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Annotated Bibliography of Internet Resources
Graduate Student Compilation
Amst 602: Bibliographic Methods Spring 1998

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American Colonial History	-	John Kille
Julie Gammill Gibson	-	American History Since 1800
American Literature	-	Patricia Hunt
Shelby Shapiro	-	American Studies
Architectural History and Historic Preservation	-	Jennifer Bixler
Hugh Kim	-	Ethnicity
Gender Studies	-	Claudia Rector
David Silver	-	Mass Media and Communications
Material Culture and Archaeology	-	Tara Goodrich
Jeremy Korr	-	Multidisciplinary
Popular Culture	-	Eva George
Michael Lucas	-	Social Sciences
Urban Culture	-	Bruce Johansen

 

 

 

 

American Colonial History

 

The Archiving Early America web site contains a wide array of primary historical documents from the Keigwin and Mathews private collection. Copyrighted in 1997 and curated by Don Vitale, the site's resources are intended to provide a mix of information, instruction, and entertainment. The site's eighteenth century primary source material, including American newspapers, maps and writings, is accessible via an Excite for Web Servers search engine. The site is affiliated with The Early America Review: A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America. Users will also find on-line, quarterly editions of The Early America Review going back to Summer 1996, as well as the Town Crier, an active discussion forum of educators, historians, students, researchers, journalists. The site is well-organized, easy to navigate, and has a professional appearance. There is no charge for noncommercial purposes such as news reporting, classroom use or research and the site is open 24 hours a day.

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention of 1789

The Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitution of 1789 web site is part of the Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory history program and is maintained by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. This outstanding research site offers access to 253 titles within the LOC Continental Congress Broadside Collection and 21 titles and 274 documents relating to the work of the Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Users can search by keyword or browse by subject index for extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The site also includes two useful timelines covering 1764-1789, a selected bibliography related to broadsides, early printing, and the Revolutionary War period, and a link to LOC Eighteenth Century Special Collections site. Some copyright laws may apply to content.

George Washington Papers 1741-1799

The George Washington Papers 1741-1799 web site is part of the comprehensive Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory history program. While the creation of the site was funded in part by Reuters, Inc. and the Reuter Foundation, content and maintenance are controlled by the LOC Manuscript Division. This is an enormous scholarly research site which contains the entire collection of George Washington Papers consisting of approximately 65,000 items and 176,000 pages. The papers reflect the extensive range of Washington's interests and activities during this period, which involved ordinary, as well as celebrated citizens. Users will find access to Washington's correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes. The site is straightforward and well-organized, with a keyword search engine and subject index browse feature. A selected bibliography of works related to Washington, as well as essays about his papers may also be found here.

click here to see the American Memory site reviewed under American Studies or here under Multidisciplinary.

Eighteenth-Century Resources

Eighteenth-Century Resources is a meta web site created and maintained by Jack Lynch, a Ph.D. student in British Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. The site combines all of the Internet resource links Lynch has discovered which relate in any way to the eighteenth century. Given the interest of its creator, it is not surprising that this site and links are organized with a British and western emphasis. Users may perform a single word search to access the site's holdings or may choose one of ten categories, including art, architecture, landscape gardening; history; literature; music; philosophy; religion and theology; science and mathematics. This site can also be used for professional and scholarly networking via a set of links related to professional resources and journals, including calls for papers, as well as the home pages of people involved in eighteen century research. This site is regularly updated.

The William and Mary Quarterly on JSTOR

A very useful tool for scholars of early American history and culture is the digitized, full-text version of The William and Mary Quarterly journal. Published by the Amohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the journal can be accessed on the JSTOR web site. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization established with the assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the purpose of helping the scholarly community take advantage of advances in new technologies. Users will find an extensive holding of many different historical journals on the JSTOR web site, which can be searched by article, review, or opinion pieces. Coverage of The William and Mary Quarterly journal is divided into three series: Series 1: v. 1-27, 1892-1919; Series 2: v. 1-23, 1921-1943; and Series 3: v. 1-49, 1944-1992. The site offers a user-friendly help prompt to assist with navigation.

Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library

The Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library web site is maintained by the Hargrett Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at the University of Georgia and provides an useful graphic resource for scholars of colonial America. This research site contains an on-line digital listing of 65 rare maps from the colonial period as well as 15 rare maps of Revolutionary America. The site contains a total of 800 historical maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century. The site is organized primarily by general time period and location. Since the maps were scanned from microfilm negatives at 2400dpi they are very large files to download. However, the quality of the images is excellent. All images in the collections are protected by copyright law and permission to publish must be obtained from the Hargrett Library.

Colonial Williamsburg Historical Almanack

The Colonial Williamsburg Historical Almanack web site is maintained and copyrighted by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. A multi-faceted site devoted to early American history associated with Colonial Williamsburg, the Historical Almanack contains a wide range of resources that are scholarly, educational, and entertaining. The site is divided into four broad categories: Meet the People; Experience Colonial Life; See the Places: Colonial Dateline; and Additional Resources. By clicking on various prompts, users have access to a vast and surprisingly diverse amount of historical information and images involving the stories of African American slaves; political, professional, and military figures; historical buildings and architecture; decorative arts; trade professions; and everyday life. Particularly useful are the site's early American timeline; glossary of people, places, and events; and bibliography. As a side note, this web site is pleasing to the eye and professionally carried out.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America

This digital library site, created by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Academic Affairs Library, provides full-text primary sources such as autobiographies, diaries and memoirs. Many of these materials offer excellent research opportunities for cultural and historical scholars studying slavery and the Black experience in the South. The site contains over 80 titles -- representing 18,000 pages -- with a group of first-person narratives dating from 1860 to 1920 to be added soon.

Historical, Social, Economic and Demographic Data From the US Decennial Census

Created by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. and linked to Harvard University's home page, this interactive site allows users to search for and sort census data from 1790 through 1860. Statistics are available down to the county level for all of the official states during those years, but the population data is limited to gender, ethnicity and family counts. Users can also search for statistics on churches, manufacturing, agriculture, slavery and property and personal wealth. The site's biggest drawback is a warning that the information may be read, but not downloaded.

Maryland State Archives

While this site does not provide primary source materials on line, it does offer bibliographies and some finding tools to items in the Archives' collection such as African-American resources, a government records, maps, religious records, the photograph and art collections, and genealogy materials. The Archives also offers the "Maryland Manual," the state's directory of government offices, online also -- a rich resource because the manual is hard to find and expensive to buy.

The Maryland Collection, University of Maryland, College Park Libraries System

Over 60,000 books, periodicals and other documents about Maryland's past and present are housed in this special collection at the University of Maryland, College Park. Unfortunately, this Web site cannot be used to search for items in the collection; researchers must instead link to the University's VICTOR online catalog system or use the card catalog located in the Marylandia and Rare Books Department at the university's McKeldin Library. But the site does offer researchers a decent overview of the collection's span, including information on how to search for and access state publications, Maryland maps, the Baltimore News American Photograph Collection, Maryland newspapers, and master's theses and doctoral dissertations written by Maryland graduate students.

