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Art & Art History
Art
History Resources - A massive site with links
to all possible periods, every conceivable site.
Artchive - One of several great sites
to find illustrations of paintings/sculpture.
Ask Art - Profiles
over 25,000 artists with reproductions of their work
and current market value of it.
CGFA - One of several great sites
to find illustrations of paintings/sculpture.
World Art
Treasures - Offers a well-written, easy-to-follow
division of art with pictures to illustrate the narrative.
Worldwide Arts Resources
- 3000 categories, 150,000 pages. Includes
artists’ indexes, museums, exhibitions, agencies,
education, employment opportunities for graphic and
performing arts.
Webmuseum - One of several great sites to
find illustrations of paintings/sculpture.
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History
Note: Please visit our Brevard
and Florida pages
for local and state history.
America
from the Great Depression to World War II - The
Library of Congress has gone online with over 55,000
black-and-white and 1,600 color photographs from the
Farm Security Administration collection. A fascinating
site with some of the earliest and best work of world-renowned
artists. Well-written text. Searchable and browsable.
American Colonial
Life (Williamsburg)
Ancient
& Classical Cultures - Multnomah County Library,
Oregon offers an extensive list of websites about
ancient cultures around the world.
Dead People
Server - The Dead People Server is simply a list
of interesting celebrities who are, or might plausibly
be dead. Accuracy not guaranteed. Lots of links
and very entertaining.
Find a Grave
- How to find where everybody who was anybody is buried.
History
Detectives - PBS companion site to the popular
television program. You can learn to do your own historical
research on family history, antiques and historical
documents.
History
Web Resources - Recommended history sites from
the University of Virginia.
HistoryNet
- Provides an extensive list of events not limited
to American history.
HyperHistory
Online - View timelines based on people or events
for the last 3,000 years.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook - Maintained by Paul
Halsall of Fordham University, this site gives a time
line of modern history and links to sites that specialize
in covering specific periods and elements from those
periods.
Lists
of U.S. Presidents - This is a list of all
the information (embarrassing and otherwise) that
anyone could possibly want concerning our presidents.
Listings are by birthdate, age when their fathers
died, which were masons, reputed affairs, college,
age at marriage, number of children, election information,
Nobel Prize winners.
Presidents
of the United States (POTUS) - Background
information, election results, cabinet members, notable
events, and lots of useful links about all of the
presidents. This site is great for homework.
Time
Capsule - Enter your birthday or other date to
find out the major events for that time, what music
was popular, how much a car or a house cost, etc.
Today
in History - Illustrates a daily event from U.S.
history with an image from the Library of Congress's
collection.
U.S. Army Center
of Military History – This is one of the
largest libraries of military history information
on the web. CMH Online offers access to books, articles
and artwork.
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Languages
BRL: Braille through
Remote Learning - an online instructional program
that provides teachers, parents, social workers, and
current/future braille transcribers with a series
of three integrated online courses in braille and
braille transcribing.
Language
Course Finder - "With over 10,000 language
schools teaching 88 languages in 115 countries, [this]
is the largest online directory of language courses
and language schools world wide." A collaboration
of ICWE, ICEF and ICF AG, leaders in language education
and workshops since 1985, this site offers searches
in many languages for additional languages to learn,
school information, distance learning course information
and much more.
Language
Learning Library - A FREE comprehensive guide
to learning foreign languages: Chinese, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
This site was designed for students and teachers.
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Mythology
Classics
Unveiled - A Canadian site featuring Mythnet (where
togas are still hip),
Rome Unleashed, Rome Exposed and Latin Wordstock.
GodChecker.com
- Lists all gods from all pantheons (even literary,
so Tolkien fans rejoice).
Encyclopedia Mythica
- This is an encyclopedia of mythology, folklore,
legends, and more. It contains over 5,100 definitions
of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary
creatures and monsters from all over the world.
The genealogy section is particularly well done .
Religion
Bible
Gateway - Search for a word or phrase in seven
versions and ten languages.
Crosswalk
- "Where faith & values meet everyday life."
Sections on men, women, spiritual life, money, movie
guide etc. Christian chat, music. You can download
a free Web filter to "protect your family from
harmful content."
Buddhanet
- This site is a non-profit Buddhist information network
sponsored by Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery
in Singapore and Connect Infobahn Australia.
It provides links to the top Buddhist Websites, pages
on meditation, seminars and workshops, a library of
Buddhist texts, and clip art.
Encyclopedia
of Christianity - This is intended to provide
one-stop access to a number of dictionaries and encyclopedias
of Christianity, and other topical references. Christian
Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College has cross
linked Easton's Bible Dictionary, Torrey's Topical
Textbook, Dictionary of Christian Theology and the
Catholic Encyclopedia.
Hindunet -
This site includes arts, customs, temples and organizations.
It has excellent links to languages and Interfaith
Relations (comparative religions). It offers
free "Hindu mail", and one of its departments
is called "God, Sages and Gurus."
It has an exceptional link to Religious and Sacred
Texts which lists full texts of everything from the
Egyptian Book of the Dead to the Mormon texts.
Interfaith
Calendar - This nonprofit website offers calendars
featuring the religious holidays of all major religions
and quite a few lesser known ones. It also links to
a religion news page and cultural calendars for America,
Mexico, Britain, India, Canada, China and Egypt.
Islamicity
- Sponsored by Hadi, Inc., this site features Qur'an
search and Hadith search and links to many devotional
sites . It broadcasts prayers from Mecca via
Webcam five times a day and offers translation services
through its link to Babelfish Tool page.
Jewish Family
& Life - Hosted by Shamash: the Jewish Internet
Consortium, this site has articles on everything from
diet to music--all with a family theme.
Project Genesis
- Touted as the best site for serious Jewish education
on the Internet, the founders bill themselves as "your
Cyberspace Center for Jewish philosophy, Kabbalah,
ethics and law." The site also acknowledges
the "jewishly curious" and offers Torah
on the Information Superhighway, and free Torahmail.
And don't forget--if your search for an answer
didn't prove successful, contact the Reference Desk
at your nearest Brevard
County Public Library.
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