Great American Websites is your adventure guide to all things American on the Internet. It's a fascinating chronicle of American history and culture that showcases the best of what America stands for, from literature, history, sports, and pop culture to the wild and wacky! Featuring thoughtful essays by noted historian and verified Web junkie Edward J. Renehan, Jr., this unique resource explores and profiles Websites with a distinctively American flavor. No other Internet guide brings together such a rich array of pure Americana. Pop culture junkies, history buffs, nostalgia seekers, students, and Net surfers at home and abroad will delight in rummaging through this cyber-treasure trove of Americana. Individualis Americanus - Websites of interesting Americans, past and present, including Sitting Bull, Marilyn Monroe, and Ralph Nader to name a few. Music, American Style - home pages of great musicians from Woody Guthrie, Billie Holiday, and Janis Joplin to the Grateful Dead. Kingdom of Kitsch - such "roadside" stops along the Information Superhighway as the one-and-only Pez candy Web database! Pop Till You Drop - pop culture, movies, TV, and comic strips. Hundreds of listings pertaining to all things American - History, geography, art, architecture, sports, literature, food, and more! From the Alamo and the Smithsonian to gargoyles in New York City and Walt Whitman.
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Who better to lead an online tour of America than Edward J. Renehan? He's a respected historian, Internet guru, and even a much-traveled musician. You might expect such a person to give a very personal view of this country, and you'd be right. Each of the 21 chapters begins with a mini-essay--entertaining and information-rich, despite their brevity--offering Renehan's personal insights into some topic's place in the American experience. The great thing is that the tour he provides leaves much room for every reader's take on American culture. Renehan serves up his selection of the best American Web sites with an eye on diversity. Here are sites showing both the range of American foods and the many ways we see our criminals and our legal system. There are sites devoted to all aspects of the American religious experience, historic events and sites, celebrations and extravaganzas, travel, natural wonders, politics and much more. What you'll get out of this book, besides a huge collection of wonderful web sites, is an enhanced appreciation for America's greatness--not just greatness in the sense of exalted, but in the sense of the expansiveness of its people, places, and subcultures.
From Library Journal
This is really a book on American history using the net. This might be compared to the Wolff New Media subject guides to the net?NetSex, Net Scifi, etc.?but we are dealing with a serious topic that will bring truly new resources to students' fingertips. Taking a broad view of American history, chapters deal with sports, architecture, crime, the outdoors, and food as well as the expected patriots, law, maps, and politics. From Gettysburg to T.S. Eliot to the My Lai massacre, it's all here for the clicking.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I am disabled and the cashier at the computer store where I shop suggested this book to me because we talk alot while I am there and he helps me find things I might be interested in and one day he had this under his counter waiting for me because he new I liked American History and this book has alot of it in it..I am always looking up some web site about something.
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