Oral History Internet Resources

The Michigan Oral History Association maintains this comprehensive and annotated list of oral history links. Offerings include links to methods and guides, organizations, listservs, and centers and collections -- all dealing with oral history. Various oral history projects are listed by subject area, such as agricultural history, folklore and cultural studies, local and regional history, and immigration. The annotations are heavy on description and light on critique, but the high quantity and quality of the links list make this site worth a visit.

If you can only get to one web site about American literature in the world, this one is it. From it, you can connect to a zillion other sites. You can peruse three different discussion lists about American literature or examine early American web sites (including the Native American site at the U. of Kansas, Phyllis Wheatley site, Poe & the transcendentalists) or glance at the romantic sites (of Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, etc.) or the realism & naturalism movements (Howells, London, Bierce, Crane, Welty, B. T. Washington, Cather, Fitzgerald, etc.) or the moderns (Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Stevens, Crane, cummings, Baldwin, Plath, Percy, Salinger & many more) or the contemporary writers. There are links to the Latina/Latino Literature Page, a directory of scholarly e-conferences, software for teachers, journals, and more, more, more. Michael O'Conner, who now teaches at Millikin University but started the site when he taught at Missouri, regularly updates the site. I can't rave enough about this site.

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature

This is the second best site; it is second only because it does not focus exclusively on American literature which was my research charge. The site is organized by centuries and English-speaking countries. There are teaching resources, literary criticism, cultural criticism and anything else you may need. If you prefer, the literature is organized by genre. The site is overseen by Alan Liu of the Dept. of English at the Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara and he updates it regularly.

Click here to see Voice of the Shuttle reviewed under Mass Media and Communications or here under Multidisciplinary.

Literary Periods, Movements, and Topics: Internet Resources for English & American Literature

This site emanates from the King Library at Miami Univ. in Oxford, Ohio. As with the previous site, it doesn't confine itself to American literature, but includes links to Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian literature, in addition to 20th century English and American literature. It links to the tremendous Missouri site & Georgetown's Crossroads site. It is maintained regularly by William A. Wortman of Miami U. It is a worthwhile site to visit.

African American Literature

This site originates out of the Univ. of Southern California's library although no one author is listed nor is update information provided. However, it is a very interesting site with speeches, reference works, literary criticism, periodical & newspaper articles, dissertations, & audio tapes. If a visitor prefers, he or she may navigate the site via of literary genre.

Click here to see this site reviewed under Ethnicity.

Special Collections in the Library of Congress

This site lives up to its name, special collections, and has material organized according to thematic groupings and different divisions (American Folklife, Hispanic Division, Manuscript Division, Rare Book & Special Collections). The formats for the information includes books, government publications, manuscripts, pamphlets, plays from the 15th century through the 20th century.

American Literature: 20th century Texts & Resources

This site includes electronic texts & a comprehensive list of 20th century authors who have made the canon. It also links to Keele Univ. (in Britain--see the next web site entry), the American Literature Survey Site at the Univ. of Texas, & a site dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance. The author of the site is Tuomi Forrest in the American Studies dept. at the Univ. of Virginia. It is a very strong site.

American Literature, Keele

I highly recommend visiting this site for its range & diversity of material. It includes teaching resources, global literature sites, a virtual library that covers the 18th-20th centuries, a site by & about black writers, links to author sites (Bierce, Burroughs, Creeley, Douglass, Franklin). Finally, it also links to the 1995 Pulitzer Prize Web site, the Mississippi Review, Modern & Contemporary American Poetry, the Electronic Poetry Center, the American Renaissance, & American Authors on the Web. The site is maintained by Andrew L. Graham.

Click here to see Keele reviewed under American Studies.

Early American Literature, 1600-1900: Resources for Teachers

"Sources of texts, biography, criticism, & lesson plans for teachers from the colonial period through the 19th century." There are online Etexts, collections about various authors; all the canonized early writers are represented. This is an extensive site that originates in the Internet School Library Media at James Madison University in Virginia.

Literature & Culture of the American 1950's

This site tells everything one might need to know about the authors & major works of the 1950's in the US. While the site originates out of the Dept. of English at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, it takes more of an American Studies approach in that it doesn't confine itself to literature but examines history, film, psychology also. The formats include photos, audio, & government documents. There are links to special author sites for Warren, Cheever, Ellison, Ginsberg, Hellman, Howe, Kerouac, Miller, Murray, & Nabokov. There's also a glossary of oft-used terms. Prof. Alan Filreis maintains the site.

The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (the Library of Congress)

This site claims to cover "500 years of black experience in the Western hemisphere". There's a special feature on the WPA authors, big names in the Harlem Renaissance, Claude McKay & Arna Bontemps. The format for the material includes books, periodicals, photos, music, film, and manuscripts. Commercial use is strictly prohibited.

Click here to see this exhibit reviewed under Ethnicity or here to see Library of Congress Exhibits in general, reviewed under Multidisciplinary.

Keele University, U.K. - American Studies Department

Keele University has put together a fascinating and comprehensive user-friendly website giving information connected with the department - faculty, programs, course descriptions - followed by ASSIST, American StudieS Information Super Turnpike, links to sixteen separate topics, including U.S. Government, Politics, History and Space; African America; Religion and Cults; and American Sports. Each topic subdivides into specific interest areas and relevant websites. American Music, for example, has a photograph of Enrico Caruso, linking to a biographical sketch, and a further link to a recording. Among the other 12 sites within Music alone are Geronimo's Song, Jazz (Yahoo Listing), two Blues sites, 4 Rap sites and Walt Disney Music. The American Music site is subdivided into three parts: America, Global and Local.

Click here to see this site reviewed under American Literature.

University of Texas-Austin

The American Studies Department of the University of Texas-Austin has developed an interesting and exciting website. In addition to basic departmental information - program and course descriptions, faculty, program features - this excellent website includes JAZZ AND AMERICAN CULTURE: AN ON-LINE JOURNAL, links to American Studies Resources on the web and student web projects. In the latter category are "American Studies Web: A Guide to American Studies Resources on the Internet," by David Phillips, the hypertext edition of Jacob Riiss HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES and "Route 66: Cruising the American Dream," a prize-winning senior essay. The site is user-friendly, although the use of light orange and yellow is somewhat overdone. Some items could not be down-loaded.

Library of Congress-American Memory Collections

LC's American Memory Collections are magnificent, easily accessible, although sometimes difficult to read. The home page lists 29 collections in a plethora of topics, with more to come. Among those online are African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907, containing 351 pamphlets; Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955, with 29,000 images; The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920, a multiformat collection including English and Yiddish scripts, playbills, sound recordings, and Houdini memorabilia. The table of contents lists each collection by keywords, a description, and broad topic descriptions. It is user-friendly and easy to download.

Click here to see the American Memory site reviewed under American Colonial History or here under Multidisciplinary.

