Internet Resources

AP/SAT/ACT Practice Exams: Links and information about Advance Placement, SAT and ACT practice exam resouces.

Coursera: Courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania.

edX: edX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Courses are offered from Harvard, MIT and UC Berkeley.

Khan Academy: Thousands of videos of math, science and humanities.

webcast.Berkeley: UC Berkeley's central service for online video & audio for students and learners around the globe.

MIT OpenCourseware (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Free lecture notes, exams and videos from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

How Stuff Works: Explains how thousands of items, objects, concepts, etc. work.  Includes videos and illustrations.

Internet Archive: A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.

Digital Public Library: Online archive of more than 2 million books, documents, photographs and artworks.

World Digital Library: A database of more than 7,000 primary-source documents and images from around the world, sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, searchable by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of research.

Hirshorn Museum of Art: This is a great website to search for sculpture.

Guggenheim Museum: Biographies and artwork.

Museum of Modern Art: Examples of artwork and specific information about the artwork. Try an advanced search for your artists for press releases on their specific shows at this museum.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Look for the search box on the upper right side of the page. Biographical information included on most of the pictures exhibited. Click in this link to access to access 372 art history books hosted by the Metropolitan Museum. All of the books can be read online or downloaded as PDFs (warning, some of them are massive files).

National Gallery of Art: Type in your artist's last name and receive a list of artworks.  Click on any of the artwork and information about the artwork will usually accompany it. Click on Open Access at the National Gallery of Art for more than 32,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels that each are available free of charge for download and use.

Norton Simon Museum: The search box is on upper right hand corner. This museum offers exceptional information on artwork and artists' intent.

Musee d ‘ Orsay: This site is a great resource for information about Impressionist artists.

Art Project powered by Google: Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: This site includes videos of performances.

San Francisco Ballet: This site includes videos on dancers and performances.

Bloomberg Business Graphics: Bloomberg Business web page with statistics and graphics.

Correlates of War: Website on the systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge about war.

Data.gov: Datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.  Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version of Data.gov.

Data and Statistics about the U.S.: Statistics from many government agencies.

FiveThirtyEight: Focuses on opinion poll data and analysis, politics, economics, and sports.

Gapminder: Statistical information brought to fantastic life.

International Monetary Fund: Offers recent economic news and data about countries and other territirial entities around the world.  

Markets and Data – The Economist: The Economist's page devoted to frequently updated economic market data.

McKinsey Quarterly: Periodic report about economic and sociological developments in countries around the world.

Measure of America: Provides easy-to-use tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America about health, education, and living standards.

Museum of American Finance: The Museum of American Finance is the nation’s only independent museum dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and teaching about American finance and financial history. Includes archives of Financial History magazine, videos and original finance documents.

Explore Census Data: This page allows the user to examine U.S. Census data in multiple ways, through filters, charts, and maps.

World Bank: A United Nations international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. Site includes access to data about development in countries around the globe.

The African-American Migration Experience: Explains the extraordinary diversity of African Americans living in the United States today.

FamilySearch: Global genealogy information including birth, death, probate and others.

Genealogy Learning Center: Ellis Island website with links to helpful genealogy websites.

National Archives: Access to archival databases including genealogy and personal history databases.

USGenWebProject: Access to all state and county genealogy websites.

David Rumsey Map Collection: The David Rumsey Map Collection contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1700 to 1950s.

Worldmapper: Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

The American Presidency Project: UCSB archives of over 100,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

C-SPAN: Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. It offers a wealth of information about the political process.

Official California Legislative Information: All California legislative information is available here. 

USA.gov - Home page of the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal for all government transactions, services, and information.

Politics

• Factcheck.org: "a nonpartisan, nonprofit 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics."
• PolitiFact.com: "a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics."
• ProCon.org: "a nonprofit nonpartisan public charity that provides well-sourced pro, con, and related research on more than 50 controversial issues."
• Allsides.com: "exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant."

