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American Culture

American Art Museum

americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm - Take a look at American art at the online home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C. has the largest collection of American art in the world, with over 37,000 works! At their website you can visit 18 on-line exhibits, including Posters American Style, American Photographs: The First Century and The White House Collection of American Crafts.

American Folklore

www.americanfolklore.net - This folklore site contains American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, and ghost stories from each of the 50 United States.  You can read about famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Daniel Boone, and many more.

America’s Library

www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi - For a fun way to learn about American people and events, visits America's Story. This site is an entertaining way to find out about famous Americans like Abraham Lincoln or Buffalo Bill. You can learn about American games, watch some of the first cartoons and check what happened in American history on your birthday!

Black Voices

www.blackvoices.com - Get insight into American life and history from an African-American perspective and read what prominent people in the African-American community are talking about.

Hispanic Online

www.hispaniconline.com - Visit Hispanic Online to keep up to date with the latest news in Latino-American culture, music and people.

The House of Usher

houseofusher.net - Edgar Allen Poe's House of Usher is a tribute to the famous American writer of spooky poems and stories. Read Poe's works, listen to audio clips of Poe’s work and find out about Poe's life.

The Moonlit Road  

www.themoonlitroad.com - Do you like scary stories?  You can read or listen to spooky tales about ghosts, vampires and more on this site, which features stories from the American South.

National Public Radio

www.npr.org - National Public Radio offers news updates, audio files of feature stories, profiles of interesting people, and sound files of music.

Whitman Archive

www.whitmanarchive.org - One of America’s most famous poets, Walt Whitman is also “one of the four or five most significant writers in United States history.”  This site has a biography of Whitman, the text of Whitman’s poems and prose, a gallery of photos and more.