Making of America (MOA)Project, University of Michigan Digital Library

The MOA Project is "a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction [sic]." It focuses on education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Users may utilize boolean, proximity or author-title-subject index searching. The images, enhanced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR), are readable. Those interested in specific journals will find a list of the issues contained in the collection; for each issue, a table of contents leads directly to the specific articles listed, and once at the article, users may move to specific pages.

Radicalism Collection

Michigan State University's Radicalism Collection has begun to scan and place a huge number of items on to the web, some categorized by organization, such as the America Indian Movement, the Black Panthers, the IWW, KKK, and SDS, with others categorized by movement or event, such as Birth Control Movement, Hollywood Ten, Rosenberg Case, Sacco-Vanzetti Case, Scottsboro Boys, Wounded Knee and Japanese-Americans-Evacuation and Location 1942-1945,. From the Table of Contents, users can go to the appropriate category which lists the title of the item, its author and Call Number. This represents the start of a larger project, and a number of caveats are in order: the images are not great, since it utilizes a scanning technique rather than Optical Character Recognition (OCR); the categories often mix organizational material with items written by others denouncing the organization, with no attempt to differentiate them in the contents listing; and the categories are far from complete. For example, the IWW collection contains no non-English material, no copies of IWW Constitutions and By-Laws, and even lacks a single edition of the oft-reprinted THE LITTLE RED SONG BOOK. No context is provided. The compilers of the site do not state whether the items listed represent everything in MSUs collection, or whether additional items within a category will or will not appear.

Hagley Museum & Library

The Hagley Museum and Library focuses on business, technology and society. Its library contains special collections of pamphlets, trade catalogues, broadsides and monographs and serials acquired since 1980. Through this site, users may link to various Delaware state and county historical societies, as well as the Winterhur Museum and Library. Although not particularly user-friendly, it remains a valuable resource for those interested in material culture, technology and advertising.

Australian Centre for American Studies (ACAS)

Developed by the University of Sydney, ACAS focuses on American business, government and politics, as well as American relationships with Pacific Rim nations. The site provides access to the papers presented at a 1993 Fullbright Conference on the media. Users may link to a variety of American and Australian governmental sites, including the Australian National Library. ACAS last updated the site on Oct. 29, 1996.

Technical Center of Expertise for Preservation of Historic Structures and Buildings

This Web page, created by John Dirkman and maintained by Kerri Swanson, is a means to describe the purpose of and the work performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Technical Center of Expertise (TCX). The TCX is a nationwide resource for military installations and other Federal, State, and local agencies who have an interest in the study, rehabilitation, repair, and maintenance of historic sites, buildings, landscapes, and districts. The majority of this page focuses on the description of the twelve types of preservation work performed by TCX. One of the most interesting sections is entitled Material Science which provides technical assistance in the examination of historic materials and the application of contemporary counterparts to the historic fabric. This resource also lists past projects of the TCX, current projects, a training schedule for TCX's various workshops, and a guide to specifications in historic preservation which can be viewed either on the Web or downloaded as a Word document. The design of the page is very basic with hardly any photographs or pictures. However, it is extremely easy to use and one can find specific subtopics of historic preservation with little effort.

Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation

The Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation of The Smithsonian Institution Web Page is maintained by the Smithsonian's Webmaster P.W. House. The Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation (OAHP) attempts to provide an understanding of the Smithsonian buildings through the areas of preservation, research, and education. The purpose of this page is to show how the OAHP accomplishes this task through its many projects. One of the best features of this sites is the online edition of the OAHP's journal entitled Foundations: OAHP Research Notes (previously named Smithsonian Preservation Notes). In the issues of this journal, one can find interesting and informative articles. I looked at the Spring 1996 edition and read a fascinating article on the difference between what is classified as Centennial versus what is classified as Colonial furniture. Although the journal is a wonderful reference tool, unfortunately it is not updated very often. The most current issue of Smithsonian Preservation Notes was the Spring 1996 edition. Overall, this page is not frequently updated and the last update I found occurred on June 15, 1997. As a result, it is not uncommon to find outdated material at this site. Overall, this page is very easy to use and clearly worded so people of all ages can learn from this site.

The International Council on Monuments and Sites

This Web Page for the International Council on Monuments and Sites is designed to introduce its users to the purposes and functions of ICOMOS. ICOMOS is an international, non-governmental association of professionals dedicated to the preservation of historic monuments and sites all over the world. Due to the international scope of this organization, ICOMOS' Web Page is located at mirror sites in Europe and North America and one can choose the closest site for the fastest results. The site contains both original information and links pertaining to both ICOMOS and historic preservation in general. One nice feature about this site is that the viewer can easily look at the ICOMOS organization by country. For example, the US/ICOMOS page provides useful information such as material about its annual conference, internship program, newsletter, courses offered abroad in historic preservation, and a lists of world heritage sites located in the United States. This resource was last updated on January 30, 1998 and due to its up-to-date notices for conferences, workshops, and major events the page requires regular updating. This page is extremely plain visually and hardly contains any graphics, but it is quite easy and efficient to manipulate through.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation Library

This site for the National Trust Library was developed by Jamie MacDonald in 1995 while he was a student at the University of Maryland. It has since been updated by his predecessors haphazardly, but there has not been any major work done since its inception. The main page was last updated on October 31, 1997. The design of this page requires a lot of scrolling to find exactly what one wishes to locate, because there are very few places to "click" to get to the next section. Also, there is an abundant amount of text which becomes laborious to read. A massive revamping of this page is slated for this June. Although the design of the page might not be top-notch, the material provided by this sites is quite useful. The purpose of this resource is to provide the viewer with an overview of what the National Trust Library is and what types of material one can find in this collection. There are also a few sections of preservation-related links that a scholar might find useful. The section of state links is an especially helpful resource.

Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee

The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee (CPC) Web Page was created by Daniel E. Markle under the direction of Ruthann Hubbert-Kemper, Director of CPC. Markle is a student majoring in Computer Science, and he designed this page for CPC under contract during the summer of 1997. The Capitol Preservation Committee is an independent commonwealth committee created for the purpose of conserving, restoring, and preserving the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building and its historic contents. The purpose of this site is a combination of informational, commercial, and entertainment. Some of the intentions of this page are to provide its viewers with a history of the Capitol Preservation Committee, a description of current and past projects of CPC, a way for the public to contact members of CPC, and means of ordering various materials from the Committee relating to the history of the Pennsylvania Capitol. Much of the information is factual, but there is an obvious stance towards the importance of preservation woven throughout this site. CPC's web page contains only original information and does not have links to outside sources. There is a complete section of credits for the photographs, text, and design. The page was last updated on October 23, 1997. Overall, this resource is clearly organized and extremely easy to use. A nice feature is the menu box at the top left corner of each screen which allows one to easily move from section to section throughout this site.

