Tuesday, March 22, 2011

United Nations Global Issues - Home

United Nations Global Issues - Home

Understanding issues such as atomic energy, AIDS, and human rights can be tremendously difficult. The United Nations (UN) is involved in addressing many of these weighty global issues, so it is fitting that they have established this website to provide summary overviews of these pressing matters. Over two dozen topics are covered here, including demining, atomic energy, family, and water. Within each topic area, visitors will find an essay that includes links to other United Nations publications and materials that provide more details on the subject in question. Each essay also includes a separate "Related Links" area that includes links to resources like project overviews and working papers from UN affiliate organizations.

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Vaudeville!

Vaudeville!

The American Studies department at the University of Virginia has a great online exhibit on vaudeville. Visitors will enjoy the vaudevillian flavor of the homepage with its flashing text, sign print look, and old-fashioned language. For those visitors unfamiliar with the history and allure of vaudeville, they should click on "Read" on the homepage for thorough history, along with photographs of theaters and a show poster. The "Hypertexts!" link takes visitors to articles written by famous viewers, journalists, and performers of vaudeville, such as Edward Albee and William Dean Howells. Those visitors who wish to do more than read about vaudeville should definitely click on the "Movies!" link to see such original short films from the early 1900s as "Watch a Wake Turned Wild!" and "See Foxy Grandpa Cut Loose on the Banjo!". Visitors who prefer just to listen to
their vaudeville should click on "Sounds!" to hear "songs, sketches and recitations." There is banjo strumming in "Hickory Bill", accordion playing in "New York Blues", and dialect comedy in "Hebrew Vaudeville".

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Automobile In American Life and Society

Automobile In American Life and Society

Over the past century or so, the automobile has transformed the American experience in ways that are hard to fully comprehend. This website from the University of Michigan at Dearborn brings together commentary from scholars on the automobile's impact in the areas of environment, design, labor, gender, and race. These commentaries are written by leaders in their fields, including Stephen Meyer, Virginia Scharff, Margaret Walsh, and Thomas Sugrue. The essays are illustrated with archival materials from the collections of The Henry Ford and supplemented with resources such as discussion questions and writing assignments for students and teachers. Additionally, the site includes transcripts of a number of oral histories of automotive designers taken by The Henry Ford in the 1980s.

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