Vietnam Bibiliography

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Protest Speeches

“The Casualties of the War in Vietnam”

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/

“Beyond Vietnam—A time to break the silence”

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/Beyond_Vietnam.pdf

Supreme Court Cases

Tinker v. Des Moines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independent_Community_School_District

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=393&invol=503

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/protest/viet.html

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UD I World History

MLA Citation Format Guide - How to create a works cited page according to MLA standards

A citation guide, from Long Island University, for MLA format. The guide is color coded, separating the parts of a formal MLA citation (author, title, place of publication, copyright date, etc.) easily for user to follow. The guide covers how to create a citation for: books, journal article, newspaper or magazine articles, book article or chapter, articles from encyclopedias, websites, newspaper or magazine articles on the internet and the Literature Resource Center.

From the Writer’s Workshop in the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This citation guide is a little more in-depth than LIU’s. It shows how to deal with creating citations for books, journal, magazine and newspaper articles with multiple authors. Also shows how to create citations for other sources, such as: Artistic Works, Computer Software, Films or Videotapes, Interviews, Letters, Performances, Recordings, Television or Radio Programs and Unpublished Dissertations. A little more difficult to follow than the color-coded guide from LIU but definitely more in-depth and exhaustive.

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Egypt Unit Web Resources

The Ancient Egypt Site
http://www.ancient-egypt.org/

Site has timeline that allows for navigation of Ancient Egypt complete with concise historical info of each time period and hyperlinks to various places, people, and things. Provides useful links to contacts at universities/colleges that have Egyptology in curriculum, also includes Egyptological societies in listings. Has a large bibliographical section devoted to Ancient Egypt with some direct links to Amazon.com for purchase. Great A to Z listing of Ancient Egypt, acts as online dictionary complete with hyperlinks to relevant sub-topics. Also contains an interactive hieroglyphic dictionary. Overall site is good for general historical knowledge and excellent for linguistic and lexical information about Ancient Egyptians.

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Extensive site with links to many historical references. Each specific web page link provides many hyperlinks of people, places, and things in the text. Also the various pages each include bibliographical references helpful in directing students to further information about Egypt in print format. Great links to other sites such as PBS and National Geography's Ancient Egypt web pages.

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Easy to navigate, site has general information on social and cultural life, Egyptian art, religion and also hieroglyphics. An especially nice explanation of Ancient Egyptian artwork that contains details about placement and depiction of characters and gods in Egyptian art. There is also a link to a short bibliography of books that further expand on the above topics. The linked WebPages also contains links to other WebPages with more information about Ancient Egypt.

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WebPages contains numerous links to large amount information on a wide variety of topics concerning Ancient Egyptian culture. Can find extensive information about daily life, art, religion, government, and the military of the Ancient Egyptians. Also has maps of historical region. Detailed and elaborate links page about the archaeology of Ancient Egypt with whole pages devoted to specific sites of region. Also includes links to other WebPages, a page with bibliographic references for further study, and a fun concentration game and a word search game.

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Interactive WebPages that allows students to read about the suspicious death of King Tut and try to determine the killer for themselves. Several links to information about Tut’s tomb, his physical features, and the people surrounding him. Site also includes several video tours of Ancient Egypt, an interactive pharaoh quiz where students can test their knowledge to see if they could have been a great ruler, and also a timeline of the era, ranging from Cheops to Caesar.

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Hyperlinks included in text that link students to information ranging from the history, cemeteries and monuments, ancient pyramids and temples, and people of Ancient Egypt. Also includes the Virtual Egyptian Antiquity Museum. Has extensive and detailed photos and maps of many ancient tombs of historic Egyptians of period.

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Great site for information of the various dynasties of Ancient Egypt. Has good amount of information regarding religion, specifically the gods of Ancient Egypt complete with pictures of each, and also information about various pharaohs of the period. Great links page, giving you over 10 WebPages with useful info regarding Ancient Egypt. Also has bookstore.

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Site has great virtual tours of King Tut’s tomb, the great pyramids, and mummies. Also has information about the great queens and pharaohs of Ancient Egypt with links to other sites with relevant information about each. There are over 160 links. Brief, yet useful info found on each page but the links help to send users on to more avenues of info.

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Life in Ancient Egypt (from Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/egypt/

Site has great chronology of Ancient Egypt, providing dates, length, and names of periods. There’s also information regarding the orientation, chronology, natural world, daily life, gods & religion, and funerary customs. A teacher’s resource link is also provided that includes: a teacher’s guide (for lessons on: the natural world, daily life, gods & religion, funerary customs, and vocal) and various publications about Ancient Egypt. Within each individual section there are hyperlinks to more useful information that expands and further explains items related to the daily life, natural world, and gods, etc… of Ancient Egypt.

