What's New - January 22, 2001

January 22, 2001

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Archaeology Creative Applications Diversity Sources Electronic Texts, Books and Zines Genealogy General Guides Geography/Economics Government/Politics General History Sources Some Non-Western History Sites Western Europe/Russia Some American History Sources Humanities/Art K-12 Resources Kids and Students Parents Leisure/Fun/Health News and Current Events Media Literacy Religion, Ethics and Philosophy Research and Critical Thinking Web Stuff Resources For Writers

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Archaeology

Underwater Archaeology
TOC: The discoverers, Exploration of the sites, Techniques, Research teams.
Wreck Databases
Nordic, British Isles, Continental Europe, Americas, World, Ship lists.
Welcome to the Archaeology Channel
See the Teacher Resource page.
Oceanic Archaeology Laboratory - UC Berkeley
Anthropology Library Home Page
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The Biological Anthropology Web

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Creative Applications
Darat al Funun site map
Encounters with the Contemporary

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Diversity Sources
India 50 presents: The Indian Emigre - A Photo Story
Primary focus on California.
Welcome / Bienvenido
Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. ""The Latino presence in the Americas is centuries old, culturally rich and demographically vast and growing�. The Center is dedicated to the generation of new knowledge�to the end that American history and culture may be understood and displayed in all its diversity."
NATIVE VILLAGE
Education, News, and Resources for the Americas' First Peoples.

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Electronic Texts, Books and Zines
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature and Western philosophy. Browse by authors, title or date.

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Genealogy
Ancestry.com - Global Search Results
Just a personal example of the excellent search tools at Ancestry.com.
FamilyHistory.com - Message Boards
RootsWeb MetaSearch

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General Guides
G. Thomson's Class Web Page -- U.S. Government-Nogales High School-Nogales, AZ
PALMM
A searchable database of collections belonging to institutions or geographically or thematically pertaining to the state of Florida.
EDSITEment
Subject-based access to top humanities sites, lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities. Resources in Literature and Language Art, Foreign Language, Art and Culture, History and Social Studies.
MCSS: Home Page

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Geography/Economics
National Weather Service Home Page
U.S. Government warnings & forecasts, Organization, Online Documentation, Mission.
Census 2000 Resident Population and Apportionment Counts

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Government/Politics
ABCNEWS.com : Profile: Dick Cheney
Inauguration Celebrations at the Smithsonian
"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations
C-SPAN: Inauguration 2001
C-SPAN: Transition 2001
USA: index presidents-area
frontline 1.10.2001
Present "The Clinton Years," the first inside look at the Clinton presidency.
Online Newshour: Inaugural 2001
"The presidential inauguration is more than just the swearing in. Explore the history and traditions of this ceremony with this comprehensive Web site. Join in the festivities, take an interactive quiz, and access classroom resources to bring the inauguration alive in your classroom."
PBS TeacherSource January Feature: The Presidency
Enrich your students' understanding of the inauguration with interdisciplinary lessons on the presidency.
NPR's All Things Considered: Prison Diaries
"For six months during the past year, five inmates, four correctional officers and a judge used tape recorders to keep audio journals. The diarists recorded the sounds and scenes of everyday life behind bars: shakedowns, new inmate arrivals, roll call, monthly family visits, meals at the chow hall, and quiet moments late at night inside a cell... More than 245 hours of raw tape have been edited into five half-hour documentaries, produced by Joe Richman and Wendy Dorr of Radio Diaries."
G. Thomson's Class Web Page -- U.S. Government-Nogales High School-Nogales, AZ
National Voting Rights Museum
KODAK: Kodak eMagazine
Snapshots of the Presidency by Robert McNeely: Chief of Photography.
How to Find Government Information on the WWW: Introduction
Tutorial: Know the Structure to Find the Information, Using Search Engines and Subject Indexes to Locate Federal Information, Laws of the Land, Statistics, demographics and other useful data, Major issues to consider.
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General History Sources
WW II Codes and Ciphers
PBS - A Journey Towards Peace
Tutu and Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace To air Friday, February 9, 2001 (9-11:00 pm) "This is the story of an unlikely group -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr. John Hope Franklin, leader of President Clinton's Advisory Board on Race, and a lively, volatile, multi-ethnic group of teenagers. They come together with the goal of creating new, international approaches to issues of race and reconciliation in the 21st century... At the companion site, learn more about the players in this powerful story. Look at the history of Goree Island, the location of the talks, access lesson plans, and download a screensaver."
History of Farming & Cities by History Link 101
Footnotes to History
A reference guide to nations that don't make it into most textbooks -- about 500 entries.
Daily History List Directory
Spartacus Educational Home Page
The Virtual Museum of Education Iconics Home Page
Images of artifacts that date from ancient Greece to the 20th century, with a searchable database, illustrated studies of education imagery, and a Reading Room with access to current course related materials.
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
A Walk Through Time

