Library Resources

• Art Cyclopedia
• Art History Resources on the Web
• The Louvre Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Museum of Modern Art
• Creative Commons

American Verse Project is a searchable electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.

Poets.org is a resource from the Academy of American Poets with thousands of essays, biographies, weekly features, and poems for love and every occasion.

Perseus Collection is a collection of Greek and Roman materials from Tufts University.

Internet Public Library-Literary Criticism is a literary criticism pathfinder.

LiteraryHistory.com catalogs credible literary criticism on nineteenth and twentieth century English and American literature that is available on the free internet.

Read or Listen to Books Online

Biblomainia includes free online literature and study guides.

LibriVox provides free audio books from the public domain.

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books.

Prodigal No More provides links to the ebooks of Mortimer Adler’s Great Books of the Western World.

The Online Books Page is a University of Pennsylvania site that offers over 35,000 free books on the web.

Exploration Through the Ages retraces the steps of the great explorers from ancient Egypt to the North Pole and beyond.

The World Fact Book is a collection of maps and flags, a guide to world leaders, and comprehensive geographic information for every country and territory in the world.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection includes historic and modern online maps from the University of Texas at Austin.

Infoplease provides up-to-date state and country profiles.

World Atlas provides descriptions, graphics, maps, photos, and videos of world countries.

Government

United States Senate includes information about United States senators, committees, legislation, and records, as well as art and history of the Senate. Organized by subject, this site includes a virtual reference desk that is a clearinghouse of Senate information on the web.

United States House of Representatives provides information on the legislative branch of the United States government.

The White House provides up-to-date information on issues concerning the United States.

The United States Official Web Portal is the place to go for any information provided by the agencies of the U.S. government.

Civil War Photos includes photographs and images from the Library of Congress.

NASA Images is a collection of images associated with space and the space program.

National Park Service Digital Image Archives is a gigantic searchable database that returns images based on location or subject from the national parks service.

High School Environmental Center is your portal to EPA environmental resources. This site will inform you about environmental issues and help you protect the environment.

Science Daily is one of the internet's leading online magazines and web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine. Copyright Reuters 2008.

The Why Files is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Why Files covers science at all institutions that engage in scientific exploration and discovery. Their home page reprises older stories that become relevant to the headlines.

National Geographic is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. The National Geographic Society has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888.

United Nations Environment Program provides Information on caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

NIH Office of Science Education provides resources for high school students developed by the National Institutes of Health.

The Genetic Science Learning Center is a part of the bioscience research being carried out at the University of Utah. This science and health education program is dedicated to making science easy for everyone to understand.

National Human Genome Research Institute contains an index to fact sheets on various types of cancers and other specific genetic disorders. Published by the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Web Elements includes the periodic table on the web.

Crosswalk Bible Study Tools is an online Bible resource that includes commentaries, concordances, references, study guides, and more.