Cultural Links
General Culture
American Folk.com
A compelling site featuring all sorts of information, stories, recipes, articles, photos, and even music of American folklore, culture and people.
http://www.americanfolk.com/
What is Culture?
That is the question. This site may have the answer. By the way, do you wish to define Asian culture or Western culture? http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is a federal agency that supports learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities. Funding research, education, museum exhibitions, documentaries, preservation, and activities in the states, the NEH keeps itself busy and the site shows it. http://www.neh.fed.us/
Smithsonian Institute
Perhaps the world's most widely recognized society on culture and art, the Smithsonian Institute has created an excellent web site worthy of accolades. http://www.si.edu/
Virtual Smithsonian
Every once in a while a web site comes along and just makes you go wow! This is certainly one of those web site. You can browse their galleries or stroll through the park. View 3 dimensional objects from any perspective and a whole lot more. It requires shockwave and QuickTime plugins, but it’s well worth it. Beware! This site is a bandwidth monster, but a must see, nonetheless. http://2k.si.edu/
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
A phenomenal and complete site. http://www.ushmm.org/
Native American
Native Web
"Resources for indigenous cultures around the world." http://www.nativeweb.org/
Native American-Internet Resources
This is a fully searchable site where you will find resources for teachers, librarians, students and parents. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm
African-American
The Wonders of the African World
This is an extremely well done site that focuses on African Culture. It contains lesson plans and resources for teachers to use who wish to implement this site into their curriculum. http://www.pbs.org/wonders/
Black Facts
A nice site to find out a multitude of information about black history. Completely free and very informative. http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Philadelphia Online
A very nice site dedicated to bringing you information about Black History. http://www.philly.com/packages/history/
Hispanic-American
Hispanic Online
HISPANIC Online offers chat rooms, message boards, news, events, and issues of interest to the Latino community based on HISPANIC Magazine, a monthly for and about Latinos with a national circulation of 250,000. http://www.hisp.com/index.html
Asian-American
Ask Asia.org
Find out what you would like to know about the most populated continent in the world and its occupants. http://www.askasia.org/
Ancestors in the Americas
This web site is based on the PBS series of the same name and chronicles Asian-American history in the Americas. http://www.cetel.org/
Southeast Asian Images and Text Project-University of Wisconsin
Nice and large searchable database of images related to Southeast Asia, focusing mainly on the 20th century. Go take a tour of their Digital Archive. http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/seait/
Women's-Studies
Not for Ourselves Alone
Yet another in a long line of brilliant web sites brought to us by PBS. This one explores suffrage. You can experience the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—at home or in the classroom. Track key events in the suffrage movement, delve into historic documents and essays, and take a look at where women are today. http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
Living the Legacy; the Women’s Right Movement
This is a web site that presents 150 years in the history of the Women’s right movement. http://www.legacy98.org/.
NY Times: Heroine Worship
This site has biographies and essays on some influential women. It is written by the New York Times so be assured the writing is top notch. http://www.nytimes.com/specials/magazine4/
American Women’s History
A research guide. If you need to do any research concerning Women’s History Month this is a terrific place to start off at. http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.htm