Artist Biographies
Database of artists. Start here.
Wonderful site for biographies on artists and beautiful examples of their major works.
Comprehensive and searchable. Biographies and museums.
Museums
This is the art page from the Librarian Index to the Internet. Only the best sites are listed here.
Wonderful links to museums and galleries including Asian art, the Sistine Chapel, and biographies of artists.
Take a tour of famous art museums around the world.
Fantastic site with wonderful and varied exhibits. American themes.
Twentieth Century photography.
Comprehensive site. Take a tour.
Notable photographs and photographers of the Twentieth Century are spotlighted at this gallery.
Use Yahoo to search the world"s greatest museums. Just launch a search and take a tour.
One of the greatest modern art museums in the world.
Take a virtual tour of one of the world"s greatest museums.
One of the largest collection of art in the world.
The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Museum of Science and Industry in Paris.
The famous Musee d"Orsay in Paris.
The Louvre Museum in Paris.
The British Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
Search the collection at the Getty Museum.
A collection of classic art images for art history work.
Plenty of links to online museums.
A visual tour through an African art exhibition.
World Literature
Site examining Australian literature. Links and searchable. Contains, news, magazines, and information.
Links to numerous biographies on world authors.
A site on author Jamaica Kincaid.
A complete, linked list of Mexican writers.
A collection of famous Mexican short stories - in English.
Literature of the Aztecs.
A comprehensive research and reference site for Miguel de Cervantes.
A linked searchable list of modern Russian writers.
Greek Tragedy
Encyclopedia of myths and mythology.
Essays examining the role of women in Greek tragedies.
Searchable database on the Greek tragedies and the Classical world.
Four hundred and forty-one pieces of classical literature from 59 different authors. An easy-to-use searchable database.
Research and Writing
Citation builder. You put in the information -- it builds the citation.
Use this guide to write your works cited.
A guide to the MLA.
A step-by-step guide to writing research papers.
Grammar and writing site helps with composition.
Have a research paper assignment? Go here first.
Activities and exercises in grammar, writing, and punctuation.
Shakespeare
What"s new in the world of Shakespeare today.
A good place to start research.
Almost 20 web sites on Shakespeare.
You can get entire plays read to you IN SPANISH AND IN ENGLISH!!
Literary Criticism and Biography
Begin your research here! Almost 5,000 authors in this website. Includes world authors from many time periods.
Contemporary authors and books are discussed.
This site gives a description of the book you choose, provides discussion topics, and an author biography.
A list of linked web sites for literary criticism.
Links and biographies of hundreds of American writers.
A database of American poets. A good, site, but selection is limited.
Search this database for information on periods in American literature and writers.
Some authors are not American, but many are!
Modern British Literature. Links to web sites.
A glossary of linked poetic terms.
Many links to biographies and literary theory and criticism.
From 1550 to 1950 - a large collection of biographies of American authors. Hundreds of links. Organized by birth date, not date of most publications.
From the New York Public Library a site dedicated to African-American writers of the 19th century.
Begin here for research on poetry or poets.
Want to find an author or a book? This is the place to start! Lots of links and information!
Poetry
This is the official web site of Poetry Slam.
This is the place to begin for research on poetry.
A glossary of linked poetic terms.<
Travel Guides
This is a wonderful site that has many links to sites dealing with language. Languages from all over the globe are represented.
Just choose a destination and gather all the facts.
Searchable site on travel aspects of every country imaginable.
It is easy to find your country and all the travel tips on this web site.
Language
This is a wonderful site that has many links to sites dealing with language. Languages from all over the globe are represented.
An online French-English Dictionary.
Spanish/English dictionary with audio.
Free translation. Languages include German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, and French.
Hundreds of languages and cultures in a searchable database.
Amazing site with translation services, chat rooms, dictionaries and translators for over 162 languages!! Includes vocabulary lists and cultural information.
General Math Information
Hundreds of years of women in math. Biographies.
Exhaustive look at prime numbers.
This is a complete math dictionary.
Mega-site with links to various subjects in math - from graphing calculators to simpler math problems.
Everything you need on the web for math.
All aspects of calculus on the web.
Basic calculus through advanced calculus. Thorough.
Use this site for graphing points, lines. etc.
Here"s help with algebra.
Free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations!
Everything you could possibly need for math.
