Contents: General Diversity Resources | General Genealogy Resources | Demographics & Statistics |
Diversity by: Age
| Disability | Ethnicity & Race:
|| African American
| Asian American, Hawaiian American, & Pacific Islander
| European
| Hispanic/Latino
| Jewish
| Multiracial
| Native American & Alaska Native
| Near & Middle Eastern
|| Gender
| Religion
| PSU Libraries' Related Pages
General Diversity Resources
- Advocacy Organizations (dmoz)
- Alternative Press Center's Online Directory
- America: History & Life [citation database] (Penn State Users Only)
- American Association of Affirmative Action
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Cultural History: the 19th Century (Kingwood College)
- American Cultural History: the 20th Century (Kingwood College)
- American Ethnic Geography: A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada (Kilpinen, Valparaiso)
- Break the Glass Ceiling Foundation [advocates equal opportunity for women, minorities, deaf, blind, disabled, and sexual minorities]
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance [description from website: "database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally -recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals"] (GSA)
- Centuries of Citizenship: A Constitutional Timeline (National Constitution Center)
- Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources (nnlm.gov)
- Digital History: Ethnic America (UHouston)
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (PA State System of Higher Education)
- Diversity Web
- DiversityNetwork [career information]
- Electronic Resources on Diversity [by major ethnic/racial groupings] (Santa Clara University)
- Empire Online, 1492-1969 [images of orginal sources documenting history of exploration, cultural contact and colonialism] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy [includes immigration] [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Food and Culture [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Ethnic Media (allied-media.com)
- Ethnic NewsWatch [full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press; more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications; searchable in both English and Spanish] (Proquest) (Penn State Users Only)
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media [includes assorted or mixed media, print media, television & film; ethnicities and identities, feminist, LesBiGay treatment in the media] (UIowa)
- Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (Thurgood Marshall Law Library, UMd)
- History Cooperative (Penn State Users Only)
- History E-Book Project (Penn State Users Only)
- Human Rights Watch
- IMDiversity.com [careers]
- Immigration and Multiculturalism [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Immigration Superhighway
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 (Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library) [Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library, museum, and archive collections that explore immigration to the United States between 1789 and 1930]
- Information Plus Reference Series Fall 2005, vol. 6: Immigration and Illegal Aliens: Burden or Blessing? [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- International Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Landmark Civil Rights Legislation (infoUSA)
- Major Federal and State Equal Employment Opportunity Laws and Regulations (PSU Affirmative Action Office)
- Maynard Institute for Journalism Education [supports minority journalism education and practice]
- Media Awareness Network
- Migrant Legal Action Program
- Minority Ownership: Black-Owned Broadcast Stations and Networks (ntia.doc.gov)
- National Association for Bilingual Education
- National Employment Minority Network Inc.
- Network of Alliances Bridging Race and Ethnicity (NABRE)
- New York Times Historical (1851-2003) (Proquest) (Penn State Users Only)
- NewPages Alternative Magazines Online
- Newsroom Diversity (Freedom Forum)
- Oral History Online (Penn State Users Only)
- Outreach World: A Resource for Teaching Kids about the World [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06]
- Pennsylvania Ethnic History: Exploring Diversity in Pennsylvania History (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
- Race: Are We So Different? [examines human variation and experiences; includes timelines of race issues in the U.S.] (understandingrace.org)
- Race and Ethnicity in Rural America (ERS, USDA)
- Resources for Dealing with Hate Groups (Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, PSU)
- Resources for Women, Minorities, and Other Affinity Groups and Audiences
- RLG Cultural Material [Maps, photographs, objects, documents, art, sound, and motion](Penn State Users Only)
- Small Presses Owned and Operated by People of Color: Publishers of Children's Books [African-American, Asian-American, Latino, Native American, and presses/publishers of multicultural materials] (Cooperative Children's Book Center, School of Education, UWisc-Madison.)
