Collaborative Projects

• Early American Seminar
• Lifewriting Project
• Material Culture/ Visual Culture Working Group
• Project on Religion, Culture, and Globalization
• Virtual Greenbelt

Reference Projects

• Bibliography of Web Metasites in American Studies
• Cultural Landscapes Bibliography
• Serial Bibliography
• Vernacular Architecture Forum Database

Centers

• Art Gliner Center for Humor Studies
• Mini-Center for Teaching Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture & Society

Resources

• Internal Review Board (IRB) Information and Resources

Web Metasites in American Studies

General American Studies

American Studies Crossroads Project

Sponsored by Georgetown University in cooperation with the American Studies Association, this metasite should be the place you start looking for online information on American Studies. Its stature within the field can begin to be appreciated by the number of American Studies web pages within the U.S. and abroad with links to it. Users can easily access links to organizations, communities and professional resources; finding aids, directories and indices for American Studies resources, including abstracts of American Studies dissertations from 1986 to the present. The site gives links to and information on teaching with technology and integrating multimedia network technology into the American Studies classroom, including a comprehensive listing of American Studies academic programs with websites; and resources for teachers and administrators of American Studies programs. On the Crossroads greatest hits page, viewers find links to a fully-searchable subject-based directory of American Studies links; a collection of syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses; employment opportunities in the field; and "Innovistas"-a collection of innovative online collaborative projects-and MUCH, MUCH MORE!

Not to be missed, this site is a rich resource of information on American Studies at UVA, as a general field of study, and as a source for scholarly sources and research. UVA undergraduate and graduate course syllabi including e-texts of assigned readings are online within the "Programs" icon on the home page. A "Yellow Pages" icon connects visitors to resources on ethnicity, gender, literature, philosophy/religion, popular culture, regional studies, social sciences, and science/technology. It also includes an amazing selection of comprehensive search engines, specialized search engines, professional associations, American Studies programs, bulletin boards and news groups, and UVA's electronic courses in American Studies. There's an online museum for American Studies with numerous changing exhibitions, including an especially interesting exhibit on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago as well as an exhibit on "Negotiating American Identity in the National Portrait Gallery." As part of UVA's ongoing hypertext project, there is an online library of classic and lost texts, which appear in full and include links to other materials that either re-contextualize them or comment on them from a contemporary perspective. The ongoing cultural maps project has great links to online map collections. Also ongoing, the Capitol project explores the National Capitol as an American icon. Finally, the 1930s project looks at this period in U.S. history on film, in print, and on display.

Who is T. V. Reed? I'm not really sure, but his ("T" stands for Tim) site seems pretty darn good (and it's regularly updated). I can tell you this about Reed, he teaches theory and method in American Studies at Washington State University (AMST 513. The University's site is annotated below.). A shorter version of this online essay was published in American Studies International in October 1992. This site offers a bibliography and historiography of interdisciplinary scholarship relating to theory and method in American cultural studies, and allied fields like ethnic, women's and queer studies. He starts with a genealogy of American Studies then takes the plunge into the not-soon-to-be-forgotten Myth and Symbol school. Following chapters cover interpretive social science theory; Marxisms; poststructuralist and postmodern theories; theories on gender, race, sexuality and ability; historical, and literary theories and methods; British cultural studies; postcolonial and transnational theories; and a final chapter on theorizing interdisciplinarity. His bibliography features links to e-texts where available, and online sources, such as an Edward Said link along with six other online sources in the postcolonial section. The names of key scholars and theorists, as well as some tricky vocabulary terms are linked to online biographical sources and dictionaries.

Who says you have to do American studies in the U.S.? With American flags fluttering and Liberty Bells ringing (Okay, so they're not ringing. It would be good to consider adding some sound, however.), you would never guess Keele University is cultures away from the homeland, across the Atlantic Ocean in Staffordshire, England. At least, it is certainly interesting to see the ways in which the U.S. is viewed from abroad. I'm especially fond of the "Religions and Cults" section, which is strategically located below "Korfball" (who knew?) and above "The South" on the "American Studies Information Super Turnpike" (called a "highway" in the States). No, really, the information is pretty good. Other topics include U.S. government, politics, history and space; African America; American literature; music; sports; cinema and film; cultural studies; and visual arts. There's a visual arts in America page, a page with information on U.S. environmental policies and groups; a page with portraits of important American figures (Dorothy Dandridge is the only woman). Moby-Dick figures large on "The Whale Pages." And, finally, you won't want to miss "Writing Black" for literature and history written by and on African Americans. You'll recognize when you are there by the image of South Carolina's flag, which is linked to a history of the U.S. Flag. Don't miss the "Flag Etiquette" section.

The University of Texas at Austin's American Studies Resources page offers links to some great resources that you won't find on other American studies sites. From this site, you can check out the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at University of Mississippi; the "Making of America" digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (a collaborative project between the University of Michigan and Cornell University); the National Council on Public History in Indianapolis with good history and resource links, including the "Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record"; as well as the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University. There are popular culture links like Roughstock: A History of Country Music; online journals like the Journal of Media History and Jazz and American Culture; archives, museum and library links; and more.

Yale's American studies homepage includes internet resources at Yale and worldwide. These include links to an American history/American studies research guide; the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance; Imaging America, a digital database (still under construction and not yet available as of 02/20/01) of 250,000+ images of architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts, vernacular imagery and material and visual culture. Also at this website is "The Formation of Modern American Culture," a series of three course syllabi, covering the periods from 1750-1876 (not available as of 02/20/01), 1876-1919, and 1920 to the present, respectively, and including assignments, links, images, and timelines. "Route 66: Cruising the American Dream" is a multimedia senior essay with video and sound clips that takes visitors on a virtual trip cross-country along the famous highway.

This is a really good site. Lower- and upper-level undergraduate course syllabi are posted here. Some are more thorough than others. For example, AMST 471: American Popular Culture includes the course outline and reading schedule and assignments, as well as links to on-line resources for the study of popular culture. AMST 513: Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies is annotated above. There are a number of web projects posted on topics such as nineteenth-century historical, literary, and cultural studies; cultural environmental studies; and the multicultural American West, to name only a few. These projects include excellent information and links. For example, the nineteenth-century U.S. historical, literary and cultural studies project is subdivided into the following categories: historical periods and topics; literary, historical and other course syllabi; historical documents (including a link to 18th- and 19th-century online periodicals); nineteenth-century authors and texts; and maps, photographs and visual culture. In turn, each of these categories includes a wealth of links to related information on the web. They also have a page of key off-campus online American studies resources.

