Finding and Evaluating Web-Based Humanities Resources for the Classroom

Finding Web-Based Resources

Search Sites

• Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet
• Disinformation: The Subculture Search Engine
• Musalman: Search Islamic Resources

Humanities Reference Works

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Bible Browser
• A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources
• Hypergrammar
• Dictionaries on the Web
• Strunk and White, The Elements of Style

Technical Reference

• Copyright Policy and Law (at UVa)
• Devshed's Resources for Web Developers
• HTML Elements
• Standards at the Electronic Text Center (SGML, XML, etc.)

Link Sites

• African Studies WWW
• African American History and Studies
• American and British History Resources on the Internet (Rutgers)
• American Authors on the Web
• American Studies Electronic Crossroads
• Archaeology on the Net
• Art Links on the Web (Boston College)
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
• Eurodocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
• Finding Data Online: A Journalist's Guide
• fineart forum: resource directory
• Gender History and Studies
• Internet Music Resources
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• Religion and Philosophy Resources on the Internet
• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
• Sarah Zupko' Cultural Studies Center
• Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
• Voice of the Shuttle

Content Sites

General

• Berkeley Image Finder
• Chorus
• Electronic Text Center Holdings (English, French German, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Tibetan, Icelandic)
• The English Server
• Humanities Text Initiative
• Library of Congress
• Museums and the Online Archive of California
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
• Oxford Text Archive

American Literature

• The Dickinson Archive (IATH)
• The Whitman Archive (IATH)

Classical Civilization

• The Perseus Project
• The Pompeii Forum Project (IATH)
• The Waters of Rome (IATH)

History

• Documenting the American South
• Historical Text Archive (Mississippi State)
• Valley of the Shadow (IATH)

Medieval Studies

• UVa Middle English Collections
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Salisbury Cathedral (IATH)

Romance Languages

• ARTFL
• The World of Dante (IATH)
• UVa Etext's French Language Resources

Romanticism

• The Blake Archive (IATH)
• Romantic Circles
• Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Victorianism

• The Victorian Web

Evaluating Web-Based Resources

About Evaluation

• Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist
• "Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources," by Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library
• "Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources," by Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library

Evaluative Listings

• Argus Clearinghouse: Arts and Humanities
• Edsitement (NEH/MCI)
• eBLAST: Encyclopedia Britannica's Internet Guide
• The Scout Report
• Yahoo Site Reviews: Arts and Humanities

Document URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~unsworth//wm/web.resources.html
Last Modified: Monday, 01-Mar-2004 16:27:12 CST