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Major Subject Areas In the Humanities Music Art The Classics Religion The Renaissance History Literature Philosophy Archaeology Linguistics Critical Thinking Museums Film Theater The Independent Thinker Censorship/Freedom of Expression Evaluate Information Sources Propaganda Education Interdisciplinary Studies Multiculturalism The Media Writing Apollo & Dionysus Mythology Architecture Italy Culture Shock (PBS) Humanities & Technology Folk Art American Family (PBS) Human Rights

==> San Antonio CURRENT <==
S.A. What's Happening
Nine Lives Bookstore a locally owned business which sells discounted books. Its long term mission is to prevent the needless killing of felines due to overpopulation

69th Regiment Armory Show of 1913
Another site on the 69th Regiment Armory Show
ACLS Newsletter--Web-Accessible Scholarly Resources for the Humanities

Alchemy Website - Fine archives of alchemical treatises and scholarly articles

APOLLO AND DIONYSUS:

• Apollo Images
  
• Art --a page of links
  
• Dionysus Images
  
• The Encyclopedia Mythica
  
• Oedipus Rex
  

ARCHITECTURE:

• Learning from Pompeii
• The Great Buildings Collection
• The Lincoln Memorial modern example of the golden rectangle
  
• The Golden Proportion the golden mean
  
• The Golden Ratio the golden mean
  

ART:

Body Painting
Del Corazon: Latino Voices in American Art
Andy Warhol PBS special
Blue Star Arts Complex
Dictionary of Art & Art History ArtLex
Chicano Art & Life "Inspired and directed by Cheech Marin’s vision to highlight expressions of Chicano culture, “CHICANO” presents the many voices of today’s Chicanos via a traditional art exhibit “Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge” and a multi-media exhibit “Chicano Now: American Expressions.”" (Premiered at the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Alameda's Museo Americano Dec.15, 2001)
Dali, Salvadore
Jacques Berger Foundation study of art and civilizations
San Antonio Botanical Gardens
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Salon This is a site dedicated to decorative art which uses faux techniques to create optical illusions. This art tends to fill architectural space such as walls and doorways. The link also includes Vigini, a local studio dedicated to this genre, and information on prior conferences held internationally
Art Pace Contemporary Art in San Antonio
Alt-X Online Art
Finger Painting
PHOTOGRAPHY
CultureSHOCK.. Are the arts dangerous?
Eyes On Art --learning how to lk
Alphabet of Art a glossary
Art Studio Chalkboard information for artists and students
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking an interactive textbook
Art Links
Arts and Humanities Data Service--for describing and discovering humanities information resources
World Wide Art Resources
Picasso's Guernica testimony of war
Picasso's Guernica 1937
Picasso's War
The Artchive
The Last Supper Renewed Leonardo Da Vinci
Rembrandt biography
Posters of famous paintings
Earth Lights photo from space at night
Fine Art Forum Art + Technology
Web Gallery of Art painting and sculpture from 1150 to 1750
Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel in Vatican
Salvador Dali links to his life and art
Ask Jeeves: Dali
Dali: Boy and Rat
Rembrandt's Etchings
Rembrandt essay by Kahren Jones Arbitman
Michelangelo: CGFA
Goya: The "Black Paintings"

EDUCATION:

• CNN Education News
  
• HIGHER EDUCATION page of links
  
• EDUCATION, K-12 page of links
  
• History for Kids
  

Educational Resources: Humanities

EVALUATE INFORMATION SOURCES:

• CRITICAL THINKING page of links
  
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly or, Why It's a Good Idea To Evaluate Web Sources
  
• Evaluating Quality of Information and Web Sites Colby Glass Lecture
  

EDSITEment lesson plans and information on art, culture, literature, language, foreign languages, history and social studies

FOLK ART:

• Peruvian Study and Sisters of Incarnate word
  

Free Inquiry a quarterly magazine of secular humanism celebrating reason and humanity
H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences online - "H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Our edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public"

HISTORY:

• History Cooperative for historical research
  
• HISTORY page of links
  
• AMERICAN HISTORY page of links
  
• History in a synchronic perspective. Very useful as a complement to literary and historical studies.
  
• Valley of the Shadow the Civil War
  
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
  
• ANCIENT HISTORY page of links
  

HUMAN RIGHTS:

• HUMAN RIGHTS page of links
  
• peaceCENTER in SA
  
• Class on Nonviolence many fine readings
  
• Global Exchange human rights organization involved in promoting peace and more equitable economic systems
  

The Humanist journal of the American Humanist Association; critical inquiry and social concerns
The Humanist in Canada explores contemporary issues from a humanistic viewpoint
Humanities.org --Washington Commission for the Humanities
Humanities Sites of Interest collection of links

Humanities & Technology:

• Da Vinci, Leonardo
  
• Galileo
  
• On Being Responsible Scientist - web site about the book
  
• The Callies Conversations Linda Breen Pierce interview about simplicity
  
• New Work News life in the new economy
  

Humbul Humanities Hub UK online humanities resources, compiled by Oxford University
IATH home page... Web-based humanities research
Irish Resources in the Humanities a Gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies
JHU English -- Project Aldus houses a small archive of Renaissance source materials, including texts by Wyatt, Skelton, Surrey, Nashe and Donne. Graphic materials, including images of woodcut illustrations, MS facsimiles and paintings, are also featured in the online gallery
Literature Webliography

THE MEDIA:

• Merchants of Cool
  
• This Is What Democracy Looks Like a film which deals with gloablization and the tumultuous demontrations in Seattle against the WTO; powerful and enlightening
  