Library of Congress-American Memory Collections

LC's American Memory Collections are magnificent, easily accessible, although sometimes difficult to read. The home page lists 29 collections in a plethora of topics, with more to come. Among those online are African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907, containing 351 pamphlets; Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955, with 29,000 images; The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920, a multiformat collection including English and Yiddish scripts, playbills, sound recordings, and Houdini memorabilia. The table of contents lists each collection by keywords, a description, and broad topic descriptions. It is user-friendly and easy to download. [By Shelby Shapiro]

Making of America (MOA)Project, University of Michigan Digital Library and Cornell University

The MOA Project is "a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction [sic]." It focuses on education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Users may utilize boolean, proximity or author-title-subject index searching. The images, enhanced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR), are readable. Those interested in specific journals will find a list of the issues contained in the collection; for each issue, a table of contents leads directly to the specific articles listed, and once at the article, users may move to specific pages. [By Shelby Shapiro]

Hagley Museum & Library

The Hagley Museum and Library focuses on business, technology and society. Its library contains special collections of pamphlets, trade catalogues, broadsides and monographs and serials acquired since 1980. Through this site, users may link to various Delaware state and county historical societies, as well as the Winterhur Museum and Library. Although not particularly user-friendly, it remains a valuable resource for those interested in material culture, technology and advertising. [By Shelby Shapiro]

Mass Communication/Media Studies

PopCultures.Com Mass Media and Communication Page

Part of Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center, a site which covers a wide range of cultural studies topics, this page focuses on the study of media and communications. Started in 1996, this site is widely regarded as a must-bookmark for those interested in cultural studies. Although it is rare to see regular updates, the site currently proclaims to be in the midst of a major renovation. It is well designed, internally searchable, and easy to navigate. The media page contains three primary sections. The first, a discussion forum, appears to now be a dead link. The second, however, is a collection of links to other media studies sites, including many alternative media projects, media watchdog groups, and left-leaning media publications. The third section is long list of articles about media matters. While these are certainly hit and miss, they are worth a browse when searching for media and communications scholarship. For every articles that looks like an unpublished graduate seminar paper, there's a little-known piece by established scholars such as Todd Gitlin, Noam Chomsky, Doug Kellner, and Michael Schudson.

By far one of the most impressive collection of links for communication studies to be found on the web, the department's website is well maintained and contains information for any type of interdisciplinary media research. The site is divided up into fourteen primary categories which cover almost any conceivable disciplinary direction: advertising; cultural studies and popular culture; digital media; film studies; gender, ethnicity, and race; general communications resources; health and science communication; journalism and mass communication; political communication; media studies, TV and radio; rhetorical studies, social science resources, speeches and speechmakers; and visual communication. Particularly useful are the "Speeches" section's links to online collections of speeches ranging in topic from the federal reserve board to human rights abuses and the section on Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Mass Communication. The latter divides up into subsections on a number of topics, including Indigenous Peoples and LesBiGay media resources. The site also connects to a number of related listservs.

The Center for Media Education, or CME, is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of the electronic media through research, advocacy, public education, and press activities. This multi-pronged approach to media literacy is reflected in its Web site. For example, the site includes online versions of the quarterly publication InfoActive, along with a number of CME policy statements, reports, and press releases regarding new and traditional media. Further, the site offers original and insightful resources, including for example, the Children's Television Act Tool Kit, designed to help users monitor the implementation of the Children's Television Act. Finally, the site has formulated an interdisciplinary research agenda for the study of children and new media. A healthy fusion between solid materials and snappy designs, the CME site ranks high for scholars, teachers, and policy makers in the field of mass media.

CTHEORY is an online, peer reviewed, international journal of theory, technology and culture. Edited by the pomo theorists you love to hate -- Arthur and Marilouise Kroker -- and overseen by an editorial board that includes such notables as Jean Baudrillard and Andrew Ross, CTHEORY publishes original articles, "event-scenes," interviews, and reviews on a weekly basis. Bombastic, brash, and jargonistic, the essays and reviews found in CTHEORY are not for the theory-weary; at the same time, where else can you find a "work in progress" by Baudrillard? Although CTHEORY fancies itself a multimedia text, the essays and articles seldom contain graphics, not to mention animation, quicktime movies, or sound files. Clean and lean, the site's navigation is easy, its download time negligible.

ScreenSite is a deep and well-organized Web site devoted to the act of studying and teaching film and television. Established in 1994 by Jeremy Butler, the site is sponsored by the University of Alabama, the Division of Student Affairs, the Department of Telecommunications and Film, and the College of Communication. The site is divided into four major sections -- Education, Research, Film/TV Production, and Miscellanea -- each of which provides various resources and information, ranging from dynamic syllabi and directories of scholars to original bibliographies, links to catalogs, and archived logs from Screen-L focusing on such topics as how to grab stills from video. Further, the site serves as a gateway to other, more interactive forms of communication, including newsgroups such as screen.history and screen.theory, an online chat room/channel, and the popular listserv Screen-L. Following a no-nonsense layout, the site loads quickly, includes a site-specific search engine, and can be accessed in eight different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Like all of the pages included under the Voice of the Shuttle, the Media Studies Page is a meta site choke full of links to interesting academic-related sites on the Web. Established by Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and built and maintained by a cast of -- literally -- hundreds, the Voice of the Shuttle serves as the academic meta site for the humanities. In particular, the Media Studies Page is divided into ten sections: journalism, tv, film/video, CD-ROMs, popular music, radio, comics, Internet broadcast media, telecom issues, and media theory & history. Although the links are usually worthy, the site fails to organize them in any manner besides genre. Thus, when visiting the popular music section, for example, users will find links to academic journals, commercial radio stations, and the lyrics of the songs of Richard Thompson, all mixed with an occasional dead link or two. That said, it is difficult to visit the Media Studies Page without finding at least one virtual gem.

Popular Culture

Popular Culture Library: Libraries and Learning Resources, Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University has long been known as one of the premier research institutions for those interested in the study of popular culture. One of the major reasons for this is their Popular Culture Library, which was founded in 1969 to "support innovative teaching and research in cultural studies." The website for the library provides some very valuable resources, such as the ability to search their collection holdings, for researchers of popular culture who not located at the University. One of the most interesting features of the website is the section entitled "Collection Announcements." This page lists links to announcements for special popular culture collections housed at the library. The announcements provide brief summaries of the contents of each collection and several include links to relevant information. As a researcher of popular culture of the 19th and 20th century, the Popular Culture Library is one of the first places you should begin your search.

and PopMatters.com: the Magazine of Global culture

These sister sites are maintained by Sarah Zupko and have received many honors and awards for their content and information. PopCultures.com is oriented to the academic study of popular culture, while PopMatters provides intelligent and semi-academic reviews of current popular culture trends and texts. For general research purposes, PopCultures.com is an invaluable site that provides everything from links to journals, articles, and newsgroups, to calls for conferences, academic programs, and bibliographies related to the subject of popular culture. While PopMatters is clearly more of a journalistic type site, for those interested in what is currently going on in popular culture, the site is extremely helpful and informative.

An exceptionally useful site in that it provides helpful tools for locating popular culture resources. Offers annotated lists of indexes, reference sources, journals, Internet sites, and microform sets that are useful for the popular culture researcher.

