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This Library of Cobress site features a "series of annual pamphlets first started in 1998" which highlight "some of the most important and interesting books published abroad that an American public may have overlooked." Includes fiction and non-fiction.

Joshua Siegel and his colleagues write helpful articles on numerous facets of the business, provide sample resumes, headshots, agentdirectories, and other actors' tools, and offer a selection of links to other acting sites.

The Fund provides services for entertainment professionals nationwide. Comprehensive health and insurance options for the self-employed are listed by state. The Fund provides counseling, substance abuse and mental health services, senior and disabled care, nursing home and assisted living care, emergency grants for food, rent and medical care, the Actors' Work Program, and an AIDS Initiative.

Offers a variety of social, vocational, housing, and insurance services.

"Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc."

Companion website to the PBS African American genealogy television series

Part one of an article by Theodore O. Mason Jr. from the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism website.

A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. Part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior ro 1920. A selection of published works of fiction, poetry, biography and autobiography, and essays. Keyword searching within each work or throughout the collection. Works featured include Phillis Weatly, Poems the Narrative of Sojourner Truth and Harriet A. Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

A site with specialized resources, links, and message boards dedicated to the particular challenges of researching African-American ancestors.

Convenient gateway to over 25 Bible and religious study resources, searchable by keyword or phrase. Pull-down menus highlight search details.

Sister site to Cook's Illustrated magazine and website. Tested recipes, products tastings, and equipment reviews.

This Local of members living or working in and around New York City is the largest local union of professional musicians in the world. Includes orchestral musicians performing at Lincoln Center, Broadway pit musicians,freelance musicians performing in and around New York, jazz artists, hotel, club date and cabaret musicians, recording musicians, and musicians in the rock, blues and contemporary music scenes. Part of the AFM (American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada)

This database seeks "to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)." Includes annotated links to other related resources.

A gateway site to this organization's resources for teachers and students of American history, including print, visual and multimedia materials.

American Women is . . . a gateway--a first stop for Library of Congress researchers working in the field of American women's history. The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001). The guide has been redesigned for online use, with added illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout the Library of Congress Website. These materials are supplemented by a small number of newly digitized items that provide a sample of the many relevant types of materials available in Library of Congress holdings. . .

A course handbook for students of ancient rhetoric.

A searchable, multilingual database of anthropological texts.

Dirctory of Anthropology-related links.

Exhibition which provides an account of Berkeley anthropology through its record of scholarly contributions based on fieldwork around the world.

Hundreds of good links to all aspects of acting, including: Training, Unions & Associations Theaters & Theater Groups Casting Publications Scriptwriting Shakespeare Film Studios Film Festivals Booklists. Ideosyncratic but useful advice on different aspects of acting can also be found on the site.

A directory of regional combined auditions, with contact information for each.

Profiles "provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries. They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives."

Includes news, discussions, culture, prayer, links to sacred texts, pages for Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and many other religions and spiritual beliefs.

Annotated bibliography arranged by topic.

This database "provides bibliographical references to scholarly publications on all branches of linguistics and all the languages of the world, irrespective of language or place of publication. The database contains all entries of the printed volumes of Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography for the years 1993-2001 and an increasing number of more recent references."

An overview of Bronx history from 1609 to the 1990s.

Introductory essay and brief bibliography.

This website "is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided byothers: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world."

Over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library.

Library of Congress site offering an annotated list of reference websites.

University of Florida site collects links related to Classics. Includes Local Resources, Subject Guides/Indices, Databases, Bibliographies, Directories/Associations, Etexts, journals and more.

Links to a broad range of resources including Greek and Latin Languages, Greek and Latin authors, Maps and sites of the Ancient World, Classics E-Journals, Medieval Latin Language and Culture, Classics Publishers, Classics Associations, and more.

A digital collection of politcal campaign memorabilia from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

The online version of the series of books published by the Federal ResearchDivision of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. Each entry details a country's political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, then examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.

An extensive list of links that point you to genealogical research sites on the Internet.

This site includes a wealth of resources including annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American and Native American history, and slavery.

The Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history. Items are currently located in two separate databases at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Search each of these databases for "Staten Island" to find the full text of hundreds of books and articles that mention Staten Island. The University of Michigan database spans the years 1800-1925. Items of interest include: History of the State of New York (1853-71), History of New Netherland (1855), A Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, privates, of the Regiments Which Were Organized in the State of New York (Civil War) 1864-68 and Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy and Adjoining Country (1856).

Interdisciplinary research tool for the study of women and gender in the ancient world.

Member information, news, magazine. Links to studio, distributors, reference, publications, and member home pages.

Various monologues from the East Los Angeles College writer's workshop.

Simple, well-organized list of reputable shakespeare sites on the Internet.

"The Race and Ethnicity collection, one of over forty literary collections on the EServer, consists of reference material, essays, and other works addressing issues of race and ethnicity in the United States."

A searchable database of over 5,000 recipes, restaurant and cookbook reviews, suggestions for the year's holiday cooking, and classic advice from James Beard and Fannie Farmer.

"This project is designed to enhance the teaching and learning of anthropology by encouraging teachers to help students explore the relationships between field data and analysis as reported in monographs and journal articles."