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Some Non-Western History Sites
European Voyages of Exploration: Asia
Tutorial on Ming exploration
Enemies of War
To air January 18, 2001 (10-11:00 pm). "In 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were assassinated in El Salvador. Through eyewitness accounts from Americans and Salvadorans, this program unravels the political corruption rampant in El Salvador's civil war and shows how ordinary people made extraordinary contributions in the fight for peace... At the companion site, get background on this Central American nation from the Spanish conquest to pre-war conflicts through the civil war, follow a timeline of U.S. policy in El Salvador from 1980-2000, hear the stories of the people embarking on a path to peace, learn about the making of this film, access related resources and more."
NOVA Online | Sultan's Lost Treasure
Companion Web site to a PBS program that follows a French-led expedition to recover porcelain and other artifacts from a centuries-old Chinese shipwreck off the coast of Brunei.
ChineseTraditional Art Bulletin
Enemies of War
El Salvador from 1980-2000. "Get background on this Central American nation from the Spanish conquest to pre-war conflicts through the civil war, follow a timeline of U.S. policy in El Salvador from 1980-2000, hear the stories of the people embarking on a path to peace, learn about the making of this film, access related resources and more."
South Asian Diaspora
Darat Al funun a home for the arts and artists of the arab world
National Museum of African Art
Current Exhibitions.
Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
Click on "Collectie"
Ancient Egypt in Calgary!
See the Mysteries of Egypt Teacher's Guide below. Glenbow is a western Canadian stop for two exhibitions on ancient Egypt.
CMCC - Mysteries of Egypt - Teacher's guide
"This teacher's guide offers background information and ideas for classroom activities that complement the large format film, Mysteries of Egypt. The first chapter includes a synopsis of the film; the others focus on ancient Egypt and the amazing accomplishments of its civilization. Each chapter contains topics for discussion and research, fact and activity sheets, and a mystery suggestion -- a question or statement that can be used to stimulate interest in the study of ancient Egypt. The fact and activity sheets can be photocopied for use by students. This guide has been designed to supplement educational resources available on the World Wide Web and elsewhere. Teachers are encouraged to adapt the information and activities to suit the ages and interest of their students." The guide is very comprehensive and in PDF format.
India through the Lens: Photography 1840-1911 at The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Education: Online Guide for India through the Lens
The guide presents "...a map of India and a timeline of events that took place during the time these photographs were taken. We'll help you find books, films and websites relating to India through the lens. We also provide a vocabulary list of words relating to the exhibition."
On-line Guides for Teachers
Other teacher guides, but especially the Fountains of Light guide for educators. "Islamic Metalwork from the Nuhad Es-Said Collection, on view indefinitely at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The exhibition includes twenty-seven bronze, brass, or steel vessels on long-term loan to the museum. The objects, which date from the early tenth to the nineteenth century and are intricately decorated with gold and silver, include ewers, candlesticks, containers, and incense burners from lands that encompass present-day Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey."
SETAGAYA ART MUSEUM
Mesopotamian Civilization
"The four venues in the metropolitan area are simultaneously showing exhibitions of the four world civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus and China. With the arrival of the year 2000, the aim of these exhibitions is to examine the beginnings of civilization and to consider the future of mankind. The Setagaya Art Museum will be introducing the civilization of Mesopotamia, the oldest of the four civilizations, which showed a diversified development. The 299 exhibited works are on loan from the Louvre museum, which houses one of the world's finest collections of the art of Mesopotamia. The Hammurabi Code will be shown outside the Louvre museum for the first time."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the links on the main page to: Egyptian Art at Eton College: Selections from the Myers Museum, The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes, Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru. The online exhibits and graphics are the finest you will see on the Web.
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Allard Pierson Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art Collection
Japanese collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection: Ancient Near Eastern Art: Introduction
For a global view, visit Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

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Western Europe/Russia
From Swastika to Jim Crow
To air on PBS February 1, 2001 (10-11:00 pm). "This program tells the untold story of the German Jewish professors who were expelled from their homeland by the Nazis and found new lives and careers at historically all-Black colleges in the South. The documentary offers a fresh perspective on the complex history of race relations in America... At the companion site, explore this unique chapter in history further. Read essays and interviews, download a discussion guide prepared by the Anti-Defamation League, and go behind the scenes of the making of the film."
Van Gogh Light Exhibition
Browse the revolutionary changes in the area of light from 1750-1900.