- System Social Equity Office (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education)
- Supreme Court Decisions [civil rights] (infoUSA)
- Texas Tides [documents the historical interaction of racial/ethnic groups in Texas; a "Best of the Humanities on the Web" Award recipient for 2005-6 from the National Endowment for the Humanities] (SFASU)
- Twenty-Four Language Project: Consumer Health Brochures in Multiple Languages (library.med.utah.edu/)
- UnderstandingPrejudice.org: Organizations
- United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literature Other than English [links to general resources in Literature other than English: African, Arabic, Chinese, Classical, Dutch, Eastern European, French, Gaelic & Celtic, German, Greek, Guatemalan, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish & Portuguese, subcontinental, Turkish, Welsh, and other Non-English literatures] (UCSB)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies (UCSB)
- Yahoo! Education Directory: U.S. Colleges and Universities [listing of US colleges and universities, categorized: American Indian tribal colleges, community and technical colleges, historically black colleges and universities, men's colleges, private, public, & women's colleges, with links to other web directories]
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General Genealogy Resources
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Demographics & Statistics
- About Counties: Data & Demographics (National Association of Counties)
- American FactFinder [data on race, ethnicity, ancestry, people, housing, business, & government, community surveys] (U.S. Census Bureau)
- American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Data and Links (American Factfinder)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
- CensusScope [includes charts, trends, maps, multiracial profiles, segregation by metropolitan area, population by race, age structure, family structure, and income] (UMich)
- Changing America, Indicators of Social and Economic Well-being by Race and Hispanic Origin (Council of Economic Advisers for the President's Initiative on Race)
- County and City Data Book, 2000 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- DataFerret: For the DataWeb (U.S. Census Bureau and CDC)
- Diversitydata.org: Metropolitan Quality of Life Data [analyzes quality of life in terms of population demographics and diversity, health, economic opportunities, education, crime, housing opportunities, neighborhood integration, and physical environment]
- Economic Report of the President
- FreeLunch.com [a free service provided by Moody's Economy.com; "databases contain more than 165 million economic, financial, and demographic time series covering more than 180 countries and their sub-regions." (from website, 1/23/2007)]
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (Penn State Users Only)
- Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For The United States, Regions, Divisions, and States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Hate Crime Data from the National Incident Based Reporting System, 1995-2000: Juvenile Victims and Offenders (UWVa)
- Health and Wellness: Illness among Americans [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Health Data for All Ages (CDC)
- Health Status, Health Insurance, and Health Services Utilization (US Census Bureau)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Millenium Edition Online (Penn State Users Only)
- Information Plus(R) Reference Series [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Kaiser Family Foundation [health, HIV/AIDS, prescription drugs, health insurance, minority health, women's health; fact sheets, polls, survey, reports, charts & data, testimony]
- Living Together: A New Look at Racial and Ethnic Integration in Metropolitan Neighborhoods, 1990-2000 (Brookings Institute)
- Melissa Data [miscellaneous demographic and other data, down to zip code level]
- Minorities: Race and Ethnicity in America [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Minority Health Data Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
- MPA Market Profiles [market segment demographics for African-American/Black, Asian-American, Hispanic/Latino, & Teen]
- National Population Projects [1999-2100] (U.S. Census Bureau)
- National Vital Statistics System (National Center For Health Statistics)
- Pew Internet and American Life Project [demographics of internet users]
- Social Explorer [users can create interactive reports and data maps of the United States, including historical data from 1940-2000]
- Social Trends and Indicators [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) (Penn State Users Only)
- State and County QuickFacts
- State and Metropolitan Data Book
- StateMaster.com
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (Penn State Users Only)
- Statistics on the Aging Population (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Administration on Aging)
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [employment discrimination statistics]
- Web Resources in Demography and Related Subjects (Population Research Institute, PSU)
- Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
- Yahoo! Statistics & Demographics [Internet traffic & usage]
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Diversity By:
Age
- AARP
- ACF Data and Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families)
- adultcareproviders.com
- Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center (Nat'l. Institute on Aging)
- AOA: Administration on Aging
- Death and Dying: End-of-Life Controversies [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Directory of Pennsylvania Nursing Homes (PA Dept. of Health)
- Elderhostel [educational travel for older adults]
