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Cultural Resources
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| Art Resources | |
| Artcyclopedia | The site claims "the fastest way to find fine art on the Internet" and they're probably right. A great reference site to museums as well; know what you're looking for. |
| Artsedge | The Kennedy Center's Arts Edge is an incredible rich art resource for art education, and offers an excellent collection of related sites. |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | The Met boasts "5000 years of art!". A great help for older students to understand artists' techniques by looking closely at how the work was created. |
| Museum of Modern Art | Kids can interact with art. Some Real Audio or text-based explanations of famous art pieces. |
| National Gallery of Art | The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. |
| Take a virtual tour of San Francisco murals reproduced on the site. | |
| Smithsonian Institute | An avant garde exhibit. Everyday objects tell stories about people, their cultures and the meanings they associate with things. A nonlinear format. |
| Earth Resources Observation System | View satellites of the earth! |
| Webmuseum | Virtual museum that includes digitized art from museums around the world. Lists art by theme and artists associated with them and thumbnail sketches that expand to full-screen images. |
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| African American History | |
| African American Resources | Many links for a variety of information pertaining to African American History including General Information, Biographies, History, and Culture. |
| Afro-American Almanac | The AFRO-American Almanac ® is an on-line presentation of the African in America. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. |
| African Americans in History | A brief biographical sketch of several key figures in African American history |
| African American Mosaic | Highlights include photos and historic documents that help tell the history of free blacks in the early 1800's and the founding of places like Nicodemus, Kansas (for example). |
| Africana | Backed by a team of scholars of African history, this site has chat rooms, news and the like. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr | With rich links and detail, this site features information about the life of Dr. King that includes quizzes for kids. |
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| Asian American History | |
| Asian Pacific American Heritage Month | May is Asian Pacific American Month. This website features Asian American entertainment news, history articles, interactive forums and quizzes. |
| Ancestors in America: Asian American History Timeline | This timeline is primarily adapted from Sucheng Chan's book Asian Americans: An Interpretive History ©1991, Twayne Publishers, Boston. |
| Asian Nation | A unique sociological exploration of the historical, political, demographic, and cultural issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community. |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Asian/Pacific American History and Culture | The Smithsonian Institute offers links about Asian American history. |
| Ask Asia | Activities, fun links, factoids are included in this project to preserve and promote Asian American history and culture. |
| Digital History | Asian American History Resources on the World Wide Web. Primary Sources - Ordered by chronology and topic. |
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| Hispanic History | |
| Celebrate Hispanic Heritage! Latinos in History | Website resource provides students with biographies of key Hispanic Americans such as Cesar Chavez and Severo Ochoa. |
| The Hispanic Society of America | The Hispanic Society of America Museum website shows famous works of art as well as a timeline of Hispanic history. |
| Encyclopedia Smithsonian: US Latino History and Culture | The Smithsonian Institute offers links about Hispanic American history. |
| Library.com | Access sites on Hispanic American History; includes primary and secondary resources. |
| Learn Spanish | A free online tutorial. Plug-ins are required for the audio portion, but there is plenty to read for a basic orientation. |
| Latino Cultures & History | Arts & History - a Mexico art gallery site with links to cultural institutions. |
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