Websites by Subject Menu






Communications

Box Office Mojo
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/
Provides daily, weekly, and cumulative financial earnings, exact release date, production budget, advertising budget and comparative earnings lists for movies made around the world.

Current.org
http://www.current.org/
"Selections from the newspaper about public TV and radio in the United States" Current news about public broadcasting.

The Daguerreian Society
http://www.daguerre.org/
Galleries of old daguerreutypes, articles about this aspect pf photographic history and information about how daguerreutypes are made.

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/timeline.html#note
"This timeline includes selected events in business technology, media, marketing, and advertising for the decades covered by this project."

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
http://www.fair.org
"FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986." Web site includes many articles about media issues, see their "Women's Desk" and "Racism Watch Desk".

Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov
Recent actions, reports and initiatives of the FCC are posted here, along with information about the agency and links to their bureaus.

The Greatest Films
http://www.filmsite.org/
"You may access this site's "Greatest Films" List, that highlights 100 films that have left an indelible mark on our century's culture and have been part of our lives for nearly a century. Criteria for selection are also detailed. You may be interested in Tips on Viewing Films Critically provided by the site's author." This web site contains many lists of top-rated films for different aspects of filmaking.

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
Provides running time, cast list, awards, plot summaries, country of origin, quotes, MPAA rating (ie. PG-13, R) viewer’s quality ratings, etc. for movies made around the world.

MediaChannel.org
http://www.mediachannel.org/
"MediaChannel is a media issues supersite, featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of organizations worldwide. As the media watch the world, we watch the media."

Movie Review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com/
“Searchable database of over 185,000 movie reviews”

The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
http://people-press.org/
"The Center's purpose is to serve as a forum for ideas on the media and public policy through public opinion research. In this role it serves as an important information resource for political leaders, journalists, scholars, and public interest organizations. All of our current survey results are made available free of charge."

The Photography Museum
http://www.photographymuseum.com
View many online digital galleries depicting different aspects of photographic history.

Symbols.com
http://www.symbols.com
"SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti."

History

AMDOCS – Documents for the study of American history
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
Contains documents from the 1500's-2000's.

American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
The Library of Congress gateway to materials relating to the history and cultural development of the U.S

American Women’s History: A Research Guide
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
Collection of citations and links to primary and secondary source materials in more than 75 topical areas such as African-American women and World War II.

Archiving Early America
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
Learn about early America through newspapers, maps, magazines and writings of the period. Included are the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, and the Whiskey Rebellion.

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/hyper_titles.cfm
An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present.

Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Eyewitness to History
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
History through the eyes of those who lived it from the Ancient World to the present.

History Online
http://www.history.ac.uk/search/
This website includes searchable access to a listing of books, articles (abstracts available for some), current research and links to much more.

Hyperhistory
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps. This site does not provide detailed information, but it does provide a basic overview of historical topics.

In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives...
http://www.inthefirstperson.com
An index to English language personal narratives and oral histories, letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases.

Making of America
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

New York State Guide to Digital Resources at the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/states/newyork/
The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with New York State history, including manuscripts, broadsides, government documents, books, and maps. This guide compiles links to digital materials related to New York that are available throughout the Library of Congress Web site.

Using Primary Sources on the Web
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
Provides an excellent overview of what primary sources are, how to find them on the web and how to evaluate primary source websites.

Virtual Library’s History
http://vlib.org/History
The European University Institute’s virtual library of historical resources.

Women in World History
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/
Site has information and resources about women’s history in a global, non-U.S., context.

Political Science

American National Election Studies (ANES)
http://www.electionstudies.org/
“ANES produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.”

American Political Science Association
http://www.apsanet.org/
The professional organization for political scientists designed to provide access to and help locating scholarly research as well as programs, conferences, job listings and more.

American President
http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/
Information on past and recent American Presidents that features a multimedia library with over 4,000 hours of video and audio materials.

Democratic National Committee
http://www.democrats.org/
The official website for the DNC; provides information on the party platform, local politics, press releases, how to volunteer, get involved in politics and more.

EUROPA: Gateway to the European Union
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
Information portal that provides information on the activities and services the EU provides as well as the specific institutions and much more.

FirstGOV
http://www.firstgov.gov/
Links to every government organization in existence; also provides extensive information on how to contact your representatives as well as data and statistics, press releases, podcasts, laws and regulations and much more.

Foreign Affairs Online
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/rjb.html
Very comprehensive site with links to maps and reference materials on topics such as the U.S. government, foreign states, the United Nations, nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations (NGOs and IGOs), international law, human rights, international relations and think tanks.

League of Women Voters
http://www.lwv.org/
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, provides citizen education and advocacy.

Political Parties, Interest Groups and Other Social Movements
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/parties.htm
Very comprehensive list of political parties and interest groups arranged by country of origin.

Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm
Excellent resource for Congressional biographies, campaign finance, issue positions, interest group ratings, voting records, public statements and much more.

Republican National Committee
http://www.gop.com/
The official website for the GOP; provides information on the party platform, local politics, how to volunteer, get involved in politics and more.

Think Tanks
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psthink.html
Extensive list of think tanks with brief descriptions of what each offers to site visitors.

ThisNation.com: American Government & Politics Online
http://www.thisnation.com/
Information on the three branches of government, federalism, the U.S. Constitution, news and more; also includes an extensive glossary of political terminology.

THOMAS
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Locate information from Congressional sessions as far back as the 93rd (1973) Congress for Bill Summary & Status, Public Laws, House and Senate Roll Call Votes, Legislation by Sponsor and Session Calendars; visitors can also read the Congressional Record.

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates: 1774-1875
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Hosted by the Library of Congress, this is an extensive collection of some of our country’s most historically significant political primary source documents, such as the Journals of the Continental Congress and American State Papers.

Psychology

American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org
Official site of the American Psychological Association (APA). APA is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States.

Centre for Psychology Resources
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/psycres.shtml
Resources for psychology students compiled by Athabasca University

Classics in the History of Psychology
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/
Links to full-text articles and books on psychology

Encyclopedia of Psychology
http://www.psychology.org/
Encyclopedic website covering the field of psychology

History of Psychology
http://www.dialogical.net/psychology/notables.html
Virtual library of resources on the history of psychology

Psychological Research on the Internet
http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html
Provides listings of links to psychological research and experiments

Psychology Information Online
http://www.psychologyinfo.com/
Psychology Information Online provides information about psychological diagnosis, disorders and problems, psychotherapy and behavior therapy, psychological evaluations and testing, and numerous other areas in the field of psychology.

Psychology Virtual Library
http://www.dialogical.net/psychology/index.html
A virtual library of psychology resources

School Psychology Resources Online
http://www.schoolpsychology.net/
School psychology resources for psychologists, parents and educators

Social Psychology Network
http://www.socialpsychology.org/
A social psychology database with links to over 5,000 psychology resources

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