Great Web Sites!

Great Links

Art & Architecture
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Art.html

Astronomy
Windows to the Universe  http://www.windows.ucar.edu/windows.html
The Constellations  http://www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm
The Constellations and Their Stars  http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations.html
StarrySkies.com  http://starryskies.com/
The Nine (Ten) Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System http://www.nineplanets.org/
Views of the Solar System http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
Welcome to the Planets http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm
Exploring the Planets http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/etp.htm
 
Bible Study Tools
BibleGateway.com http://biblegateway.com/
CampusLife.net for Christian Teens http://www.christianitytoday.com/teens/
CrossSearch.com  http://www.crosssearch.com/  online directory of Christian websites
Crosswalk.com: New Testament Greek Lexicon  http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/
Crosswalk.com: Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon  http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/OldTestamentHebrew/
Strong’s Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon  http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html/
ChristianityToday (magazine) http://www.christianitytoday.com/
Crosswalk.com: Bible Study Tools  http://www.biblestudytools.net/
WhiteHouse.gov: The Presidents of the United States  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
WhiteHouse.gov: First Ladies Gallery  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/
TIME 100: The Most Important People of the Century  http://www.time.com/time/time100/
The Presidents of the United States http://www.costumesupercenter.com/csc_inc/html/static/btarticles/thepresidentsoftheunitedstates.html
Island of Freedom (theologians, philosophers, poets, composers, artists, etc.)  http://www.island-of-freedom.com/index.htm
Bible History Online http://www.bible-history.com/
Bible.org: Study Tools and Q&A http://www.bible.org/category.asp?Category_ID=35&parent_id=0&scid=1

Biography
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Biography.html

Business & Investing
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Business.html

Careers & Employment
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Careers.html

Chorus (King)
Choral Public Domain Library www.cpdl.org
Middle Tennessee Vocal Association  www.mtva.org

Church History
Wholesome Words: Christian History Biographies  http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bio.html
The Hall of Church History http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil//hall.htm
Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/

College Information
Sites for Christian College Students http://www.kingdomquest.com/college.html#SITES
Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid  http://www.college-scholarships.com/
Peterson’s College Info http://www.petersons.com/
CollegeScholarships.com  http://www.collegescholarships.com/
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Edu.html

Current Events
Sojourners: news and politics from a Christian perspective http://www.sojo.net/
News & Weather: Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/News.html

Consumer Information
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Consumer.html

Elizabethan England/English Renaissance/Shakespeare
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge--an excellent place to start! http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html
Elizabethan England in the time of Romeo & Juliet--lots of great links! http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/wjhs/mediactr/englishpathfinder/romeo/index.html#cloth
Renaissance--General Information http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/middleages.html
Internet Shakespeare Edition http://ise.uvic.ca/index.html
Names in Elizabethan Times (first names) http://www.st-mike.org/names.html
Names in Elizabethan Times (LAST names) http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/christian/fairnames/surnames.html
Elizabethan Costume Page http://costume.dm.net/
Elizabethan Wedding Ceremony--the actual wording of an authentic wedding ceremony from that era http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk/weded.html
Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide to Shakespeare http://search.eb.com/shakespeare
Shakespeare Online http://www.shakespeare-online.com/index.html
William Shakespeare at eNotes http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-masters/
Shakespeare Quotations http://shakespeare.about.com/library/weekly/blquotationsindex.htm

Ethics
Alcohol Abuse: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism  http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
Cloning/Stem Cell Research: Lots of info on various ethical issues associated with cloning and links to pro-and-con articles—American Institute of Biological Sciences http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/mcgee.html
Dating/Marriage: Love Matters.com--Courtship, Chastity, Purity http://www.lovematters.com/
Death Penalty Information Center: Information with an anti-death penalty slant http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
Pro-Death Penalty.com http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/
Drug Abuse: The National Institute on Drug Abuse  http://www.nida.nih.gov/ 
Euthanasia.com : Information for Research on Euthanasia, Physician-assisted suicide, living wills, mercy killings http://www.euthanasia.com/
ERGO: Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (pro-euthanasia) http://www.finalexit.org/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Voluntary Euthanasia http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/euthanasia-voluntary/ 
Christian Education Resources: Statistics showing what happened when prayer was banned in public schools http://www.christian-education-uk.co.uk/article/za_prayer.html
Prayer in Public Schools: Engel v. Vitale--The Supreme Court Case Decision against school prayer http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/prayer.htm#issue
Prayer in Public Schools and the ACLU (The Examiner—Disciples Fellowship) http://www.theexaminer.org/volume7/number3/prayers.htm   
Pro-Life: includes info and photos of aborted babies--graphic images http://www.prolife.org.uk/
Pro-Life: Life News.com--The news source for the pro-life community http://www.prolife.org.uk/
Suicide: Does Old Age Make Suicide Ethical? (Markkula Center for Applied Ethics) http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/ethicalperspectives/elder0302.html
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy http://www.teenpregnancy.org/ 

Genealogy
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Genealogy.html

General Information (Fite)
Free Education on the Internet http://free-ed.net/free-ed/FreeEdIDX.asp
IPL: Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/