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Wonderful site for info about locations and history of many of the pyramids and temples of Ancient Egypt. Also good for information about several of the dynasties of Ancient Egypt. More information about certain kings and queens can be found here also. Site also contains a Hieroglyphic alphabet translator along with info explaining how the ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics in their daily lives.

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Extensive site for info about marriage in Ancient Egypt. Also has large amount of detailed info about medicinal practices of time period. Best site for information about the daily lives of women in Ancient Egypt, with wide variety of info ranging from women in the economy, to literacy, to clothes and fashion, to pregnancy and childbirth.

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Great photo gallery that allows students to view the Egyptian collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). Fantastic virtual dig of an Egyptian tomb, complete with interactive exploration features that allow students to click on parts of the tomb they want to explore and then are given info and pictures of each specific part. Also students can see what it’s like to find a statue by reading the journals of a excavator from the turn of the 20th century. Site has information ranging from archaeology, daily life, hieroglyphs, mummies, and Egyptian style-each tab providing extensive info about these aspects of Ancient Egyptian life. Also has teacher’s resources for information about archaeology and digs in Egypt. Site’s user-friendliness and detailed info content make it the best overall web resource of this list.

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Extensive and content-filled website. Great for info about just anything concerning Ancient Egypt. Put together by several Egyptologists the web page is very detailed and elaborate in info content. Includes a links page and a bibliography with over 550 books listed on various subjects concerning the time period. There are many photos and maps to be found on the site helping to illustrate the geography and monuments of the period. The best site for learning about hieroglyphics, provides detailed tutorial and sign list of hieroglyphic language.

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Great picture gallery of Ancient Egypt. Also has a great maps page, especially interesting is a map of the plant life and growth of Ancient Egypt that displays the crops grown and where during the time period. Good links section, broken up by several different categories. Has a section that explains the social hierarchy of Ancient Egypt.

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Site has a good timeline with which users can click on different periods and information is displayed for them. Brief but informative descriptions of many of the Ancient Egyptian gods, the pharaohs have a larger amount of info given, but not as many are listed-only select few. Good info about the pyramids, enough for a nice overview. There is also a hieroglyphics page with a tutor that is useful. Site has an interesting comparison between modern and ancient Egypt which outlines the difference today in modern Egyptian culture in contrast to their ancestors.

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Wonderful site for detailed information about the mummification process. Also great for info about the kings of Ancient Egypt, specifically the rulers of Egypt’s Amarna period. Each ruler has a page of information devoted entirely to them with hyperlinks to other relevant subjects, such as relation to other rulers, etc…This site proves to be the best in terms of providing information about Ancient Egyptian beliefs concerning the afterlife, info about their gods, mummies and how the mummification process worked, and Akhenaten and the Amarna period.

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Maps
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Historical Maps of Europe
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_europe.html

Great comprehensive site from the University of Texas. Contains maps ranging from Brition in the 5th century to the Byzantine Empire to the Germanic Kingdoms and the East Roman Empire 526-600. Most are only maps of boundaries, cities, with little or no actual physical description beyond major rivers, bodies of water, mountains, etc. But some of the maps go into great detail (Rome - Plans of Imperial and Republican Rome) with streets, building schematics, and more. Each individual link on this site provides brief description with date of map, the source and producer of the map.

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Three maps displaying the crusades from the second and on. Good detail and color scheme helps to highlight changing empires and states during the periods. Also has a map of Jerusalem during the crusades that has the locations of the 5 major Christian churches and the Temple.

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Internet Medieval Sourcebook – Maps and Images
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html

Maps ranging from general Europe in 4th through 16th century, to the Byzantine Empire, to maps of the expansion and core areas of Islam, to maps of the Merovingians and Carolingians, and also includes maps of the crusades (some of which are not included in “The Crusades” WebPages). A nice feature of many of the maps is that you can click on certain areas and a more detailed view will be provided. Site also has a medieval map quiz focusing on cities, physical geography, and regional names of the period.

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Has both map collections and maps and atlases. It’s a searchable database with links to various maps, drawing upon university and college map collections in many cases. The interface has a description of the map link, along with the name of the region/state/area which the map focuses upon. Easily the most comprehensive and exhaustive source for maps and atlases.

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Decameron Web – Maps and geography
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/maps/index.shtml

Has searchable feature. Site is useful for regional maps of the Middle Ages and antique and ancient maps.

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Great site for antique maps. Also has links to other cartographic WebPages/resources. Interesting maps from cartographers of the time, highlighting how myth and legend played a large role in how map-makers viewed their world and created images/representations of it.

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Best of History Websites - Medieval
http://www.besthistorysites.net/Medieval.shtml

Wonderful aggregate web page with links to many various pages that are all things Medieval. Some of the sites on this page are: Internet Medieval Sourcebook, the Labyrinth, and the Decameron Web. Some great multimedia web links that are interactive are also listed on this site.

