Best of the Web: History & Social Sciences

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"We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding." -From the website.

"This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for human originsand evolutionary theory in anthropology."

"An initiative to broaden professional electronic communication in Anthropology."

Complete, annotated listing of the publications of the Anthropological Survey of India from 1958-1995.

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.

The American Psychological Association (APA) offers information on finding help with life's problems.

AMEEL is an electronic library about the Middle East. It is a digital collection ofinformation.

Provides online access to resources for the study of archaeology of the British Isles.

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Collection of links from About.com.

The Library of Congress' "American Folklife Center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, which was founded at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American folk music. The Archive of Folk Culture became part of the American Folklife Center in 1978. Today, itsmulti-format, ethnographic collections are diverse and international, including over one million photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. It is America's first national archive of traditional life, and one of the oldest and largest of such repositories in the world."

Provides all types of documents (manuscripts, printed materials, visual, audio, and others) on the gay and lesbian community in Quebec, Canada. English and French versions available.

Website give details of the scope and content of the archive held in the Special Colelctions Department of Iowa State University.

This University of Arizona institution is "...is the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the region and brings to life the culture history of the Greater Southwest, from the mammoth hunters to the present, through many ongoing research projects. The museum's rich and varied collections are among the most significant resources in the nation for the study of Southwest anthropology."

Art Beyond Sight makes art, art history, and visual culture accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. Their goal is to provide and promote the tangible benefits of art education, museum visits, and art making for children and adults with vision loss.

Resources, advocacy, research, events, articles, and more on this comprehensive site.

Links to listings of galleries, artists, color examples of their work, and biographies of the artists.

Contains a searchable recipe database, feature articles on Asian food, and restaurant listings for NYC. Also lists various cooking schools across the country and links to other sites. From the Asia Society.

Page provides links to academic, library, archives, government and information resources on different regions of Asia. Also provides links to media, films, and museums.

"Assemblage, a dynamic online archaeology journal with contributionsfrom graduates and professionals, contains peer-reviewed researchpapers, features, opinion essays, reviews, fun pages, bulletin boards, and links to relevant websites." First issue published in October 1996.

Seller of various assistive hardware and software products designed for people with disabilities.

This professional organization was "created for journalists who devote most of their working time to planning and writing food copy for news media worldwide. . . . AFJ's primary goal is to encourage communication among food journalists. In addition, AFJ tries to increase members' knowledge of food and to sharpen their writing, design and broadcast skills. The group also strives to foster professional standards among its members and other members of the media."

Includes directory of professional genealogists for hire.

Offers support and information to families of children with ADD, adults with ADD and professionals through a network of AD-IN chapters.

"Audible is your home for premium digital audio entertainment and information. Choose from more than 25,000 best-selling digital audioboooks, radio shows, audio versions of popular magazines, daily newspapers, and more."

Directory of resources divided into sections such as digital publications, Australian history, Australian Aboriginal Studies, Australian law and government.

"The Australian Federation Full Text Database contains the debates and conventions of the 1890's leading up to Federation, including Bathurst and Corowa, with a range of participants' accounts and other contextual material from the time. These include the Quick and Garran "Annotated Constitutionof the Commonwealth of Australia", and "Studies in Australian Constitutional Law" by Andrew Inglis Clark, as well as a large number of books, pamphlets and articles by Deakin, Barton, Griffiths and others."

Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government of the Middle East.

Legal documents dating from pre-18th Century to the present.

Promotes and distributes an audio, visual, kinesthetic, and oral (AVKO) multi-sensory teaching methods and materials for dyslexia.

Site devoted top barbecue and outdoor cookery

Current and archived articles from the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Society's objectives are to identify, collect, preserve, and maintain materials that document the history of Bayside and Northeast Queens.

British Broadvasting Corporation site features articles, recipes, and food-related information.

Sections include an overview, facts, leaders, and links to media resources.

Companion site to a PBS documentary which explores the "struggle and triumph, progress and setbacks, discrimination and assimilation" of the Chinese American experience.

The full text of this recently published title, in which "David B. Edwards traces the lives of threerecent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discord,destruction, and despair." Includes a glossary and bibliography.

An article by Robert H. Wozniak,Bryn Mawr College.

The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, a unit of the University of Texas Libraries, is a specialized research library focusing on materials from and about Latin America, and on materials relating to Latinos in the United States.

NYPL's Best of the Web Health directory compiled by the librarians of the Health Information Center at the Mid-Manhattan Library.

Extensive bibliography of books written in English and published since 1970.

The BiblioNoticias series is an ongoing subject-oriented bibliography to which several new issues are added each year. The series is compiled by staff members at the Benson Latin American Collection.

"When Congress passed the Bilingual Education Act in 1967, bilingual education was virtually unknown in schools serving American Indian students."