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Internet Links
General Reference	News & Current Events	Government Resources	Citing Resources
Literature Resources	Science/Math/Health Resources	History Resources	Art/Music/Drama Resources

General Reference
Library of Congress - Search the library catalog, digital collections, "American Memory" and more	Infoplease - Daily almanac, atlas and more	Merriam-Webster Online - Dictionary and Thesaurus	Library Spot - An expansive list of links to resources
ipl2 - evaluated, selected and organized weblinks on a wide array of topics	World Digital Library - significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world	Voice of the Shuttle- Index of websites for Humanities research	CIA World Factbook - country profiles, flags of the world and more
Free Dictionaries Project- more than 120 free dictionaries for translating over 70 languages	Refdesk.com - indexes and reviews quality, credible, and timely reference resources	Advanced Placement Digital Library - collection of archived Internet resources reviewed for their educational merit for AP classes.	U.S. Dept. of State - Background Notes - facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, and economy of foreign countries
Portals to the World - links to electronic resources from around the world selected by LOC subject experts	Intute - access to education and research resources selected and evaluated by subject specialists	INFOMINE - scholoarly internet resource collections	Directory of Open Access Journals - full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
FindingDulcinea - provides credible, high-quality, trustworthy websites	HighWire Press - a division of Stanford University Libraries, it hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content	Smithsonian Institution Libraries - the most comprehensive museum library system in the world, including digital collections

News & Current Events
CNN	New York Times	USA Today	Washington Post
Washington Times	International Newspapers	Newsweek	Time Magazine

Government Resources
USA.gov - links to Federal, state and local Government Agencies	Thomas - Legislative information from the Library of Congress	U.S. Senate	U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Supreme Court	White House	FedStats- Statistics from over 100 Federal agencies	Ben's Guide to U.S. Government - Gr. 9-12
GPO Access- official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.	Virginia.gov - Official Commonwealth of VA homepage	Virginia General Assembly: Legislative Information Service- search bills & resolutions, Code of VA and more	Cooper Center - statistical, economic and demographic data on Virginia
Guide to House and Senate Members- single point of access for official information on Members of Congress.	Virginia's Judicial System - Search court opinions, case dockets and more	SearchGov.com - Link to Federal, State, and Local branches and agencies	America.gov - telling America's story
oyez.com - A database on major constitutional cases heard by the United States Supreme Court

Citing Resources
The Owl at Purdue (Purdue University) -includes APA, MLA and Chicago styles	KnightCite Citation Service - creates citations in MLA, APA and Chicago styles	Citation Machine - creates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian styles	MLA Style "Cheat Sheet" - based on MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed., 2009

Literature Resources
Gale Literature Resource Center - literary criticism, reviews, bios, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.	Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - an annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet	Internet Shakespeare Editions - includes scholarly texts of Shakespeare's plays, explorations of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance.	Shakespeare Resource Center - links to Shakespeare resources on the Internet
Romantic Circles - A scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture	American Transcendentalism Web - explores authors and the influence of the Transcendental movement in American Literature	Poets.org - poets, poems, bios and more from the Academy of American Poets	Poetry 180 - A poem a day for American High Schools
Based on the Book - A compilation of over 1,250 books, short stories and plays that have been made into movies		Literary Criticism -critical and biographical websites about authors and their works	Modern American Poetry

Science/Math/Health Resources
Gale Science Resource Center Topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, and articles across the Science curriculum	eLibrary Science More than 440 sources across the Science curriculum	Encyclopedia of Life - a journey to document all species of life on earth	ScienceWorld
Periodic Table of Elements	IMSEnet - links to science resources	Science Fair Theme Page -links to Science Fair resources	Ask Dr. Math -a question and answer service for math students and teachers
MathWorld	Centers for Disease Control	National Library of Medicine	Virginia Dept. of Health
Learn.Genetics - Genetic Science Learning Center from U. of Utah	healthfinder.gov - source for reliable health information from US Dept. of Health & Human Services	TeensHealth - information about health, growth and emotions for teens. .	Physics Classroom Tutorial - Online physics tutorial for introductory students.

History Resources
Gale History Resource Center: US Historical documents, articles, and journals covering U.S. history	Gale History Resource Center: World Primary sources, reference titles, journals and images covering World history	Our Documents -100 milestone documents from American History in their original form	HyperHistory -presents 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of lifelines, timelines, and maps.
Best of History Web Sites - annotated links to over 1000 history web sites	Timelines - a collection of timelines on the web	EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it	HistoryNet - includes world and US history, interviews, and feature articles
The Avalon Project - primary source documents in fields of history, law and diplomacy	American Civil War Homepage - links to Civil War resources	Internet History Sourcebooks Project - a collection of historical texts from ancient to modern history	World History Sources - Website reviews describe and link to online primary source archives
Amercian Memory - Library of Congress collection of digitized primary source documents from American history	Virginia Center for Civil War Studies - Virginia Tech site with links to Civil War websites and a digital manuscripts collection	The Constitutional Sources Project - fully-indexed comprehensive online library of constitutional sources	Making of America - a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War - collection from Smithsonian's Museum of American History

Art/Music/Drama Resources
Timeline of Art History - a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of art history from around the world	Classical Music Navigator - information on important classical music composers and their works	Worldwide Internet Music Resources	Theatre History on the Web
smARThistory - a multi-media art history web-book	National Gallery of Art	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Artcyclopedia
Jazz in Time - timeline of history of Jazz

Last Modified on November 19, 2012

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