Students, teachers, and just about anyone with an interest in American history will find helpful resources at the Memorial Hall Museum Online, a village museum of 300-year-old Deerfield, Massachusetts. Features of the site include: the Digital Collection, a searchable database of over 1,000 artifacts selected from 70,000 in the Museum's holdings; In the Classroom, a collection of curriculum ideas...

The Art Works Blog is what you might expect from the National Endowment for the Arts – it's literate, informed, and jam packed with leading artists, writers, thinkers, and creative innovators. Updated Monday through Friday, the blog supports the NEA's efforts to celebrate "the diverse and dynamic landscape of the arts across America." Recent entries include quotes from Edwidge Danticat and Ursula...

Art:21 will be broadcast beginning September 21. The first four programs are Place, Spirituality, Identity, and Consumption. Performance artist Laurie Anderson opens the Place episode, and video clips of her opener are available at the Website. Other featured artists are Richard Serra, Sally Mann, Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, and Pepon Osorio. Biographies, video, and examples of artworks, with...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has created an online version of their exhibition entitled Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered. Dox Thrash (1893-1965), a notable artist who rose to national prominence during the late 1930s, is mostly known for his carborundum prints, a process of using gritty carborundum crystals on copper plates to carve etchings. Consisting of various...

The product of a three-year effort by the Worcester Art Museum, this attractive online exhibit explores early American painters and their works. The site features biographies of 20 artists and detailed information on 53 works, which also include numerous comparative images from other collections. Visitors may browse the collection via an interactive timeline or by artist, genre, or place of...

The National Museum of American Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has made selections from its collections available via the web. The site is graphically quite intensive, as might be expected; loading time is increased by the site's reliance on image maps for navigation (although some "mostly text pages" are available). Users will need audio plug-ins to fully experience the site, which...