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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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    Dictionaries
    Encyclopedias
    Geography
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    Science, Math, Health
    Literature
    Specific Authors
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    Art
    Asian Studies

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