NPR: Urban visionary Jane Jacobs Dies [Real Player] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5362409 Home Remedies: The Vibrant Legacy of Jane Jacobs http://www.slate.com/id/2140615/?nav=tap3 All in the Planning, and Worth Preserving [Real Player] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/nyregion/27blocks.html The New Yorker: Cities and...

The Japan Society was founded in New York City in 1907 by a group of businesspeople who were intimately interested in promoting relations between the United States and Japan. While the Society experienced a downturn in activities during World War II, the postwar period saw the Society come under the direction of John D. Rockefeller III, who was able to vastly expand its programs. Currently, the...

Not whaling but drowning http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15663372 The fight over whaling http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2010/03/whales_their_intelligence_and_japans_treatment_them Japanese media express frustration at NZ activist http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10632168 Abduction of Aboriginal Whaling...

Last mentioned in the July 30th, 1999 Scout Report, the current database represents a redesign and standards upgrade of the inherited data. The collection now includes approximately 6,000 hand-colored photographs, taken at various locations all over Japan, during the Bakumatsu-Meiji period, 1860 - 1920. In addition to searching by photographer, category, keyword, or location, it is now possible to...

Not so long ago, young people in the United States borrowed extensively from European consumer fashions and tastes to create trends in a variety of areas. For a time in the early 1990s, all things that dealt with former Communist regimes were all the rage, and Anglophilia has been a common condition since the cult of people who have found Queen Elizabeth and the Beatles fashionable. These days,...

As Alan Lomax recorded the sounds of hundreds of different indigenous musical traditions throughout his sixty-year career as a musicologist, the legendary Jacques-Yves Cousteau did similar work throughout the world’s oceans. Following in his footsteps, his son, Jean-Michel Cousteau continues to inform and delight with his own series of programs on public television. On this site, visitors can...

In an effort to recognize the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to American culture, May was proclaimed Jewish American Heritage Month. To help celebrate, this website was created by a collaboration of various government entities, including the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. There are a wide array of topics covered...

The state of Washington has a sizeable Jewish community, and their roots can be traced back to the earliest settlers of the Northwest. This digital collection, from the University of Washington Libraries, highlights a small part of the photographs, documents, and materials held by the Washington State Jewish Archives. The Archives started in 1968, and this particular database was produced...

The Jewish Cultural Center of San Francisco hosts Arts and Ideas, a series of lectures and interviews with a wide variety of writers, artists, and scholars. On this website, visitors can view videos of past lessons or live stream upcoming lectures of interest. Videos include a lecture by child psychologist Alison Gopnik on child development and parenting; a talk by prolific writer Carl Hiaasen;...

Beginning in the early 1960s, a number of social movements began to take hold across the United States. The American Indian Movement, feminism, the Black Power Movement, and others called into question existing power structures and certain cultural hierarchies. The Jewish Women’s Archive has created this interactive site, which explores the role of Jewish women in the feminist revolution. Visitors...