- Elders and Families (US Dept.of Health and Human Services)
- Encyclopedia of Aging [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Experience Works! (helps mature job seekers find temporary assignments,temporary-to-permanent positions, and direct placement)
- Facts for Features: Older Americans Month: May 2007 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- FirstGov for Seniors
- Growing Old in America [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Health Data for All Ages (CDC)
- Health Insurance in Your State (American Diabetes Association)
- Help in PA [Pennsylvania Health & Human Service Web Portal--one-stop online guide to services, programs, agencies, and organizations serving children, families, adults, and older adults in Pennsylvania]
- Information Plus(R) Reference Series [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Merck Manual of Health and Aging [description from website: "a comprehensive guide to the changes and challenges of aging"]
- National Institute on Aging
- NIHSeniorHealth.gov
- Nursing Home Compare (Medicare)
- Older Americans and the Internet (Pew/Internet)
- Resource Directory for Older People (NIA/AOA)
- Senior Community Service Employment Program (AARP)
- Senior Corps (Corporation for National and Community Service)
- SeniorLaw: Elder Law and Legal Resources on the Web
- Social Security Online (with Benefits Calculator)
- Statistics on the Aging Population (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Administration on Aging)
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Disability
- Access-Able Travel Source
- AIDSearch (Penn State Users Only)
- Allabilities: Disability Links for People of All Abilities
- American Association on Mental Retardation
- American Foundation for the Blind
- American Medical Association
- American Psychological Association
- American Public Health Association
- American Sign Language: A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
- American Sign Language Browser
- Blindness Organizations
- Bookshare.org ["Bookshare.org gives print disabled people in the United States legal access to over 31,000 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or text to speech audio files." (website, 4/25/2007)]
- Deaf Resource Library
- Directory of Diabetes Organizations
- Disabled Online: Serving Special People with Special Needs [links to arts & entertainment, education, employment, government, home & living, legal, medical, organizations, recreation, shopping, travel, and news resources for persons with disabilities]
- DisabledTravelers.com
- Disability Etiquette Handbook (City of San Antonio Planning Dept.)
- Disability Resources on the Web
- DisabilityInfo.gov ["the federal government's one-stop Web site for information of interest to people with disabilities, their families, employers, service providers and many others." (description from website, 1/4/07)]
- Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco: Learning About Addictive Behavior [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show all publications" and select title from list; "covers the range of topics related to addiction for researchers in grade six and above. Approximately 200 articles cover everything from binge drinking to the role of genetics in addictive behaviors. Also included are additional articles on media representation, drug use in schools, herbal supplements, and more." (description from database, 12/12/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People With Disabilities (NFPA)
- Employment Resources for the Disabled
- Facts for Features: Americans With Disabilities Act, July 26 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Family Village Accessibility Shopping Mall [adaptive products and assistive technology]
- Family Village Community Health Care Center
- Family Village Guide to the Internet: For Parents of Children with Disabilities or Chronic Health Conditions
- Family Village Library [for persons with cognitive and other disabilities]
- Family Village Recreation and Leisure Center [for persons with cognitive and other disabilities]
- Family Village School [educationally-related resources for families with children who have disabilities; also provides links to sites useful to children with or without disabilities] (UWisc-Madison)
- Family Village University: Disability Statistics
- GovBenefits.gov
- Help in PA [Pennsylvania Health & Human Service Web Portal--one-stop online guide to services, programs, agencies, and organizations serving children, families, adults, and older adults in Pennsylvania]
- HIV and AIDS Statistics from Around the World (Avert.org)
- Information about Deafness (Gallaudet University)
- International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
- MayoClinic.com
- Medline Plus: Directories [doctors, dentists, other healthcare providers, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities] (U.S. National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health)
- MITCognet:References: MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (Penn State Users Only)
- National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
- NLS Reference Directories: Library Resources for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Services for Pennsylvanians with Disabilities (PA Dept. of Public Welfare)
- Services for Students with Disabilities (PA State System of Higher Education)
- State Insurance Risk Pools [a safety net for the "medically uninsurable" population]
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics (SAMHSA Office of Applied Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
- Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (SAMHSA, U.S. Department of Health & Human Welfare)
