HHS Media Center - Reference Links

Gale Group Free Resources (Black History Month Center and Celebrating Women's History, Poets) http://www.galegroup.com/schools/resrcs/freresrc/index.htm

GoodBye! The Journal of Contemporary Obituaries http://www.goodbyemag.com

Great Economists and Their Times http://www.frbsf.org/econedu/unfrmd.great/greattimes.html

History Central: Biographies http://www.historycentral.com/bio/index.html

Iventor Hall of Fame http://www.invent.org/book/index.html

Island of Freedom http://www.island-of-freedom.com/

Lives, the Biography Resource http://amillionlives.com/

Mad Monarchs Series http:/www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madmon.htm

National Women's Hall of Fame http://www.greatwomen.org/index.html

Nobel Prize Internet Archive http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/header.html

Nobel Prize Laureates http://www.almaz.com/nobel/alpha.html

Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10016.html

Obituary Daily Times (GEN-OBIT) http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/

Political Leaders http://web.jet.es/ziaorarr/00index.htm

Time 100 http://www.time.com/time/time100

Who's Who in Government http://www.lib.memphis.edu/gpo/whos3.htm

Women in Science http://library.advanced.org/20117

World Biographical Index http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_en/

Biography-Presidents

American Experience:The Presidents http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/presidents/indexjs.html

American Presidency - http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/

American Presidency: A Glorious Burden http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html

American Presidents: Life Portraits http://www.americanpresidents.org/

Artful Presidency http://www.archivesofamericanart.si.edu/exhibits/presidents/presidents.htm

By Popular Demand (portraits) http://lcweb2loc.gov/ammen/odmdhtml/preshome.html

Distinguished Women Past and Present http://www.teleport.com/~megaines/woindex.html

First Ladies http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/firstladies.html

History Central: Biographies http://www.historycentral.com/bio/index.html

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/inaugural/

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents (Square Deal): http://www.squaredeal.com/articles/Square-One-The-Inaugural-Addresses-of-US-Presidents.html

Lists of US Presidents http://www.fujisan.demon.co.uk/USPresidents/preslist.htm

Presidents of the United States http://www.presidentsusa.net/

POTUS (Presidents of the United States) http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS

Speeches of United States Presidents http://www.ocean.ic.net/rafiles/pres/thelist.html

Presidents Index http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/

Celebrating Democracy: The Presidential Inauguration http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html

Presidential Debates http://www.debates.org/

Presidential Libraries IDEA Network http://metalab.unc.edu/lia/president/

Time and the Presidency http://www.pathfinder.com/offers/presidents/

US Presidents Lists http://www.fujisan.demon.co.uk/USPresidents/preslist.htm

White House Presidents Page http://www2.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html

Elements/Periodic Tables

Chemical Elements.com http://www.chemicalelements.com/

Chemicool Periodic Table http://www-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/

Chemistry Encyclopedia http://www.scimedia.com/chem-ed/scidex.htm

ChemSoc http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/

Comic Book Periodic Table http://www.uky.edu/~holler/periodic/periodic.html

Element Tables http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/nph-pertab

Exploratory Science Centre - Periodic Table http://www.exploratory.org.uk/plores/per_tbl/per_tbl.htm

Hyper Chemistry on the Web! - The Periodic Table http://tqd.advanced.org/2690/ptable/ptable.html

Modeling the Periodic Table http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/cosmic/ptable.html

Periodic Table http://www.csrri.iit.edu/periodic-table.html

The Periodic Table of Elements http://www.edu.uch.gr/~tsigarid/ptoe/

WebElements http://www.webelements.com/

Government Sources

Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

Almanac of Politics and Government http://www.polisci.com/

American FactFinder http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet

Census Statistics http://www.census.gov

Census Subjects A-Z http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html

Census 2000 Resident Population and Apportionment Counts http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

Center for Voting and Democracy http://www.fairvote.org/

Congressional Directory http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/106_pictorial/index.html