National Park Service: Park Net

Although I could not find an author name on this page, judging from the URL the creator had ties to the federal government in some capacity. Whether or not the creator of the page is a National Park Service employee or an independent consultant is unknown. This site is a comprehensive source of information of original material pertaining to parks across the United States such as locations, seasons of operation, histories, and educational programs. This page is updated regularly and includes updates on events such as Black History Month and the Cherry Blossom Festival. One can also find a complete listing of official U.S. historic, buildings, sites, and districts via the section of National Register places. Overall, the National Park Service's Web page is clearly organized and easy to use. One worthy feature of this site to note is the easy accessibility to specific information via the main page of the site. Instead of laboriously scrolling down a long page full of text, one can simply "click" on the subject area he/she desires.

National Trust for Historic Preservation

I could not find an author for this site, but judging from the URL (especially the org address) and my knowledge of the National Trust this site is an independent agency. Whether or not the creator of this page is an employee of the National Trust or an independent Web Page designer is also unknown. The purpose of this page is to inform the viewers of the many activities undertaken by the National Trust. This resource provides opportunities to do research via the section entitled Preservelink, engage in entertainment through Fun at the Trust, gain information pertaining to the Trust's many activities, and become a member of the National Trust. This page does endorse certain preservation programs. For example, when I looked at this page there was a section describing Bob Yapp's old-house show on PBS which concluded by saying that the Trust is "proud to support About Your House with Bob Yapp." I could not locate the last time this page was updated, but judging from the current dates on many of the projects, stories, and conference listing this site must be updated quite frequently. The graphics on this page are of a very high quality, and they double as buttons which keep the page clean and organized. It is also very easy to go to or return from a certain section of this site via the menu at the end of each screen.

Preserve/ Net Main Page

This site for Preserve/Net Information Service was developed by Robert E. Pick as a result of much discussion at a National Trust Conference regarding the lack of communication between preservationists, especially students of historic preservation. Robert Pick, a second year graduate student, and his professor, Michael Tomlan, took the concerns of these students and developed Preserve/Net. This site went on-line permanently December 3, 1994, and it continues to be maintained and updated at least twice a month by students at Cornell University who volunteer their time. The purpose of this page is to provide preservationists with a common place to present controversies, post employment and internship opportunities, and list interesting sites on the Internet. One of the best features of this page are the nearly 200 preservation-related links to resources on the Internet with twenty-seven subject categories. Preserve/Net is extremely easy to use, especially the help screen. Currently, features to facilitate communication between nationalities is being developed via the creation of a multiple language format.

The Society of Architectural Historians

The Society of Architectural Historians' Home Page is a site where one can find information pertaining to the activities of SAH and other general information pertaining to the history of architecture. The Society of Architectural Historians, founded in 1940, promotes scholarly research in the field of architecture and encourages the conservation of "significant architectural monuments that are an integral part of our worldwide historical and cultural heritage." One can easily join the SAH via their Web Page. The author of this page is Janet C. Smith, and it was last updated on February 17, 1998. The Activities section of this sites is especially rich with information such as meetings, awards and fellowships, a list of graduate programs in Architectural History, SAH's online Journal (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians), and projects sponsored by the SAH. In addition to the activities of the SAH, there is another section of this site, Connections , which discusses the field of Architectural History in general. Here one can find such information as other Internet resources, related organizations, conferences, and exhibitions. This page is very easy to use, and the information is well organized and useful to one looking for information about architectural history.

Ethnic Studies at the University of Southern California

This site, maintained by the Doheny Reference Center at USC, provides access to various research resources available on the Internet that concern race and ethnicity. Of particular note is an emphasis on resources about specific ethnic groups (i.e. African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans, Mexican-Americans), and links to such specialized topics as The Harlem Renaissance, Immigration and the United States, and Los Angeles: Past,Present, and Future. In addition, links to other libraries, museums, and organizations in the Southern California area which either specialize in an ethnic group, or have very strong resources for ethnic studies, are provided.

Click here to see this site reviewed under American Literature.

Race and Ethnic Resources on the American Studies Web

A generally broad site providing links to a variety of race and ethnic resources, particularly on-line journals, articles, museums, organizations, and research institutions. Part of the larger American Studies Crossroads site currently maintained at Georgetown University.

The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies

As the "nation's only museum, library, and archive dedicated to collecting and interpreting materials drawn from America's ethnic, racial, and immigrant experiences," The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies provides access to its own electronic resources, which include on-line exhibitions and presentations both past and present, a guide to manuscript and microfilm collections on several ethnic groups, bibliographies, and links to similar topics of interest and study.

The African-American Mosaic at the Library of Congress

This site serves as a detailed resource guide to the Library's African-American collections, which include books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound. The Mosaic coves four areas of the African-American experience in the United States: Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA. Each area provides an introductory text to the subject matter, along with links to the various resource materials displayed on-line, leading to either a larger image, or where they can be located at the Library.

Click here to see this site reviewed under American Literature or here to see Library of Congress exhibits, in general, reviewed under Multidisciplinary.

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

As the title of the site suggests, a comprehensive listing of resources that deal with Native American history, culture, and issues, including links to various tribal organizations, activist groups, on-line texts, articles, documents, and anything else that will "primarily. . .provide information resources to the Native American community and only secondarily to the general community." In short, a specific metasite for a specific, rather than broad, topic of study within race,class, and ethnicity.

University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office

This is one of the most comprehensive women’s studies sites on the web. The Women’s Studies Librarian’s Office publishes indexes (including an index on audivisual material), bibliographic guides, several periodicals, and core lists of books in a number of sub-areas in women’s studies. This site is extremely comprehensive and useful, particularly in the areas of feminism, science & technology, and literature. The one caveat: issues of race and ethnicity are not ignored but are not quite as thoroughly covered as other issues.

Association of College and Research Libraries Women’s Studies Section Links

An extremely in-depth and carefully selected collection of links compiled by librarians and sorted by topic. The great strength of the site is that it offers compilations of materials not otherwise available online; i.e., the Archives section provides links to homepages of libraries and institutions housing collections of interest to women’s studies scholars. This is not a very well-advertised site, which is a pity because it should be of great use to online scholars.

University of Maryland Women’s Studies Resources (Database)

This site is an important resource because of its emphasis on and convenient organization of practical information for scholars and educators, most notably its collection of women’s studies syllabi. Essentially, the site speaks to the practical needs of those who teach women’s studies; it shares information on conferences, calls for papers, employment, program development, activism, etc. (Please note that this database has a separate place on the UMD server; it is accessible through the newly redesigned Women’s Studies’ Department homepage but it is not as prominent as it might be.)

The Voice of the Shuttle Gender Studies Page

This site has a substantial if slightly idiosyncratic selection of links on gender issues. In addition to women’s studies links, the site includes links to gay/lesbian/queer studies, men’s movements, and perhaps most significant, a collection of links specifically focused on “cybergender and techgender.” The site is maintained by Alan Liu, an English professor with a strong interest in promoting general humanities research on the web; as such, it may be particularly convenient if your research on gender issues overlaps with other areas in the humanities.

