"Technology Review identifies emerging technologies and analyzes their impact for technology and business leaders... Technology Review is also an invaluable resource for early adopters, the media, those in government, and anyone who needs to understand trends in technology. Technology Review is an independent media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)." (from their About Us page)

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Deutsche Welle (DW) is an international news and broadcasting service based in Germany.

World news from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Z Magazine "is an independent monthly magazine dedicated to resisting injustice, defending against repression, and creating liberty."

ZNet compiles "alternative views on politics, the economy, animal rights, the environment and ecology, labor, international relations, and more." (C&RL News, January 2011)

A listener-supported radio network based in Washington, D.C., striving of "contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors; to gather and disseminate information on the causes of conflict between any and all of such groups; and... to promote the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms.

An independent and international news source broadcast on public TV and radio.

"A weekly syndicated program produced by WPKN Radio, a noncommercial, listener-supported station in Connecticut. It provides alternative coverage of political, economic, and social topics from progressive points of view." (C&RL News, January 2011)

Monthly magazine covering politics, culture, and policy from a liberal perspective.

AlterNet, from the Independent Media Project, covers the environment, public policy, political and social issues, technology, and cultural trends.

The Utne Reader gathers articles from more than 2,000 alternative news sources, covering art, media, politics, the environment, people, and more.

A magazine covering peace and social justice issues.

A weekly magazine covering social and political issues.

An independent, non-profit magazine covering social justice, the environment, politics, and culture.

A national, biweekly magazine of news and opinions covering the labor movement, the environment, feminism, grassroots politics, minority communities and the media, corporate malfeasance, and government wrongdoing.

The Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC), from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, includes on its website information about providing healthcare services to a wide range of diverse cultures and communities.

The Transcultural Nursing Society's website includes information about providing healthcare services to a wide range of diverse cultures and communities.

The DiversityRx website includes information about providing healthcare services to a wide range of diverse cultures and communities.

The website of the Cross Cultural Health Care Program includes information about providing healthcare services to a wide range of diverse cultures and communities.

The National Center for Cultural Competence website includes information about providing healthcare services to a wide range of diverse cultures and communities.

This site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services includes information about providing healthcare services to a wide range of diverse cultures and communities.

This site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services includes information about providing healthcare services to a wide range of diverse cultures and communities.

Part of the the nonprofit organization Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, "Pacific Standard provides a unique perspective and insight into the social, political, and economic forces defining the world today. With an emphasis on fact-based, research-driven content; the magazine publishes fresh, compelling articles on the global economy, environmental issues, education, and health penned by foremost journalists, scholars, and subject matter experts."

"This fine collection from the USC Digital Library presents over 1,100 images of artifacts excavated from two sites in Southern California. The Chinatown section features 1,040 color images of artifacts from the original Los Angeles Chinatown. These items were recovered during the construction of the Metro Rail Red Line by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The online collection includes photos of wine bowls, ink stone boxes, and other fragments of items from daily household life. The second segment includes items excavated in 1992 from an old adobe structure in Santa Barbara that housed a Chinese laundry from the mid 1880s to 1905." (Internet Scout Report, February 3, 2012)

This online image collection includes over 1500 floats and close to 4000 costumes designed for Mardi Gras in New Orleans, dating back to the 1800s.

Browse the newspapers and advertisements available on the Library of Congress website, ranging from the 1850s through the mid 20th century.

Browse the information about American arts & culture available on the Library of Congress website.

Watch the PBS documentary about the beginnings of Tupperware and the changing role of women in American society after World War II. The website also includes articles, interviews, additional film clips, photographs, and primary source materials.

Learn about the rise and fall of the trains that crossed America in the 1930s and 1940s. The website includes film clips, photographs, articles, biographies, and primary source materials.

Learn about the history and construction of the World Trade Center, its importance in the culture and commerce of New York City, and its collapse in the attacks of September 11, 2001. The website includes film clips, photographs, articles, biographies, and primary source materials.

Learn about the American experience in World War II, on both the battlefield and the home front. Includes rare color film clips, letters, and a timeline of important events.

Primary source documents related to popular culture in the United States, primarily during the 1950s and 1960s.

"This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches' conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contradictions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christianity and the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave narratives and observations by other African American authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival."

"Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division. The collection's 138 volumes depict the land and its resources; the conflicts between settlers and Native peoples; the experience of pioneers and missionaries, soldiers and immigrants and reformers; the growth of local communities and local cultural traditions; and the development of regional and national leadership in agriculture, business, medicine, politics, religion, law, journalism, education, and the role of women."

"This website of traditional Japanese treasures and culture was produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and it is a virtual museum that includes physical objects and other more intangible items of cultural patrimony, such as fighting styles and performance art. Visitors can scroll over any of the seven "galleries" to read a description of what types of work are contained within. The "Fine Arts" gallery is defined as those visual arts primarily concerned with the creation of beauty, such as architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture, and Ukiyoe." (Internet Scout Report, January 13, 2012)

Welcome to Serendip, a playground, including resources and forums, for those who ask questions without boundaries.

This library of academic and cultural films features collections from the Academic Film Archive and the Media Burn Independent Film Archive, as well as a selection of documentaries created by Dorothy Fadiman. In addition, films from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology are presented including those by Watson Kintner who used film to document his world travels, and the popular television show from the 1950s: “What in the World?”

Includes descriptions of artwork, manuscripts, papers, historic photographs, and other materials held by libraries and archives throughout California. Also contains over 200,000 digitized images and documents from these collections.

Covers news, politics, culture, arts and entertainment, science and technology, and more.

Features arts, crafts and artifacts of the various peoples who have lived in Canada.

Approximately 50 e-books, available to the public for free, on Indonesian politics, history, culture, and society.

The Hmong Cultural Center website includes a wealth of information about the Hmong people. One notable example is the "Hmong History and Culture Presentation for Health Care Providers", which provides an overview of Hmong history and culture with special

This website includes images of art and architecture throughout the Islamic world.

"Mission: The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world." The collection includes images of art and architecture from

"SOUTHEAST ASIA VISIONS is a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection. The site provides online access to more than 350 books and journal articles written in English an

"Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published since April 1966, the journal

These country studies, published by the Library of Congress, include a wealth of information about over 100 countries and regions around the world. Each country study covers history, geography, culture and society.

The U.S. State Department's Background Notes are brief profiles of countries around the world, including "facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and