Students' Guide to the WWW
An excellent beginning for any research.  Provides comprehensive links to search engines and extensive links to websites organized by curriculum subjects.  Includes links to several web tutorials.

 

Federal Statistics

State, county, local & international statistics published by the government.

 

DeskRef

Subject directory of links to ready reference sources.

 

Online Literary Criticism Collection

Contains over 3000 critical and biographical websites and their works.  The collection can be browsed by author, title or nationality and literary period.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

An annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the internet.

 

Poetic Terms

Definitions and explanations of poetic terms, from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Authors on the Web

A collection of links to literary author biographies.

Information Please Almanac
Searches Information Please database of almanacs.

 

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature

Long list of links to various aspects of Renaissance England and its literature.

 

World Factbook 2000

Countries of the world.  Includes map and flag, articles on geography, people, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues

Library of Congress Country Studies

Does not cover all countries.  Searchable by country or topic

 

THOR The Online Resource

Dictionaries, Thesauri, Acronyms and Encyclopedias

 

Eye Witness History

Illuminating the past through personal narratives and other first -hand sources.

 

Library of Congress Primary Source Collections

Links to primary source material on the web