The New York Public Library Center for the Humanities Women’s Studies Research Guide

The main strength of this page is its collection of bibliographies and reference lists in the areas of women’s biography, history, literature, theory, resources, selected periodicals and microform collections, catalogs, collections, and Internet resources. The Internet resources are very carefully selected and include links to some potentially useful but lesser known sites on women in sports, women in the military, and statistical information.

University of Newcastle CyberStudies Resources - Gender, Sex and the Web

This page is a list of links to online articles on gender and sex as they pertain to the Web. Not all links are “scholarly,” but there are enough interesting ones to make this site worth looking if you’re interested in cyberculture.

Wright State University Libraries Men’s Studies

A short and sparse site, but perhaps the only academically-based listing of men’s resources.

Transgender Forum Resource Guide - Annotated Bibliography

A chronological, annotated bibliography of trade books dealing with transgender and transsexuality issues.

Mass Media and Communications

Center for Media Education

The Center for Media Education, or CME, is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of the electronic media through research, advocacy, public education, and press activities. This multi-pronged approach to media literacy is reflected in its Web site. For example, the site includes online versions of the quarterly publication InfoActive, along with a number of CME policy statements, reports, and press releases regarding new and traditional media. Further, the site offers original and insightful resources, including for example, the Children's Television Act Tool Kit, designed to help users monitor the implementation of the Children's Television Act. Finally, the site is currently putting the last touches on their newest research initiative, an interdisciplinary research agenda for the study of children and new media. A healthy fusion between solid materials and snappy designs, the CME site ranks high for scholars, teachers, and policy makers in the field of mass media.

CTHEORY

CTHEORY is an online, peer reviewed, international journal of theory, technology and culture. Edited by the pomo theorists you love to hate -- Arthur and Marilouise Kroker -- and overseen by an editorial board that includes such notables as Jean Baudrillard and Andrew Ross, CTHEORY publishes original articles, "event-scenes," interviews, and reviews on a weekly basis. Bombastic, brash, and jargonistic, the essays and reviews found in CTHEORY are not for the theory-weary; at the same time, where else can you find a "work in progress" by Baudrillard? Although CTHEORY fancies itself a multimedia text, the essays and articles seldom contain graphics, not to mention animation, quicktime movies, or sound files. Clean and lean, the site's navigation is easy, its download time negligible.

The Media and Communications Studies Site

The Media and Communications Studies Site, or MCS, is the premier British-based meta-site devoted to the academic study of media and communication. Established in Spring 1995 by Dr. Daniel Chandler, lecturer in Media Theory at the Department of Education in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, MCS is a useful first stop in exploring what is available on a number of media-related topics on the Web. Divided into eighteen sections -- Advertising, Discussion Lists, Popular Music/Youth Culture, and Gender, Ethnicity & Class, to name a few -- the site offers literally thousands of links to Web sites, archives, mailing lists, and newsgroups devoted to the study of media and communication. Further, for those too impatient to slog through the countless links, there is a search engine that allows for keyword and phrase searching. Although the site offers very little original content, its value is found in the comprehensiveness and up-to-dateness of its collections. Finally, despite the cheesy clip art, the site's design is clear and efficient, resulting in a relatively fast download.

ScreenSite

ScreenSite is a deep and well-organized Web site devoted to the act of studying and teaching film and television. Established in 1994 by Jeremy Butler, the site is sponsored by the University of Alabama, the Division of Student Affairs, the Department of Telecommunications and Film, and the College of Communication. The site is divided into four major sections -- Education, Research, Film/TV Production, and Miscellanea -- each of which provides various resources and information, ranging from dynamic syllabi and directories of scholars to original bibliographies, links to catalogs, and archived logs from Screen-L focusing on such topics as how to grab stills from video. Further, the site serves as a gateway to other, more interactive forms of communication, including newsgroups such as screen.history and screen.theory, an online chat room/channel, and the popular listserv Screen-L. Following a no-nonsense layout, the site loads quickly, includes a site-specific search engine, and can be accessed in eight different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies Page

Like all of the pages included under the Voice of the Shuttle, the Media Studies Page is a meta site choke full of links to interesting academic-related sites on the Web. Established by Alan Liu, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and built and maintained by a cast of -- literally -- hundreds, the Voice of the Shuttle serves as the academic meta site for the humanities. In particular, the Media Studies Page is divided into ten sections: journalism, tv, film/video, CD-ROMs, popular music, radio, comics, Internet broadcast media, telecom issues, and media theory & history. Although the links are usually worthy, the site fails to organize them in any manner besides genre. Thus, when visiting the popular music section, for example, users will find links to academic journals, commercial radio stations, and the lyrics of the songs of Richard Thompson, all mixed with an occasional dead link or two. That said, it is difficult to visit the Media Studies Page without finding at least one virtual gem.

Click here to see Voice of the Shuttle reviewed under American Literature or here under Multidisciplinary.

Archnet

Located at the Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, this web site was organized jointly by the Department and the University of Connecticut's library. This site provides a number of good resources on archaeology, and is mainly for research and educational information. It includes a number of specialized list serves in archaeology, as well as a list of professional papers, and a list of terminology and definitions pertinent to archaeology. A fairly comprehensive site, there is a table of contents in the beginning listing a variety of prehistoric and historical archaeology subjects (including material culture), which the site goes into some detail on. This site is menu driven. It comes with a search engine and e-mail is also available. References to papers are listed and papers are available in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, German, and Italian. It's last update appears to be 1995-1996.

The Society for American Archaeology (SAA)

The Society for American Archaeology's (SAA) homepage, is the website of one professional organization in archaeology. The website focuses on a variety of topics including: education, politics, preservation, research, government affairs, and includes the latest information on current issues pertinent to archaeology. There is also a section on public laws which relate to archaeology, as well as membership and society news. Among other links, this site has a link to C-Span. It also contains a bibliography which has a section on politics and archaeology. Bibliographic searches are available through the SAA web site, it is fairly easy to use, and some parts of the site are updated every other day.

Anthropological Review Database

This website is arranged by the University of New York, at Buffalo and Oxford. It's purpose is to serve as a source for research and information on archaeology and anthropology. The site is organized by date/author/title/ and new arrivals, although you can search on key word, subject. Resources are available from around the world, however, few links to other sites were identified and the data is specific to the field of Anthropology. References were not available, although data was well organized and it was easy to find. There was also an interesting section attached to the website advertizing journal articles available to review and there was access to one other peer-reviewed journal, World Anthropology.

Anthropology Archaeology Links

This web site has been organized by the Illinois State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and offers worldwide access to a variety of topics which pertain to both the Humanities and Social Sciences fields. This site offers many national and international links to websites, journals, and discussions on a variety of topics, mostly within the western world. Within the United States there are links to advisory boards, the National Register, and to local issues in paleontology, the Mississippi Valley, and ways of joining local professional and avocational organizations. On an international scale, there are links to journals in Canada, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and Egypt. Topics like cultural landscapes, material culture, and politics are accessible on this website. There is also direct e-mail access to the designers of the website and this site was well organized. There did not appear to be any way to search within the website.

