Multicultural Home Page
This site provides information on select countries. College students located across the globe maintain the site. Country pages cover a wide range of information: geographical, historical, arts, weather, recipes, and tourist information.
The African-American Mosaic
This site serves as a resource guide for African-American history and culture within the collections of the Library of Congress. The African-American Mosaic offers information on colonization, slavery, abolition, and migration.
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
This site serves as an index for other Native American Internet sites in the areas of art, archeology, culture, and on miscellaneous topics including legal, government, and genealogy.
Native Americans
This site is a gateway to information on over eighty western Native American tribes. It takes as its base Edward Sheriff Curtis’ lifework, “The North American Indian.” Curtis visited and photographed Native Americans from 1890 to 1930. His twenty-volume work details all aspects of each Native American tribe's life and customs. The site also offers information on the Trail of Tears and biographies.
Timeline of Art History
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Timeline extends from prehistory to 1800 A.D., and will continue to expand in scope and depth. The Timeline will span art history up to the present day by the fall of 2004. The site allows for an in depth and cohesive understanding of art in the world throughout history. Graphic imagery gives the student the visual understanding of geography and time. The site offers biographical, historical, societal and stylistic information to enhance students’ understanding and comprehension.
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The largest museum in the western world devoted to the arts and cultures of Asia, information about the museum's history; collections, exhibitions, programs, and admission information.
Origami Page
A definition of origami, information on what paper to use, types of folds, links to origami organizations, book reviews, and a brief history of paper folding.
Art Images for College Teaching
AICT offers images and cataloguing information for art and architecture images for Western and non-western civilizations, including the Americas, China, India and Indonesia.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum site allows visitors to browse their collection, which includes works by African-American and Latino artists as well as offer access to several online databases.
World Wide Arts Resources
This online resource allows the visitor to experience over 89,000 works of contemporary art by international artists. One may search by medium, subject matter, price and theme. The site also offers access to over 200,000 works by more than 22,000 masters in the art history section.
Asian Pacific American History & Culture
This Smithsonian run site offers links to information on Asian Pacific American history and culture as well as exhibition and program information. The site centers on Japanese Americans, and native Hawaiian and Philippine customs.
Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage
This Smithsonian run site provides online information, images, sound files, and even recipes from a variety of American cultures, artworks, publications, and musical recordings. Includes "Living History Lessons," and online educational exhibits.
National Museum of African Art
The National Museum of African Art site provides information on exhibits, museum operation, free publications, education programs related to ancient to contemporary African art and artists and access to the online collection database.
National Museum of the American Indian
This site offers information on numerous tribes, artists, Native American traditions, online exhibits, relevant films, publications, recordings, and more. The primary focus is on Native Americans from North America.
Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
This comprehensive site offers a rich database searchable by subject, nation or geographical region with links to a broad array of sites including the arts, technology, government, politics, writings, history, businesses, and personal pages.
University of Maryland Diversity Database
Sponsored by the University of Maryland Diversity Initiative Program, this searchable database contains resources on race, ethnic background, gender, class, sexual orientation, religion, physical abilities, national origin and age.
Cornucopia of Disability Information
CODI serves as a resource of information that provides disability information in a wide variety of areas including: aging, hearing impaired, blindness, mobility, government aid and education.
Hispanic Pages in the USA
This site offers Coloquio, an online cultural magazine, as well as information on famous Hispanics in the world and history, links to Hispanic countries a beautiful illustrated article on Seville, Spain, and bullfighting.
Beyond Black History Month: African American Studies Toolkit for Grades 6-12
This site guides teachers in the selection of web, print and media resources for teaching African American studies in grades 6-12. It also provides information on professional development and several subject areas including: History, Language Arts, Music, Math & Science, and the Visual Arts.
Multicultural Pavilion
The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia maintains this site, which features a Teacher's Corner, multicultural song database, full-text papers and research documents in multicultural education, sets of data from social service agencies, and a checklist for evaluating multicultural web sites.
Native Tech: Native American Technology and Art
Dedicated to changing the perceptions of those that consider Native American art and technology "primitive," this site explores various areas of Native American art and technology, including their history and development with particular emphasis on the Eastern Woodlands region.
Sipapu: Chetro Ketl Great Kiva
An interactive site that allows students to explore a model of the Great Kiva, in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Holocaust Museum site provides information on the Holocaust including a photograph collection, searchable library database of the museum's holdings, description of teaching about the Holocaust, and information on the museum and other related organizations.