Congressional Directory (C-SPAN) http://congress.nw.dc.us/c-span/congdir.html

CongressLink http://www.congresslink.org

Criminal Justice Web Links http://www.criminaljusticestudies.com/weblinks/ICJS_Links.htm

Current Justices (Supreme Court) http://oyez.nwu.edu/justices/

Federal Agencies http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

FedForms http://Fedforms.Gov/

FirstGov.gov http://firstgov.gov/

Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/staff/fdtf.html

Global Statistics http://home.worldonline.nl/~quark/index.html

Global Urban Indicators Database http://www.urbanobservatory.org/indicators/database/

Glossary of Political Economy Terms http://www.duc.auburn.edu/~johnspm/glossind.html

Google Search: Unclesam http://www.google.com/unclesam

Gov Spot http://www.govspot.com/

Government Sites for Kids http://www.westga.edu/~library/depts/govdoc/kids.shtml

Hi Citizen - Your Online Government Resource http://www.coolwebsightings.com/newsletter/hicitizen.html

History of the Federal Judiciary http://air.fjc.gov/history

How to Register to Vote in the United States http://www.registervote.com/states.html

Immigration and Naturalization Service http://www.ins.gov/graphics/aboutins/history/teacher/Resources.htm

Instacase.com http://www.instacase.com/

International Database http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html

JURIST: The Legal Education Network http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/

Legislative Research Incorporated http://www.lrihistory.com/

LexNotes http://www.lexnotes.com/index.shtml

Locating the Law http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/scall/locatingthelaw.html

Patents and Trademarks: LSU Libraries Webliography http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/ptdl/int-prop.html

Search Full-text U.S. Internet Government Periodicals http://198.252.9.95/home/govper.html

State PIRGs Working Together http://www.pirg.org/

Statistical Abstracts of the United States http://www.census.gov/statab/www

Supreme Court of the United States http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Occupational Outlook Handbook http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm

Tax History Project http://www.taxhistory.org/

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet http://thomas.loc.gov

ThisNation http://www.thisnation.com/

UNESCO Libraries Portal http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/

U.S. Blue Pages http://www.usbluepages.gov/

U.S. Government Information on the Web Subject Index http://library.stmarytx.edu/acadlib/doc/ussubjects/submaain.htm

United States Government Manual http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara001.html

United States Information Service http://www.usia.gov/usis.html

United States Patent Search http://patents.cnidr.org/access/search-bool.html

USgovsearch http://usgovsearch.northernlight.com/publibaccess/

States, Nations & Travel

**Library of Congress Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

*Yahoo! Full Coverage: World http://dailynews.yahoo.com/full_coverage/world/

*Africa Online http://www.africaonline.com/site/

*All Africa.com http://allafrica.com/

*CNN Africa http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/#africa

*Contemporary Conflicts in Africa http://www.synapse.net/~acdi20/welcome.htm#country

American Memory Maps Collections home page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

*Amnesty International Annual Report http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/index.html

*Atlapedia Online http://www.atlapedia.com/

*Background Notes (State Department) http://www.state.gov/r/pa/bgn/

BootsnAll.com http://216.110.36.72/cgi-bin/gt/index.shtml

*CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

CityLink http://usacitylink.com

City Net http://www.city.net/destinations/

City Search.com http://www.citysearch.com

Countries and Regions Index (World Bank) http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/regions.htm

Countries Theme Page http://www.cln.org/themes/countries.html

Country Profiles (Spire Project) http://cn.net.au/country.htm

CountryWatch.com http://www.countrywatch.com/

Cultures http://www.cultures.com/

Destinations http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/dest.htm

Digital City http://www.digitalcity.com

Directory of Religious Centers http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/html/database.html

*E-Conflict World Encyclopedia http://www.emulateme.com/

Economist Country Briefings http://www.economist.com/countries/

Educational Resources on Asia http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Resource.htm

