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American Studies Links Recommended by Richard P. Horwitz
TOOLS

Guides to Analyzing Sources
Making Sense of Evidence - History Matters
Teacher's Guides and Analysis Tool - LOC
Teaching with Documents - NARA
Worksheets for Analyzing Sources - NARA
History Works Tutorials
Critically Analyzing Info Sources - Cornell

Guides to WWWeb Learning
Finding Information on the Internet - UCBerkeley
Evaluating Web Pages - UCBerkeley
Evaluation Criteria - NMSU
Using Wikipedia - Cornell

Rumor Has It - Snopes
Current Netlore & Urban Legends - Hoax List
Citing Electronic Sources MLA-style - Purdue
Virtual Teaching - UMUC
ESL and TESL Links
Learn English - British Council

Libraries
Library of Congress Homepage

Library of Congress Catalog
Harvard U Library Catalog (HOLLIS)
U of California Catalog (MELVYL)
Internet Archive and Library

Search Engines
WWWeb Search - Google
Scholarly Web Search - Google

Video Search - BlinkX or YouTube
Blog Search - Google or Bloogz
Usenet - Google
Listserv - L-Soft

Reference Gateways
Scholarly Internet Resources - Infomine
Virtual Reference Desk - Refdesk
Bartleby Reference Collection
Gov't Periodicals - U of Louisville

Academic Subject Guide - Strathclyde

Reference Tools
Reference.com
Wikipedia
Urban Dictionary
Multilingual Dictionaries
Babel Fish Translation - Yahoo
Guide to Grammar and Writing - CCCF
Acronym Finder
Texting - Lingo2Word
Conversions
Clip Art and Media - MS

Directories
College or University in the World - GEO
Colleges or University in U.S. - CLAS
Community Colleges - MCLI
Global Education - CGE
EdUSA Advising Centers - State Dept
Museums in the USA - ICOM
Museums Around the World - VLMP