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Accounting13 links
Accounting Education - a major resource for the global academic and professional accounting community
Accounting Firms and Employment
The Accounting Page - This web site was designed as a teaching and guidance tool for students and others interested in the profession of Accounting
Accounting Regulatory Bodies - A comprehensive index of web-based tax and accounting resources
Accounting Resources - A list of resources posted by BRYANT COLLEGE
Accounting Terminology Guide - The New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) General Committee on Public Relations has prepared this glossary as an educational tool
AccountingWeb - The everyday resource for accountants and accounting professionals
Auditnet - largest and oldest free information site with links, tools and resources developed for the benefit of the audit profession
Between the Sheets - Accounting -  part of Biz/ed, a unique business and economics service for students, teachers and lecturers
CPA Net - The online community and complete resource for the accounting profession
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - Internal Revenue Service official website
Tax and Accounting Sites Directory - is a comprehensive index of web-based tax and accounting resources
WorldWideWeb Tax - Here you’ll find IRS forms, IRS instructions, IRS publications, tax tables, rate schedules,  charts, worksheets, and answers to practically every IRS and tax question imaginable in our Master Index of tax topics
Aeronautical Engineering 12 links
Advanced Topics in Aerodynamics - This web site is an electronic media about aerodynamics, aeronautics and propulsion systems
Basic Astronomical Terms - from SEDS
Basics of Space Flight 
Boeing Company - The Official Boeing Company Home Page. This site requires a Flash 4 Plug-in (or higher) to be installed and JavaScript enabled in your browser
Glenn Learning Technologies Project - we have been pioneers and innovators who have expanded horizons and opened frontiers for our explorers in air and space
Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics - Each page at this site describes a single topic related to basic airplane aerodynamics, propulsion, or model rockets
Global Positioning System - These materials were developed by Peter H. Dana, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratory - The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, the Karman Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Jet Propulsion, and the Firestone Flight Sciences Laboratory together form the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, widely known as GALCIT
How Jet and Gas Engines Work - brought to you by the How Stuff Work web site. A great website for curious people
How Things Fly - an online exhibition from the National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution
NASA- Scientific and Technical Information - (STI) website helps you find NASA aerospace STI, as well as locate domestic and international STI pertinent to NASA's missions and Strategic Enterprises
Stanford University - Aerospace Robotics Laboratory (ARL) - Research in the ARL focuses on improving robotic performance through the application of feedback control, integrated sensing systems, and task-level autonomy
African American Studies 54 links
Aboard the Underground Railroad - introduces travelers, researchers, historians, preservationists, and anyone interested in African American history to the fascinating people and places associated with the Underground Railroad.
African American History - Subject Guides to African-American history and culture at the MIT Library
African American Military History - For more than two hundred years, African Americans have participated in every conflict in United States history
African American Perspectives - Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps - The CCC employed young men between the ages of 17 and 23 in work camps where they were assigned to various conservation projects
African-American Mosaic - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 - A collection of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music compiled by  Brown University and The Library of Congress
African-Americans in Army History - U.S. Army Center of  Military History
African-Americans the the U.S. Navy - Department of the Navy - Naval Historical Center
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery - A historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries
AFRO-American Almanac - A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution
Afro-American History  - An Internet based curriculum enhancement tool for African American History education programs
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology - From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists.
And This Is Maxwell Street - Explore this site to learn about the original audio tapes from the 1964 film "And This Is Free"...including all the out-takes
Beale Street (Memphis, Tennessee) - Memphis is the Home of the Blues and the Birthplace of Rock 'n Roll. And it all starts here on Beale Street
Black History - Exploring African-American issues on the Web
Black History Articles - This site is the cyberspace partner of The Black Collegian Magazine and provids African American college students information by leading African American writers, and general information on college life
Black History Month Resources - Department of History Tennessee Technological University
Black History Quest - African-American History, Culture, and Black Studies Resources  
Black History Resources - Department of History Tennessee Technological University
Born in Slavery - Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves
Buffalo Soldiers the Life and History - In 1866 a legislation establishing two Cavalry and four infantry regiments which would be made up of African-Americans. The mounted regiments were the 9th and 10th Cavalry, which were soon nicknamed by the Cheyenne and Comanche as the "Buffalo Soldiers."
