the Internet holds for teachers and students interested in
the field of anthropology.
Art History
Resources on the Web
Link directory maintained by Chris Witcombe, Associate Professor
of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, USA
Art Images
by Period
AICT is a free or low-cost image exchange resource for academic
institutions and individual scholars. Our purpose is to promote
and facilitate the sharing of photographic documentation of
art and architectural works in the public domain.
EDSITEment
Lesson Plans
The purpose of EDSITEment is to offer a gateway for teachers,
students, and parents searching for high-quality material
on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language
arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and
social studies. This section of the site offers lesson plans
for all grade levels covering a wide range of topics.
EDSITEment
Web Sites
The purpose of EDSITEment is to offer a gateway for teachers,
students, and parents searching for high-quality material
on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language
arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and
social studies. This page provides numerous web sites for
use in the classroom.
Imperial
Tombs of China Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art
Use this curriculum guide to create a virtual field trip.
Medieval
Art and Architecture
The purpose of this site is to promote education and research
in Medieval art and architecture. They plan to expand it (funding
permitting) by adding various levels of supplementary information,
bibliographical references, more images.
The Language
Construction Kit
The Language Construction Kit is intended for anyone who wants
to create artificial languages-- for a fantasy or an alien
world, as a hobby, as an interlanguage. It presents linguistically
sound methods for creating naturalistic languages-- which
can be reversed to create non-naturalistic languages.
The Mother
of All Art History Link Pages
This site was created for a workshop on the Internet for Art
Historians Andrew Midkiff taught at the University of Michigan
in November of 1995. The purpose of this site is to serve
as an introductory resource for anyone interested in the study
of Art History, or related fields.
The PartheNet
Combined Internet Resources for Students of Art History
Voice
of the Shuttle
A huge collection of links to humanities research materials.
World
Art Treasures
The principal purpose of World Art Treasures is to promulgate
the discovery and love of art. Thanks to the 100,000 slides
belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, all of
them devoted to art, and including the main civilizations,
such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe, its purpose is
to offer a different approach to art through
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