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Comprehensive site that has more than just medieval links and info. Look specifically at “Special topics” link for info about: medieval daily life, the crusades, arms and warfare, or Vikings. There are also subject guides with links to cultural web pages focusing on: Anglo-Saxon, Franco, Germanic, Celtic, and Iberian cultures to name a few. Each link that is centered on a specific culture will bring you to a subject guide web page with topics ranging from arts and archaeology, to clothing, or food recipes. Great overall directory site, much like Best of History.

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Monarchs and leaders - Kings and Queens Through Timein England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/launch_ani_kings_queens.shtml

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Comprehensive News Sources

10X10
http://www.tenbyten.org/

How does one effectively set out to represent the ever-changing and almost hyper kinetic amount of activity that characterizes the modern world? It's certainly not a simple question, but this site offers a visual representation of this ongoing process every hour. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale (culled from a number of leading international news sources, such as the BBC World News), and present that as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames. As their site notes, "Scanning a grid of pictures can be more intuitive than reading headlines, for it lets the news come to life, and everything feels a bit less distant, a bit closer to heart, and maybe, if we're lucky, gives us pause to think." Compelling and original in its approach to the subject, it should be noted that 10x10 was designed and developed by Jonathan Harris, in conjunction with the FABRICA communication research center in Italy. (great Website!!)

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NPR (National Public Radio) is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. A privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization, NPR serves a growing audience of more than 25 million Americans each week in partnership with more than 800 independently operated, noncommercial public radio stations. Each NPR Member Station serves local listeners with a distinctive combination of national and local programming. With original online content and audio streaming, npr.org offers hourly newscasts, special features and eight years of archived audio and information.

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The BBC exists to enrich people’s lives with great programmers and services that inform, educate and entertain. Its vision is to be the most creative, trusted organization in the world. It provides a wide range of distinctive programmers and services for everyone, free of commercial interests and political bias. They include television, radio, national, local, children's’, educational, language and other services for key interest groups.

THIRD WORLD TRAVELER puts up articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the establishment media about the state of democracy in America, and about the impact of the policies of the United States' government, transnational corporations, and the corporate media, on democracy, free speech, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World, and in the United States. THIRD WORLD TRAVELER also provides information and links to aid international travelers.

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WebPages brings together the latest news and views from over 1,600 organizations promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide.

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A comprehensive index to alternative and independent media.

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Who's Who:
http://www.nndb.com/

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.) But it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been hanging out with. Eventually, we will have synopses and analyses of creative works by the people in the database, including their books, films, and recordings.

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Think Tanks

The Brookings Institutes
http://www.brookings.edu/

The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions. Celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2006, Brookings analyzes current and emerging issues and produces new ideas that matter - for the nation and the world.

For policy-makers and the media, Brookings scholars provide the highest quality research, policy recommendations, and analysis on the full range of public policy issues.

Research at the Brookings Institution is conducted to inform the public debate, not advance a political agenda. Our scholars are drawn from the United States and abroad - with experience in government and academia - and hold diverse points of view. Brookings' mission is to provide high quality analysis and recommendations for decision makers in the U.S. and abroad on the full range of policy challenges facing an increasingly interdependent world.

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This site, washingtonpost.com's U.S. Congress Votes Database, is a deep database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). It lets you browse votes in a variety of ways -- both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress.

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Link allows one to locate sentenced federal inmates in custody from 1982 on. The links on the left also provide visiting information; an explanation of the differences between Federal, state, and local inmates; and instructions for locating an inmate released before 1982. More general and historical information about inmates, such as the weekly population report, can be found in the About and News/Information areas of our website.

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The publications in this area are a resource guide to the programs and services of the Census Bureau. Each area features an introduction that will provide key information about the censuses, surveys, and other programs that are the sources of data products.

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The National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. The Archive's approximately $2.3 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues and from private philanthropists such as the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation. As a matter of policy, the Archive receives no government funding.

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Link has update information and pictures of causalities of the current war in Iraq.

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Online Magazines

The Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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Founded in June 1952, to serve the growing number of expatriates lured by the oil industry, The Daily Star initially circulated in Lebanon but rapidly spread its wings to cover most of the Arab world. Its publisher, Kamel Mrowa, already owner and editor-in-chief of the successful Arabic daily Al-Hayat, not only wanted to relay news of their own countries to expatriates but also to introduce the region to non-Arabic readers. His vision made The Daily Star has been the leading English language newspaper in the Middle East since the 1960s.

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Similar to the NYT in America, liberal or left-leaning paper of Israel.

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Sciences

APA Citation Help
http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citapa.htm

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Upon entering the site, visitors can browse through the alkali metals, the alkaline earth metals, and both the lanthanide and actinide series. As users move their mouse across the table they can learn each element's boiling point, its oxidation states, it atomic weight, and its density. One of the other nice features of the site is that visitors can also look at each element's bonding structure. It's very well-designed site, but if visitors find themselves confused, they can also click on the question mark for help and general assistance.

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