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Archaeological Digs
Material Culture
- 75 years of Band Aid:
band-aid collection and company history
- Ad Critic: ambitious analyses of
current media ads with streaming video
- Adland: tons of contemporary
and historic ads from every possible medium
-
Air Sickness Bag collection:
barf bags from throughout the world
- American Theme Parks
& Landscapes of Mass Culture: scholarly paper on parks' far-reaching
influence
- Antique Weirdness:
odd, sometimes unsettling historic material culture and iconography
- Archaeologic.com: all things archaeological
- Arizona Aviation
Archaeology: survey of over 100 military aircraft crash sites
- The Art of Marxism:
thorough, interesting selection of visual and spoken arts on labor and class
- Baseball Cards, 1887-1914:
over 2,100 of the Library of Congress' earliest ball cards
- Bathroom art: toilets galore
- Beer Collections: links to
American micro breweries
- Car Free: site dedicated to living
without automobiles
- Cemetery Culture : City of the Silent
- Chinese Porcelain and East India Trade
Collector's Page: oriented to collectors, but full of info
- Clay Tobacco Pipes:
well-illustrated collector's page
- Coalition for a Healthy Worcester:
activists against gated communities
- Collector's
Online: links to wide range of collectors--hat pins to toothpick holders
- Comics with Problems: comic books
examining odd range of social issues
- Congress for the New Urbanism:
sophisticated urban/suburban critique in a well-planned site
- Cover
Heaven: array of aesthetically stunning, musically suspect albums
- Crown Hill Cemetery: the
third-largest cemetery in the US, with over 185,000 burials
- Defunct Parks: listing of defunct
amusement parks throughout the country
- Dick's MAD Stuff: MAD
magazine collectibles
- Diner City: graphics and info on
stylish and classic culinary options in every state in the US
- The
Distorted $arbie: very smart analysis of Barbie
- Disturbing Auctions: weird
things from online auctions
- Doug Gilford's MAD cover
site: well-maintained inventory of every single MAD magazine cover
- eBay: any material object ever made is
for sale on eBay
- Eccentric
America: Roadside Oddities: mostly Texas and Southern highway curios
- Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas
- Exploring Ancient Cultures
- Find-A-Grave: massive inventory with
pictures of grave markers for the famous and infamous alike
- Game Marble
Bibliography: collectors' and archaeological resources on marbles
- Graveyards of Chicago
- Great Buildings Collection:
technically savvy survey of worldwide architecture
- Guerrilla Girls: smart feminist
art and cultural criticism
- Happiest Potties on
Earth: a user's analysis of the bathrooms at Disneyland; annoying
pop-ups
- Harley Davidson: people
tattoo the company's name on their arm--how many Wal-Mart shoppers do that?
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Haunted When it Rains: stunning collection of Victorian postmortem
photographs
- Homecoming:
African-American farming and land loss since the Civil War
- IKEA: because sometimes you'd like your
living room to look bourgeois
- Inexplicable
Object of the Week: truly odd objects from nose cleaners to electric
chopstick fans
- Jim Crow Museum of
Racist Memorabilia: fascinating collection of racist symbols in all
material forms
- Jolene's Trailer Park Heaven:
"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap"
- Keeping Ken: finally Ken
gets the collector's analysis Barbie has been hogging for so long
- Kennewick man:
news, articles, and links to information related to Kennewick man
- Labor Arts: a virtual museum of
laborers' material culture, including art and everyday crafts
- Map of the Empire: an online map of digs
in the former area of the Roman Empire
- McSpotlight: serious
anti-McDonald's site
- Medieval Pottery
Research Group: Roman-period to 16th century ceramics in Europe
- Megalith Map: covers the British Isles
- Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
- Motel Americana: classic
roadside architecture
- Mountain Dew Bottle
Collecting: good historical background and bottle graphics, annoying
audio
- Obscene Interiors:
analysis of home interiors in amateur porn pictures (all naughty bits removed)
- Osteointeractive:
technically cool forensic and physical anthropology site with great content
- Paleoindian and other Archaeological Stuff
- Peter's Rum Pages: inventory
of several thousand rum bottle labels from all over the world
- pharmcats Cemetery Photos
- The Poorhouse Story: a
clearinghouse for information on nineteenth-century US poorhouses
- The Real Beer Page: focuses on
microbrews, with links to many breweries
- Richard's Can Universe:
collector of over 10,000 cans has examples from throughout the world
- Roadside Art Online: Ruins
- Roller Coaster database: inventory of
