LIBERAL STUDIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES & EDUCATION
Education:
American Universities Link to American college and university home pages
Chronicle of Higher Education Please contact the reference staff for password information.
The Whitehouse Statistics Briefing Room
Women's Colleges in the United States
Children's Literature:
Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project
Notable Children's Books from ALA
Children's Literature (contains book reviews and teaching guides)
Children's Literature Web Guide
Kay Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page
Association of American Geographers
Earth Institute at Columbia University Focuses on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor
Environmental News Network (Daily coverage of environmental news, plus a searchable archive, radio, video and podcast programs, a forum and photo gallery)
Geo-Information Gateway to Human Geography
Social Explorer Access to U.S. demographic information with interactive data maps
Yale
Center for the Study of Globalization
Childstats (access to statistics and reports on children and families)
Department of State includes Secretary of State briefings and speaches, travel warnings, and consular information sheets.
Directory of U.S. Political Parties from Politics1
Emily's List A political newtwork for Democratic, pro-choice women
The Federal Elections Commision
FindLaw.com Law, lawyers and legal resources.
FirstGov (the US government's official web portal)
Justice Talking Produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, NPR discussions on a variety of topics
THOMAS Legislative Information.
The United States House of Representatives
The Virtual Chase Legal research on the internet.
The
Wish List A political network for Republican women.
Literature & Creative Writing:
General
Book Awards, Best Book Lists, Book Reviews
Folklore
Grammar and Writing
The Missouri Review (One of the top ten small press literary magazines in the country. Offers publishing internships for aspiring students).
Nebraska Center for Writers (includes helpful links to inspire the Muse and help you polish and publish your writing)
Advanced English Lessons Good source for English grammar.
Writer's Workshop: University of Iowa (very prestigious writer's residency program).
Languages
Literature
Librarian's Index to the Internet: Literature (reviewed links on authors, etc.)
On-Line Texts
Bibliomania On-line books
Reference
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Booknotes Contains interviews with authors
Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender From Haverford College
Shakespeare
Barnard Center for Research on Women Includes online version of Scholar & feminist
Feminist.com (has links to articles, speeches, women owned businesses, etc.)
International Women's Health Coalition
National Women's Studies Association
Third space: the site for emerging feminist scholars
Women Working, 1800-1930 (Harvard Open Collections Program - focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images)