• Chomsky on 9/11/01
  
• SEPTEMBER 11 DISASTER page of links
  
• Alternative News Sources
• MEDIA page of links
  
• Media Mergers
• In Motion Magazine
• Internet Publications:
  • Salon.com
  • Slate.com
• MCS --the media and communications study site. University of Karlstad, Sweden
  
• Contentville sells dissertations, screen plays, legal documents, much else as well as books
  
• "Would You Like Ground Spinal Cord With That?" interview with Eric Schlosser about his book Fast Food Nation
  
• Monthly Review by media and communuicattions professro Robert McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy
  

MULTICULTURALISM:

• Aztlan progressive Chicano news publication
  
• California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
  
• Africana.com: The Digital Bridge
  
• Latino Resources at the Smithsonian
  
• CHICANA WOMEN page of links
  
• Irish Resources in the Humanities a Gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies
  
• RACE - The Power of an Illusion PBS documentary about race in society, science, and history
  

MUSEUMS:

• Andy Warhol Museum
  
• Art Institute of Chicago
  
• Michelangelo: CGFA
  
• CGFA Florida imaging
  
• Detroit Institute of Arts
  
• Diego Rivera Museum - the famous Mexican muralist
  
• The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
  
• Leonardo Da Vinci's House
  
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  
• The Louvre w/ virtual tour
  
• Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago
  
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
• Museum of Modern Art, New York City
  
• Museums of the World a major gateway
  
• MUSEUMS a page of links
  
• The Prado Museum in Madrid
• Rembrandt
  
• San Antonio Museum of Art
  
• San Antonio Art League Museum
  
• San Antonio McNay Art Institute
  
• San Antonio Witte Museum
  
• Seattle Art Museum lots of Asian art
  
• Web Museum Paris
  
• Women in Art
  

MUSIC:

• Experience Music Project (near top)
  
• Art work of jazz musicians by Debra Hurd
  
• Jorge Ortiz’s link of his guitar students who play everything from pop to Santana
  
• Giulianai, Mauro guitarist and composer
  
• Giuliani, Mauro 1781-1829
  
• Giuliani Guitar Discovered
  
• Joan Carroll fine local jazz vocalist . There are also video clips of selected performances
  
• A Passion for Jazz!
  
• Trumpeter Jazzed About Teaching, Too about local jazz musician Cecil Carter who plays trumpet and keyboards
  
• San Antonio Blues Society
  
• All Songs Considered --National Public Radio
  
• Bach, Johann Sebastian --audio files
  
• Corridos sin Fronteras Smithsonian; requires Flash 5+
  
• EMP Live Experience MUSIC Project
  
• MUSIC --separate page of links
  
• JAZZ & BLACK MUSIC page of links
  
• Jazz - KRTU local jazz radio channel
  
• Psychedelic '60s music, literature, social change
  
• The Doors recording of a past segment of NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. It's an interview with Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for the famed rock group The Doors and his life with Jim Morrison. The conversation discusses the process of how the group's music was created, in particular the smash hit "Light My Fire" (requires audio plug-in)
  
• Bach: What a Family!
  
• Bach, Father of Fugues
  
• Agustín Barrios Mangoré a virtuosic guitarist and an innovative composer
  
• Hip Hop Music
  
• Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words
  
• Jazz Primer for Rock People
  
• Riverboats and Jazz
  
• Jazz Profiles from NPR
  
• Berta Rojas one of Paraguay’s greatest classical guitarists
  

MYTHOLOGY:

• The Encyclopedia Mythica
  

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Library of Congress) --Searchable catalog of manuscript collections held by U.S. libraries and archives. Searchable by person's name, organization's name, subject, geographic location, and more
Oceana "international advocacy organization created with the sole purpose of protecting the world's oceans" - beautiful graphics
Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art how we are affected--socially, mythically, and personally--by the landscapes we inhabit - the exhibit includes paintings, drawings, textiles, and photographs

PHOTOGRAPHY:

• Weegee, the photographer
  
• Photography Collection -- With some exceptions, photographs relating thematically to the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Library for the Performing Arts, the Slavic and Baltic Division and the United States, Local History & Genealogy Division (especially New York City)
  

PROPAGANDA:

• PROPAGANDA --page of links-by Colby Glass
  
• PROPAGANDA quotes about
  

Shakespeare, The Complete Works of --full text collection
Smithsonian Institute
Texas Council for the Humanities, Current Exhibitions

THEATER:

• August Wilson, American Shakespeare
• Asian Theatre

Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities, online sources
Today in History --what happened today.. "Our Daily Bleed"
Voice of the "Shuttle" -- "And there is 'the voice of the shuttle' in Sophocles' Tereus" -- Aristotle, Poetics 16.4. , UCSB), "The New Western History: Theory and Trauma in the Work of Patricia Limerick"
Women, Distinguished biographies and more
Women in Philosophy -- look here for a list of all the authors in this bibliography (Warning: the list is long, so it will take some time to load)
World Civilizations gateway to a lot of information
World Heritage Tour over 250 virtual reality movies from 52 sites, ranging from the Philippines to Egypt

WRITING (how to):

• Strunk's Elements of Style classic rules of writing
  
• Plagiarism, What Is
  
• Writer's Web --help on the process of creating a good paper
  
• Citing Web and Internet Resources
  
• Humanities: Documenting Sources: MLA Style for academic research papers
  
• MLA Documentation a writing guide for research papers
  
• Purdue MLA Help
  
• Writer's Handbook University of Wisconsin
  

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Mariana Ornelas

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