Brecht & Mother Courage and Her Children Discussion Deck
ClassicNotes: Mother Courage and Her Children
The Thirty Years War: Home Page
The Outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War
Tigertail Virtual Museum: 20th C. European Art between the World Wars -- Kokoschka
See the Overview.
Classics Unveiled
Endeavour
Rome Unleashed Main Page (Roman History)
Victori - The Roman Military
Writing On Hands!
Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.
The Battle of Britain - Introduction
Imperial War Museum: Edward Ardizzone - Diary of a War Artist
The Battle of Britain - Oral History segments.
The Imperial War Museum has been interviewing veterans of the Battle of Britain for the last twenty years and offers an opportunity to listen to the voices of 'The Few' at this site.
Imperial War Museum - Online Exhibitions
Visit the other online exhibitions at the Museum.
Cold War International History Project
NEWSEUM: The Commissar Vanishes
Flavian Amphitheater ("Colosseum")
Virtual Walkthrough
Features over 280 photographs of the Colosseum and parts of the Forum Romanum, arranged so visitors can "walk" through these magnificent ancient monuments.
Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua
Bill Thayer's Web Site
A major site on Roman antiquity "...including a photogazetteer of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments, a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions, the complete Latin texts of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Quintus Curtius' Histories of Alexander the Great, and Censorinus' de Die Natali; the Aqueducts of Frontinus and the Architecture of Vitruvius in both Latin and English; Rodolfo Lanciani's book Pagan and Christian Rome, Christian H�lsen's book on the Roman Forum, Thomas Codrington's book on Roman roads in Britain, large chunks of Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, a fair amount of Ptolemy's Geography, various maps of the Roman Empire, and quite a bit more."
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Some American History Sources
Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore
To air January 12, 2001 (9-10:30) p.m. "This documentary combines murder mystery and biography to tell the almost forgotten story of one of America�s earliest and most fearless civil rights leaders... Explore the mystery further at the companion site. Read Moore's writings on civil rights, view the F.B.I. file on his murder, and access a teacher's guide."
Spray Plantation, Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland /1/ Begin Tour
Immigration History Research Center, U of Minnesota
Greensboro Sit Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
African American Journey: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
SNCC 1960-1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Stokely Carmichael
Paperboynews.com - Vintage Magazines, Vintage Paper, Old Records, Antique Advertisements, Collectibles
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - I was a Negro in the South for 30 Days
Fifty years ago, Ray Sprigle of the Post-Gazette posed as a black man to experience firsthand what life was like for 10 million people living under the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. His 21 part series is republished at this site.
America from the Great Depression to World War II
"The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs. This release provides access to over 112,000 of these images; future additions will expand the black-and-white offering. The FSA-OWI photographers also produced about 1600 color photographs during the latter days of the project."
JFK-Dallas, November 22, 1963
"Read first-person accounts from the 1963 Dallas Morning News staff. Watch and listen to WFAA-TV and radio coverage. Tour Dallas-Fort Worth assassination-related sites. View actual pages of The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald. Nov. 22-25, 1963: The story in the words of the people who were there. Assassination coverage in The Dallas Morning News."
American Socrates: The Life of Bayard Rustin || A documentary for PBS
Learn about the man who introduced Gandhi's principles of nonviolent protest to civil right leaders. And the man organized the 1963 March on Washington.
North by South
From Charleston, South Carolina to Harlem, from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago and from Birmingham, Alabama to Pittburgh.
"Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided"
Friday, January 26. "Get to know Abraham and Mary Todd in an historical context with this companion site that paints a picture of life in America in the mid-nineteenth century. The events of the time are brought to life through primary source documents, interactive maps, QuickTime VRs of historically significant sites, photo galleries, and video clips."
Virtual Visit to National Historic Landmarks
The Canadian Encyclopedia Online
Historica - A Web Site dedicated to Canadian history and heritage
City Sites
Explores the meanings and forms of American urbanism in New York and Chicago in the modern period. Part of a six year research project, based at the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham. The project "...seeks to foster new modes of analysing American urban culture as well as developing a network of international scholars working on US urbanism."
NMAA: Posters American Style
Brings together some of the great graphic images made in the United States over the past century, with a focus on major artists and images that have endured in our collective memory.
Harlem Renaissance - Encarta Schoolhouse
The Mississippi Burning Trial: United States vs. Cecil price et al. (1967)
PBS - Freedom Never Dies: The Story of Harry T. Moore
Explore "... the life and times of this enigmatic leader, a distinguished school teacher whose passionate crusade for equal rights could not be discouraged by either the white power structure or the more cautious factions of his own movement. Although Moore's assassination was an international cause celebre in 1951, it was overshadowed by following events and eventually almost forgotten."
Theodore Roosevelt
The Campaign Election of 1904. Try the "Issues to Ponder" first...
Annenberg/CPB - A Biography of America
EXPERIENCE THE 13 HOTTEST DAYS OF THE COLD WAR
National Voting Rights Museum
The Christiana Resistance
"A product of collaboration by five Millersville University Graduate students of Dr. Tracey Weis. Jeff Butch,Tom Campbell, Jay Vasellas, and Kevin Webster originally constructed the page as a requirement for History 610: Slavery in Historical Perspectives. The present page is a renovation of the original. The renovation was undertaken by Jeff Mummert, Jay Vasellas, and Kevin Webster as a requirement for History 610: History and the Media."
Black Baseball's Negro Baseball Leagues