Geography (Bostic)
Infoplease http://www.infoplease.com/
Facts on File: World Digest News http://www.2facts.com/stories/digest-home-feature.asp
History Channel  http://www.historychannel.com/
Biography.com  http://www.biography.com/
A&E  http://www.aetv.com/
National Geographic  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
Countryreports.org  http://countryreports.org

Government
The Twelve Tables: c. 450 BCE—Internet Ancient History Sourcebook  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/12tables.html
The Twelve Bronze Tables--Roman Code of Law http://www.bible-history.com/rome/RomeThe_Republican_Government.htm
Mosaic Law--Bible.org http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=880
Mosaic Law (Legislation) Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10582c.htm
Magna Carta--actual wording (Britannia) http://www.britannia.com/history/magna2.html
Magna Carta--historical information and actual wording (British Library) http://www.bl.uk/treasures/magnacarta/magna.html
Hammurabi's Code of Laws--entire translated text (World Civilizations)
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM
Comparing Hammurabi's Code of Laws with Mosaic Laws (The California Institute for Ancient Studies) http://www.specialtyinterests.net/codexhammurabi.html
The Great Yasa of Genghis Khan--history and explanation of http://www.mongolianculture.com/ThelegacyofChinggis.htm 
The Great Yasa of Genghis Khan--history and text, in depth http://www.coldsiberia.org/webdoc9.htm
Justinian Code, excerpted from the Medieval Legal History Sourcebook http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/summer2004/summer2004JustinianCode.htm
Justinian Code, extremely in depth (Medieval Sourcebook) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/535institutes.html
U.S. Constitution, word for word, with notes
U.S. Constitution, National Archives website, includes the Amendments and other articles about the Constitutional Convention and ratification process
U.S. Constitution: The Bill of Rights
U.S. Constitution & the Amendments, with notes
Government Documents: Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Govdocs.html
Politics: Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Politics.html

Health & Medicine
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Health.html

History/Geography
CIA World Factbook 2005 http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
FindLaw (provides links with country information) http://findlaw.com/12international/countries/
World Atlas.com http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/na.htm
Mapquest: Holt Rinehart and Winston—the World http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm
The History Net http://www.thehistorynet.com/index.html
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Life in Ancient Egypt http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/egypt/guide.htm
Plymouth: Its History and People http://pilgrims.net/plymouth/history/
Britannia (British history & information) http://britannia.com
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/History.html

Images
NYPL Digital Library http://www.nypl.org/digital/index.htm
 
Languages
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Languages.html

Law & Enforcement
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Law.html

Literature/English
NoodleTools Quick Cite! http://www.noodletools.com/quickcite/
Citation Machine--formats your Works Cited Page  http://citationmachine.net/
Shakespeare's Complete Works http://www.ipl.org/div/shakespeare/shakespeare.html
Hamlet Summary, including information about Shakespeare http://www.littanam.ulg.ac.be/hamletenglish.html
Shakespeare's Plays (literary criticism) http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/criticism.htm
American & English Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/verse/index.html
E-books--Read Classics Online http://www.ofcn.org/cyber.serv/resource/bookshelf/
To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/
Of Mice and Men Student Survival Guide http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/index.html
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or Why It’s a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
Critical Evaluation of a Web Site: Secondary School Level http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalhigh.html
Books and literature: Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Books.html

Math
Mathematicians’ Biographies  http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/BiogIndex.html
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Science.html

Medieval History (General)
Internet Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
The WWW Virtual Library History Index—Medieval Europe  http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm
TimeRef-- Medieval People, Places, and Time Lines http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/
The Labyrinth--Resources for Medieval Studies http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
 
Movies/Television/Theater
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Movies.html

Music
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Music.html

Reference
Merriam-Webster Online (dictionary & thesaurus)  http://merriamwebster.com
"Best Information on the Web" from O'Keefe Library  http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Online/onlindex.htm
Infomine Website--If it isn't here, it doesn't exist! http://infomine.ucr.edu/
LibrarySpot--If it isn't here, it REALLY doesn't exist!  http://www.libraryspot.com/
Infoplease.com--Another wonderful reference website! http://www.infoplease.com/index.html
MLA Documentation  http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLAWorksCited.html
MLA Documentation for Electronic Sources (This is their main page; once there, click on "MLA Style" and then click on "Frequently Asked Questions" in the first paragraph)  http://www.mla.org/
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Reference.html
 
Religion & Philosophy
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Religion.html

Science
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Science.html

Spanish (Baker)
Learn Spanish: Spanish Grammar Tutorial  http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm
Hispanic Nashville Notebook: website for current events of the Hispanic community in the area
 http://www.hispanicnashville.com/
 
Sports & Recreation
Nashville Public Library http://www.library.nashville.org/Links/Recommended/Sports.html

State Information
50 States.com Website  http://www.50states.com/
State Facts, Symbols, Maps  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/
Thingstodo.com--Click on the state you want information for  http://www3.thingstodo.com/
Internet Public Library Website--State Information http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/
State Statistics and Economic Fact Sheets from the Economic Research Service Website http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/
State Health Facts, Demographics, and State Government information from the State Health Facts Online Website http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi
State Facts, including Geography, State Nicknames, Famous People  http://www.netstate.com/states/index.html

Tennessee history (Sanders)
Tennessee History for Kids.org  www.tnhistoryforkids.org
Tennessee State Library and Archives http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/
The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net