This site was created by T.V. Reed at Washington State University and provides several great resources for those interested in researching and teaching popular Culture. In addition to a syllabus for a course he taught on the subject, T.V offers extensive lists of recourses in sections entitled "Reference Books & Bibliographies on Popular Culture," "Collections of Essays on Popular Culture," "Books on Advertising," "Books on Race & Ethnicity in Popular Culture," and "Books on Gender in Popular Culture." Reed also includes a link to the "Griffin Catalog Holland Library, List of Items Under-- "Popular Culture, United States"" which he annotates as being "a list of over 1,400 U.S. popular culture books and other materials available at the Holland Library. Using keyword and title searches, you should be able to find a good deal of useful material on virtually any topic you choose." Also included is a link to a current and thorough list of on-line resources maintained by T.V. entitled "TV (Reed's) REMOTE CONTROL" which separates the links into the helpful categories of Genres, Issues, Types of Analysis, and General Resources.

History of Popular Culture: A Guide to Resources & Research on the Web

The Department of History at the University of Colorado maintains this extensive site, which provides over 200 links to popular culture resources, particularly those related to the history of the subject. The links are categorized under the following headings: General Sources, Art, Automobiles, Foreign Influence, Literature/Poetry, Movies, Music, Music Videos, and Music Culture, Periodicals, Radio, and Television. However, very few of the sites listed include annotations and several of these sites appear to be more fan-based than academic.

This site, housed at the Camosun College in Canada, is the home of PopCult, which is a list "devoted to the study of all aspects of popular culture in all media." While the site offers you the opportunity to join this list, it also offers a couple of valuable resources. The most valuable is an expansive list of popular culture related sites. This list is great because it includes links to all of the major Institutions that have programs dedicated to the study of popular culture and because it offers links to sites that are interested in popular culture outside of, and/or not located in the United States. Every link also features a helpful annotation.

Race, Class, and Ethnicity

Beginning Library Research on Ethnic Identity in the U.S.

Taken from a Stanford Library tutorial, this short page provides the initial steps to doing library research on ethnicity and race. It explains invaluable information such as the use of Library of Congress Subject Headings and offers lists of encyclopedias, bibliographies, and periodical indexes. Last modified in 1999, this is a great place to begin, although the terms need to be adapted to your own library's search engines.

Produced by the Institute for Research on Women at Towson University this site offers a lengthy bibliography. The authors claim, "This is the first, unique bibliography which contains items ONLY if they emphasize the three dimensions of race, gender, and class in their discourse and analysis." The bibliography may be viewed alphabetically, topically or thematically. Please note that there are no links to the sources listed or annotations. The site is clearly laid out.

"Created in 1995 by librarian Dennis Thomison, the Ethnic Studies web site is maintained by the Doheny Reference Center at the University of Southern California to provide access to research resources available through the Internet based on a global perspective of ethnicity and migration issues." Divided into 26 categories and with search capabilities this site is a powerhouse of ethnic studies resources. Various ethnic groups are explored as well as themes. With an academic focus, the site is clear and well organized.

Under the "Reference and Resource" section from the American Studies Association's Crossroads Project housed at Georgetown University, this is a page of resources on race and ethnicity. Divided into African American, Asian American, Native American, Latino and Chicano Studies, and "Other Race and Ethnic Sources" this site provides brief annotations of such sources as journals, web sources, bibliographies, and centers. The site is basic in its appearance and annotations, covering at least eight sources for each grouping.

Based at the University of Chicago, the center seeks to move beyond the black/white binary of viewing race into a comparative and intersectional approach. The "Events" section is updated and thorough. A fairly good "Resources" section of related sources is provided. At times, the slow links and uneven information make it a difficult to navigate.

The University of Iowa's department of Communication Studies has provided a strong list of resources. The "Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Mass Communication" (further divided into 12 categories) and "Cultural Studies and Popular Culture" links are especially solid. Please see the rest of the 15 topics as some others may prove valuable. The website is easy to navigate and allows you to jump back and forth between lists.

Sponsored by the University of Maryland, "this database contains campus, local, national, and international academic material relating to the following areas of diversity as defined by the Office of Human Relations Programs at the University of Maryland: age, class, disability, ethnicity, gender, national origin, race, religion & sexual orientation." A general overview of diversity resources is provided in a well-organized, easily viewable manner. There is a lot of information here but some links, like those on class, are empty due to lack of sources.

Established in 1998, the Consortium is housed at the University of Maryland as a "university-wide initiative promoting research, scholarship and faculty development that examines intersections of race, gender, ethnicity and other dimensions of difference as they shape the construction of identities, behavior and complex social relations." This well-crafted site offers a fairly strong resources page that allows you to view the links while remaining on the site. The briefly annotated links include women, diversity, Asian, Latino, Native and African American Studies.

This is an online magazine of sorts published every other month. Interracial voice states, "This electronic publication advocates universal recognition of mixed-race individuals as constituting a separate racial entity and wholeheartedly supported the initiative to establish a multiracial category on the 2000 Census." Thus, it should be recognized as a political advocacy site. There is an excellent "Other Sites" list that provides a list of over 150 related websites on multiracial themes. Book reviews, editorials, poetry, and links to articles, newspapers, and current events are also included on this site. This website covers a great deal of material but may be tricky to navigate with the wealth of information contained.

This is a conservative group of scholars and activists which includes Linda Chavez, Abigail Thernstrom, Shelby Steele, and Ward Connerly. According to the Citizens' Initiative on Race and Ethnicity (CIRE) mission statement, they have come together to examine race and its social significance, dialogue, and provide recommendations to improve race relations, focusing on "education, economic opportunity, crime, social welfare programs, and legal actions." This is a very basic site that does not detail the action of the group beyond an outlining a project and a few response pieces. There are links to some group members and contact information to the project coordinator.

Based at Youngstown State University, the Center for Working-Class Studies began in 1996. "Our web site includes information about working-class studies as a field of study; information on courses, research, and programs at YSU; a bibliography on working-class studies; plus links to other related web sites." The bibliography and links to other sources provide top-notch information. The site itself is not aesthetically pleasing yet the "What's Here" section presents the key sources.

Based at the University of Amsterdam, this site is set up for sociologists and social scientists to see resources on the internet. The "Social Inequality and Classes" section is relevant to looking at class. The page has four main links: Inequalities, Classes, Stratification, and Poverty and two subsets: ActivismSocial Movements and Socialism. There is a wealth of information provided here. The strength of the site is its global approach. The site is clear, includes brief annotations, and is regularly updated.

Material Culture Studies and Historical Archaeology

Museum and Public History Resources

Links to just about every main stream museum and organization in the country including the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress and its American Memory project, the National Museum of the American Indian, museum organizations, National Endowment for the Arts/Humanities, the Computer Museum History Center, virtual library museum pages, exhibits on line, Canadian and other regional material culture resources, with emphasis on Ohio. This is an easy to use, straight-forward site with only titles for links. Future links are also listed. This should be a first stop for links to major organizations and material culture institutions. Contains good www material culture references. Appears to be a collaborative effort between Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and museum organizations but no site guide, mission statement or author information is provided.