The Smithsonian Institution

One of the largest collections of cultural and natural resources, this website has the potential provide access to collections, information, exhibits, and specialists from a wide range of fields. This website is for educational, tourist, and research purposes. It provides links within the Smithsonian so that one can travel from museum to museum, moving from the fields of space technology to African Art, Asian Art, Anthropology, Fish and wild life, the National Zoo, and a variety of topics in American history, to name only a few. It was last updated in 1997 and is both menu driven and geographically organized so a person may travel through the museums located around the Washington Metropolitan area. There are e-mail links and a search engine is available to search some collections information. You may also access the library collections on the web.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF)

The focus of this collection is on the archaeology and history, of the Virginia Colonial era. The website is managed by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where there are a number of specialists in archaeology, history, archives, African America, and a variety of material culture. The focus of this website is both research and educational, as their customers range from researchers to tourists, and school groups. There are links to news groups, mail lists, and similar organizations which do specialized research. These are all organized by area. For example, under African American history is a link to doing genealogy. It was last updated in 1997 and is all menu driven. I did not see one long comprehensive reference list;they are all organized by subject area.

The Florida State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)

Prepared by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), this site allows you to download information like forms and documents. This statewide website focuses on local research and information on archaeology (prehistory, history and underwater archaeology). There are some links and references to unique sites on the web. It is fairly easy to move around the site and reference lists are available.

The South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)

Organized by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), this site allows you to download information like forms and documents, unique to South Carolina. This statewide website focuses on local research and information on archaeology (prehistory, history and underwater archaeology). South Carolina has an active archaeology education program which is referenced on this site. There are some links and references to unique sites on the web. It is fairly easy to move around the site, it was updated in 1994 and 1995, and the site includes a bibliography on research in South Carolina.

Syracuse University Library

This site was arranged by Syracuse University, the Department of Anthropology, and the library. The university has active African Studies, African, and African American Archaeology programs, suggesting that the web site and links to the material culture and library collections may be particularly good if you are researching these topics. Along with this, there is a focus on Caribbean archaeology. There are some links to national and international websites through Syracuse. The site has not been updated recently, though the site itself was well organized and you could search on topic areas.

Thomas (Library of Congress Congressional Server)

Thomas is the child of legislation enacted by the 104th Congress (1994) directing the Library of Congress (LC) to make federal legislative information freely available to the American public via the Internet. Created and maintained by LC staffers, Thomas was mounted in January 1995, and continues to be updated several times daily (except for committee reports, which are mounted irregularly after print publication).

Thomas is particularly useful for relatively current legislative material, especially from the 1990s, though it includes some material from earlier decades. Thomas currently includes links to current bills and floor actions, bill summaries and status from 1973 onward, full-text of bills from 1994 onward, searchable (by index term) full-text of the Congressional Record from 1993 onward, full-text committee reports from 1994 onward, links to other federal sites (which frequently provide links back to Thomas), and a small collection of early historic U.S. documents. Thomas and site #2 offer links to sites which provide information earlier than their collections; among these, the most useful is probably the searchable Congressional Record from 1983 onward at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces190.html.

Searches are fairly easy to perform; Thomas uses the InQuery information retrieval system developed at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and provides links to InQuery tutorials. As Thomas operates under a clear mission of information dissemination for educational purposes (and is taxpayer-funded), no commercial or partisan signs are evident. Thomas is not yet a replacement for a full federal depository, but will increasingly fill that role over time (in conjunction with the following metasite, #2), and does provide immediate information on recent legislative action.

Library of Congress Federal Government Metasite

Like Thomas, the LC Federal Government metasite was created and is maintained by LC staffers in direct consultation with congressional staff, under a congressional directive to disseminate information freely over the Internet. This metasite is an excellent starting point for any attempt to retrieve relatively current information from or to communicate electronically with any federal branch or agency. Different pages of this metasite are updated with varying regularity; the executive, legislative, and judicial pages are updated at least monthly, but links to Internet resources and to state and local government resources may be updated annually at best.

Most useful here are the links to the three principal branches. (The links listed in parentheses are representative examples.) The executive branch page provides links to the White House and related entities (National Security Council, Council of Economic Advisors), agencies and subsidiaries (USDA, HUD, Interior), and to many independent agencies (CIA, EEOC, NEH, Smithsonian, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation). The legislative page does not quite duplicate Thomas; it provides links to members and directories, committees, schedules, bills and laws, news and analysis of congressional actions, and support agencies (GPO, GAO, Architect of the Capitol). The judicial pages is particularly valuable, with links to full-text Constitution-related full-text opinions from 1906 onward, searchable U.S. code, searchable Federal Register from 1995 onward, searchable Supreme Court opinions (selective from 1937 to 1953, comprehensive thereafter), searchable Circuit Courts of Appeals decisions (varying, but ca. 1993 onward), and other law-related sites.

Also valuable for the Americanist are topical collections of Internet resources prepared by LC reading rooms and subject specialists, though the scope of these collections deserve to be expanded in content. Links run to U.S. Digital Library Projects, electronic texts, ethnographic studies, film and television resources/media studies, performing arts, and online newspapers, periodicals, and government documents. Links to meta-indexes for state and local governments, infrequently updated, may also be useful for regional studies. For LC federal information, this (in conjunction with the other LC sites, for which links are provided) is as close as researchers can come to consulting with LC staff without visiting Washington.

Library of Congress Exhibitions

This collection of virtual exhibitions, though currently minimal, will increase in value over time as new exhibitions are mounted and older ones remain available to researchers who would otherwise need to secure print copies of exhibit catalogs. The twenty exhibitions, each of which appeared as a physical exhibition at the Library of Congress between 1992 ("1492--An Ongoing Voyage") and 1998, may be helpful to scholars of history, literature, gender studies, museum studies, architecture, race, class, and ethnicity, and other fields. In addition to archiving past exhibits, this site also provides previews of forthcoming ones; for example, a modified virtual exhibition based on the exhibit "The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship" was mounted a month before the physical exhibit opened to the public in 1998. Federally funded and created and maintained by LC staff drawing on their library's resources, this expanding collection is an important contribution to the growing body of virtual exhibitions, which allow museum and library exhibits to remain readily available as scholarly resources far longer than in the past.

Click here to see an exhibit reviewed under American Literature or here under Ethnicity

American Memory Collection

Like its sister Library of Congress sites, the American Memory collection page makes available to researchers a wide and growing variety of materials from the LC collections relating to American history, literature, and culture. This wide-ranging collection, updated at least monthly, includes a timetable for forthcoming collection additions; samples of expected 1998 and 1999 releases include collections of baseball cards (1887-1914), American sheet music (1870-1885), Puerto Rican primary documents, and HABS/HAER records covering 30,000 sites from 1933 onward. Available resources are grouped into five divisions: textual (12 collections), photos, prints, and drawings (16), motion pictures, 1897-1916 (6), maps (an extensive panoramic map collection), and sound recordings (primarily audio files drawn from the library's ethnographic field collections). Despite the promising titles, the full collection is rather meager at present considering the scope of the physical LC collection, but if additions continue to be mounted at the current rate, this site will be an invaluable resource for researchers worldwide in several years' time.

Click here to see the American Memory site reviewed under American Colonial History or here under American Studies.

Voice of the Shuttle (Humanities Metasite)

Alan Liu's "Shuttle" is a must-see for scholars working in the humanities: though neither unique in mission nor comprehensive in content, "Shuttle" is more current than print bibliographical and reference sources, particularly in newer scholarly fields. Liu, of the English Department at UC-Santa Barbara, ostensibly updates the site every few days, though it seems likely that, given the scope of the project, he uses additional assistance. "Shuttle" is structured to assist scholarly research worldwide, with mirror sites in the UK, Italy, and Japan.

Most valuable to Americanists are the extensive links to resources within subject areas, including architecture, archaeology, area and regional studies, cultural studies, cyberculture, history, literature, media studies, minority studies, photography, science/technology/culture, and women's studies/gender studies/queer studies. Cyberculture alone has 20 subheadings, including cybercensorship, cyberethics, cybergender, journals and zines, conferences, a syllabus bank, and interviews (and a link to the Research Center for Cyberculture Studies, for which David Silver is mentioned by name).

Other general humanities resources include links to other humanities metasites, to online reference tools (encyclopedias, dictionaries, style sheets), to several sets of guidelines for critical evaluation of Internet resources, and to sites on specific humanities-related topics (e.g., affirmative action). Also valuable are links to research libraries in five foreign countries (including the Bodleian and the National Libraries of France and Canada) and the United States, and to museums in ten countries (including the Louvre and British Museum) and the U.S. (57 American museums). A link to digitalization projects offers limited resources, but may grow stronger over time. This frequently updated metasite is worth a periodic visit from humanities scholars working within any of Liu's subfields, simply for the purpose of staying current on Internet resources in those areas.

Click here to see Voice of the Shuttle reviewed under American Literature or here under Mass Media and Communications.

Popular Culture

American Popular Culture: Critical Issues Critical Approaches

Noted as a "guide to on-line popular culture resources" was designed by T.V. Reed at Washington State University. It was designed as a part of the course "American Studies 471, American Popular Culture". Has broad topics of Genres (Television, Music, Film, Cyberspace, Advertising, Magazines and Comix), Issues (Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Class, Censorship and Morality), Approaches (Production Analysis, Text Analysis, Audience Analysis, Historical Analysis) and General Resources (WSU Library Resources, General Interest/Pop Culture Sites, Pop Culture Course Syllabi, On-Line Journals of Pop Culture Study).

Sociology 25: The Sociology of Popular Culture

Marshall Battani presents Sociology 25, complete with links to syllabus, paper, what's new, censored, and pop. Obviously for the academic or teacher, those interesting in course syllabi and papers on the sociology of popular culture will find this site useful. "Sociology 25," is not full of links, but gives one specific information relating to teaching popular culture from a sociological perspective. Easy to navigate, this site is often updated, with its last update on 2/18/98.

Cultural Studies Central

Stating "Welcome! You've found _the_ cultural studies meeting house", this meta-site provides link to cultural studies information in many different forms. It "features original interactive commentary and analysis, links to the best cultural studies resources on the planet, and pointers to exciting and superior World Wide Web projects devoted to special cultural studies interests. Chock full of information and links, this site annotates important sites and varies from "American Studies Web (extensive collection of American Studies resources) to " WReconstructing Michael Jackson' (A dynamic, interactive collection of close readings)". Intended for the scholar, CSC would be ideal for those interested in American Popular Culture, although some sites are inaccessible (ie. Black Cultural Studies).

Popular Culture Library: Libraries and Learning Resources, Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University advertises its Popular Culture Library on this site. The Popular Culture Library was founded in 1969 to support teaching and research in cultural studies. "It is the largest and most comprehensive research facility in the United States dedicated exclusively to the aquistion and preservation of primary research materials on 19th and 20th century American popular culture." This site is purely for research. Any scholar in Cultural Studies should examine this site for information, especially if they are planning to research near the Ohio area.

Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center

Complete with Journal/Archives, Article/Papers, Theorists and Critics, Calls for Papers/Conferences and the like, also with Subject Areas of Mass Media/Communication, Cyberspace/Sci-Fi, Television, Film, and International. This site is a comprehensive site that is clearly organized. Zupko's CSC is Clearinghouse approved, won Luckman Best of the Web selection, WebStar Bronze site of the week (12/23/96), and Web-Star's page of the Day (10/1/96). The purposes of this site are clearly research, informational in nature; it is perfect for any person or scholar interested in cultural studies, with its focus on academic programs, journals and mass media links.

Manchester Institute for Popular Culture

This site, with black background and moving images, gives one a gateway into the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture. Choices on the site are : Events, Help, Home, Links, People, Work. Innovative in design, the information on this site is not clearly organized, nor is it easy to navigate. This site is intended for the scholar interested in the Institute of Popular Culture at Manchester and those generally interested in popular culture or British popular culture. It contains Hyperlinks and other website links.

WSCU Lists: Social Sciences Internet Resources

This site is a general site for connecting to social science resources on the internet. Front page offers a selected list of links to interdisciplinary web sites in the social sciences. The site is easy to understand and uncluttered. I accessed and maneuvered within the site with very little difficulty. The site was created by J. Bannister and is administered by faculty and students of Western Connecticut State University. Sources listed on the page are targeted for scholarly research. Some of the sources are the universities own representing a bias. Regardless of this the site is linked to several useful social science search engines and meta-sites such as SOSIG and the World Wide Web Virtual Library for the Social Sciences. Several distinctions/awards are listed on the page including Education Index top site and Suite 101 top 5 web site. Also, I found that the site was cross-referenced on many other social sciences pages. One of the best features of the site is the links to the specific disciplinary pages within the social sciences such as Anthropology and Sociology. Each of these pages within the WCSU system is excellent. Finally, the site only offers links to other resources in the social sciences but is a great place to check out when doing a scholarly search in the social sciences.

Anthropology in the News

This site simply provides a listing of current news stories in the discipline of anthropology and its sub-fields. The articles listed come from a select group of news sources including major newspapers, university press releases, and other groups. There are several biases embedded in the site that need to be recognized. These biases are actually quite apparent after cursory browse of the site. First, only a small group of resources were chosen to base the site on including CNN, USA Today, and The Washington Post. This is made clear at the top of the page. Also, probably because Carlson is an archaeologist, the news stories are geared toward archaeology. Another limitation of the site is that news releases only go back a month or so. Despite the limitations of the site it would be useful for those interested in a selection of very current news stories on the topic of Anthropology as it is presented to the general public.