Embassy Web http://www.embpage.org/

Electronic Embassy http://www.embassy.org/

Fifty States and Capitals http://www.50states.com/

Flags of All Countries http://www.theodora.com/flags.html

Flags of the World http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/

Fodor's Travel Guides http://www.fodors.com/sitemap/

Free Travel Brochures http://www.travelinformation.com/

Frommers http://www.frommers.com/destinations/

Geographia http://www.geographia.com/

Geographic Learning Site http://geography.state.gov/htmls/plugin.html

Getting through Customs http://www.getcustoms.com/omnibus.html

Governments on the WWW http://www.gksoft.com/govt/

History Central: Nation by Nation http:/www.historycentral.com/NationbyNation/index.html

History Channel Traveler http://www.historytravel.com/

Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/hrw/worldreport99/index.html

INCORE: Internet Conflict Data Service http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countris/index.html

InfoNation (Compare statistics for member nations of the UN) http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

IPL Culturequest http://www.ipl.org/youth/cquest/

K-12 Africa Guide http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html

LA Times - Travel Sourcebook http://www.latimes.com/travel/sourcebook/

**Library of Congress Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Microsoft's Expedia http://expedia.msn.com/

National Atlas of the United Staes http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasvue.html

National Forum on People's Differences http://yforum.com/

National Geographic Index http://www.nationalgeographic.com/publications/explore.html

Official City Sites http://www.officialcitysites.org/

Orbitz http://www.orbitz.com/

Planet Rider http://www.planetrider.com/

Political Resources on the Net http://www.agora.stm.it/politic/

Portals to the World http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Rough Guides http://travel.roughguides.com/

Savvy Traveler http://savvytraveler.com/

Stately Knowledge http://www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow/skhome.html

*Travel Warnings http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html

Travel.org http://www.travel.org/index2.html

United Nations Cartographic Section http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/index.htm

US State Home Pages http://www.globalcomputing.com/states.html

World City Guide http://cityguide.lycos.com/

World Heritage Sites http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/sites/main.htm

World News Megastories http://www.megastories.com/

WorldSkip.com http://www.worldskip.com/

World Travel Guide Online http://www.wtgonline.com/navigate/world.asp

World Wide Holiday and Festival Page http://smiley.logos.cy.net/bdecie

Yahoo! Regional: U.S. States http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/

Your Nation http://www.your-nation.com/

Names

Babynamer.com http://babynamer.com/

Baby Names http://babynames.efront.com/

Baby Names and Name Meanings http://goodnames4u.com/firstnames/

Behind the Name http://www.behindthename.com/

Parent Soup Baby Name Finder http://www.parentsoup.com/babynames/lookup/

Language and Literature

Acronym and Abbreviation List http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html

Acronym Finder http://www.mtnds.com/af/

Alphabet Soup Explained (acronyms and abbreviations) http://members.aol.com/nigthomas/alphabet.html

Aphorisms Galore! http://www.aphorismsgalore.com

Authors and Illustrators http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/cl.authors.html

Babelfish (Altavista's translation service) http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?

Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation http://www.grammarbook.com/

Brewer Dictionary of Phrase and Fable http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable

British and Irish Authors on the Web http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html

Bulfinch's Mythology http://www.webcom.com/shownet/medea/bulfinch/welcome.html

Collins Cobuild Student Dictionary http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ccsd/

Concordances of Great Books http://www.concordance.com/

Conjugue http://www.puterweb.com/conjugue/

Dictionary of Literary Terms http://www.bell.k12.ca.us/BellHS/Littauer/Literary.Terms.Menu

Dictionary of Slang http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

Dictionary of Symbolism http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/

Digital Librarian: Languages http://www.servtech.com/~mvail/languages.html

Duhaime's Law Dictionary http://wwlia.org/diction.htm

Encyclopedia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/

Elements of Style by William Strunk http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

English and its History http://www.bluerider.com/english/

Etymology of Names http://www.pacificcoast.net/~muck/etym.html

First Names and What They Mean http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/default.asp