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Humanities/Art
ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre "Anna Karenina"
To air February 18 & 25, 2001 (9-11:00 pm). "This sweeping new adaptation of the classic Tolstoy story provides a unique portrait of literature's most famous (and tragic) love triangle."
Review of Jazz: a film by Ken Burns
Anatomy of an Exhibition - Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
BoondocksNet.com
short stories at east of the web
MoMA 2000
"Presenting three major exhibition cycles that focus on distinct historical periods: 1880 to 1920 (ModernStarts), 1920 to 1960 (Making Choices), and 1960 to the present.. Each historical cycle will be interspersed with works from other periods, creating a dialogue between various historical moments."
New Directions In Folklore
The Drama teacher's Resource Room
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K-12 Resources
Report of the Surgeon General on Youth Violence
Only a Teacher
"Explore the diverse faces and many roles of the American teacher from the 1830s to the present with this companion site. Get historical background about the profession and explore the issues and challenges that today's teachers face." To air February 1, 2001.
FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Home Page
Welcome to the Report Designer - Student Progress Report Preparation
Kids Who Know and Do "The 9th Annual Conference"
"The conference showcases the work of educators who use PBL to help students build the knowledge, technology skills, thinking processes and resources they need to succeed in the world
Academic Resource Network
National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
MarcoPolo: Home
Center for Innovative Learning Technologies
A national resource for stimulating research on innovative, technology-enabled solutions to critical problems in K-14 learning.
Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
Center for Innovative Learning Technologies
Free Stuff For Canadian Teachers

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Kids and Students
Kids stories, math, games and singing activities
On TV - Assignment Discovery: Earth Science Week
Tobacco Wars: Smoked Out - Monday, January 22
Never Too Thin - Tuesday, January 23
Understanding: The Amazing Brain - Wednesday, January 24
An Inside Look: Broken Bones - Thursday, January 25, first half hour
An Inside Look: Heart Attack - Thursday, January 25, second half hour
Intimate Universe: Raging Teens - Friday, January 26.

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Parents
Parent Street - Homepage

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Leisure/Fun/Health

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News and Current Events
Online NewsHour: Inauguration 2001
Presidential Inaugural Committee 2001
360degrees
DC Indymedia - news
Offering unique coverage of the Inauguration of George W Bush. Listen to in-depth coverage and live reports from ground zero, with images, newswires and streaming video.
"Juvenile Justice"
"Take a behind-the-scenes look at America's young offenders and find out what happens to those who reach the "end of the line" in the juvenile court system. Explore various rehabilitation efforts used to prevent future criminal behavior, access a teacher's guide and more."
MSF-USA: Visit a Refugee Camp
Welcome to the Mercury News on BayArea.com
Wanted for Murder and Armed Robbery
the daily world press
News Resource
"Saving Elian"
"Follow the story of Elian Gonzales, a five-year-old Cuban boy who was plucked from the shark-infested waters off Florida in November 1999. Examine why what began as a Thanksgiving story soon erupted into a political and social firestorm that transfixed the nation and rocked Miami's Cuban-American community to its core."
"Hackers"
"Read interviews with hackers, learn how to protect your computer against unwanted vistors, and share your thoughts in a chat."

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Media Literacy
"The Merchants of Cool"
"Meet the creators and sellers of popular culture, who have made teenagers the hottest consumer demographic in America. Examine their tactics and investigate whether they have gone too far in their attempts to reach the hearts�and wallets�of America�s youth."
Television Resources for K12 Educators
Your TV News And Reviews--Your Way--AllYourTV.com
The National Geographic Channel @ nationalgeographic.com

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Resources For Writers
Kelly Writers House
Currents in Electronic Literacy Home
Yahoo! Social Science > Communications > Writing > Essays and Research Papers

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Religion, Ethics and Philosophy
Innovators - Spriritual Leaders
Beliefnet; The source for Spirituality, Religion and Morality
Utopia: Search for the Ideal Society
"This exhibition traces how women and men have, over the space of several thousand years of Western culture, imagined, depicted, described, and created new versions of ideal societies. It seeks to show as well that the history of these places is inseparable from the histories of the people, cultures, and periods that gave birth to them."
The Journal of Religion and Education