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Visual Resources - Social Sciences

This is a list of links to sites that contain image and related materials for the use of images in teaching, prepared by Janis Bell and Adam Donaldson under a grant from the Denison-Kenyon Mellon Program for enhanced learning through collaboration with technology. Please select a category below.

Anthropology and Sociology | Economics | History |


Anthropology and Sociology
ARC http://www.arc.org/
The Applied Research Center is a public policy, educational, and research institute emphasizing issues of race and social change.
Southeast Asia Information Technology http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/seait/tour.html
A team drawn from diverse divisions and departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has cooperated in the development of a digital archive of historical photography for Southeast Asia. The project contains 150 years of photographs, totalling in the millions, which are accessible for classroom teaching and research. The images are searchable by keyword, from an atlas, or with multiple fields.
Southeast Asia http://harappa.com/welcom.html
A cultural resource of photographs, lithographs, sounds, and movies of Southeast Asia before 1947.
Vitual Festival of American Folklife http://www.si.edu/folklife/vfest
Presents video and sound clips, photgraphs, essays, and recipes from various cultural traditions in the US. Run by the Smithsonian Institution as an on-line companion to the festival held each summer in Washington D.C.
Paleontology Without Walls http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
Includes virtual exhibits on evolution, geology, and phylogeny.
NativeTech http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech
Information and images about American Indian tools and works of art.
The Great Sioux Nation http://www.state.sd.us/state/executive/tourism/sioux/sioux.htm
Although a website for South Dakota Board of Tourism, it contains alot of Sioux cultural information and visual resources.

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Economics
NetEc - Economic Resources http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/NetEc.html
Economic papers, programs, vocabularies, and information.
CCER National Budget Simulation http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/budget/budget-1.html
An interesting approach to analyzing national economic policy.

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History
Association for History and Computing http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/hist.html
A great index to history sites, many with image collections, arranged by geographical areas.
African-American Manuscripts http://www.virginia.edu/~press/plunkett/mfp.html
Manuscripts and images from Afro-American history in Virginia.
1492: An Ongoing Voyage http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
On-line version of the LIbrary of COngress exhibit on the age of exploration. It includes photographs and historical narratives.
From Quackery to Bacteriology http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack-index.html
Exhibit chronicles medical advances, including the refutation of bloodletting as a standard practice and the advent of sanitary techniques. It includes images from medical manuscripts and books.
University of Illinois, Digital Imaging Initiative http://images.grainger.uiuc.edu/dii/projects.htm
Searchable databases include Illinois Aerial Photograph Digital Archive AND Global Cultural Memory (photographs from the post-war area to the advent of the 2nd millenium). There are also image exhibits (illustrated essays, small non-searchable collections of images) on German Emblem Books from the UIUC Rare Book and Special Collections Library, Historical Maps of Illinois and the Northwest, Lorado Taft Sculpture Photographs, and the Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design

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