Gale Group: Lit Central http://www.gale.com/schools/resrcs/lit_cent/index.htm

Glossary of Literary Terms (Gale) http://www.galegroup.com/schools/resrcs/lit_cent/glossary.htm

Glossary of Poetic Terms http://shoga.wwa.com/~rgs/glossary.html

Gotranslator service http://translator.go.com/

Great Writers and Poets http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html

If You Like ... http://www.hennepin.lib.mn.us/pub/reader2reader/iyl.html

Language Sites on the Internet http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/rllink.htm

Literary Critic.com http://literarycritic.com/

Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library) http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

Literary Index http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html

LitEngine.com http://www.litengine.com/

LOGOS Homepage http://www.logos.it/

MyHebrew Dictionary http://www.dictionary.co.il/

One Across (Crossword puzzles) http://www.oneacross.com/

Online English Grammar http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.html

Poet's Corner http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2012/poems/index.html

Resources for American Literature http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/index.html

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html

Space http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1161/english.htm

Visual Thesaurus http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/

Voycabulary http://www.voycabulary.com

Washington Post Business Glossary http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/glossary/glossary.htm

Web of Online Dictionaries http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

Where Do Languages Come From? http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/

Wilton's Etymology Page http://www.wilton.net/etyma1.htm

Word Detective on the Web http://www.greenapple.com/~words1/index.html

Word Reference http://www.wordreference.com/

WWWebster Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Write Tools: Editors' and Writers' Toolkit http://writetools.com/

Xlation.com - More Than Words http://www.xlation.com/

Yahoo Literature http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/

News

Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/

CNN Interactive http://www.cnn.com

Yahoo Full Coverage http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/

Vanderbilt Television News Archive http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

Health Sources

Achoo * Internet Health Care Directory http://www.achoo.com

Adam.com http://adam.com/

AEGIS (AIDS and HIV) http://www.aegis.com/

American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org

AMA Health Insights - - Specific Conditions http://www.ama-assn.org/consumer/specond.htm

American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/bottomcancinfo.html

American Heart Association http://www.amhrt.org

Ask NOAH: New York Online Access to Health http://www.noah-health.org/

Ask Noah About Cancer http://www.noah.cuny.edu/cancer/cancer.html

Biosites (NLM) http://www.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/

Cancer Care http://www.cancercareinc.org/patients/informational.htm

Cancer Group Institute http://www.cancergroup.com/

Cancer News on the Net http://www.cancernews.com/quickload.htm

Centers for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov

CyberDiet's Nutritional Profile http://www.cyberdiet.com/profile/profile.html

Doctor's Guide to the Internet http://www.docguide.com/

Drug Checker http://www.drugchecker.com/apps/drugchecker/DrugMain

Folk Medicine http://www2.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/folkmed/

Food and Nutrition Information Center http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/

Free Medical Dictionary http://www.medterms.com/

Gene School http://library.advanced.org/19037/

Global Medic http://www.globalmedic.com/

Gray's Anatomy http://www.bartleby.com/107/

Gyn 101 http://www.gyn101.com/homefr.htm

Hardin MD http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md.html

Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide Online http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg

Health AtoZ http://www.healthatoz.com

Health Explorer http://www.healthexplorer.com

Healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov

HealthGate http://healthgate.com/

Health InfoQuest http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/healthinfoquest/

Health Line http://www.healthline.com

HealthLinks http://www.healthlinkusa.com/

Health on the Net Foundation http://www.hon.ch/

HealthScout http://www.healthscout.com/

HealthWorld Online http://www.healthy.net/

Family Doctor.org http://familydoctor.org/

InteliHealth - - Johns Hopkins Health Information http://www.intelihealth.com

Internet Grateful Med - National Library of Medicine http://igm.nlm.nih.gov

Lab Tests Online http://www.labtestsonline.org/

Mayo Health O@sis http://www.mayohealth.org

Medical Images and Illustrations http://www.mich.ki.se/Medimages.html

MedicineNet http://www.medicinenet.com/

MediConsult http://www.mediconsult.com

MedLine Plus - National Library of Medicine http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus

Medscape http://www.medscape.com

Medscape Patient Information http://www.medscape.com/home/Patient/PatientInfo.html

Mental Health Net http://www.cmhc.com/

Merck: Online Medical Reference http://www.MerckHomeEdition.com

Mining Co / Health Pages http://home.miningco.com/health

National Cancer Institute: Treatment for Patients http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/clinpdq/pif.html

New England Journal of Medicine http://www.nejm.org

Nutrient Database http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

OncoLink (U of Penn) http://oncolink.upenn.edu/

Onhealth http://www.onhealth.com/

PDR.net for Consumers http://www.pdr.net/consumer/

Personal MD http://www.directleads.com/ad.html?o=508&a=CD3308

Clinical Pharmacology 2000 - http://cp.gsm.com/

PharmInfo.net http://pharminfo.com/

PubMed - National Library of Medicine http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Reuters Health Information http://www.reutershealth.com

Rx List: Internet Drug Index http://www.rxlist.com/

US Department of Health and Human Services http://www.os.dhhs.gov

University of California San Diego (UCSD) Health Guide http://health.ucsd.edu/guide/index.htm

Virtual Human http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

WebMD http://webmd.com/

Women's Health http://www.healthy.net/womenshealth

Yahoo: Cancer http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Cancer/

YourSurgery.com http://www.yoursurgery.com/

Phone numbers/Addresses

555-1212 http://www.555-1212.com/

All-In-One People Search http://www.peoplesearch.net/

AnyWhoPeople Find http://anywho.com

Airline Phone Numbers http://www.travelfinder.com/airlines.htm

Area Code Lookup http://www.555-1212.com/area_codes.cfm

ATT Help/Search http://att.com/atoz

Big Book.com http://www.bigbook.com/

Big Foot http://www.bigfoot.com

Big Yellow http://www.bigyellow.com

Internet 800 Directory http://inter800.com

National Address Server http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html

Nedsite the Ultimate People Finder http://www.nedsite.nl/search/people.htm

PostInfo http://postinfo.net/links/

Reverse Phone Directory http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/

SwitchBoard http://www.switchboard.com

Telephone Directories on the Web http://www.teldir.com/

Toll-Free Numbers for Health Information http://nhic-nt.health.org/Pubs/99hfinders/99tollfree.html

Ultimate White Pages http://www.theultimates.com/white/

Who Where? (Lycos) http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/

World Pages http://www.worldpages.com/

Zip2 http://www.zip2.com/

Zip Codes

US Postal Service http://www.usps.gov

Zip Code Lookup http://www.getzips.com/zip.htm

Consumer Materials

AdCritic.com http://www.adcritic.com/

Catalog Link http://www.coolwebsightings.com/newsletter/cataloglink.html

Find-It! Consumer http://finditconsumer.wa.gov/

U.S.Consumer Gateway http://www.consumer.gov

Better Business Bureau http://www.bbb.org

CompareNet http://www.compare.net

Consumer Information Center http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov

Consumer Information Resources http://www.whats4sale.com/mainlink.htm

Consumer Reports Online http://www.consumerreports.org

Good Housekeeping Institute http://homearts.com/gh/toc/osinstit.htm

Home Improvement Encyclopedia http://www.bhglive.com/homeimp/docs/index.htm

Consumer World http://www.consumerworld.org

Joey Green's Wacky Uses http://wackyuses.com/

National Institute for Consumer Education http://www.emich.edu/public/coe/nice/nice.html

Product Manuals http://www.livemanuals.com/

Product ReviewNet http://www.productreviewnet.com/home.html

RepairClinic.com: Appliance Repair Tips & Help http://www.repairclinic.com/0003.asp

ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/

Miscellaneous

Annual Reports Library http://www.zpub.com/sf/arl/

Hoover's Online: The Ultimate Source for Company Information http://www.hoovers.com