An extensive meta-site mounted by Crossroads project at Georgetown University, American Studies Resources on art and material culture. Site contains art and art history links including the women artist archives, material culture including digitized baseball cards, photography. Contained within the extensive Architecture section are links to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Building Museum. A link to the Smithsonian is here, the Whitney Museum, and numerous other museums and exhibits. This should be a first stop for linking to major institutional sites and collections for art and material culture resources.

This site is a research guide for material culture studies. Contains information that will help you to use the University of Delaware Library when researching material culture. Links to special collections, subject guides, reference resources, and art abstracts. Also contains links to bibliographic resources including Historical Archaeology, Winterthur Portfolio, Technology and Culture. The site reflects the interdisciplinary nature of material culture ­­at the intersection of history, anthropology, folklore, and the history of science and technology­. This ­means that relevant materials are widely dispersed throughout the collections.

An extensive web site with numerous links. Contains meta-sites including more than 400 links from the Diversity Database of the University of Maryland. Includes topical websites such as African American in Military History, the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Resources include the African American Studies Programs and Research Centers and Historically Black Colleges. This site contains much more than material culture.

The depth and breadth of this University of Miami web site ranges from black popular directories, academic directories, e-journals, organizations, African-American biographies, census data, culture, history, language, Black Nationalism, civil rights movements, slavery and reconstruction, African-American literature, African Americans in the Armed Forces. Site contains Black popular directories such as EverythingBlack, NetNoir, Academic Directories, African and African American Collections at the University of California among many, many other links. This is a comprehensive site that augments general material culture sites with African American source materials.

This site contains links to numerous resources including the Freedman and Southern Society Project of the National Archives of the United States, collections from the Schomburg, links African American Museum Associations and other libraries, research centers, organizations and archives.

African-American Historic Sites administered by the National Park Service.

This Wesleyan University site contains links to Ableza, the Native American Arts and Film Institute dedicated to promoting, preserving and protecting traditional and contemporary Native American Arts; American Indian Exposition, American Indian Studies, Women, Antiques, Press, and numerous other sites related to material culture as well as contemporary concerns. Home page provides links to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bibliographies, research and library collections, Indian Arts and Crafts Association to cite a few of the extensive, comprehensive resources. The bottom of the page also has African-American, Asian American, Disabled, Latin American, Lesbian/Gay and Women links. Site is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Native American studies.

A Material Culture Research Guide to Women's History.

American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources and a digital collection of primary sources. American Women's History is designed to assist serious researchers, such as history professors, independent scholars, graduate students, and possibly upper-division undergraduates. Librarians who assist these researchers may also want to become familiar with the guide. Site is maintained by Ken Middleton, a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library who has a master's degree, with an emphasis in American women's history, from the same university.

Asian American Comparative Collection, University of Idaho

Mission Statement, ".there has been an increase in studies of people of Asian ancestry, primarily Chinese and Japanese, who immigrated to the West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Archaeological excavations.have recovered.objects.made in China and Japan. The need to understand these artifacts, their uses, and the people who owned them led to the establishment, in 1982, of the Asian American Comparative Collection (AACC)." Their objective is to obtain examples, or photographs, of every representative object of Asian manufacture that has been, or is likely to be, found in an archaeological context in the western United States and elsewhere. The major artifact classes now represented include food and beverage containers, table ceramics, opium smoking paraphernalia, medicinal paraphernalia, gambling-related items, and other personal and domestic objects. Kooskia (Idaho) World War II Japanese Internment Camp project is a part of this site.

Anthropological approach to material culture. Site explores the diversity of human cultures from California and around the world. The museum is a scholarly resource renowned for its collections from native California, ancient Egypt, and pre-Columbian Peru. The museum claims that its "research collections are among the finest in North America and are a major resource for scholars from all over the world." They state that "extensive documentation of the collections breathes life into cultures long since extinct, and serves as an accurate record of historic societies." The museum owns major collections from peoples of the Arctic, Africa and Oceania. Nearly every culture, past and present, is represented here. These collections are generally viewed from as anthropological rather than art historical.

This is the web page for those of you who can't relate to either material culture or archaeology. Our own Dr. Paul Mullins of Indiana University/Purdue University is associated with this site. It's a fun site that has marvelous links to Archaeological digs, material culture, journals, organizations, museum and virtual exhibits, on-line references and popular culture.

Home page for New South Associates, a cultural resources management firm. Page provides links to The African American Archaeology Newsletter, and a practical guide to Section 106 Compliance.

Social Sciences

SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION GATEWAY (SOSIG)

SOSIG is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. The stated purpose of this site is to provide a "trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business, and law." A list of the SOSIG staff, section editors, and contact information is available on the "Contacts" page. The home page is well organized by subject categories in the Social Sciences and easy to navigate. A help menu and search engine are also available on the home page. I could not find information on when the page was last updated. The site offers its own internet catalogue that has been compiled by their subject experts and a social science search engine, which contains sources selected by "harvester" software. The major difference between these two search strategies is that those compiled in the internet catalogue have been reviewed and contain descriptions written by the subject experts. Those sources generated in the social science search engine may contain thousands of links that have not all been reviewed and may be less reliable. Another useful feature on the SOSIG page is the Social Science Grapevine, which offers links to training and development opportunities, conferences, courses, academic departments, other researchers in the field, and a site to post your CV on line. This site originates from the UK and most of the researchers listed on the "Likeminds" page are located in the UK.

H-Net is hosted by Michigan State University. H-Net consists of an international consortium of scholars and teachers whose primary objective is to advance teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The "About Us" page provides a list of the editors, officers, and planning committees, along with contact information. H-Net sponsors over 100 discussion lists that are screened and moderated by the list editors. Subscribers are generally professors, teachers, scholars, graduate students, journalists, librarians, and archivists. The logs of discussion lists can be searched by month, keyword, author, subject, or discussion thread. The search page allows searches by discussion networks, book reviews, web pages, job guide, or academic announcements in the H-Net database. The "Teaching" page is partially under construction. Some of the links in this section are inactive and need updating. The on-line projects page provides useful links to multimedia presentations on a variety of subjects. The "Announcements" page provides links to conferences, publications, calls for papers, programs, and workshops. The "Jobs Guide" lists recent job openings in the social sciences and is updated regularly. The home page does not indicate when the page was last updated. Most of the sub pages seem to be updated frequently, except for portions of the "Teaching" section.

This page is maintained by Keith Appleby and does not indicate when it was last updated. A short statement of purpose can be found at the bottom of the home page. The intent of this site is to "provide pointers to high quality, reliable, non biased information and data" in social science subjects, such as Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Communication, History, Geography, Anthropology and Archaeology, Psychology, Law, and Philosophy. Sites of questionable reliability are excluded, as are sites that only provide a list of other sites. There is a link to Amazon.com on the home page, providing researchers the ability to purchase books on related topics from that company. The History, Geography, and Psychology links were inaccessible, with a note that they were being updated. This page provides some useful and easily accessible links to social science resources.

