With maps, research links, and news about every country, 3D Atlas Online is a good resource to explore place in its most traditional sense.
CyberAtlas: Guggenheim Museum
http://cyberatlas.guggenheim.org/intro/ca-f.html
CyberAtlas is the fascinating result of a project undertaken by the Guggenheim Museum to literally chart virtual territory. Selected maps on the site guide the browser through cyberspace, focusing especially on sites related to visual art and culture.
RoadTrip America
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/index.htm
RoadTrip America is the Web’s "only feature magazine produced completely from on the road," compiled by a group who call themselves dashboard professionals, or dashboarders for short. Photos, articles, and information about traveling through different places (including the web itself) are presented in a uniquely interactive format.
Coca-Cola
http://www.cocacola.com/
The official Coca-Cola Corporation web site offers downloads of Coke commercials, music clips, and ads, along with links to international brand sites that offer students an interesting look into how a corporation creates a sense of "place"–"Where we started, where we are today, and where we’re going tomorrow." The site also offers a good point of comparison to the Coke ad in the chapter overview.
SELECTION LINKS
PAIR
Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad
Edward Hirsch, House by the Railroad (1925)
American Visions: Edward Hopper
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/exhibition/show6/framepage6.6.html
The online version of PBS’s art history series includes an exhibit of several of Hopper's paintings along with commentary, all grouped under the heading "The Sad Desolation of Our Suburban Landscape."
Artcylopedia: Links to Edward Hopper
http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/hopper_edward.html
The Artcyclopedia guide to sites on Edward Hopper’s art and life.
Smithsonian Museum’s Edward Hopper Scrapbook
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/hopper/index.html
The Smithsonian’s online "scrapbook" of Edward Hopper’s life and work is composed of audio, visual, and written clippings, including an audio clip of John Clancy’s explanation of how the Museum of Modern Art acquired House by the Railroad.
Eudora Welty, The Little Store
The Mississippi Writer’s Page: Eudora Welty
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/welty_eudora/
Produced by the University of Mississippi, this directory of Eudora Welty photographs accompanies a longer article placing her works in the context of the South.
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Mountains
American Visions: The Star of Empire
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/exhibition/show3/framepage3.12.html
The online version of the PBS art history of America includes commentary on Albert Bierstadt’s "Among the Sierra Mountains" under the heading "The Star of Empire."
David Guterson, No Place Like Home: On the Manicured Streets of a Master-Planned Community
Shaping San Francisco
http://www.shapingsf.org/
Guterson’s essay offers one take on the changes and developments of Green Valley, Nevada. The creators of Shaping San Francisco, the Internet component of a CD-ROM created by AK Press, aim to create an interactive multimedia documentation of the social history of the San Francisco community, "a new approach to the study of urban life."
RETROSPECT: Camilo José Vergara's Photographs of 65 East 125th Street, Harlem
Harlem Live
http://www.harlemlive.org/index2.html
An online publication about Harlem by Harlem youth; includes valuable links and offers a solid counterpoint to this chapter's Retrospect.
Mark Peterson, Image of Homelessness
Covington’s Homeless: A Documentary
http://www.castle.net/~jdeck/Covdex2.html
One in a series of photographic essays by John Decker–all dealing with social issues–"Covington’s Homeless" documents life in a town with no shelters.
Guttertribe: Kids on the Street
http://www.auschron.com/gallery/
An exhibit of photographs taken by photojournalist Jana Birchum of young homeless people living in Austin, Texas. Sponsored by the Austin Chronicle, in which the photos first appeared, two galleries of images are accompanied by commentary and an essay.
Richard Ford, I Must Be Going [essay]
Ploughshares: Profile of Richard Ford
http://www.emerson.edu/ploughshares/Fall1996/FordProfile.html
Don Lee profiles Richard Ford in the Fall 1996 edition of Ploughshares, Emerson College’s literary journal.
Online News Hour: Novelist Richard Ford
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/pulitzer_novel_4-17.html
A 1996 interview of Richard Ford by Elizabeth Farnsworth; topics include his winning of the Pulitzer Prize and his novel Independence Day (1995).
LOOKING CLOSER: Going Home
HERSTORY: THE LIFE OF CARMEN LOMAS GARZA
http://infoseek.go.com/?win=_search&sv=M6&qt=carmen+lomas+garza&oq=home&url=http%3A//ouray.cudenver.edu/%7Eajgutier/herstory.html&ti=The+Story+of+Carmen+Lomas+Garza&top=
A summary of the life and work of an important Chicana artist.
American Strategy: Hearth and Home
http://infoseek.go.com/?win=_search&sv=M6&qt=carmen+lomas+garza&oq=home&url=http%3A//www.americanstrategy.org/america/home3.html&ti=American+Strategy+%7C+Hearth+%26+Home&top=">
Part of a national initiative to make everyone aware of federal and national resources, American Strategy has linked digitized collections of art around shared themes such as hearth and home–including, here, the work of Carmen Lomas Garza.
Hometown USA
http://www.hometownusa.com/
Each city, town, or village in this exhaustive list of hometowns organized by state is accompanied by retail and residential information, local government information, regional and local history, listings of residents, interactive maps, and photo galleries.