over 600 coasters in North America
- SARC: Stone Age Reference Collection
- Ships in Bottles: a Russian
collector's inventory of lots of boats in bottles
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Tattoos on BME:
absolutely massive inventory of tattoos
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TIGHAR: The International Group for
Historic Aircraft Recovery, which hunts for lost planes
- Topics in
Material Culture: interesting class web page subjects from toilet paper to
dept. stores
- Train Up a Child:
African-American Jesus action figures, as well as Adam, Solomon, et al
- Truth in Advertising:
1940s and 1950s cigarette advertisements
- Urinal.net: a gallery of urinal
pictures from all over the world
- Vanity Plates
- The Visible Barbie
Project: smart alecks take a bandsaw to the fashion queen
- Wooden Nickel Museum: inventory
of mostly post-1950 wooden money
- Yesterland: inventory of
discontinued Disneyland attractions
- YoJoe.com: thorough and well-organized page
devoted to post-1980 G.I.Joes, especially the 3 3/4" variety
Museums
and virtual exhibits
- 24 Hour Museum: excellent
inventory of UK museums on virtually any topic
- Alcatraz Island: famous federal
prison turned museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
- artmark: spoof on
corporation and online investment company sites
- Artmuseum.net: tech-savvy,
sophisticated Whitney Museum multimedia online exhibitions
- Blackhawk Automotive Museum:
focuses on aesthetically innovative, super-cool cars and auto art
- Body Art: Marks of
Identity: AMNH exhibit on tatoo and body art
- British Lawnmower Museum:
vintage lawnmowers and antique garden machinery, annoying audio
- Canadian Museum of Civilization:
rich range of First Nations exhibits and archaeology
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African
American History: broad African-American historical collection
- Children's Museum of Indianapolis
- Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War
Museum
- Conner Prairie: 19th century
living history museum near Indianapolis
- Culturekiosque.com: slick
European studies of arts, archaeology, jazz, opera: smart and ambitious
- Culture Shock: examines
art, cultural values, and freedom of expression
- Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and
Western Art (Indianapolis)
- Freetown Village: circa 1870s
African-American living history in Indianapolis
- The History of Costume:
19th century inventory of dress from antiquity to 1880
- Human Prehistory: An
Exhibition: virtual walk through an online exhibition
- Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites
- Indianapolis Zoo:
lions, tigers, and bears
- IUPUI Museum Studies Program:
projects and courses in the newly revamped Museum Studies page
- LA County Museum of Art: large
collections ranging from across worldwide artistic traditions
- London Transport Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: catalogs
3,500 of their 2 million objects, plus all its European art
- Museum of London Archaeological Service
- Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health:
well-researched and rich historical archive
- Museum of Modern Art: sophisticated, smart
site matching thoughtful text with savvy graphics
- Museum of Questionable Medical Devices:
even your HMO wouldn't inflict most of these things on you
- Museum of Soviet
Calculators: collection of Soviet adding machines
- Museum of Talking Boards:
Ouija boards since 1890
- National Museum of Funeral History
- Ohio Historical Society
- Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television and Radio)
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Powers of Persuasion:
poster art from World War II
- President Benjamin Harrison Home
Museum: 23rd President's turn-of-the-century Indy home
- The Skyscraper Museum: history of
New York City's skyline
- Smithsonian Institution
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State Hermitage Museum:
well-organized site with rich links to every genre of art from Paleolithic to
Modern
- United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
- Unusual Museums of the Internet:
superb, wide-ranging web ring inventory of all sorts of collections
- Virtual Corkscrew Museum:
surprisingly broad range of corkscrews
- Virtual Greenbelt: New
Deal planned community outside DC
- Whitney Museum of Modern Art: includes
over 12,000 items
- Winterthur Museum and Gardens:
nation's foremost collection of American decorative art
- World Famous
Asphalt Museum: check out a chunk of Route 66
Journals/Newsletters/Zines
Organizations
Online References
- About-face: reflective, thorough
analysis of advertising images of women
- about.com
Guide to Archaeology Graduate programs: excellent inventory of programs
and advice
- Academic Job
Application Checklist: thorough preparation advice from Am. Studies prof.
