THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM
text-based and audio excursions to online exhibits
arranged in approximate chronological order

• Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship
  
  
• Traditions of Magic in Late Antiquity (University of Michigan Library)
  
  
• Cesarian Section: A Brief History, an online exhibit hosted by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health
  
  
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe (University of Virginia)
  
  
• Tyburn Tree: Public Executions in Early Modern England
  
  
• Banned Books Online: an ongoing exhibit, with links to electronic versions of cited and featured works
  
  
• Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library, an online exhibit at the University of North Carolina's SUNSITE
  
  
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
  
  
• The Art of Renaissance Science is an outstanding exploration of the influence of Galileo's mathematical concepts on Renaissance art and science, authored by Prof. Joseph W. Dauben at McMurry University
  
  
• Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: an online exhibit hosted by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health
  
  
• Jesuits and the Sciences: 1540-1995 (Loyola University, Chicago)
  
  
• In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church & Native Alaskan Cultures, an online exhibit at the Library of Congress
  
  
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology; forty-six powerful testaments to man's inhumanity to man from the University of Houston
  
  
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 is an online exhibition/collection of more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery, as well as 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves which were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
  
  
• Voices from the Days of Slavery: the Library of Congress' collection of audio interviews with freed slaves, conducted during the 1930s; it is worthy of note that whilst approximately 4 million persons achieved their freedom at the end of the American Civil War, only twenty-six audio-recorded interviews of ex-slaves have been found
  1. browse Voices from the Days of Slavery by title of interview
  2. browse Voices from the Days of Slavery by topic of interview
  3. browse Voices from the Days of Slavery by name of the interviewed
  4. browse Voices from the Days of Slavery by place name
  5. browse Voices from the Days of Slavery by song title (excerpted from interviews)
     
     
• Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from Duke University Library Special Collections
  
  
• Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son is a hypertext exhibit, featuring many of Webster's speeches and writings from (surprise! surprise!) Dartmouth University
  
  
• Progress of a People is a collection of electronic texts culled from the African American Pamphlet Collection, part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, which also encompases the following timelines of African American History:
  1. Timeline of African American History, 1852-1880
  2. Timeline of African American History, 1881-1900
  3. Timeline of African American History, 1901-1925
     
     
• The Gettysburg Address, an online exhibit at the Library of Congress
  
  
• Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War, electronic texts from the University of California
  
  
• R.W. Burt: Civil War Letters from a 76th Ohio Volunteer
  
  
• "If you knew the conditions...": Health Care to Native Americans is an online exhibit hosted by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health
  
  
• The American Studies department at Yale University maintains a hypertext edition of Jakob Riis' groundbreaking book, How the Other Half Lives
  
  
• On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century is an excellent, well-organized, and accessible collection of materials organized and maintained by William L. Crozier
  
  
• Jim Zwick maintains an excellent and ever-increasing collection of materials on Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935, which includes:
  1. Historical Anti-Imperialist Essays, Speeches and Pamphlets
  2. Anti-Imperialist Literature: A Collection
     1. Mr. Dooley on Imperialism: satire by Finley Peter Dunne
  3. Anti-Imperialist Organizational Platforms and Petitions
  4. Search Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
  5. Anti-Imperialist Materials Listed by Title
  6. Index of all texts at Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
     
     
• Sentenaryo/Centennial: "A Collaborative Exploration of the Cultural and Political Impact of the Phillipine Revolution and the Phillipine-American War", is another excellent online exhibit mounted by Jim Zwick
  
  
• A Shared Past: Texas and the United States since Reconstruction
  
  
• Franz Rosenzweig, His Life and Works: a virtual exhibit featuring texts and images from the Vanderbilt University Divinity School
  
  
• America in the 1930s is a collection of essays and exhibits from the University of Virginia exploring American culture in the 1930s - if you cannot perceive images (for whatever reason) use the previous link to obtain the most accessible entrance into the entire collection
  1. The 1930s on the Air: "an ongoing effort to re-present the audio landscape of the 1930s" (includes radio serials, examinations of recorded sound, and the cultural affects of the media of radio and sound transcription
     
     
• The March Toward World War II: The March of Time as Documentary and Propaganda analyzes The March of Time's coverage of the lead-up to World War II. (an extension of Time, Inc.), The March of Time was a 1930s-era newsreel and radio program that dramatized and reported on the news of the week)
  
  
• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War Two, an online exhibit at the Library of Congress
  
  
• Fighters on the Farm Front: texts and images from Oregon's State Archives archives
  
  
• Soviet Archive Exhibit: a virtual exhibit originally mounted at the Library of Congress
  
  
• ENIAC Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration: an online exhibit about the world's first "true" computer, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania
  
  
• May 4, 1970: Twenty-five Years of Remembrance, an online exploration of the infamous shootings at Kent State University
  
  
• Pirates: yo, ho, ho and a bottle o' rum...
  
  
• Synaesthesia: A Unity of the Senses
  
  

1995 marked the one-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the onset of the Great Potato Famine (1845-1851) which devestated Ireland and led to uncalculable suffering and the spread of the modern Irish diaspora. In commemeration of the famine's effect on the history and development of the modern Irish state and its far-reaching effect on the evolution of the United States, several online exhibits were mounted to mark the milestone year, including:

• Steve Taylor's Views of the Famine, is a virtual exhibit which contains contemporary newspaper accounts of the famine.
  1. Views of the Famine also features direct links to Related Resources on the Great Famine
• Requiem for 1847: Three Irish Musicians Talk About the Great Famine, an interview with with The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney, Black 47's Larry Kirwan, and composer Patrick Cassidy by Christina Roden, concentrating on the worst year of the Irish famine
• Hunger, a poetic cycle by Irish poet Maighread Medbh

Physical Museums, Libraries & Special Collections Online

• Collect Britain: over 90,000 images and sounds from the UK and beyond
  1. Life on the Wild Side: British Wildlife Recordings (streaming audio files)
  2. How We Speak: English Accents and Dialects (streaming audio): over 650 recordings from 1950 to the present day
  3. Waxing Lyrical: Ethnographic Wax Cylinders (streaming audio)
  
  
• Digital Memories: Historic Artifacts & Texts from the Special Collections of the University of Idaho
  
  
• Portico: the British Library's web site
  1. search the British Library's catalogues
  
  
• The United States Holocaust Museum
  1. Accessing Museum Resources
     1. Query the Archives Holdings
     2. Query the Library Holdings
     3. Query the Archives and Library data together
     4. About the query system
  2. Transcripts of Museum Presentations
     1. Gathering for the Dead and Suffering in Former Yugoslavia
     2. The Journalism of The Holocaust
  
  
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
  1. Artist Profiles
  2. Women in the Arts: Selected Reference Materials
  3. Women in the Arts: Selected Bibliographies
  4. Accessibility Information
  
  
  

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This page was created on March 15, 1995
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The contents of The Virtual Museum were last updated April 12, 2006