Anthro.Net provides links and references for anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and other social sciences. The site's database contains over 40,000 reviewed web sites and bibliographic references. The search engine does not search the entire web, but only the selected reviewed sites. The page is maintained by Eric J. White. Search terms and topics are submitted by site users and do not reflect the webmaster's interests. The information contained in the site and the list of topics is biased towards the interests of its users. Proprietary software is used to find journal articles, bibliographic references, and topical sites from the database of reviewed sites based on the search criteria provided by users. The home page states that the site is updated around the clock. There is no help menu to assist researchers in narrowing their search.

Academic Info "is an independent internet subject directory compiled and maintained by Mike Madin with the assistance of a volunteer group of subject specialists." The site relies on advertising revenue to stay on line and is not associated with an academic or commercial organization. The target audience is the college and university community with a focus on English language resources, many with an American emphasis. The site aims to provide links to internet resources relevant to research at the college level. The site offers a gateway to Social Science resources with topics in anthropology, archaeology, communication studies, economics, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies, geography, history, mental health, political science, psychology, sociology, and women's studies. The compiler encourages users to submit relevant materials to be added to the site. The site can be searched by keyword or subject. The "Reference Desk" provides general reference materials, such as links to online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs, as well as a list of internet search engines. The "Student Center" provides links to such things as colleges and universities, graduate schools, and financial aid sites. Each page indicates the date it went on line and when it was last updated. The site is well organized and easy to navigate.

The following three links were previously annotated by Mike Lucas. I have basically left them the same, except to add updates. These should be credited to Mike.

A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace is a huge web site containing a wide variety of information on topics related to sociology. The site is one of the best sites I found on sociology both for the breadth of material offered and the organization. The site offers both general links and information on particular topics in sociology and culture theory. Some of the site highlights include links to theory specific sites, statistical resources on the web, online "structure of research paper", and a listing of general sociological sites with a focus on American Studies. The site is monitored by Michael Kearl at Trinity University and is definitely designed for a scholarly audience. A particularly interesting aspect of the site is the essays and links on particular topics in sociology and cultural theory such as articles about the "great Sokal hoax" and debate surrounding it and a general listing the "Sociology of Knowledge". Many of these topics located near the bottom of the page would be of interest to American Studies scholars. This is an excellent web site and well worth a serious look for those interested in the social sciences with a particular focus on sociology and culture theory.

This site is a general site for connecting to social science resources on the internet. Front page offers a selected list of links to interdisciplinary web sites in the social sciences. The site is easy to understand and uncluttered. I accessed and maneuvered within the site with very little difficulty. The site was created by J. Bannister and is administered by faculty and students of Western Connecticut State University. Sources listed on the page are targeted for scholarly research. Some of the sources are the university's own representing a bias. Regardless of this the site is linked to several useful social science search engines and meta-sites such as SOSIG and the World Wide Web Virtual Library for the Social Sciences. Several distinctions/awards are listed on the page including Education Index top site and Suite 101 top 5 web site. Also, I found that the site was cross-referenced on many other social sciences pages. One of the best features of the site is the links to the specific disciplinary pages within the social sciences such as Anthropology and Sociology. Each of these pages within the WCSU system is excellent. Finally, the site only offers links to other resources in the social sciences but is a great place to check out when doing a scholarly search in the social sciences.

This site was established by Gene Thursby at the University of Florida and is maintained through the College of Arts and Sciences. The site appears to be an excellent source for linking to web sites dealing with the social sciences and its various sub-fields. The most attractive feature of the site is that it provides an extensive collection of hundreds of sites listed in alphabetical order. They also offer a brief description of what each site has to offer. A major advantage to the lists is that they can be downloaded and printed as a guideline that could dramatically streamline a scholarly web search. The site seems to be very current as it was updated on November 20, 2000. This site is an excellent source to start a general search of social science sites and data sources on the web.

History After 1800

Nineteenth Century Documents Project

The Nineteenth Century Documents Project, funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Furman University Research and Professional Growth and Faculty Development Committees is a collection of transcriptions of primary texts from nineteenth century American history focusing primarily on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity. The original texts are in the public domain and may be downloaded for free from the site. Entries include documents associated with early national politics, slavery, statistical almanacs, elections, and the Civil War. In addition, the site provides tools such as word frequency comparison between texts, and links to related sites.

The American Memory Collection, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program, is a gateway to primary source materials such as documents, films, manuscripts, photographs, and sound recordings relating to the history and culture of the United States. While not focused particularly on post 1800 history, over 90 collections include many searchable resources and themes relating to nineteenth and twentieth century history including African-American history, architecture and engineering, the Civil War, the conservation movement, the Depression Era, folk music and culture, women's suffrage and the WPA.

The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency that oversees the management of all federal records. The web site includes useful bibliographic finding tools for identifying their collections and, more useful, an "exhibit hall" which features some the NARA's special collections. These include, "Picturing the Century," an exhibit of photographs from every decade in the last 100 years from great events to everyday life, with information on how to obtain reproductions, "Powers of Persuasion, Posters form World War II," and "A New Deal for the Arts." NARA's website also features a guide to federal records in the archives, a microfilm catalog search, NARA archival information locator (NAIL), federal population census rolls, and the Soundex Indexing System for federal census rolls after 1880.

The New Deal Network is a collection of resources dealing with the New Deal Era and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Over 20,000 items including photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period) make up this searchable database. Useful features include University Syllabi and on-line projects, bibliographies, essays, multimedia and oral history resources and links to related resources.

The Making of America is a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and Cornell University to make accessible a significant body of primary resources related to the development of the U.S. infrastructure primarily between the antebellum period through reconstruction. The database is a collection of the images of pages of nineteenth century books and journals. Currently, the project has over two and a half million pages on-line (approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints). The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

The Special Collections Digital Center at the University of Virginia Library has an outstanding collection of images, photos, manuscripts, electronic texts, archival collections and digital publications for the scholar of history post 1800. While some of the collection is devoted to eighteenth century resources (ie, they have a very good collection of resources associated with Thomas Jefferson), their resources associated with 19th and 20th century history include the Holsinger Studio Collection of digital images capturing turn of the century life in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia; the Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs primarily dating from 1915-1930; historic newspapers in the special collections; and a collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Virginia.

The Voice of the Shuttle History Page has an amazing amount of resources and links associated with 19th and 20th century history. Resources range from specific to general topics including slavery and abolition like the Amistad Research Center, and the Museum of Slavery; the Civil War; the late nineteenth century, the twentieth century, the anti-Imperialism movement, the FDR Cartoon collection database, WWII and the twentieth century after 1950.

