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Cultural Heritage
Online Resources
Databases
The subscription databases are always great sources. The databases listed below might be especially helpful for this project. For a list of all our subscription databases, click here. Passwords for home access of the subscription databases are available in the Media Center and in the "News" on Edline.
  CultureGrams- Click on "World Edition" to find your country.
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 Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol -
 Encyclopedia Britannica Online- Search the "Encyclopedia Britannica for High School Students" using the country name, select the first article, then scroll down to access the cultural information needed.
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 Proquest Platinum - Search on your country name and "culture" to get started.
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 SIRS Knowledge Source-
 World Book Online Reference Center
General
The following websites might be beneficial to you. These are general sites
with links to individual countries.
- InfoPlease: Countries of the World
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- Library of Congress Country Studies
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- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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- CIA The World Factbook
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- International Herald Tribune
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- United Nations CyberSchoolBus
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- Economist.com, Articles by Country
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- AtlaPedia Online
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- Embassy.org
Other Resources
The following websites are general (may discuss several countries) and specific to certain countries. Some of the following websites
are simply stepping stones to get to other sites, and some of them are in languages other than English. Please, note that not all
websites are going to work for your research, but they may work for others in the class. The left side is sorted by country or region.
- Austrian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
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- Virtual Finland
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- Deutschland Online
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- Go Greece.com
- Embassy of Greece, Washington, D.C.
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- Iceland.org
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- The American Irish Historical Society
- Information on the Irish State
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- The Italian Culture Website
- Vatican: The Holy See
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- Official Site of Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions
- Norway: The Official Site in the United States
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- Punjab Online
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- American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
- Republic of Slovenia, Government Communication Office
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- Welcome to "Si, Spain"
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- Thai World View: Society and Culture
- Thailand Life
African-American Sites
- Our Shared History: African American Heritage
- African American History and Culture
- About.com: African-American History
- Archives of African American Music and Culture
- Library of Congress: African-American History and Culture
- Questia Research
American Indian
- Cherokee Language and Culture Preservation
- Note: Informative site. See the list of links on the left.
- Cherokee Culture
- Cherokee Culture and History
Hispanic Sites
- Latin American Network Information Center
- Office of Minority Health, Data/Statistics
- Contributions of Americans of Hispanic Heritage
- Puerto Rican Culture
Immigration Sites
- Ellis Island Foundation
- Alice Island Immigration Station
- The American Immigration Law Foundation
- Independent Lens: The New Americans
- BambooWeb Dictionary: Immigration
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