Lots and lots of math help here.
Help for math issues from K-University
General Science Information
This site contains hundreds of links to biographies of women in science. The biographies are brief, however.
Chemistry
Here are the elements - linked and in color.
Need help? Here is a chemistry tutor to help you with your homework.
This is a stunning visual interpretation of the periodic table of elements.
This is a free database on the chemical elements. All the information you need is right here.
Physical Science
This site contains educational activities relating to different forms of energy presented by famous monsters and characters in horror stories.
This website has thousands of entries in over 15 categories - from A to Z. The site explores just what it says -- how stuff works.
A mini-dictionary for laws and rules in physics and astronomy.
A searchable database for facts , stories, and general reference in physics and astronomy.
"An interactive journey through modern physics! Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th Century science and high-tech devices."
This site is sponsored by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The Particle Adventure explores the fundamentals of matter and forceAstronomy
The picture changes every day!!! There is also a descriptive paragraph with links.
Get up-to-the-minute news about the United States Space Program at this website.
This free database will give you easy access to images and information of our solar system. If you need a picture or information on a planet -- look here.
"An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system."
Take a virtual tour of our solar system. Colorful and detailed.
This is a collection of the best images NASA has of our solar system.
This is a fun and different website about our solar system.
A mini-dictionary for laws and rules in physics and astronomy.
A searchable database for facts, laws and stories in physics and astronomy.
Earth Science
The best source for current and historical information on volcanoes.
Physiology
This is an incredible sight. Take an interactive physiology test, find out your brain"s sex, cloning, the future and more! Be sure to spend time browsing here!
Data
Mathematical calculations for sunrise, sunset, and number of daylight hours.
Data on individual U.S. states.
A good site for probability and graphing.
General Information
This is a user"s guide to the Declaration of Independence.
Countries - 12th Grade
Need information on a country? Try some of these sites!
Side-to-side comparison of countries. Invaluable.
Compiled by the United States CIA and includes data on every country in the world.
"Comprehensive description of government institutions on the World Wide Web."
Information on lesser-known countries.
A great site for research and comparing 2 -7 countries.
Decades - 11th Grade
A searchable database. Just put in your date in history and follow the links for lots of information!!!
Visuals and links to other sites.
Very detailed and thorough timeline of the 20th century.
This site offers a collection of valuable links.
A woderful timeline of American history from 15th century to the present.
A wealth of primary source documents from Yale University. This covers all of American history.
"A unique array of primary source material" covering 18th century America.
This is a great web portal with lots of sites on 19th century American history. Take time to browse.
Government, Law & Stock Market
Wonderful site that gives brief description of landmark Supreme Court cases.
Supreme Court cases described.
Find here all the California laws and codes. A very clear, easy site to navigate.
A thorough and searchable database for any law and any region.
A searchable database with all public and private laws enacted by the 104th-107th Congress.
Get stock prices for any stock on any day. Also provides weekly and monthly reports.
American Diplomacy & U.S. Foreign Relations
Contains primary source material which is broken into sections by century.
Contains official documentation of major U.S. foreign policy decisions.
This library is an archive which contains many declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
An excellent bibliographic resource with links to web pages and citations for articles and books. This site is divided into U.S. relations with different countries, making your search for the best sites easier and faster.
This site contains the texts of international multilateral conventions and their instruments. The majority of documents are from the second half of the nineteenth century, however many important documents from earlier in history are posted as well.
Provides the text of free trade agreements between several different countries, including the U.S..
This site is divided by branch of government or subject. In the Foreign Policy/Defense/International Relations section you will find links to goverment organizations, international government organizations and other valuable links.
Provides access to U.S. International Agencies and official web sites for other countries.
This is the best starting source for statistics on a wide range of topics.
A gateway for statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies.
World Geography
Directory of city guides from around the world.
Put out by the U.S. government - comprehensive information on all the countries of the world.
Database of world flags.
Good database with lots of information. Teacher request!
Describe the flag and locate it! Lots of terminology here. Teacher request.
Country information from 260 countries.
Maps, travel, and articles from sites around the world.
Statistics and the opportunity to make your own graph.
Outline maps - you fill in the rest.
Country information on all countries around the world.
An online world atlas.
World travel information.
World atlas.
World geography information.
AP World History