Primary Source Media: City Directories Online

(Note: Site has been reorganized; use search function.)

Primary Source Media: City Directories Online has posted over two hundred city directories from 99 cities across the United States from the year 1859 through the 1920s and are currently adding more city directories from 9 major cities (Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and San Francisco) from the period 1860-1865. Primarily useful for researchers who study the period of heaviest immigration to the U.S., the site has selected directories from major port cities and transit hubs.

Gender Studies

CLAGS: THE CENTER FOR LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES

Housed at the City University of New York, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) is the first "university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals." This site has an unparalleled collection of syllabi and a comprehensive list of lesbian, gay, and transgender programs. Also unique is an advocacy page that provides examples of letters, editorials, and fact sheets that the queer community can draw from as we continue our efforts to combat discrimination and hate crimes. Cutting edge internet links and a social activism bent are two of the many strengths of this site. CLAGS also devotes special attention to Transstudies, a field that is often marginalized on other LesBiGay sites. Providing a wealth of information on a well designed, easy to read page, CLAGS offers one of the best sites for those of us not only interested in gender studies, but also social change. No search feature.

This site doubles as the home page of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Women's Studies Department and is THE women's studies website for online resources. Maintained by Dr. Joan Korenman, professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and editor of WMST-L, the site includes an annotated bibliography of selected links dealing with women's studies or women's issues, a comprehensive list of electronic forums and discussion groups, the WMST-L file collection (an archive of past discussions on WMST-L), links to women's studies programs, departments, research centers, and Korenman's Center for Women and Information Technology. This site is all about online resources and how women fit into cyberspace. Women's Studies: UMBC and Beyond is easy to use and easy to read. No search feature.

This site is maintained by Dr. David Gauntlett of the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. Providing an online primer on poststructuralist theory, much of the site is devoted to queer theorists such as Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. Especially noteworthy is a collection of brief, but provocative book reviews and discussions on recent works and debates surrounding identity formation. Don't miss the downloadable trade cards ("creative knowledge you can fit in your pocket") on bell hooks, Judith Butler, and Henri Lefebvre. Theory.org.uk includes links to important and popular sites for the queer community including Queer Resource Directory, International Gay and Lesbian Review, and PlanetOut. While theory.org.uk should not be mistaken as a comprehensive site on queer theory or gender, the content and design are playful and engaging, helping to keep those of us interested in identity issues up to date. Even though this site is expanded and updated frequently, some of the links are dead. No search feature.

Originally conceived of as an electronic discussion group for women's historians, this site has grown to include a collection of syllabi, dissertations, a scholars directory, and reports on new software, datasets, and cd-roms. Other highlights of this site are an extensive collection of book reviews and a linked set of archival and manuscript collections. H-Women also maintains a discussion log that archives all internal electronic forum correspondence. The currency and quality of information contained on H-Women is guided by several editors and a board made up of women's history scholars. This site can be difficult to navigate and while it includes a search feature, it takes some effort to arrive at useful search words. With this caution, patient users will be rewarded by a site full of valuable information.

This site is maintained by Ken Middleton, a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library and is designed to assist "serious researchers" in locating primary and secondary sources on the history of women. American Women's History: A Research Guide is organized into five main sections: General Reference and Biographical Sources, Subject Index to Research Sources, State and Regional History Sources, Finding Books/Journal Articles and Theses, and Finding Primary Sources. Included on this site are bibliographic and reference tools such as biographical dictionaries, listserv directories, encyclopedias, access to over 90 digital collections of primary sources, and links to little known internet sites such an UnCoverWEB and ViVa. Best of all this site provides immediate access to many primary and secondary sources and is constantly updated (many times on a daily basis) with no dead links. Return trips often produce new sources for researchers. Among U.S. women's historians, American Women's History: A Research Guide is considered one of the canonical websites in the field. Straightforward in design, first time users will find this site easy to navigate. No search feature.

New York Public Library (NYPL) publishes research guides in thirty-four topic areas that provide tips on how to negotiate their vast collections, scope of their holdings, and suggests strategies on locating primary and secondary sources. NYPL's guides include annotated bibliographies of the libraries holdings and may also direct researchers to other institutions that hold strong collections in a particular subject. These guides are invaluable "how to do research" tools and even experienced researchers will benefit by studying them carefully. Two of the thirty- four research guides provided by NYPL, Gay and Lesbian Studies and Women's Studies, are especially pertinent to the field of gender studies. All of the research guides are easy to read, easy to use, and easy to understand. No search feature.

Gay and Lesbian Studies: A Research Guide is organized in eighteen subject areas including literature, film studies, memoirs, periodicals, and classical, medieval, and renaissance history. While each of these topic areas include extensive annotated bibliographies, titles published after 1993 are extremely rare. The periodicals collection is especially strong with many national, regional, and local publications. A comprehensive list of directories, encyclopedias, and references volumes is also a strength of this site. Researchers are also directed to the International Gay Information Center, housed in the main branch of the library which includes a noteworthy collection of manuscripts and material culture.

NYPL contains one of the best collections on women in the United States with massive amounts of primary and secondary sources. Women's Studies: A Research Guide is more current than its gay and lesbian counterpart, but still reflects considerable lag time (3 years) when adding new titles and studies. Women's Studies is one of the few guides that combines women's studies with women's history and encourages an interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Annotated bibliographies organized under subject headings, lists of published catalogues from other research institutions, microfilm guides, and help in locating primary historical sources are the strengths of this website.

Gerber Hart is a new kind of library that also serves as a community center for queers. With one recently hired full time administrator, the library is the product of volunteer labor and energy. Interestingly, this website does not provide any form of online access to the Gerber Hart collection, but contains the most comprehensive international list of links to other LesBiGay archives and libraries. Gerber Hart's mission is "dedicated to meeting the information needs of its unique community in a safe atmosphere that promotes research, exploration, and discovery." This library/community center is just beginning to acquire its sea legs, but is significant because it promotes a new concept in library and archival organization and management that emphasizes grass roots involvement. While this site contains information on its own organization, the real focus is connecting the online user to outside resources-serving as an online information center for researchers. One glaring weakness is the lack of attention to transgender issues. Gerber Hart's site is worth checking out for the graphic design work alone. No search feature.

University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database is an idiosyncratic site with the currency and quality of information relying on the interests and skills of a single graduate student who devotes 10 hours a week to this project. As a recent past editor, I know from personal experience that much of this time is consumed by responding to email inquiries from users with little time devoted to adding content to the site. Additionally, turnover is high in the editor position and there is no over reaching structure guiding the content of this site. As a result, there is little consistency in the type of data that is added or which information is current. Much of the information is dated and many of the links dead. Once the user gets past the homepage, this site is deeply stacked with many overlapping categories. Fortunately, a sophisticated search feature compensates for this weakness. The current strengths of the Women's Studies Database are the huge collection of film reviews, comprehensive and current listings of job opportunities and calls for papers, the poetry section of the reading room, and a growing database of book reviews. While many of the syllabi entries are dated, there are some recently added jewels to be found. For the Women's Studies Database to continue as a meaningful website for the women's studies community, more time needs to be devoted to its currency and quality and a stronger sense of mission will have to be developed.

