ARTsor: A Resource for Historians

The ARTstor Digital Archive Collection contains over 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data from notable art and architecture collections worldwide. The collection spans many times and cultures and encompasses architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Intended to support teaching and research in art history, architecture, the humanities, and related disciplines, ARTstor also includes the tools to actively access, manipulate, and deliver these images. Currently ARTstor is comprised of the following source collections: the Art History Survey Collection; the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; the Huntington Archive of Asian Art; the Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection; the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive of murals and texts from Buddhist cave shrines in China; and the Smithsonian Native American Art and Culture collection. Upcoming collections will encompass women in America, Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, the art and architecture of Islam, the image of the Black in Western Art, and more. By 2006, ARTstor is expected to contain approximately 500,000.images.To use this resource, visit: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ARTstor.html

France: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

This "educational" Web site is a fine example of what can be done when technology serves, but does not control the presentation of "history".

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (2001) presents more than 600 primary documents and is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York). It is supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit it at http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/.

Drs. Lynn Hunt, UCLA and Jack Censer, George Mason University, served as principal authors and editors of this vibrant and insightful exploration. Images, documents, songs, maps, and a timeline and glossary are provided. The twelve topical essays are "documented" with these formats. Songs are avaiable as text and in performance. Images are complemented by contextual information.

From the site: "Companion book and CD-ROM: A book and CD-ROM of the same name is available from Penn State University Press for $19.95. The book offers a brief but comprehensive narrative of the Revolution. The CD-ROM contains all the resources available on the Web and is particularly useful if you have a slower Web connection. It also includes multimedia overviews that are not available on the Web. "