- Travelers with Disabilities and Medical Conditions (Transportation Security Administration]
- Voice of the Shuttle: Disability Resources
- WebMD
- Weight in America: Obesity, Eating Disorders, and Other Health Risks [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
- Women Watch: Women with Disabilities
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Ethnicity & Race
African American
- AARDOC: African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project (Amherst)
- African American Almanac [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "...provides historical and current information on African American history, society, and culture in 28 topical chapters" (from database, 12/07/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- African American Biographical Database, 1790-1950 (Penn State Users Only)
- African American Cemeteries Online (Millenium Project)
- African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation and Museum
- African American Health (MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine)
- African American Literature
- African American Literature: Courses and Syllabi (Voice of the Shuttle, UCSB)
- African American Literature Book Club [book reviews, author profiles, writer resources]
- African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
- African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
- African American Periodicals
- African American Poetry (Penn State Users Only)
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
- African American Web Connection: African American Organizations
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL)
- African American World [includes timeline 1400-to present, reference room, kids, classroom, history, arts & culture, race & society, and profiles] (PBS.org)
- African American Writers: E-Texts (James Madison)
- African American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "history of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the present. Includes overview essays, sidebars, and primary sources" (description from database, 12/12/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- African Americans in History
- africanamericans.com
- Africans in America (PBS.org)
- AfriGeneas: Africa Ancestored Genealogy
- Afro-American Almanac [includes biography, history, books, games, polls, issues]
- Afrolumens Central Pennsylvania African American History: Genealogy
- All About Jazz: Artist Profiles
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (UVa)
- Archives of African American Music and Culture: External Resources|Internet Resources (IU)
- Biographies: Life and Times of the Great Ones: PBS Jazz
- Biographies of Jazz Musicians (42eXplore)
- Biographies of the Harlem Renaissance (42eXplore)
- Black American Feminisms: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography (UCSB)
- Black Baseball.com: Negro Baseball Leagues
- Black Collegian Online: the career site for students of color
- Black Drama [full text of 100 plays, mid 1800s to present] (Penn State Users Only)
- Black Family Research: Using the Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives (archives.gov)
- Black Film Center/Archive
- Black History: Biographies (Thomson Gale)
- Black History Teaching Resources (Smithsonian Education)
- Black Inventors, A-Z
- black issues book review [fiction, non-fiction, children's books, & young adult]
- Black Panther Party
- Black Population in the United States, The (U.S. Census Bureau)
- BlackPressUSA.com ["the joint web presence of America’s Black community newspapers and the NNPA News Service — the last national Black Press news wire." (from website, 4/16/2007)]
- Blackrefer.com
- The Blue Highway
- The Blues (PBS)
- Booker T. Washington Papers [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06] (historycooperative.org)
- Center for Black Business, History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (UT)
- Center for Black Music Research (cbmr.org, Columbia College Chicago)
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
- The Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (usinfo.state.gov)
- Civil War Letters and Diaries (Penn State Users Only)
- Classic African American Literature (edchange.org)
- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Consumer Expenditure Data from the Buying Power of Black America (Target Market News)
- Contemporary Black Biography [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Coretta Scott King Award ["award (or awards)...given to an African American author and an African American illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution"] (ALA)
- Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry (Penn State Users Only)
- Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- Digital DuBois (UMass Amherst)
- Documenting the American South (UNC)
- Emancipation Proclamation (archives.gov)
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
- Encyclopedia of African American Society [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Ethic Media: African American
- Facts for Features: Black History Month: February 2007 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: African Americans
- Free to Dance [African-American dancers and choreographers' influence on modern dance; timeline and biographies] (PBS)
- Freedmen's Bureau Online [includes marriage records]
- Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media: African Americans in Media(UIowa)
- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale)
- Historic Documents and Books on the Internet: African American (USC)
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities Websites [list of and links to home pages of black colleges and universities]
- History of Jim Crow [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06] (jimcrowhistory.org)