Buffalo Soldiers of Texas
Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography - A bibliography of Oral History Interviews on the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Composers of African Descent - Music in the Western Classical tradition by Africans, African Americans & African Europeans
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dred Scott Case  - In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that Scott remain a slave. This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War
Black Soldiers in the Civil War - The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
From Slavery to Freedom - The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 presented by the  Library of Congress
African Americans in the Civil War  - Approximately 180,000 African Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free Africans-Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight
History of Black Military Service - From the Colonial Era through World War II
History of Jazz Before 1930 - The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and Blues
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1945-1960 - This website describes the fall of the legal, administrative, and social barriers to the black American's full participation in the military service of his country
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns - Jazz has been called the purest expression of American democracy
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia - Racial discrimination against minorities, and blacks in Americans
Journal of African-American Religious History - provides information on events, new publications, research collections, and other resources in the field of African-American religious history
Juneteenth: Freedom Revisited - The celebration of freedom is what Juneteenth is all about. Juneteenth, or June 19, 1865 marks the date when many of slaves in the state of Texas learned that they had been freed
Langston Hughes: Artist and Historian - Langston Hughes was among four principal writers who achieved major recognition during the Harlem Renaissance
Martin Luther Kings, Jr. - Here you'll find stories and photos about Dr. King culled from The Seattle Times over the past decade
National Civil Rights Museum - The Museum exists to assist the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide, through its collections, exhibitions, research and educational programs
Underground Railroad Freedom Center - The Underground Railroad is the core experience, but the exhibits will also include history galleries on pre-slavery African Kingdoms as well as post-slavery freedom movements in America, Poland, South Africa, India, etc.
National Urban League - The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power and civil rights
Negro Leagues Baseball Online Archive - The Online Home Of Negro League Baseball History
From Selma to Montgomery - The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement
Stamp on Black History - The Postal Service has issued Black History-related stamps to commemorate black men and women who have contributed to America's history and who have made a difference
Swinging Through Time - The Graystone Museum and the story of Detroit jazz
Taking the Train to Freedom - The Underground Railroad was neither "underground" nor a "railroad," but was a loose network of aid and assistance to fugitives from bondage
The African American Journey - PBS is proud to recognize the unique experiences and accomplishments of African Americans
The African-American Mosaic - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
The Amistad - The world wide web provides many excellent resources for students and researchers. Explore the sources. Investigate what Americans thought, published, wrote, and said during the actual Amistad incident. Also visit The Amistad Case (teaching materials from the National Archives)
This Week in Black History - You can search for interesting facts about Black History by month or year,
or you can do a keyword search for a particular topic
Toward Racial Equality - Website visitors should be warned that several of the words, descriptions, and images from Harper’s Weekly are considered racially offensive by today’s standards
United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
Voices from History  - The publication, The Nation has assembled this website of articles and resource material
African Studies 47 links
Africa - From its diverse eco-systems to its kaleidoscope of cultures, Africa offers a wealth of valuable learning opportunities
Africa Resource Center - If you're looking for research material on Africa, this site will help you meet your objective
Africa South of the Sahara - An annotated guide to Africa related internet resources for students, and teachers
AfricaFocus - Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent. The database will eventually contain digital representations of more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from forty-five different countries
AfricaLog.com - an exchange of information, commerce and services between Africa and the rest of the world 
African Heritage Architecture - The mission on the AHA is to re-establish the architectural traditions of West Africa as a central component to our everyday lives 
African Human Rights Resource Center - This site is a joint project of the Makerere University Human Rights and Peace Center and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center.
