Established in 1985 and published by the Organization of American Historians, each bimonthly issue of the Magazine of History focuses on a theme or topic of recent scholarship in American history, and provides readers with informative articles, lesson plans, and current historiography.
Social Education is the official journal of the National Council for Social Studies. In addition to the print back issues, Hekman Library has digital access to the journal from September 2000 to the present.
" . . .meant to be a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting." There are more than 200,000 time series for which data (in Excel format) and custom charts can be retrieved.
All the terms in the glossary have sound files so pronunciations can be heard via a QuickTime plug-in. This is useful for the many foreign words found in music.
The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art website provides lists of high quality and content-rich internet resources from thousands of educational web sites.
"[I]ntended as a comprehensive single-volume reference source describing the development and current trends in children's literature throughout the world" (Introduction).
This 3-vol. set is an accessible and scholarly reference that provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States.
The 3rd edition of this core 3-vol. reference work, which focuses on education of children, adolescents and adults with disabilities and other exceptional individuals.
Captures the contemporary meanings of words and terms relating to the broad field of education. Definitions come from subject experts who represent a wide variety of topical areas.
Articles represent the salient issues facing Christian educators today. There are 850 entries, each approximately one-half to one full page in length. Articles are followed by brief bibliographies.
Provides multiple perspectives on race and ethnic distinctions, gender considerations, postmodernism, critical theory, and the meanings of all this for curriculum.
This guide will help you improve your your writing about art by giving
you ideas about works of art and approaches to art. It also provides
general principles of good writing and short models of good writing.
The Permanent Collection at the International Center of Photography (ICP) contains over 100,000 photographs. The collection spans the history of the photographic medium, from daguerreotypes to gelatin silver and digital chromogenic prints.
Afterimage is a publication of the Visual Studies Workshop, a
nonprofit media arts center. It is an important voice in the
avant-garde photography, film, video and visual book community.
Aperture—the premier not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to advancing fine photography—was founded in 1952 by photographer Ansel Adams and others.
The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Each year scholars from around the world choose thousands of works for inclusion alternating between the social sciences and the humanities.
Topically organized list of internet resources, compiled by SIL, "a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world’s lesser-known languages."
"The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world."
Similar in format and style to the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (same editor), this resource is organized into six parts, with topics such as the history of English, vocabulary, grammar, and the use of the English language.
Organized topically, with sections such as "Foundations of Society and Language," Language Variation," and "Language and Education." Also includes biographical profiles of influential figures.
This accessible one-volume encyclopedia is organized into eleven sections, representing major themes in language study, such as popular ideas about language, the structure of language, and child language acquisition.
Includes articles on subjects such as language families, various linguistic theories, and approaches to language, as well as biographies of influential linguists.
"The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics considers both the professional ethics of science and technology, and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society."
"The DIA’s collection is one of the largest, most significant in the United States, comprising a multicultural and multinational survey of human creativity from prehistory through the 21st century."
The entire MCA Collection contains over 6,000 objects, with works representing trends in art after 1945 in all media including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, film, installations, and artists' books.
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 as both a museum and school, seeks to acquire and exhibit art of all kinds and to conduct programs of education.
The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women. The collection is the most comprehensive of its kind in the world.
The ultimate purpose of the Museum is to acquire the best modern works of art. The collection is comprehensive; included are architecture and design, films and media, drawings, photographs, painting and sculpture, and prints and illustrated books.
In formation since 1870,
the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of
art from all aournd the world, ancient through modern times. About 6,500
objects—highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as
the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of
American Paintings and Sculpture—can be accessed online.
ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of arts and cultural news and features. Each day ArtsJournal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications.