Mary Sies
- Academic Job
Interview Advice: more sober and thorough job-hunting advice
- Academic Job Interview
Questions: honest, firm, and realistic assessment of teaching interviews
- Anthropology in
the News: superb source for up-to-the-moment Anthropology News
- Academic Info: an
annotated directory of Anthropology Sources on the Net
- Ad*Access: over
7,000 advertisements from 1911 to 1955
- America in the 1930s:
creative look at 1930s social history
- American
Anthropologist Journal Archive: Public Anthropology's guide to full
1888-2002 run of AA
- American Civil War Homepage:
vast links to all things Civil War
- Anthropological Bibliographies & Research Documents
- Anthropology Resources on the Web online Anthro resources from Temple
- Anthropology Webliography
- The Atlantic
Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: image data base on New World
slavery
- Canadian Archaeology Radiocarbon Database
- Career in Archaeology FAQ
- Caribbean Archaeology
- Celtic Art and Cultures
- The
Commercial Closet: thoughtful and thorough analysis of gay advertising
images
- The Commodity Fetish
Times
- Communication Studies
Resources: rich links to all things cultural
- Cultures of the Andes
- The Daily Aesthetic: racism
and leisure in Lexington, Kentucky's segregated park system
- Dr. Wood's
All-Purpose Patented World Wide Web Elixir: creative analyses of pop
culture
- Electronic Theses and
Dissertations
- The English Server: stunningly
wide-ranging subject area links and texts; very strong in humanities
- Enter
Evolution
- Freedmen's Bureau Online:
genealogy site with rich range of links to Freemen's Bureau documents
- Glassdog.net: well-maintained
inventory of mostly artsy, technically innovative websites
- Greater Cincinnati Memory Project:
nearly 6,000 pre-1940 photographs, with more to be added
- A Guide to
Documenting 20th-Century African-American Life: Duke's rich John
Hope Franklin collection
- Historical Archaeology Bibliographies
- History
Project: UC Davis prof. Roland Marchand's collection of 20th century
social history slides
- HRAF: online edition of the
Human Relations Area Files
- Hunter-Gatherer Bibliography
- Image Archives on the American
Eugenics Movement: scholarly, thorough, and chilling
- Indianapolis Recorder:
established in 1895, nation's third-oldest African-American paper
- Independent Media Center: grassroots news
coverage: reliable, radical, and worldwide
- Integrated Public Use Microdata Series:
an 1850-1990 census data base
- International Institute of Social
History: huge archive, especially strong on labor history
- Internet Modern
History Sourcebook: thousands of original documents covering every
possible subject
- Kennewick man:
news, articles, and links to information related to Kennewick man
- Kinship
and Social Organization: an Interactive Tutorial
- MECA : the Museum of Ephemeral Cultural Artifacts:
cybergallery of transient art and artifacts
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Memepool: inventories odd
websites and strange news
- National
Archaeological Database: National Park Service's Links to the Past
- North American Slave
Narratives: sample of 24 to 1920
- North Atlantic
Population Project: searchable 1880 population census database
- Omaha Indian
Music: traditional Omaha music recorded from 1890s into present
- Oral History guide:
tips and links for oral historians
-
Oriental Institute Research Archives
- Papers from the Institute of Archaeology: from University College of London
- Perseus Project: a classicist digital library
- Positive Propaganda:
wide-ranging inventory of independent web sites on most any subject
- Primate Info Net
- Resource Center for Cyberculture
Studies: scholarly cyberculture analysis and links
- Resources in Ethnographic
Studies: huge reference list strong in folklore and ethnomusicology
- Richard Wilk's Cultural
Anthro page: range of consumption essays and links from IU prof
- Seattle Anarchism and
Revolution Page
- Semiotics Resources
- Siftings.com- archaeological News and Announcements
- Southern Folklife Collection:
UNC library archive
- Southern Mosaic:
1939 WPA project including folk recordings, everyday photos
- State Historic Preservation Officers
- SUDA On Line: searchable 10th century