- HistoryMakers
- Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (Digital Schomburg, NYPL)
- Images of 20th Century African American Activists: A Select List (LOC)
- In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06] (NYPL, Digital Schomburg)
- Internet African American History Challegen (brightmoments.com)
- Library of Southern Literature (UNC)
- Louis Armstrong(ARTSEDGE, The Kennedy Center)
- Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project (UCLA)
- Malcolm X: His Words Written and Spoken
- Malcolm X Project (Columbia)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute [includes King Papers, speeches, civil rights movement documents, King Encyclopedia, interactive timeline, a Liberation Curriculum, and other teaching resources] (Stanford)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Speeches (Stanford)
- Minority Links: Facts on the Black or African American Population (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Mostly Menfolk and a Woman or Two: a Virtual Exhibit of 18th and 19th African-American Literature (ibiblio.org)
- Movies, Race, and Ethnicity: African Americans (UCBerkeley)
- NAACP
- National Association of Black Journalists
- National Bar Association
- National Newspaper Publishers Association: The Black Press in America
- National Urban League
- Negro League Baseball.com Players Index
- North American Slave Narratives (UNC)
- Oxford African American Studies Center (Penn State Users Only)
- Paul Robeson on the Web (Princeton Public Library)
- QBR: Black Book Review Online [includes list of "QBR Sacred 100," core black titles] (qbr.com)
- Resource Guide: Society, Peoples & Cultures: African Americans: Organizations (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell)
- Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (UWisc)
- Slave Narratives [Museum of the African Diaspora; introduction by Maya Angelou]
- The State of Public School Integration: Brown v Board of Education at 50 (John R. Logan)
- Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (UVa)
- United Negro College Fund [thousands of scholarships and grants, including those administered by the United Negro College Fund and those scholarships administered by other organizations; database searchable alphabetically, geographically and by discipline or major]
- United States Colored Troops Institute for Local History and Family Research ["...an educational institute to promote and encourage original historical and genealogical research about the 200,000 colored men and their 7,000 white officers who comprised the US Colored Troops during the American Civil War" (website, 3/29/2007)] (Hartwick College)
- Voices from the GAPS: Women Writers of Color (UMinn)
- Voice of the Shuttle: African American Resources (UCSB)
- Who's Who Among African Americans [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Women of Color, Women of Words [African-American women playwrights]
- Writing Black (Keele)
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Asian American, Hawaiian American, & Pacific Islander
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European
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Hispanic/Latino
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Jewish
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Multiracial
Native American & Alaska Native
- Administration for Native Americans (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
- American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Data and Links (American Factfinder)
- American Indian and Indigenous Politics Page [from the Indigenous Studies Network, affiliated with the American Political Science Association; offers academic reference material & teaching resources, conferences & research opportunities, and updates on current political issues concerning indigenous peoples (website, 3/14/2007)]
- American Indian Environmental Office (EPA)
- American Indian Heritage Teaching Resources (Smithsonian Education)
- American Indian Higher Education Consortium
- American Indian History and Culture (Smithsonian)
- American Indian Resource Directory
- American Indian Studies: Language Links (UWEC)
- American Indians of the Pacific Northwest (UWashington)
- American Women Through Time [prehistory to 2001; includes Native Americans in prehistory] (Ken Middleton, MTSU)
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance [description from website: "database of all Federal programs available to...federally -recognized Indian tribal governments...."] (GSA)
- Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts [Native American texts, collected by Harry Hoijer, originally pub. 1938, University of Chicago Press] (UVa)
- Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (USC)
- The Dine: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians, by Aileen O'Bryan, 1956 (sacred-texts.com)
- Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library[Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Eskimo Folk-tales, collected by Knud Rasmussen, translated and edited by W. Worster, [London, 1921] (sacred-texts.com)
- Facts for Features: American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2006 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Famous Native Americans
- FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Native Americans
- Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media: Indigenous Peoples in the Media(UIowa)
- Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
- Identity by Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)
- Index of Native American Resources on the Internet (WWW Virtual Library)
- Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S. Dept. of the Interior)
