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"Intute is a free online service providing access to high quality Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK Universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database."
   
A subject specific search engine that provides access to all the major categories in the humanities.

American Folklife Center: This web site provides Ethnographic Resources related to Folklore, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and the Humanities. Unless otherwise noted, the sites listed in this directory are provided by organizations other than the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality, or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links.

Ancient History Sourcebook: The Internet History Sourcebook Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts in Humanities. Use the links in each table of contents to find specific information about a person or time period.

Arts Edge: "The National Arts and Education Network supports research in the humanities. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the MarcoPolo consortion of national education organizations provide additional resource material in the visual arts and education."

British Academy Portal: "The British Academy's directory of online resources provides areas of research in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed as an entry point to available resources for those working in higher education and research."

English Server:This Database Server offers nearly 50 topical websites plus Online Book Collections available in full-text and free-of-charge. Collection topics range from Literature and History, to Science and Technology. Hosted at the Iowa State University.

European Library: "The European Library is a non-commercial organisation. It provides the services of a physical library and the opportunity to benefit from a virtual environment in 20 languages. This website allows users to search through the resources of 23 of the 47 national libraries involved in The European Library. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.)."

Great Books and Classics: A gateway to the online full-text versions of the Great Books series including the most recent updates and additions. The links are organized by author in chronological order.

Harrold's Education Links: A search engine to locate by keyword free, full-text eBooks in World Literature.

Ibiblio: "Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill."

Infomine: "This search engine is built by librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities. INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information."

Luminarium: An anthology of English Literature representing the works of authors who wrote during the Medieval period, the Renaissance, the 17th Century, and the Restoration period.

Medieval and Classical Library: The OMACL site provides a collection of many important literary works written during the Classical and Medieval periods.

Music Web Resources: A guide to early music developed by a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He has provided links within the following resource categories: Early Music, Classical Music, General Music, Instrumental Music, Vocal Music, Internet Radio, Musicians and music education.

Performing Arts Encyclopedia: "This is a guide to the performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. The PAE provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials."

Performing Arts Libraries and Collections: The Theatre Library Group has provided a selection of scholarly links to worldwide performing arts sites within the areas of cinema, dance and theatre.

Performing Arts Online: A combined subject portal to over 20,000 performing arts links in dance, music, art and theatre.

Perseus Digital Library: "This digital library contains hundreds of texts from Ancient Greece and Rome and Renaissance England. The texts are accompanied by scholarly essays and images."

Scholarly Archives: Free access to journals, bulletins, and newsletters published by scholarly societies. Titles can be located by subject area.

Yahoo:Humanities & Classics : The classical humanities section of the Yahoo! Directory.

 
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Arts Journal: The site is a digest of arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal features links to stories from more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.

Critical Thinking: The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking is providing selection to resources and articles on critical thinking in order to improve instruction in colleges and universities. The site offers research, instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, quality enhancement, and competency standards.

Forest of Rhetoric: "This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric."

Research and Documentation Online: Online version of "Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age" by Diana Hacker. It contains research guides to Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Sciences.

Rhetoric and Composition: "This page has links to works of classical rhetoric, articles on literacy and education, comprehensive bibliographies in the field and a few miscellaneous but useful things--how to suscribe to some highly-trafficked mailing lists and links to glossaries of rhetorical terms."

Silent Film Bookshelf: "This site reprints original documents from the silent film era, and is curated by David Pierce." Use the search engine on this site to find films created during the silent film era by title of movie.