encyclopedia examining ancient history
- Suite 101.com
Archaeology page: web directory with links, articles, and discussions
- Surveying Techniques for Marine Archaeology
- Tennessee Archaeology Net:
bibliography of prehistoric and historic archaeology sources
- Terraserver: digitized
aerial photographs and topo maps
- Theory.org: truly clever and
thorough analysis of media theory; very good analyses of individual theorists
- Trademark Information:
searchable trademark database
- United States Historical
Census Browser: rich database on censuses from 1790 through 1960
- Virtual Archaeology Library
- Walter Benjamin
Research Syndicate: ambitious analysis and resources on Frankfurt School
theorist
- WPA Life Histories:
1936-1940 narratives from Library of Congress
Popular Culture
- The 1960s: Subculture,
Pop Culture, Counter-Culture Bibliography
- Anime Web Turnpike- anime and manga
links
- Blaxploitation.com: clever
filmography and analysis for folks who've had enough of the man
- The Blade Zone: The Blade Runner Fan
Club
- Bootzilla: Bootsy Collins
enters the digital age
- BRMovie.com: Blade Runner web page
- Center for Media and Democracy:
nonprofit critic of public relations firms
- Center for Shopping Cart Abuse
Prevention: images in praise of shopping carts
- Conelrad: interesting look at cold
war culture
- Crime Boss: crime comics of the
1940s and 1950s
- DC Comics: aesthetically cool home
to Batman, Superman, and company
- DeeTee's 70's page:
gargantuan resource on all things 70s from music to Pufnstuf
- Dr. Seuss Went to War:
Dr. Seuss' WWII political cartoons
- Elvis Presley in Concert:
definitive inventory of Elvis concerts with great graphics
- Fanfic 101:
Dr. Merlin's Guide to Fan Fiction
- Fifties Boulevard: nifty
1950's graphics site
- Film Threat Online: reviews of
mostly independent fare, interviews, etc.
- Find Your Star Wars Twin:
are you more like Vader or Yoda?
- G-fan.com: The Journal of Giant Japanese
Monsters
- Hero:
The Archetypal Hero in Literature, Religion, and Popular Culture
- History of Heavy
Metal Music: thorough historical overview of metal
- History of Rock
and Roll: celebration of rock's 1954-1963 "Golden Decade"
- Index of Famous Monkeys:
celebrating Lance Link, Ham, and a host of our closest relatives
- Look-Look: explains global youth
culture to you (or to businesses)
- Marvel Comics: the place to find
Spiderman
- Movie Juice: solid movie reviews
by folks who don't suffer fools
- Museum of Black Superheroes:
African Americans in comic art
- New Wave Outpost:
definitive links for new wave music and related genres
- Northern Mods and Modernism: UK
northern mod music
- Nuke Pop:
nuclear war imagery in popular culture
- Old-Time Music: Anglo
traditional Southern music
- Old Time Music home page: White
rural Southern music, especially Appalachia
- Origins of
American Animation: Library of Congress' 1900-21 cartoon archives
- Out
of the Classroom: Greece, Rome, and Popular Culture
- Popular Culture:
Resources for Critical Analysis: thorough inventory of pop culture issues
and resources
- popcultures.com: cultural
studies resources, links, theory
- The Psychedelic
60's: Literary Traditional Social Change: academic analysis of 60s
- Punk 77: utterly thorough,
definitive account of UK punk: pics, band histories, and clever social
analysis
- Ray Stevenson
Photography: nice collection of punk pictures
- Regeneration TV: media
collective producing smart, challenging content
- Roadside America: brilliant
ezine on drive-ins, the Spam Museum, and similar places
- The Smoking Gun: captivating
dirt on the stars
- Stop Dr. Laura.com: exploring
free speech's dark side
- This Week's Jesus: popular
depictions of Jesus
- TV Party: fine
selection of 1960-1970 Saturday morning commercials from Trix to Creepy
Crawlers
- Urban Legends Reference page
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Visual Culture and Health Posters: a rich range of health posters from the
Nat. Library of Medicine
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When Nixon Met Elvis:
archives for the December 1970 meeting
- Whoosh- erudite Xena analysis from the
International Association of Xena Studies
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