- Indian Health Service (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
- Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (historicaltextarchive.com)
- Indian Peoples of the Great Northern Plains: Online Image Database
- Indianz.com [includes links to official tribal websites, news, "Casino Stalker," links to Federal Register entries relating to Native American affairs, and a calendar of events]
- Indigenous Media and News Outlets
- Indigenous People's Literature
- Iroquois Book of Rites (sacred-texts.com)
- Labriola National American Indian Data Center: Native Americans Online (ASU)
- Lakota Winter Counts [a website exhibiting the Native American Lakota form of calendar] (Smithsonian)
- Lost Worlds: An Interactive History Museum, Native American Indians
- Minority Links: Facts on the Native American and Alaskan Natives Population (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Myths of the Cherokee, collected by James Mooney, 1897-98) (sacred-texts.com)
- National Congress of American Indians
- National Indian Education Association
- National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)
- Native American Anthology (WSU)
- Native American Biographies A-Z (42eXplore)
- Native American Biographies
- Native American Citizenship (nebraskastudies.org)
- Native American Constitutions (OU)
- Native American History and Culture
- Native American Organizations and Urban Indian Centers
- Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian languages
- Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy (UArizona)
- Native Networks [description from website: "online information about film, video, and radio produced by the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Hawaii"] (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian)
- Native Tech: Native American Technology and Art
- NativeRadio.com
- NativeWeb
- Office of Indian Education Programs > Scholarship Information [information about financial aid, grants, tribal schools and colleges, genealogical research]
- Omaha Indian Heritage (UNL)
- People of the Old West (42eXplore)
- Storytellers: Native American Authors Online (hanksville.org)
- Tales of the North American Indians, by Stith Thompson (1929) (sacred-texts.com)
- Technology Opportunities Program [database of "matching grants awarded to state, local and tribal governments,..."(from website, 1/23/2007)]
- Texas Beyond History: The Virtual Museum of Texas' Cultural Heritage [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanites on the Web" Award recipient for 2003-04]
- Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations (tillerresearch.com)
- Tribal Leaders Directory, Spring/Summer 2005
- Tribal LIHEAP (Low Income High Energy Assistance Program) Clearinghouse (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Admin. for Children & Families)
- Truth of a Hopi: Stories Relating to the Origin, Myths and Clan Histories of the Hopi, by Edmund Nequatewa, 1936 (sacred-texts.com)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Native American/American Indian, Indigenous, Aboriginal (USCB)
- Words and Place: Native Literature from the American Southwest [with video] (UArizona)
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Near & Middle Eastern
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Gender
- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Articles: Biographies
- American Women: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery
- American Women in Radio and Television
- American Women Through Time [prehistory to 2001; includes Native Americans in prehistory] (Ken Middleton, MTSU)
- American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Association for Women in Communications
- Association for Women in Science
- Biographies: Female Heroes and Rulers
- Biographies of Jewish Women (Jewish Virtual Library)
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians (Agnes Scott College)
- Black American Feminisms: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography (UCSB)
- Break the Glass Ceiling Foundation [advocates equal opportunity for women, minorities, deaf, blind, disabled, and sexual minorities]
- Celebration of Women Writers (UPenn )
- Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (Hastings College of Law)
- Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present
- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement (Duke)
- Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in American [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Facts for Features: Women's History Month: March 2007 (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Female Nobel Prize Laureates
- FemBio (L. Pusch)
- Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times;" also detailed studies of prominent women writers (description from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Feminist Bookstore Locator (litwomen.org)
- Feminist Majority Foundation Online
- A Few Good Women: Biographies [women in U.S. government, 1969-1974] (PSU Libraries)
- Financial Aid Information [financial aid resources for women, with emphasis on, but not limited to, science and technology] (Korenman, Center for Women and Information Technology, UMd)
- First Ladies' Gallery (The White House)
- 4000 Years of Women in Science
- Gay and Lesbian Owned/Friendly Business Directory
- Gay Marriage (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
- Gender Equity in College Sports (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media: LesBiGay(UIowa)
- Gender Watch (Penn State Users Only)
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
- glbtq: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture
- healthywomen.org [2006 Good Housekeeping Best Site for Women's Health] (National Women's Health Resource Center Inc.)
