Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

"The Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 6,500 objects—fifty highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture—can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword."

SF Camerawork

"San Francisco Camerawork encourages emerging and mid-career artists to explore new directions in photography and related media by fostering creative forms of expression that push existing boundaries."

Teaching with Websites

"For the past six years I've signed my e-mail with the Web address http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth, which leads the curious to a home page listing Websites for eight online courses I teach or have taught. These Websites are modest, with limited graphics and no whirling GIFs (graphic image files), but they try to use information technology to reach today's students." - William Howarth Teaching with Websites

Center for American Places

"Americans are woefully ignorant of geography and of place--ignorant, that is, of the natural and humanly constructed worlds that have nurtured us, inspired us, and, sad to say, too often frustrated us. It is hard to imagine concretely how we can envisage the good life (the humane life), and plan for the future, unless we have some clear idea as to the sort of places that we wish to exist." - Yi-Fu Tuan, Founding Director, Center for American Places

David Byrne: PowerPoint

Learning to Love PowerPoint by David Byrne in Wired.

Essays & Dialogues

Essays & Dialogues from the PBS series including Roger Rosenblatt on famous last words from Hamlet to Bob Hope.

Brown vs. Board of Education

This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation.