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Bloom High School requires compliance with U.S. copyright laws; please document the source of Web-based materials and obtain permission for the use of copyrighted materials found on the Internet. ART ARCHITECTURE Architecture in Chicago, Illinois Digital Archive of Architecture Great Buildings Collection ART BY COUNTRY/CULTURE Web Gallery of European Art Archives of American Art Art and Culture COSTUME Costume Gallery HISTORY Art History Resources on the Web Art History Periods and Movements Art History Links: Gateway to 400 sites (Univ. Mich.) Web Gallery of Art MUSEUMS Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Museums Around the World Smithsonian American Art Museum National Museum of American Art Tate Britain WebMuseum Network PHOTOGRAPHY American Museum of Photography Women Photographers Daguerrian Society Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog The National Portrait Gallery UCR/The California Museum of Photography International Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman House The Digital Photography Exhibit REFERENCE Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine Yahoo Artists Back to Top BIOGRAPHY AND PEOPLE 20th Century Women in Physics 20th Century leaders - a timeline from Time Biographical Dictionary Biography.com Dead People Server Lives, the Biography Resource Nobel Laureates Philosophers World Biographical Index Yahoo - Society and Culture: People Back to Top BUSINESS AND FINANCE Better Business Bureau Big Charts--Browse the Market Budget of the United States Government Edmunds.com (Car Pricing Guide) Hoover's Online (Company Information) The Motley Fool: Finance and Folly NASDAQ Stock Market Home Page Back to Top CAREERS Occupational Outlook Handbook The Career Interests Game Career Click (Explore Careers) Back to Top CENSORSHIP The File Room Censorship Archive Free Expression Clearinghouse: A Guide to Free Speech and the First Amendment Back to Top CHICAGO City of Chicago Homepage Chicago Imagebase Chicago Museums Chicago Public Library Chicago Reader Online Chicago Sun Times Chicago Tribune Chicago Weather Illinois High School Association Official Site of the Chicago Bears Official Site of the Chicago Blackhawks Official Site of the Chicago Bulls Official Site of The Chicago Cubs Official Site of The Chicago White Sox North Star Net Community Information (Chicago suburbs) Back to Top CLIMATE AND WEATHER Chicago Weather Chicago Tribune--Weather (Tom Skilling) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) National Weather Service UM Weather Back to Top COLLEGE AND CAREER CAREER INFORMATION JobStar--Resume Banks Occupational Outlook Handbook Monster.com Online Career Center OWL - Online Resume Tutorial (Perdue U. 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STUDY ABROAD Study Abroad Directory Study Abroad Experimental Programs Back to Top COPYRIGHT Copyright: An Overview (Cornell University) Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Crash Course The Copyright Website Copyright Law(University of Michigan) Copyright Law and Fair Use (Stanford University) Copyrights (NOLO: Law for All) Education World:The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use TechLEARNING U.S. Copyright Office Back to Top DANCE About.com Society of Dance History Scholars And They Kept on Dancing Swing Back to Top DICTIONARIES AND THESAURI Acronym Finder The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Ask Oxford Cambridge Dictionaries Online (French, Englidh and Spanish) Dictionary.com (Various Languages) Mathematical Thesaurus (University of Cambridge) Merriam Webster Online OneLook Dictionary Search (Over 100 dictionaries) Online Medical and Science Dictionaries (Access to images, medical and science glossaries) Pseudodictionary Rhyming Dictionary Roget's Thesaurus YourDictionar.com Back to Top DIRECTORIES MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES 411 Locate SMARTpages Switchboard Zip2 BUSINESSES QwestDex SuperPages WorldPages INDIVIDUALS AnyWho Big Foot Classmates WhitePages WhoWhere E-MAIL College Email Addresses MESA (Meta Email Search Agent) Back to Top EDITORIAL CARTOONS The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists - StoryArchive The Editorial Cartoons of Clay Bennett John Klosser Cartoons Cincinnati.com (Pulitzer Prize Portfolio of Jim Borgman - 2003) United Media - Editorial Cartoons Back to Top EDUCATION COPYRIGHT Copyright Websites: SLA RESEARCH ERIC Educational Statistics at a Glance NCES Fast Facts Phi Delta Kappan (PDK Gallup Poll) U.S. Department of Education RESOURCES American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Blue Web'n: Blue Ribbon Learning Sites Center for Adolescent Studies (Indiana University) Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (Discovery Channel School) Library Spot Making of America (MOA) - Digital Library of Primary Sources Specialty Directories for Educators World Lecture Hall WEBQUESTS WebQuest Page WebQuest Lesson Template Back to Top ENCYCLOPEDIAS Britannica Encyclopedia  (free version) Columbia 2001 Encyclopedia Encarta Encyclopedia Back to Top ESL Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) Color in Colorado CNN en Espanol Back to Top ETHICS Ethics Updates  Ethics and Moral Values from Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University) Back to Top FILM Criticism and Review Ebert's Great Movies Sources Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences All Movie Guide Internet Movie Database Back to Top FOOD AND NUTRITION Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (USDA) The Cook's Thesaurus Fast Food Facts - Interactive Food Finder National Center for Health Statistics Nutrition Analysis Tool Nutrition Navigator (Tufts U.) The Vegetarian Resource Group(VRG) Food Timeline Food Safety FOOD BY REGION South and Central America Latin American Food & Cooking (Carnegie Library) Food in Latin America (LANIC) Mexican American Food & Cooking (Carnegie Library) Asia Asian Food & Cooking (Carnegie Library) Middle East Middle East Food & Cooking Iranian/Persian Recipes  European Eastern European Food & Cooking Indian and South Asian Indian and South Asian Food & Cooking Back to Top FOREIGN LANGUAGES CNN en Espanol French Connection Learn Spanish Back to Top GENEALOGY AncestralFindings.com Cemetary Records Cook County Census Enumeration Districts Cook Memorial Library Genealogy Page Death Indexes Ellis Island Online Genealogy Today Illinois Department of Public Health Vital Records Vital Records VitalChek Back to Top GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Access to Archival Databases CIA World Factbook (Country information and profiles) FirstGov Government Documents Librarianship Government: U.S. & International (Direct Search) National Archives and Records Administration POTUS - Presidents of the United States Presidential State of the Union addresses since 1992 State and City Governments (Direct Search) State and Local Government on the Net: A guide to government sponsored Internet sites  Uncle Sam - FORMS FROM THE FEDS U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Government Information (U. Texas Austin) Back to Top HEALTH BIOETHICS National Institute of Health: Bioethics Resources The President's Council on Bioethics HIV/AIDS The Body: A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Resource HIV/AIDS: Center for Disease Control HIV InSite UN AIDS MEDICAL HEALTH American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Links CDC Health Topics - A to Z CDC National Prevention Information Network (Spanish available) Emerging Infections (American Medical Association) Families & Children: US Department of Health & Human Services Global Health.gov Harvard World Heath News Healthfinder Human Genome Links Intelihealth  Martindale's Health Science Guide Mayo Health Oasis: Daily News on Disease MedSite National Center for Health Statistics National Institute of Nursing Research MENTAL HEALTH Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health The Global Burden of Disease Mental Health Links by Dr. Bob Mental Health Net National Alliance for the Mentally Ill National Institute of Mental Health Psych Central:  Dr. Grohol's Mental Health Page Back to Top HOLOCAUST Women and the Holocaust America and the Holocaust (American Holocaust)  Nizkor Project US Holocaust Memorial MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE Back to Top HUMANITIES Art and Culture National Humanities Center Voice of the Shuttle Back to Top IMAGES Since images, like text are copyrighted, it is important to: 1) Document, even in PowerPoint, the source of web-based materials; 2) Avoid the use of copyrighted materials found on the world wide web without getting permission from the publisher; Finding Images and Sounds on the Web The NYPL Picture Collection Online Time Magazine Covers Back to Top INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Amnesty International Online(Available in Spanish and French) Crisis Web (International Crisis Group) Foreign Affairs Online Foreign Relations of the United States (Prior to 1/20/01) Foreign Relations of the United States (after 1/20/01) Portals to the World (Library of Congress) United Nations Back to Top JOURNALISM Poynter.org Back to Top LAW American Law Sources Online FindLaw--Lawcrawler Jurist: The Law Professors' Network Legal Forms - FindLaw Library Spot Law Libraries National Consumer Law Center Back to Top Literature AMERICAN LITERATURE African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NY Public Library) American Authors American Verse Project CSpan American Writers Library of Southern Literature Making of America (MOA) - Digital Library of Primary Sources Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public Library) American Literature Sites DRAMA Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet ELECTRONIC TEXTS Electronic Literature Directory International Children's Digital Library Legends HISTORY, CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION Literary Locales Online Literary Criticism Collection LITERATURE BY CONTINENT, COUNTRY AND CULTURE Literature by Country - Librarians Index to the Internet Africa African Writers: Voices of Change England/Ireland The Victorian Web: Literature, History and Culture POETRY Electronic Texts American Verse Project British Poetry 1780-1910 Contemporary American Poetry Archive The Internet Poetry Archive Poetry Daily Poets.Org Poetry Portal The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive The William Blake Archive Back to Top MAPS Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century Historical Maps of China  Links to Historical Maps Perry-Castaeda Library Map Collection (Includes NASA photographs) Back to Top MATHEMATICS Interactive Mathematics Online Internet Resources for the Mathematics Student Math2.org Math Forum Math Archives (U. Tennessee, Knoxville) The Mathematical Atlas: A Gateway to Modern Mathematics Measure 4 Measure The Most Amazing Collection of Calculators: Martindale's Reference Desk (Calculations on-line) The Prime Page Back to Top MATHEMATICIANS Biographies of Women Mathematicians Index to mathematicians Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Mathematical Quotations Archimedes Chronological listing Hypatia Mathographies: Biographies of 24 mathematicians Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics back to top MEDIA Media and Communication Studies University of Iowa Media Studies Back to Top MUSIC General Music Resources Classical Net DW3 Classical Music Resources Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 University of Washington Music Library Worldwide Internet Music Resources Back to Top MYTHOLOGY Ancient Greek (Hellenic) Sites on the World Wide Web Bulfinch's Mythology Classical myth: The Ancient Sources Encyclopedia Mythica Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts Mything Links Perseus Encyclopedia Back to Top NEWS SERVICES ABC American Journalism Review  AP News BBC CBS Chicago Tribune CNN Drudge FOX HeadlineSpot Newspaper Links.com Los Angeles Times MSNBC NewsCenter Newslink New York Times USA Today Wall Street Journal Back to Top PHILOSOPHY EpistemeLinks: Philosophy Resources The Paideia Project Online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Back to Top POPULATION Population Reference Bureau (Available in Spanish) World Population Clock - Sunsite World Population Clock - U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Population Clock - U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Census Bureau Population Reference Bureau Back to Top PSYCHOLOGY The Anxiety Panic Internet Resource American Psychological Association Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Enpsychlopedia Healthy Minds.  Healthy Lives Making of America (MOA) - Digital Library of Primary Sources National Alliance on Mental Illness National Institute of Mental Health The Personality Project Psych Central: Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page Encyclopedia of Psychology UCSF Department of Psychiatry:  Psychiatric Conditions Back to Top QUOTATIONS Bartleby.com  Bartlett's Quotations Dictionary of Scientific Quotations The Quotations Page Yahoo! 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ECONOMICS U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Summary EconData U.S. Economy at Glance (Bureau od Labor and Statistics) Internet Economy Indicators Resources for Economics on the Internet Statistical Abstract of the United States White House Economics Statistics (Briefing Room) GEOGRAPHY Map Collection(U. of Chicago Library Reference Section) Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (U. of Texas, Austin) U.S. Gazeteer--Geographic Name Server(U.S. Census Bureau) Yale University Map Collection GREECE (ANCIENT) Perseus Project ROME (ANCIENT)  Daily Life in Ancient Rome Roman Daily Life HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights Library (U. of Minnesota Available in Spanish) Women's Human Rights Resources (University of Toronto) LATIN AMERICA Latin America Network Information Center (LANIC Available in Spanish) Library of Congress HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown U. 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Primary Sources by Period: American and British Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975 WORLD HISTORY Country Studies on the Web (Library of Congress) The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization The Industrial Revolution The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Modern History Sourcebook  Primary Sources by Period: American and British Renaissance--Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Repositories of Primary Sources (organized by country) Back to Top SOCIOLOGY Making of America (MOA) - Digital Library of Primary Sources Sociological Research Online Sociology Classroom - A Resource for High School Students and Teachers Sociosite Back to Top SPEECHES Speech and Transcript Center Back to Top SPORTS Baseball-Reference.com Fitness Link Human Kinetics National Athletic Trainers' Association SPORTQuest Back to Top STATISTICS AND SURVEYS SURVEYS CNN/Time Polls Gallup Organization Harris Poll Online Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Kaiser Family Foundation Surveys Los Angeles Times Poll National Council on Public Opinion Polls National Opinion Research Center (U. of Chicago) Pew Research Center Polling Report Public Agenda Go to "Pulse" Roper Center/Public Opinion Survey.net Washington Post STATISTICS--U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Data on the Net - UCSD Economic Policy Institute DataZone Fedstats Historical Census Statistics National Center for Education Statistics National Center for Health Statistics Public Record Databases Stat-USA Statistical Abstracts of the United States UNESCO Statistics U.S. Historical Census Data Browser Univ. of Michigan Documents Center White House Social Statistics Briefing Room STATISTICS--GLOBAL Eurostat The World In Figures InfoNation (U.N. resource) Back to Top STYLE MANUAL APA Style Diana Hacker:  A Writers Reference EasyBib (free automatic MLA bibliography formatting) MLA Online Online! Citation Styles SLATE Citation Machine (APA and MLA formatting tools) Back to Top SUBSTANCE ABUSE GOVERNMENT RESOURCES National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information National Institute on Drug Abuse Office of National Drug Control Policy Substance Abuse and Mental Heath Services Administration RECOVERY Alcoholics Anonymous Teen-Anon Treatment Facility Locator (SAMHSA) PREVENTION College Drinking Prevention Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) FOR TEENS Freevibe Straight Scoop News Bureau Back to Top TEST PREP Below are some helpful ACT/PSAE sites for Bloom High School students: Test Prep Review Practice for the ACT/PSAE ACT Online 2005-2006 Preparing for the ACT Booklet Back to Top THEATRE Aisle Say American Ballet Theatre Musical Stages Links The Pergamon Project McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies Theatre History on the Web The Costume Page International Theatre Design Archive Back to Top TRAVEL CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES Universal Currency Converter GENERAL INFORMATION Budget Travel Fodor's Travel Online MAPS MapQuest CitySearch Map Rand McNally Online U.S. GOVERNMENT Bureau of Consular Affairs Center for Disease Control--Travelers' Health Passport Service Back to Top WATER EPA Office of Water Illinois State Water Survey The World's Water Back to Top WRITING Guide to Grammar and Writing Purdue Online Writing Lab Nuts and Bolts of College Writing Back to Top

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