National Institutes of Health: Government agency with wide range of health information.

World Health Organization: Reports on health conditions and matters in all of its member countries.

PubMed: Millions of citations for biomedical literature that include links to full-text context.

American Antiquarian Society: The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is an independent research library founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. 

The American Presidency Project: UCSB archives of over 100,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

eHistory: eHistory projects involve “citizen historians” in the amassing and analyzing of historical data. 

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: AP US History study guides, essays, videos, and 60,000 primary sources.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Digital copies of America's historic newspapers from 1836-1922, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience: Website with images, maps, and texts on thirteen migrations that formed and transformed African America.

Library of Congress Home: Collection highlights including historic newspapers, maps and manuscripts

National Archives Presidential Libraries: National Archives website with links to presidential libraries from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush administrations.

TeachingHistory: Primary sources collections from government and educational sites.

USHistory.org: The purpose of this site is to provide information about the Colonial and Revolutionary eras of U.S. History.

World Memory Project: Holocaust database.

Real Academia Español: This site contains an powerful Spanish dictionary and other Spanish language resources.

Chinese language resources from YellowBridge. This site contains dictionaries and guides to learn Mandarin.

Glossa: Latin dictionary.

Spanish language exercises hosted by Ursinis College: Free resources to use as you need to in order to practice your Spanish.

British Museum Turning the Pages: Online gallery of great books from the British Museum. Includes works by Jane Austen, Mozart and the first atlas of Europe.

Encyclopedia Mythica: Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.

The Internet Classics Archive: Site includes works of classical literature and web resources.

LearnZillion: Video lessons and practice for math skills through 9th grade.

Wolfram Math World: Extensive mathematics resource.

WolframAlpha: Computational knowledge engine.

KQED/Spark  Dance, Music, Visual and Theater Vocabulary Terms: Click Education in menu bar and look for vocabulary lists in the right hand column.

Association for Cultural Equity/Lomax Digital Archive: The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), housed at the Fine Arts Campus of New York City's Hunter College, is custodian of the Alan Lomax Archive, a priceless collection of recorded music, dance, and the spoken word.

Prayer Resources:

Pray as you go

Sacred Space

Ignatian Spirituality

Creigton's Online Ministries

Busted Halo

Catholic News:

Crux

Commonweal

U.S. Catholic

National Catholic Reporter

America Magazine

Scripture Resources:

The Bible Project

Bible Gateway

New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

American Museum of Natural History: Digitized and searchable notes and manuscripts of Charles Darwin. The collection of documents is organized according to periods of Darwin's work.

Einstein Archives Online: The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Where REAL rocket scientists work.

Mednar: Deep Web Medical Search: Federated searching that includes government sites, medical societies and some commercial databases.

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) OpenCourseware: Site with free publication of virtually all MIT course content.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Site housing information about NASA's programs, astronauts, and scientists.

National Institutes of Health: Government agency with wide range of health information.

Plants Database: Easy to navigate website that includes local information.

PubMed: Millions of citations for biomedical literature that include links to full-text content.

Science.gov: Gateway to government science information provided by U.S. Government science agencies, including research and development results.

Top Search Engines for Scientific and Academic Research: These search engines offer information on possibly all the major areas of science including computer and technology, biology, environmental science and social sciences, and other areas of academic research.

WorldWideScience.org: A search which uses multilateral partnerships to search national and international databases.

Code Academy: Learn to computer code.

Aljazeera Middle East news site

Bloomberg Business - global business, financial and news.

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

Catholic News Service - news site from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

CIA - The World FactBook - provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

International Reporting Project – provides opportunities for U. S. journalists to go overseas to report on critical issues

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.

NPR (National Public Radio)

Pew Research Center – nonpartisan “fact tank”

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting – journalism site dedicated to independent international journalism

University of Pennsylvania Historical U.S. Newspapers Online - These newspapers are organized by state and other search parameters.

Vatican News (Official) - news site from the Vatican.