University of California Santa Barbara Anthropology Web Sites

This site is an excellent start for searching topics in Anthropology on the web. Hundreds of web sites are listed and well-organized by subject and subfield. The page directs you to some sites which are particularly HOT or new. The currency of the site seems to be very good as it was recently updated (2-16-98). Several attractive features are offered including links to upcomming conferences, online syllabi from various universities, lists particular sites with "lots o' links", museum and institute sites, allows searches by geography and sub-fields, and has a search tool for getting short description of a particular site listed on the page. The site administered by the University of California at Santa Barbara and is intended for an academic audience. The site basically offers links to other web sites and also allows sites to added to their list. The site is easy to navigate, current, and a good place to start when searching for internet sources on Anthropology and its sub-fields.

A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace

A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace is a huge web site containing a wide-variety of information on topics related to sociology. The site is one of the best sites I found on sociology both for the breadth of material offered and the organization. The site offers both general links and information on particular topics in sociology and culture theory. Some of the site highlights include links to theory specific sites, statistical resources on the web, online "structure of research paper", and a listing of general sociological sites with a focus on American Studies. The site is monitored by Michael Kearl at Trinity University and is definately designed for a scholarly audience. A particularly interesting aspect of the site is the essays and links on particular topics in sociology and cultural theory such as articles about the "great Sokal hoax" and debate surroundinTg it and a general listing the "Sociology of Knowledge". Many of these topics located near the bottom of the page would be of interest to American Studies scholars. This is an excellent web site and well worth a serious look for those interested in the social sciences with a particular focus on sociology and culture theory.

Dead Sociologists Society

This is a web site established by Ridener at Baylor with the help of sociology faculty from other institutions to provide a helpful resource for sociology students. The site gets its name from the dozen or so sociologists featured in its Dead Sociologists Index. These include some of the most influential names in the discipline such as Simmel, Marx, Sorokin, DuBois, and others. The Index contains bios on each of the scholars and an introduction to their work. This site is linked to many other Hot sites in sociology through general sociology links. The box containing links also contains information on graduate programs in Sociology and other sub-topics. Dead Sociologists Society is a good site for students interested in the basics of sociology and theory. The site is a limited web page in scope and I found it more difficult to navigate than other sites. It is also uncertain how stable and current the site is. The most far reaching components of the site are its links to other major sites, clearinghouses, and databases, and its usefulness as a tool for students interested in sociology.

Social Sciences Virtual Library

This site was established by Gene Thursby at the University of Florida and is maintained through the College of Arts and Sciences. The site appears to be an excellent source for linking to web sites dealing with the social sciences and its various sub-fields. The most attractive feature of the site is that it provides an extensive collection of hundreds of sites listed in alphabetical order. They also offer a brief description of what each site has to offer. A major advantage to the lists is that they can be downloaded and printed as a guideline that could dramatically streamline a scholarly web search. The site seems to be very current as it was updated on 2-12-98. This site is an excellent source to start a general search of social science sites and data sources on the web.

Taub Urban Research Center at New York University

Affiliated with the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Taub Urban Research Center site has a great deal to offer scholars in American Studies. Attractively designed, it is divided into seven main sections: Calendar of Events, Research Issues and Reports, News, New York Affairs, City Soapbox, Urban Arcade, and Search This Site. Additional options are Course Work and Curriculum and Urban Planning Students Association. Links are provided both to websites on planning and public policy in New York, as well as to urban planning and studies programs of several major universities. Papers featured in the "Research Issues and Reports" section deal with broad urban cultural issues (e.g. immigration and poverty); citations are provided for those scholarly works. What distinguishes this site from those of other universities, is the array of cultural information it provides. For example, the Urban Arcade allows visitors to view turn-of-the-century photographs, listen to live music, explore aspects of black and Latino life, read popular urban legends, view graffiti from several U.S. cities, and so forth. Although there are no "help files" offered, this site is easy to navigate, its search engine operating in a standard (key word / phrase) fashion. It should also be noted that this site is updated frequently; some sections appear to be revised on a daily basis.

Cyburbia: The Planning and Architectural Internet Resource Center

Established in 1994, the purpose of this site is to provide a comprehensive directory of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, and urbanism, and to other topics related to the built environment. It also provides users with information on mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups. Strictly informational, Cyburbia links to over 6,000 sites. Although sponsored by SUNY-Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning, this site is maintained independently of the university by one of that program's graduates, a county planner in Colorado. A page of recognitions and awards links to a recent profile in Planning magazine, while a separate page offers an extensive list of supporters, both from academic institutions and planning agencies. This resource, clearly organized and easy to use, is searchable in a manner similar to other electronic resources. Its last update was one month prior to this review.

Index to Current Urban Documents

This site indexes reports and research generated by public agencies as well as by academic and research organizations. Greenwood Publishing Group, the site provider, is a commercial publisher with five imprints specializing in the humanities, social sciences, and law. Government publications librarians, urban studies professors, and reference librarians are among those who have provided endorsements of Greenwood's website. The Index to Current Urban Documents circulates information in 3,000 subject areas from 450 selected cities in the U.S. and Canada. While this site does link to the homepages of city agencies, the list does not appear to be comprehensive. Although this site offers neither a search engine nor help files, it is clearly organized and easy to use. Additional materials may be attained either by the purchase of fiche or by connecting to websites which are clearly identified. At the time of this review, the index's most recent issue was four months old.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries -- Architectural Studies Library

The purpose of this website is to provide a guide and links to a large selection of sites in areas of architecture, building, urban issues, design, environment, and housing. Facilitated by one of the librarians of the Architecture School Library since 1993, its intended audience is researchers in an array of academic fields. Two major categories of information provided by this site are labeled "Reference Tools" and "Resources." Within the latter category, the site's author acknowledges that selections are often tied to scholarly interests of members of the School of Architecture and does not claim to be comprehensive. Each entry featured includes the name of the site, its url address, and a brief description along with a link. Under the "Urban Environment" label are links to sites on urban design, digital communities, theme park studies, syllabi, relevant theses and dissertations, planning studies, and articles. Sites are indexed both alphabetically and by subject. Although easy to use, help files are available.

H-Urban

Since February 1993, this website and its electronic forums have provided a range of scholarly resources--book reviews, syllabi, and access to all of H-Urban's logs and discussions. Provided by Michigan State University, numerous other urban studies organizations are affiliated with H-Urban. Primitive in its design and format, H-Urban offers information in a number of categories, but no direct links to other sites, only addresses. The main purpose is to circulate information and ideas among scholars and teachers of urban history and studies. Included is information of the following types: Archives and Historical Societies, Bibliographical, Dissertation and Theses, Exhibitions, Grants and Fellowships, Book Reviews, Internet Resources, Journals, Libraries, and Scholarly Organizations. Biographies are given of the extensive group of international scholars who serve as editors and board members.

Webbuilders Debra DeRuyver and Elanna Haywood
For more information contact:
Dr. Mary Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, 2135 Taliaferro Hall, College Park, MD 20879, (301)405-1354. Email:ms128@umail.umd.edu