VVC Library: Arts & Humanities

An extensive list of links to art history resources arranged by time period and geographic location.

Explore museums from around the world while discovering and viewing hundreds of art master peices at detailed zoom level.

Art UK provides access to the entire collection of paintings in public ownership at national museums and organizations, local museums, charitable trusts, universities, hospitals, town halls, local libraries, and other civic buildings throughout the United Kingdom. In addition, the site includes works from a number of non-public collections, such as those in Bishop’s palaces and Oxford and Cambridge colleges. The vast majority of the works on the site are oil paintings, but works in acrylic and tempera are also included. Over 200,000 artworks by 38,370 artists from over 3,000 venues are included. While the majority of artists represented are British artists, a number of artists from other countries are also included, such as Raphael, Claude Monet, and Vincent Van Gogh.

A "Fine Art Search Engine." Search by artist name, works, museums, and art movements.

Find brief biographies on over 42,000 American artists with sample images and links to representative galleries, museums, and art dealers. Access to extended information is available for a fee.

WorldImages provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. The database contains approximately 100,000 images of global perspective. Images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes.
Dance

The American Ballet Theatre's Online Ballet Dictionary is unique interactive resource with 170 terms from the Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet, which are then demonstrated by ABT Company dancers.

500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection.

The Dance Studies Association (DSA) is an international organization of dance scholars, educators, and artists that aims to strengthen the visibility and increase the reach of dance as embodied practice, creative endeavor and intellectual discipline

Through a first-of-its-kind partnership between the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, the USC Digital Library recently debuted a collection of 1,200 video recordings of culturally significant dance performances, rehearsals, media productions, and interviews with pioneering choreographers and dance artists. The project is made possible by generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Everything to do with European dance from the 15th to early 17th centuries.

Theatrical emphasis on the history of costumes throughout the ages.

An online magazine of theater news and reviews, focusing on Broadway plays, and including quotes, reviews, news items, feature articles, letters to the editor.

DPS is one of the major publishers and licensers of plays. Use the "Playfinder" feature to find availability and information about play scripts (librettos), scores, and other publications. Select the "Play to Stage" button to view upcoming productions by title, author, city or state.

The site provides a compilation of materials of use to students of Elizabethan costuming. Includes history and technique, make-up, influences, dress and accessories, early and late Tudor fashion, and more.

A good source for current theater news, calendars, articles, ticket sources and more.

A collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Includes translations for many arias and aria texts.

One of the largest sites of classical music, composers, and works on the Internet. It is particularly useful for identifying the current availability of works by composers on CD.

Statewide transfer information for California colleges and universities.

A U.S. Department of Education site providing lists of colleges and universities (including vocational programs) based on tuition and fees and net prices (the price of attendance after considering all grant and scholarship aid) charged to students. Searchable by type of institution and tuition cost rang

A virtual library of over 31,000 U.S. and International college catalogs. Includes 2 year, 4 year, graduate, and professional degrees.

Offers easy to access overviews, statistical charts, and direct links to over 6,000 universities, community colleges, and vocational schools in the United States

Seach over 3,500 accredited institutions in the United States and Canada offering two-year, four-year, graduate degrees. Searches can be limited to majors, location, program type, and more.

Information about On-line distance education and traditional education programs.

Information on state, federal, and institutional financial aid programs for students attending college in California.

Online FASFA application. (Note: The school code for VVC is: 001335)

Information for the U.S. Department of Education student aid program.

Find information on loans, scholarships, and other types of financial aid.

Provides statewide career information on approximately 300 individual occupations.

Find information on developing career markets, salaries by occupation, interview strategies, and more. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Primarily a California career resource that offers information on specific careers, resumes, salaries, and much more.

LearnHowToBecome.org is a one-stop, comprehensive resource that can guide individuals through the steps needed in choosing a career path: overview, education, salaries, and resources. Careers are grouped by categories and include creative, education, health, legal, and more.

The U.S. Department of Labor source for career information. Revised every two years.

The Web version of the Information Please Almanac. Expect popup's.

A comprehensive Internet source for facts and statistics about Los Angeles County.

Search the Web version of this well-known almanac.

Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for.

Online dictionary and thesaurus with many additional features.

Allows users to look up words in over 1,000 different dictionaries simultaneously or by individual title. Includes both special and general dictionaries.

A searchable database for finding pronunciations, brief definitions, synonyms, and options for approximate correct spellings.

Contains more than 100 sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.

Answers of frequently asked questions at the Smithsonian Museum. Includes information on the armed forces, history, anthropology, musical history, physical sciences, textile conservation and more.

An all-in-one online reference tool for quick access to web-based resources.

Nearly 500,000 articles in more than 200 journals are now freely available on JSTOR’s “Early Journal Content.” This includes journal articles published in the United States before 1923 and articles published in other countries before 1870. (Important Note: This link opens the “Advanced Search” page. To limit the search to only “free” articles, click on “Include only content I can access.”)

The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 8,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks from libraries worldwide.

The Library of Congress - National Digital Library Program makes available more than 100 collections and more than 9 million individual items.

This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Includes Arizona, California, District of Columbia, and other selected States. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Sponsored by The King Institute at Stanford University, the site includes a biography, timeline, encyclopedia, and audio clips of Martin Luther King Jr.

View the actual image and transcript of 100 milestone documents that chronicles U.S. history from 1776-1965.

Danvers Archival Center at the University of Virginia. A collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

Provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

Links to federal government (Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, etc.) web resources, exhibitions, audio and video, and information on women's history.

Documents the experiences of women service personnel in the Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan conflict and the Gulf war. The site includes online oral histories with video webcasts or podcasts of interviews.

A collection of annotated links to large document collections in world history. Sites are selected with an emphases on the "working-class" in history.

The stated goal of this website is to provide links to history sites anywhere in the world. Easy to use geographic index.

A free history e-Journal published by the University of Illinois Press.

An interactive museum of living history exhibiting extraordinary individuals who have shaped the world in the twentieth century. Entries include Arts and Literature, Business, Public Service, Science, and Sports.

A full-text database of reference works, verse, quotations, and literature. Titles include: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and the Oxford Shakespeare and much, much more.

Over 7,000 biographies and daily features that highlight newsworthy stories of people from all walks of life.

Quick and easy access to the full-text of Shakespeare's plays.

Over 25,000 quotes by more than 6,700 authors. Searchable by topic or author.

Provides news, information and guides to literary magazines, independent publishers, creative writing programs, alternative press publications and more. A section on Writers Resources includes: Calls for Submissions, Writing Contests, Blogs for Poets and Writers, and other resources.

Project Gutenberg offers over 57,000 free eBooks. Available as free epub books or free kindle books to download them or read online. Titles focus on older works for which copyright has expired. These eBooks may be freely used in the United States because most are not protected by U.S. copyright law.

Contains quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to assist English as a Second Language students. A project of The Internet TESL Journal.

A combination visual dictionary and encyclopedia resource that contains facts, images and explanations categorized and searchable by content. Although aimed at younger students, it is also a useful resource for ESL learners.

The daily newspaper of the High Desert!

Online version. Article archives through 1980 available for a fee. Articles from 1995 to present can be accessed free from the Newspaper Source Plus Library database. Articles from 1980 to present can be accessed free from the LexisNexis Library database (On-campus only).

News coverage updated throughout the day.

Online version. Archives through 1985. Fee charged for full-text articles. Articles from the latest 6 months are available in the LexisNexis database. (On-Campus access only)

Online version. Article archives available through 1851 for a fee. Articles from 1980 to present can be accessed free from the LexisNexis database (On-campus only).

A business-focused international daily newspaper.

A directory of world newspapers, magazines, and news sites in English. Arranged by country and region.

Full-text access to current newspapers published around the world in all languages. Arranged by region or A-Z listing by country.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) is a non-profit organization that provides open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The staff of 30 editors and approximately 300 authors hold doctorate degrees and are professors at colleges and universities around the world (though mostly from English-speaking countries). Submissions are peer reviewed by specialists according to strict criteria.

Includes articles on people, concepts, books, and other topics in philosophy. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.

Analyzes and highlights important content of religious-related Web sites. Offers a diverse scope of religious traditions and beliefs.