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1. Women & the Economy
   Focuses on the position of women in the economy. Includes a brief history of economic thinkers; background about money, banking, debt, economics and war, and feminist economics; women's economic contributions and economic inequality; women and globalizati
   03-03-2008 : barter systems, biographies, business, economics, economists, food buying clubs, globalization, history, people, women
2. Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa, 1763-2006
   Part of AfricaBib, so it provides bibliographic data only.
   03-03-2008 : africa, explorers, history, missionaries, women travelers
3. Shoah Foundation - Online Testimony Catalogue
   Seeks to “overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry – and the suffering they cause – through the educational use of the Foundation’s visual history testimonies.” Has “videotaped more than 50,000 testimonies, given in 32 languages by people living in 56
   03-03-2008 : history, holocaust, jewish studies, judaism, oral histories, world war ii (1939-1945)
4. East African Development Library
   A virtual library in which you can browse by subject or organization or also search by particular words, title, subject or organization.
   03-03-2008 : africa, agriculture, breeding, communication, community development, culture, economic development, education, energy, environment, financing, fishing, food, health, history, human development, indigenous knowledge, marketing, natural resources, ngos, science, social development, state and civil service, technology, water
5. Intute: Advanced Search
   “... a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.... Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database cont
   02-21-2008 : african, agricultural, american, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, archives, arts, asia, astronomy, australasian, australia, beauty, biomedical ethics, bioresearch, business, catering, celtic, chemistry, chinese, classics, communications, comparative literature, computing, conservation, culture, design, earth sciences, eastern european, ecology, economics, engineering, english studies, environment, european, fashion, food, forestry, french, geography, german, government, health, hispanic, history, history and philosophy of science, history of medicine, hospitality, humanities, italia, japanese, latin american, law, leisure, libraries, life sciences, linguistics, management, manuscript studies, mathematics, media, medicine, middle eastern, midwifery, modern languages, museums, music, natural history, nursing, performing arts, philosophy, physics, politics, portuguese, psychology, religions, research methods, research tools, russian, scandinavian, science, science engineering, slavonic, social sciences, social welfare, sociology, south asian, sports, statistics, technology, theology, tourism, travel, vetinerary, visual arts, women
6. Turkey's Tigers by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), "Wide Angle," produced by Thirteen/WNET
   A 2006 documentary about developments in Turkey, a country that historically "has been run by a stridently secular business and political elite struggling to align itself with the Western world, while its pious Muslims have been pushed to the political an
   02-21-2008 : classroom discussion items, democracy, extremism, faiths, history, islam, religion and politics, teaching resources, turkey
7. Présidence de la République
   Official website for the president of France. Provides biographical material and speeches and documents from the current president, a picture gallery of presidents back to the Second Republic (1848), and a history of the president's Elysée Palace and othe
   02-21-2008 : flags, france, heads of state, history, marianne, politics
8. The Roman Empire in the First Century by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
   Provides "a detailed look at the emperors of the time as well as other important historical figures ... [and] the daily life of ancient Romans." Has a timeline, an Augustan family tree (showing the relationships between Julius Caesar, Claudius, Caligula,
   02-15-2008 : ancient history, ancient rome, antiquities, caligula, claudius, history, italy, julius caesar, nero, rome
9. Librarians’ Internet Index: Judaism
   A well-organized starting point for reliable, librarian-selected Internet resources. Covers many categories of Judaism
   02-14-2008 : anti-semitism, encyclopedias, food, genealogy, hanukkah, hasidism, hebrew language, history, holidays, holocaust, jewish studies, jews, judaism, judaism study and teaching, kabbalah, karaite, ladino language, libraries, literature, liturgy, magazines, migrations, museums, music, newspapers, orthodox judaism, passover, reform judaism, religions, sephardic, talmud, women, yiddish language and culture
10. UNISA Cultural Sciences Links by the University of South Africa
    Discover the vitality and significance of African peoples around the world and the natural riches of Africa.
    02-14-2008 : african art, african peoples, african studies, history, musicology
11. World History Sources by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
    “... an online resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially
    05-01-2007 : case studies, globalization, history, primary sources, world history
12. CBC NACews In Depth: Killing Fields by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
    This feature centers on the "between 1 1/2 million and two million people [who] were killed, starved or worked to death during the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge" in Cambodia in the 1970s. Includes a profile of a former Khmer Rouge revolutionary, an edito
    05-01-2007 : cambodia, genocide, history
13. Fourth World Journal
    '... the world's leading publication for ideas and analysis about and by writers from some of the world's more than six thousand Fourth World nations.'
    02-11-2007 : aboriginal peoples, arts, authors, creative arts, economics, environment, ethnic groups, fourth world, history, indigenous peoples, indigenous studies, native peoples, political change, social change, tribes, writers
14. Anistorian: History, Archaeology, Art History
    A free online journal with peer-reviewed articles.
    02-11-2007 : archaeology, art history, history
15. Hindu Books
    Has free online books/booklets on temples, scriptures, stories, history, social and contemporary issues, dharma and philosophy, art, worship, customs, Hindutva, and organizations. Also a culture course on India, biographies of great Indians, and Hindu links.
    02-10-2007 : art, biographies of great indians, customs, dharma and philosophy, electronic e-books, hinduism, hindutva, history, organizations. india: culture, people, scriptures, social and contemporary issues, stories, temples, worship
16. Brazil
    Covers academic research resources, the African diaspora, agriculture and ranching, the economy, education, environment and sustainable devleopment, government, health, history, immigration and migration, indigenous peoples, news, portals and directories, religion, travel and tourism, and much more.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    02-10-2007 : aboriginal peoples, academic research resources, african diaspora, agriculture and ranching, brazil, directories, economy, education, environment and sustainable devleopment, ethnic groups, government, health, history, immigration and migration, indigenous peoples, news, portals, religions, south america, tourist information, travel, tribes
17. Africa Art South of the Sahara
    Many links on various aspects of African art.
    02-09-2007 : africa, african newspapers, art, country studies, culture, current events, film, history, indexes, journals, libraries and archives, maps, music, news, regions: central africa, regions: east africa, regions: horn of africa, regions: indian ocean islands, regions: southern africa, regions: west africa, religions, sports, travel, weather, women's studies
18. Stereotyping Native America
    Photographs featuring 'turn of the 20th century stereographs of Native Americans' and related depictions to 'showcase how, around the turn of the 20th century, photographic convention dictated Native Americans be portrayed according to mainstream American typologies.' (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    02-09-2007 : adam clark vroman keystone-mast, american typologies, history, indians, indians in popular culture, native americans, photographs, stereotypes, united states
19. Portals to the World
    Provides authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and regions of the world. Well organized and covers many subjects.
    02-08-2007 : area studies, business, country studies, culture, government, history, language, religions
20. Kurdish information Network
    Covers Kurdish culture, language, history and more.
    01-19-2007 : culture, ethnography, history, kurds, language, unreached people groups

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