Title | Annotation |
|---|---|
| A More Perfect Union | In addition to the wealth of material available in the online exhibit and collection, this site includes a "Reflections" section where visitors may share their responses to seven different questions about issues raised in the exhibit and read the responses of others. In addition to asking for reactions to the website and exhibit itself, there are questions asking for visitor experiences of internment or the World War II era. |
| A-Bomb WWW Museum | This large site has two goals: to provide a history of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the impact it had locally and globally, and to provide a forum for the discussion of anti-nuclear efforts. The section of the site devoted to the history of the topic, has an introductory essay about the Enola Gay and the bomb drop, while subsections examine the destruction of the city with graphs, scientific studies, dozens of photographs of the devastation, and, most powerfully, the recollections of five survivors. |
| Academy of Natural Sciences | This website includes information about the museum and collections of the American Academy of Natural Sciences. An on-line exhibit about paleontologist and anatomist, Joseph Leidy, will interest historians of biology, natural science and zoology. The Society's database of 22 collections includes links to digital archives of Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Malacology, Ornithology, Rotifers, VIREO, Mollusk, and Orthopteroid Insects. Other collections have not been digitized, however, researchers will find information about how to physically access these materials. |
| Access Excellence | Access Excellence is an educational website aimed at teachers and younger students. The site contains recent news stories about scientific developements and health issues and offers suggestions and activities teachers can use in their classrooms. |
| Adler Museum of the History of Medicine | |
| Adler Museum of the History of Medicine University of the Witwatersrand & S. A Institute for Medical Research | |
| Agropolis-Museum | |
| Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences | |
| America's Stonehenge | |
| American Business and Technological History | |
| American Computer Museum - Compuseum | This small museum in Bozeman, Montana contains artifacts from and exhibits on the history of computing and the mathematics that have made this technology possible. The online exhibit is relatively small, located to photographs; the site contains about 20 photographs of their exhibits and a series of photographs of computer innovators who have received a "Hall of Fame" award from the museum and its associated institutions. Visitors to the Compuseum's Web site are encouraged to visit the actual museum. |
| American Museum of Natural History (New York City) | |
| American Museum of Photography | This site exhibits photographs from 1839 to the late 20th century. Thirteen current exhibits offer a 100 to 600-word introductory essay and a wide range of images. "The Face of Slavery" presents ten photographs of African Americans from 1855 to 1905. The work of Southworth and Hawes, a photography team active between 1843 and 1862, is represented by eight daugerrotypes of women. In "Do You Believe?" visitors may consider evidence of ghostly existence offered by over 20 spirit photographs taken between 1875 and 1932. |
| American Museum of the Moving Image | The American Museum of the Moving Image is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media, and examines the impact on culture and society. This site includes information about the museum which is located in New York City, as well as information about collections and museum programming. Most notably, the site includes four online exhibits about the influence of new forms of media on elections, electronic games, the technology behind motion pictures, and an exhibit titled "The Interactive Playground." |
| American Red Cross Museum September 11, 2001 Survey | The American Red Cross Museum in partnership with the September 11 Digital Archive is collecting stories to document the relief efforts and response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Individuals can submit their story through the website and which they may choose to have featured on the site. The stories speak to personal experiences witnessing the attacks as well as local and community response efforts and thoughts on humanitarianism and volunteerism. |
| American Widescreen Museum | This visually busy site includes three exhibits that should interest historians of film and sound technology. These pages include information about the technologies used in color and sound production as well as their history (Did you know that the first "talkie" was shown in Mobile, Alabama in 1926?). The site provides useful explanations of film technology for a non-technical audience and thus they can be followed by individuals unfamiliar with these processes. The site is not particularly academic, yet scholars will find a trove of images and a useful introduction to the subject. |
| Apple Computer History Weblog | The Computer History Museum began in 1996 to preserve and celebrate computer history, and the Apple Computer History Weblog introduced in August 2003 is one venture to do just this. Overseen by more than 20 former Apple and Claris employees and the Computer History Museum, the historical purpose of the blog is stated in the introduction. A year-by-year timeline of Apple history from 1976-1993 (because it takes a decade to become “history”) is provided, listing company financial and employee numbers, products, marketplace overviews, and executive staff. |
| Archimedes Palimpsest | This site is a companion piece to an Archimedes exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. The Gallery exhibit is centered around The Archimedes Palimpsest, a rare and ancient document that contains a compendium of the Greek mathematicians's work, the only copy of his essay, Method of Mechanical Theorems, and the only source for the treatise, On Floating Bodies, in the original Greek. |
| Astronomical Museum | |
| Astronomical Observatory di Capodimente |