Voices of the Shuttle: Gender Studies Page is part of bigger project whose goal is to provide internet links that apply to scholars working in the humanities. Established in 1994 by Alan Liu, a professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara, the gender page is organized in four categories: General Resources, Women's Studies and Feminist Theory, Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies, Men's Movement and Men's Studies, and Cybergender and Techgender. If you believe bigger is better, this is the site for you because it contains every link that has anything to do with gender. While the range is unparalleled, selectivity is not one of Voices of the Shuttle strengths with many overly commercialized .com sites. The Men's Movement and Men's Studies category makes Voices of the Shuttle an important addition to this bibliography because no other gender site is organized using a "men's studies" subject heading. This site includes a search feature that prevents the gender page from overwhelming first time users.

Urban Studies

Community Web

Community Web, website for the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, has been operating since August 25, 2000, and some sections in the site are still under construction/ not linked. It provides information for the CUSS members and non-members about its conventions, online newsletters and other CUSS activities as well as provides excerpts from CUSS newsletters, photo essays, and other useful links. The most useful feature of this site is various bulletin boards containing links to related journals and websites.

Cyburbia (formerly called PAIRC - The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center), established in 1994, has a comprehensive directory of Internet resources (currently 8974 links) relevant to planning, architecture, built environment. It also contains information about related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts several bulletin boards for discussions on many topics. It is hosted at the SUNY-Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning but is now maintained by a program graduate in Colorado. It has resource directories for architecture and planning, interactive boards, online magazine, and a link to the SUNY-Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning. Although the main site has not been updated since September 2000, new messages and discussion threads are posted almost daily on online bulletin boards. It is still well maintained and easy to navigate with a search engine for on each page.

H-Urban is an international electronic discussion network hosted by Michigan State University. It was set up in February 1993 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to enable scholars interested in urban history to communicate their research interests and current research topics, and to discuss approaches, methods, and sources. Like other H-net groups, discussion logs (searchable by subject, month, and phrase) and reviews are available to everyone from its main page. H-Urban also promotes teaching urban history/histories to graduate and undergraduate students. To help design an urban history class, stimulate discussion on teaching, and offer an overview of current/past academic themes in the field, a large selection of syllabi (indexed by author, dates, location and subject) since 1983 is available through H-Urban Teaching Center. The site also includes a comprehensive list of links to other sites indexed by location (US and worldwide) and subject.

As a section of the Sierra Club website, this site hosts one of their eight priority environmental campaigns. Sprawl Home tries to call attention to the problem of sprawl and to help managing sprawl program and choosing smarter solutions. It examines aspects of sprawl and its problems in following subsections: overview, population and sprawl, reports, activist resources, communities, transportation, articles & research. A survey of sprawl with one example of positive and negative example in 50 states (http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/50statesurvey/states.asp )seems especially interesting. Although the site has a search engine, it is somewhat difficult to find resources from the navigation bars.

The guide currently on the web is its third edition (posted on June 9, 2000). The original Sprawl Resource guide was posted in April 1997 and had been updated and reorganized for better navigation and enhanced contents. Its main purposes are to familiarize people with key issues of sprawl and to provide links to other Internet resources on the topic. The site is divided into: Roots, Problems, Solutions, Places, Resources, Articles, and Books, and each topic is explained and examined, and some contrary point of view are also offered on the page. Under PLACES, the guide lists links to 50 states' sprawl information (sprawl photos are also available in some states). This site is well organized and easy to use, and useful with many links to related sites on appropriate pages.

Website for a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit research organization. The Urban Institute's goals are "to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices," and this site lists a number of reports, summaries and current news related to the institute's research and interests. A large number of reports, summaries, and commentaries, such as American family issues, housing issues, and public policy, are categorized and available in various forms from the Institute's top page (either through a link or by clicking one of many buttons on the page), and additional research topics and issues, listed by author and subject, are available under RESEARCH. It also provides summary, table of contents, comments for the books published by the UIP.

This is a part of Yahoo.com, one of the most used and largest search engines for the Internet resources, listing links for related areas of studies, journals, institutions, and projects among others. Most links are annotated briefly. Although the information is not well controlled and linked sites vary in quality and currency, it still serves as a good start point.

Architectural History and Historic Preservation

"Clearinghouse" of the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training [NCPTT]

This website aims to fulfill the outreach part of the NCPTT's mission with this comprehensive resource guide [clearinghouse] for preservationists. It does. According to the site, PTT "develops and maintains the best current information available to the preservation and conservation community" in these websites. There is a lot of information in this metasite, including guides to Internet resources, training and education opportunities, bibliographies on materials research, job openings, conference announcements, and funding opportunities. The scope includes archeology, historic architecture, historic landscapes, materials and objects conservation, and interpretation. The pages are updated regularly as evidenced in the conferences and calls for papers section and others. Each of the 556 databases is searchable. [Sarah Dangelas, 2-25-01]

The Society of Architectural Historians' Home Page is a site where one can find information pertaining to the activities of SAH and other general information pertaining to the history of architecture. The Society of Architectural Historians, founded in 1940, promotes scholarly research in the field of architecture and encourages the conservation of "significant architectural monuments that are an integral part of our worldwide historical and cultural heritage." One can easily join the SAH via their Web Page. The page was last updated on January 17, 2001. The Activities section of this sites is especially rich with information such as meetings, awards and fellowships, a list of graduate programs in Architectural History, SAH's online Journal (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians), and projects sponsored by the SAH. In addition to the activities of the SAH, there is another section of this site, Connections , which discusses the field of Architectural History in general. Here one can find such information as other Internet resources, related organizations, conferences, and exhibitions. This page is very easy to use, and the information is well organized and useful to one looking for information about architectural history. [Jennifer Blixer] [annotation checked and updated 2-25-01]

Dan Tasman, a Masters student at SUNY Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning established these resource pages in 1994. Though he received his degree in 1996, he does apparently maintain parts of this site. The site hosts a bulletin board for various thematic discussions [low amount of activity, but postings are current], and pages for posting jobs and resumes. However, of all the resources offered here, the most useful are the external links to websites about the built environment, specifically to urban planning and architecture [two separate lists of links]. Although there are certainly dead links, the site does offer a place to see what's out there, and most do connect. Links are grouped according to a hierarchy of subjects such as: architecture firms and services, education and career development, history and preservation, environment, technology, government, et al. The lists are searchable. **Most important is that most of the almost 9,000 links in the directories are briefly annotated. [Sarah Dangelas, 2-25-01]

