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WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES

The most powerful feature of the WWW is the way it provides links to other sites. Imagine what it would be like to find your college library suddenly expanded to include materials from all over the world. That's what Web links do for you. Try surfing the Web to find materials that enrich a course's syllabus. Fortunately, a growing number of sites are useful for history and religion students. Here are a few links to get you started. Please tell me of sites you have found that might be included here. Notify me if any of these links don't work.

USING THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Like any resource, the Internet should be used critically. Anybody - even you and I ! - can publish anything on the Web without an editorial board or professional authority vetting it. Web users, to protect themselves from becoming dupes, must develop skill in evaluating Web material. Here are a few guides:

Check List for Evaluating Web Sources
Searching the Internet
Search Methods

RELIGIOUS STUDIES SITES

Virtual Religion Index
Jesus Seminar Forum
Catholic Resources on the Net
Internet Resources in Religion and Theology
Islamic Texts and Resources
Maven: Jewish/Israel Links
The Secular Web
Christian Classics Etheral Library
Christus Rex
Comparative Religion
Early Church Documents, c.96-150 C.E.
Guide to Early Church Documents
Religion
Religion and Community
WWW Virtual Library in Religion
Scholarship in Religious Studies
The Holy See: The Vatican Website
The Ecole Initiative
University of Wyoming Religious Studies Homepage
Documents of the Roman Catholic Church
The Electronically Linked Academy of the American Academy of Religion--A gateway into a variety of online religion resources.

GENERAL REFERENCES:

Virtual History References
Virtual Reference Desk: Humanities
Brian's Reference Tools
Online Reference Works
A major index of history sources organized by world region, at University of Kansas
Index of historians and philosophers since 1750, useful for intellectual history.
World Cultures Resources
Online Reference Works
WWW Virtual Library Subject Catalogue

LIBRARIES:

Library of Congress
Library of Congress Learning Page
Duke Un Library, varied sources from the collection
The Virtual Library of Virginia
New York Public Library

SEARCH ENGINES:
Develop skill in using these engines for finding specific materials. It takes practice!

Yahoo
Alta Vista, most powerful but may produce too many hits
Webcrawler
LYCOS

HISTORY SURVEYS AND COLLECTIONS OF SOURCES:

Medieval History Sourcebook, Paul Halsall's collection with many items on medieval Christianity
Modern History Sourcebook, Paul's Halsall's collection has items on religious history.
Welling Collection, documents and short articles on American history.
Hanover College, documents in world history by region
British and American Sources
World History Texts

SOME INTERESTING & USEFUL SITES:

Religion & Ethics on PBS
The History Channel
Public Broadcasting Online
Center for History and New Media
Books & Journals Online
Newspapers via Yahoo
Discovery Channel: History
BBC World Service