African Studie
African Studies  
African Studies Internet Resources
African Voices
African Writing Systems
Africana.com
AFRILINE 
Afrol.com
Africa Online - Women  - The women's section has links to sites related to women
Africa Policy Information Center - African Women's Rights - Carries policy oriented reports on African women's health, political, human rights, and links to related sites. APIC is based in Washington, D.C
Conflict Diamonds - Sanctions and War - Published by the United Nations Department of Public Information
Contemporary Africa Database
Cultural Expressions
Economic and Development
Gambia Gateway
General and Miscellaneous Resources on Africa
Household Survey Database
Human Origins and Evolution in Africa
Index on Africa 
Kingdom of the Zulu
Match Tours - Moroccan Land and History
Musicians of African Descent
New Africa
Peace Corps World Wise Schools
Peoples and Cultures of Africa - The goal of this project is to create an informative web site that will provide insight into many of the wonderful aesthetics, beliefs, and histories of West African cultures
Poverty in Africa
Programme for Traditional Resources Rights (PTRR)
Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Sierra Leone
The Cichlid Fishes of Lake Malawi, Africa
The Electronic African Bookworm: A Web Navigator
The KwaZulu-Natioal Tourism Act, 1996
UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
United Nations in Africa
Virtual Developing Country - Zambia
Water in Africa
West Africa Review 
Anglo Zulu War Historical Society - Experts aim to educate and encourage students interested in the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. Find an art gallery, book list, and membership details
Zulu Culture - The bulk of both the text and the graphics in these pages has been extracted from the book 'Zulu - People of Heaven'
Anatomy of the Zulu Army - Author Ian Knight explores the social culture of the Zulu people between 1818-1879 and examines their ability to mobilize an effective army
Agriculture 46 links

A Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information

Access to Extension Publications
AgBioS
AgBiotechNet
AgDB
AgNIC
AgNIC Agribusiness
Agricultural Organizations academicinfo.net 
Agriculture
Agriculture Information Sources - Selected Internet Resources
AgriFor
Agrimine
AgriWeb Canada
AgroWebRussian 
Asian Food Information Centre (AFIC Online)
Australian Framing Virtual Library
BeanRef
Coffee and Biodiversity Conservation in El Salvador
Cornell University Plant Pathology Department
Crop Science
EnviroWindows
Europe Agriculture 
FarmChina.com 
Food Biotechnology Communications Network
Food, Agriculture & Fisheries 
Forestry AgNIC at the University of Minnesota
Genetic Engineering in the Agriculture Industry
Horticulture & Crop Science in Virtual Perspective
International Institute for Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences
Internet for Agriculture, Food and Forestry Tutorial 
Links for Agricultural Librarians 
Organic Farming
Organic-Research.com
Plant Viruses
Russian Central Scientific Agricultural Library 
Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory
Tomato Juice: Agricultural Web Journals 
Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 
U.S. National Agricultural Library 
UK CropNet
United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN)
Vegetable MD Online
Web-Agri
World Food Programme
WWW Virtual Library: Agriculture
Algebra 10 links
Algebra Story and Word Problems - Become a word problem wizard by practicing with these brain twisters and teasers. Great for grades K-12
Purplemath - Your Algebra Resource - Written primarily for students, the site contains links to resources about elementary mathematics. Includes informative modules
Function Basics - Gives an introductory explanation of functions. Includes a section of graphing
Algebraic Number Theory Archives - Access the preprint archives for papers in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry. Includes submission instructions
Matrix Market - Visual repository of test data for use in comparative studies of algorithms for numerical linear algebra. With matrix generation tools
Algebra and Math - Homework Help - Offers help with algebra and other math topics and help preparing for the SAT. Customize word problems or post your problem on the forums
Math Planet - Algebra Glossary -Word list defines terms from absolute value to zero matrix. Includes basic and advanced concepts at a high-school level
ThinkQuest Math - Algebra - Includes a complete listing of equations and definitions in introductory algebra
History of Math - Ancient Algebra - Primer on the three kinds of ancient algebra: mixed algebra, numerical algebra, and geometric algebra. From math professor Don Allen's lectures
Brief History of Algebra and Computing - Jonathan P. Bowen provides an eclectic Oxonian view of these math sciences. Review the Table of Contents