This is a huge site that provide a resource for images of and information about architecture around the world. The pages seem to have a wealth of information, but I find it most useful if you know what you're looking for--e.g., a specific building or architect. A statistics page tells when each area of the web was updated [all within the past 2 months]. Scope includes architecture from the pre-Columbian era through contemporary and even future designs and buildings. It provides access through structures, architects, historians, schools, locations, or themes [such as women architects or architecture and the cinema]. The site also posts or links to notices of conferences, competitions, and education programs in architecture. With over 14,000 links and growing, 1,300 images [public domain], and almost 2,000 pages [as of February 2001], this site is a good place to begin a search in architectural history or find images. A free email newsletter will let you know about updates to the pages. The site is in both English and Italian. [Sarah Dangelas, 2-25-01]

This website specifically concerns resources and organizations in metropolitan Washington, DC, that have documents relevant to architectural history. The sites are listed alphabetically and are cross-listed in an index. Index pages provide access by names [people, firms, organizations], by site or structure, and by location. Each repository included in the extensive list receives an annotated description of the major holdings, a summary of the scope of the collection and how it can be accessed, contact information, policies and hours, and an external link to the site's webpages, if applicable. It says it was last revised in 1999, however email addresses allow for interested people to submit additional resources. It is maintained and hosted by the University of Maryland Architecture Library. It appears to be extremely useful for those researching local [to Washington] cultural resources and history. [Sarah Dangelas, 2-25-01]

This is a well-designed site for those interested in Historic Preservation at many stages [beginner to professional]. The site provides external links and helpful hints and annotations of various web resources for preservation information. The "basic information" section introduces the field of preservation and its main resources, and offers links and hints on research in the field [how to do research, where to find what documents, preservation organizations, history, philosophy, etc.]. The "advanced material" section is divided into planning [town and urban preservation, landscape preservation], law and funding resources, international [especially British] preservation efforts, and conservation. A final section on jobs in preservation is helpful. While this site does not provide hundreds of links, those included are important sites. The designer and site manager is Aaron Marcavitch, a Master's degree student in History at the Middle Tennessee State University. [Sarah Dangelas, 2-25-01]

This site is a comprehensive source of information of original material pertaining to parks across the United States. It provides locations, seasons of operation, histories, and educational programs. This page is updated regularly and includes notices of events such as Black History Month and the Cherry Blossom Festival. One can also find a complete listing of official US historic, buildings, sites, and districts via the section of National Register places. Overall, the National Park Service's Web page is clearly organized and easy to use. One worthy feature of this site to note is the easy accessibility to specific information via the main page of the site. [Jennifer Blixer] [annotation updated 2-25-01]

The purpose of this website is to inform the viewers of the many activities undertaken by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This resource provides opportunities to do research via the section entitled Preservelink, engage in entertainment through Fun at the Trust, gain information pertaining to the Trust's many activities, and become a member of the National Trust. Judging from the current dates on many of the projects, stories, and conference listing this site must be updated frequently. I find the site useful for understanding the scope and activities of the Trust, but no useful as a research tool. [Jennifer Blixer and Sarah Dangelas, 2-25-01]

This Web Page for the International Council on Monuments and Sites is designed to introduce its users to the purposes and functions of ICOMOS. ICOMOS is an international, non-governmental association of professionals dedicated to the preservation of historic monuments and sites all over the world. Due to the international scope of this organization, ICOMOS' Web Page is located at mirror sites in Europe and North America and one can choose the closest site for the fastest results. The site contains both original information and links pertaining to both ICOMOS and historic preservation in general. One nice feature about this site is that the viewer can easily look at the ICOMOS organization by country. For example, the US/ICOMOS page provides useful information such as material about its annual conference, internship program, newsletter, courses offered abroad in historic preservation, and a lists of world heritage sites located in the United States. This resource was last updated on January 24, 2001 and due to its up-to-date notices for conferences, workshops, and major events the page requires regular updating. This page is extremely plain visually and hardly contains any graphics, but it is quite easy and efficient to manipulate through. [Jennifer Bixler] [annotation updated 2-21-01]

The following websites host useful lists of external links:

Links to websites related to architecture, exhibitions, museums, and related resources specifically in Washington, DC.

Links to online resources in the areas of Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, Educational Institutions, Government Agencies, Museums.

Housed at the University of Maryland, College Park, the library for the National Trust maintains a useful resource in this website. Links are most helpful for those conducting research in preservation and architectural history.

American Literature

This site is maintained by Akihito Ishikawa, who is in the English department at Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages in Japan. I found this to be an excellent site, but do be aware that it has not been updated since June of 2000. There are various ways to search the site, either by category of literature or time periods (broken down further by authors, social contexts, visual arts, etc*). Under the general resources section, there are links to many, many sources regarding current literature, early literature, African American literature, and authors, most of them being associated with well-known academic institutions.

This site offers a wide-range of links to other sources regarding American literature. The first section directs you to general sources, as well as to syllabi, while the subsequent sections divide the information into time periods. Under each of these, individual authors and complete texts of some of their works are listed, as well as more general sites for each era.

This site from the English Department at the University of California in Santa Barbara was last updated in January 2001. It has a plethora of information, divided into seven categories. They are: general resources, authors and works, teaching resources, criticism, journals, listservs, and conferences. The journals section is quite limited but the teaching section has many links and various syllabi. The minorities' section is also a good one that is broken down by individual minority.

This site is similar to the Voice of the Shuttle but not quite as diverse. It offers diverse web site listings, as well as teaching resources.

This site, moderated by Richard Pearce at Wheaton College, focuses on literature written after 1950. The section I found the most informative was the "websites" section, which lists general sites geared towards race and related government sites.

Directed by Jack Lynch at Rutgers, this site is excellent for looking up information on specific, well-known authors. It also has general links for women's literature, literary movements, poetry, and even specific areas for sixties projects.

Once in this site, you can chose between 18th, 19th or 20th century American literature. Each of these is then broken down into journals, full text collections, and other site listings. The problem with the journals section is that most of them are supplied through JSTOR or MUSE and account access must be available.

This is an interesting site which maintains biographical and bibliographic information on a vast number of artists, who are listed individually. Each author's site is broken down into hypertexts and E-texts of their writings, as well as notes, opinions, reviews and other information about the works. It is an important site for specific author information.

Frequently updated, this site lists women writers of every genre. Organized first by country and then alphabetically, each writer's site has individual works, pictures, reference shelves, and other related materials. Full text is available of many writings.

If researching Native American literature, this site may be of some use. You can search the database by author, title or tribe, and, although some works obviously have more information than others, it is still a good site for basic information.

Another good 20th century site. It begins by listing various general sites, some of which focus on a particular group of works, such as those from the Harlem Renaissance. It then lists authors alphabetically. The one complaint I have is that it sometimes fails when trying to link you to a particular author.

This site doesn't have a very wide range of listings, but if it has information on a particular author or work that you are looking for, then you will have hit a gold mine.

For more information contact:
Dr. Mary Corbin Sies
E-mail:ms128@umail.umd.edu

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