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General Reference
The Librarian's Index to the Internet - Tired of wasting time trying to find a helpful authoritative web site for your school assignments? Instead of using the usual search engines try "The Librarian's Index to the Internet" from the University of California. Real librarians created this site to help their students find what they need.
Information Please Almanac
The 50 States of the United States - Capital Cities & Information Links
Global Statistics
Biography
Biography.com
Distinguished Women of Past & Present
Census Data and Demographics
Bureau of the Census
Statistical Abstracts of the United States - The complete edition of this reference work is available in the FA library.
Dictionaries
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases
WWWebster Dictionary
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Encyclopedias
Britannica On-Line - FA has a subscription to The Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line. You will only be able to search this site from a campus computer.
Grolier Online - Especially good for Middle School students. This encyclopedia can only be accessed from campus computers.
Geography
Library of Congress Country Studies
U.S. Department of State Background Notes - An official U.S. Government publication which profiles countries and organizations of the world.
The World Fact Book
Zip Code Lookup & Address Information
Weather
Newspapers
Newsbank - FA has a subscription to Newsbank Online. You will only be able to search this site from a campus computer.
Newsday - Access to this site will only work from a computer on campus. Members of the FA community may search this database from home, but must first see a member of the FA library staff to obtain a password.
New York Times - WARNING: Back issues of NY Times articles on this site are not free. For back issues of the NY Times use the CD ROM computer in the FA library.
Cable Network news (CNN)
Lexis Nexis Scholastic - Full text of major newspapers, wire service stories,
television and radio broadcasts, and foreign language news. The past twenty years
of The New York Times is also included. *To access from home see a member of the library staff for passwords.
ProQuest Direct - Hundreds of popular magazines, many full text, but not all. If the article you want is not full text here, ask a librarian for help, we probably have the full text available in another format. *To access from home see a member of the library staff for passwords.
Science, Mathematics, Health
Health Reference Center - Academic
Life Science Dictionary
How Stuff Works
Cornell Math & Science Gateway
The Nine Planets
Go Ask Alice - From Columbia University's Health Education Program
HIV Site: Gateway to AIDS Knowledge
Heath World Online
Literature
Galenet Database Group - The FA Subscription includes; Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Exploring Poetry & Discovering U.S. History. Access to this site will only work from a computer on campus. Members of the FA community may search this database from home, but must first see a member of the FA library staff to obtain a password.
American Verse Project - Archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920
Mark Twain in His Times
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
PBS Online
Looking up any author?
Specific Authors (alphabetical order)
Angelou, Maya
Chopin, Kate
Dickey, James
Douglass, Frederick
Faulkner, William
Gaines, Ernest
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr
Giovanni, Nikki
Giovanni, Nikki - another link
Harris, Joel Chandler
Harris, Joel Chandler - another link
Hurston, Zora Neale
Jarrell, Randall
Johnson, James Weldon
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Mason, Bobbie Ann
O'Connor, Flannery
Percy, Walker
Poe, Edgar Allen
Poe, Edgar Allen - another link
Ransom, John Crowe
Twain, Mark
Walker, Alice
Warren, Robert Penn
Warren, Robert Penn
Washington, Booker T.
Welty, Eudora
Welty, Eudora - another link
Wright, Richard
American History
Librarian's Index to the Internet - Go to History and click on U.S.
American Memory Project @ The Library of Congress
Documents of African American Women
Documents of Civil War Women
Freedmen & Southern Society Project (Emancipation info)
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Index of Presidents of the United States -
Includes speeches, writings, biographies and links to related sites
Cornell Law Page
FindLaw
American Studies Web
Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Asian Studies
The Librarian's Index to the Internet -
Do not enter search terms in the text box, instead look for Cultures (World) Asia on their home page and click on Asia.
Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line - FA has a subscription to The Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line.
You will only be able to search this site from a campus computer.
Background Notes U.S State Department
Library of Congress Country Studies
C.I.A. World Factbook 1998
Ask Asia
International Studies Resources on the Internet - Go to "Regions & Countries" on their home page, and click on "Asia."
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