Planning & Education
History & American Studies
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NOTE TO USERS: Most of the
sites provided in the education pages are either from government, non-profit,
or educational agencies; however, some of the sites are commercial and
are included because of the array of materials provided in the site. The
education pages are provided as a public service and are not meant to
endorse one site over another nor to endorse any commercial enterprise.
Site suggestions are welcome, although all suggestions will go through
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Online Tours
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Provided by the National Park Service. Provides a tour of
historic sites and includes coloring pages.
General Resources
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AMERICAN
STUDIES WEB
Hosted and maintained by
Crossroads,Georgetown University affiliated program, the American Studies
Web was originally created by David
Phillips, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, in 1994. The American
Studies Web represents one of the single best resources on the Web for subjects
related to American Studies, Art & Material Culture, Regional and Environmental
Studies, Sociology and Demographics, Philosophy & Religion, History, Economics,
Political Science, and Literature and the Performing Arts.
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HUMANITIES
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Created and maintained by the faculty of the Arts and Humanities
program at Goteborg University, in Sweden. Like the American Studies Web,
the Wold Wide Web Virtual Library on the Humanities offers a broad range of
materials on Archaeology, History, Philosophy, Religion, Art History, History
of Science, and Literature and Language, albeit with a far more global emphasis.
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VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
A general reference site from the University of California,
Santa Barbara, The Voice of the Shuttle website provides materials on a broad
range of traditional (History, Art and Classical Studies, Literature, and
Philosophy) and non-traditional subjects, including Cyberculture, Media Studies,
Postindustrial Business Theory, and Music and Dance. In addition to subject
pages, the Voice of the Shuttle site offers links to teaching resources, libraries
and museums, and reference resources.
1950s
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THE
LITERATURE & CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN 1950s
Although this site is designed for upperlevel university students,
the site offers a wealth of primary and secondary documents dealing with America
in the 1950s, most especially in terms of anti-communist movement and McCarthyism,
the atom bomb, the Eisenhower presidency, and baseball.
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