An informal listing of web sites on the topic of:

UNITED STATES HISTORY:  CULTURAL

(Last updated Fall 2002)

 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ "Now What a Time":  Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943" is a folk music collection consisting of approximately one hundred sound recordings and related documentation such as song lists and correspondence created during trips to the Fort Valley State College Folk Festival in Fort Valley, Geogia.  This may have been the first folk festival created by and for African-Americans.  Site maintained by the Library of Congress.

http://www.woodyguthrie.org Site of the Woodie Guthrie Foundation and Archives provides extensive biographical information on this American singer and composer as well as some video images of Guthrie's work.

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/ "Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture."  Site provides text of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel as well as reviews and pro-slavery and abolitionists responses to it, songs and poems about the book, a stage production of the book, and streaming video of movies based on the book.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/home.html The Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York City maintains this site, which features information on the city's historic buildings.  Only buildings recently designated historic are included in the site.  Also includes maps to historic districts, an illustrated restoration guide and a complete set of applications to get a building designated as historic.