- Great Women in History
- Human Rights Campaign Foundation Worknet (Employers with Non-Discrimination Policies that Include Sexual Orientation)
- Human Rights Watch: Women's Human Rights
- Institute for Women's Policy Research
- Internet Resources for Women: Using Electronic Media in Curriculum Transformation (Korenman, UMd)
- Internet Women's History Sourcebook (Halsall, Fordham U)
- Lavender Legacies: Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable Guide to Sources in North America (ALA)
- LGBT Community Foundations
- LGBT Life with Full Text [searchable journal article database] (Penn State Users Only)
- LGBT Organizations/Projects Database
- Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Website
- National Federation of Press Women
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- National Women's Hall of Fame
- New York Women in Film and Television
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Penn State Users Only)
- Notable Women Ancestors
- PrideNet
- Quotations by Notable Women
- Resources for Women, Minorities, and Other Affinity Groups and Audiences
- Science and Technology Directory : Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Professional Organizations
- ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History (Int'l Institute of Social History)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Gender and Sexuality Studies [very extensive site] (UCSB)
- Voices from the GAPS: Women Writers of Color (UMinn)
- WAVE: Women's Audio and Visuals in English Database (UWisc)
- Web Sites for Women's Health (Korenman, UMd)
- WIC (Women's International Center) Biography Index
- Women and International Development: Resources (MSU)
- Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000 (Penn State Users Only)
- Women and The Economy
- Women-Focused Cyberculture and Internet Information (Korenman, UMd)
- Women in American Society [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Women in Military Service for America Memorial
- Women in Print ["women-owned, women-centered publishers and booksellers"] (litwomen.org)
- Women in Science: Careers (AWIS)
- Women in Sports
- Women Inventors
- Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
- Women of NASA
- Women Physicians: 1850s to 1070s (Drexel)
- Women Watch: Information and Resources on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN)
- Women Watch: Women with Disabilities
- Women's History: Biographies (Thomson Gale)
- Women's History Online, 1543-1945 [page images] (Penn State Users Only)
- Women's History Teaching Resources (Smithsonian Education)
- Women's Leadership in American History (LaGuardia City College)
- Women's Legal History Biography Project (Stanford Law School)
- Women's Sports Foundation [with links to Title IX and gender issues sites]
- Women's Studies: Core Books (ACRL/WSS) (UWisc)
- Women's Studies Database (UMd)
- Women's Studies Database Film Reviews (UMd)
- Women's Studies Database Gender Issues
- Women's Studies Section, ACRL: WSSLinks
- Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites (Korenman, Center for Women & Information Technology, UMd)
- womenshealth.gov: the Federal Government Source for Women's Health Information (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
- Working Women, 1800-1930 (Harvard University)
- WWW Virtual Library: Women's History
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Religion
- Adherents.com ("membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc")
- American Religious Experience [includes ethnic religions, women and religion, American religious history, regionalisms, and other links] (WVU)
- American Religious Identification Survey (CUNY)
- Association of Religion Data Archives
- Buddhanet.net [includes a World Buddhist Directory]
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Catholic Saints and Angels
- Catholic Encyclopedia List of the Popes
- Christian Career Center
- Contemporary American Religion [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Directory of Religious Centers (The Pluralism Project)
- Encyclopedia of American Religions [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Buddhism [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Ethnic Media: Muslim American Media
- Hartford Institute for Religious Research [includes quick information about American religious life, denominations, trends, statistics, and an encyclopedia of religion]
- Interfaith Calendar [calendars from many religious faiths up to the year 2010]
- Mennonite Connections on the World-Wide Web
- Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
- Muslim Life in America (Office of Int'l Information Programs, U.S. Dept. of State)
- New Catholic Encyclopedia [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- Pluralism Project at Harvard University [focuses on religious diversity in the United States, with links to women's resources]
- Religions of the World (MNSU)
- Religious Freedom Page (UVa)
- Religious Leaders (rulers.org)
- Religious Movements Homepage Project @ the University of Virginia
- Religious Organizations (World Statesmen)
- Virtual Religion Index
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All" Publications] (Penn State Users Only)
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See also these PSU Subject Libraries' related pages:
Arts and Humanities Library:
Gateway Library:
Library Services for People with Disabilities:
Life Sciences Library:
Social Sciences Library:
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