Almanacs 16 links
Old Farmer's Almanac - Tide and sunrise tables, planting charts, recipes, a day in history and the weather are a few of the facts contained in this resource
CNN - Daily Almanac  - Read a historic quote and learn about significant events, which took place on the current date in years past
World Population Figures - Offers country-by-country profiles and data. Check population, city and region, land use, climate, and industrial output information
Michael J. Maggio's Daily Almanacs - Have a look at a calendar that includes famous birthdays, deaths, events and holidays for each day
Dave's Today in History Information - Provides an extensive list of notable birthdays and historical events for each day of the year
Writer's Almanac - Archived daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keilor that can be heard on Minnesota public radio. Includes daily readings
Olympic Almanac - Extensive general resource covers the significance of the Olympic rings, the history of the mascots, and Olympic firsts
Kids' Almanac - Learn about the geography, culture and history of the town of Lucerne. Links to related articles are included
Snow Almanac - Guide to severe snowstorms in New England. Find out why they occur and read about the blizzards of 1888 and 1816
Almanac - Calendar can calculate recurring events and supports more than 50 world time zones
Forensic Files - Online mystery adventure for kids, from the Association for the Promotion and Advancement of Science Education. Join super-sleuth Newton Beagle as he works to crack his latest case
Fast Facts - Almanacs, Factbooks & Statistical Reports Directory of online reference materials is organized by topic and geographic region. Browse the extensive subject guide
Infoplease - Almanacs Browse or search dozens of Information Please almanacs, both general interest and subject-specific. Check out feature articles and quizzes
Reference Books - Almanacs Browse and purchase form a list of sale almanacs. Find pricing information, shipping details, and book descriptions
United States - Geography 2000 Almanac Packed with information about the US's geography, climate, natural resources, political systems, social statistics and people
Baseball Almanac - Awards Menu Find past winners of various baseball awards, including the Cy Young, Golden Glove, Rookie of the Year and Players' Choice awards
American History 23 links
Also see U for U.S. History
American Family Immigration History Center
American History: The Alien and Sedition Acts
American Indian History and Related Issues
American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
American Studies @ The University of Virginia
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
American Studies Web
An Abridged History of the United States
AP U.S. History
Center for History and New Media
European Immigration: 1829-1920
Eyes of Glory
Frontiers in History...
Hispanic & Latino History
History Matters
Learning Page
Multicultural Resources
National Museum of American History
New York Public - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Peopling North America:
Presidential Elections: 1860-1996
Presidents of the United States
Presidents of the United States
The African Presence in the Americas: 1492-1992
The American Presidency
The Capitol Project
TimePage History Links
U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index
United States History
USA 1840-1960: Journalists
Voice of the Shuttle: History Page: United States
American Literature 34 links
American Authors
American Library Association
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
ighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth Century Resources -- Literature
English Language and Literature Resources
The EServer
Gale Group Literary Resources
George Kelly Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection
Harlem Renaissance - Index
Internet Book Information Center (IBIC)
Indigenous Peoples' Literature
Library of Southern Literature
The Literary Gothic
Literary History
Literary Resources on the Net
The Literature and Culture of the American 1950's
LitSite : The Literary Community of Alaska
The Mississippi Writers Page
Mississippi Department of English
Native American Authors
Native American Indian Themes in Books for Children and Teens
Cynthia Leitich Smith Children's Literature Resources
Online Literary Criticism Collection
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
Project CROW: American Literature Surveys
Scribbling Women
Twentieth-century Authors
University of Virginia Library Subject Guides: English Resources
Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
Voices From the Gaps
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Literature
Writing Black USA
WWW Resources for English and American Literature
American Studies 37 links
American Studies Organizations academicinfo.net
100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans