The Second Rhetoric Page at Kettering University

I was concerned that the Rhetoric Page was becoming unwieldy, and so I have added a second set of links. These are somewhat more varied, but I hope they will prove either valuable or interesting nonetheless. This page was last updated on October 24, 2020.

Writers and Creative Writing Government Links Literature, History, and Humanities Museums, Galleries, and Visual Arts Politics, Law, and International Affairs Religion and Religious Rhetoric Film, Television, and Popular Culture

 
Online Media Publishers Maps and Geography People and Places and Other Investigative Links (aka Stalking the Web Fantastic) Blogs, Virtual Worlds, and Social Media News and Magazines Moving On

Writers and Creative Writing

Absolute Write
Academic Experts (freelance writing agency)
Academia-Research (freelance writing agency)
AgentQuery
All Freelance Writing
American Amateur Press Association
Archive of Our Own (AO3)
Association of Authors' Agents (UK)
Association of Authors' Representatives, Inc.
The Big List of RPG Plots
BloggingPro
The Burry Man Writers Center
Book-in-a-Week
Color-Hex (color information for page layout and web design)
Commaful
Copyblogger
eFanzines.com
The Ezine Directory
Elance
Emojipedia
Fanfiction
FictionPress
Freelance Writing
Freelancer.com
Ghostbloggers
Horror Writers Association
Jobs for Bloggers
Mediabistro
MediaMiner (fanfiction archive)
Michigan Writers
Midwest Writers Workshop
Mystery Writers of America
National Amateur Press Association
New Pages (literary magazine and creative writing resources)
Open Directory: Writers Resources
Preditors & Editors
Quotev (fanfiction archive)
The Review Review
Romance Writers of America
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
Sff Net
Simply Scripts
Sponsored Reviews
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
The 36 Plots
Trade Publications by Industry
TradePub
Trycolors (color information for page layout and web design)
Using Color Theory to Enhance Your Room (not specifically about writing, but some good basic remarks on color theory writers may find useful)
Uvocorp (freelance Writing Agency)
WAHM
Wattpad
Wordplayer (Screenwriting Website)
WorkWithColor (color information for page layout and web design)
WriteOnCon
Writers Digest
Writers and Editors
Writers Free Resources
WritersNet
WritersWeekly
Return to Top

Government Links

Boards, Commissions, and Committees of the United States Government
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Central Intelligence Agency
Congress.gov
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Constitution of the United States
Copyright.gov
Corporation for National and Community Service (government volunteer programs)
Data.gov (U.S. government open data)
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Election Commission
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FedStats (statistical information from the United States government)
FOIA.gov (Freedom of Information Act)
Government Accountability Office
Grants.gov (Federal Government Grants)
Healthfinder.gov
How to Contact Elected Officials
Independent Agencies of the United States Government
Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies
Internal Revenue Service
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives
National Association of Counties
National Center for Education Statistics
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
National Weather Service
Publications.USA.gov
Science.gov
Social Security Administration
State, Local, and Tribal Governments
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Census Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Commerce
United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Education
United States Department of Energy
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Department of Homeland Security
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
United States Department of the Interior
United States Department of Justice
United States Department of Labor
United States Department of State
United States Department of Transportation
United States Department of the Treasury
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
United States Geographical Survey
United States House of Representatives
United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Postal Service
United States Senate
USASpending (how the government spends your tax money)
White House
Return to Top

Literature, History, and Humanities

Abebooks
Alibris Used and Rare Books
The American Reader
Ancient History Encyclopedia
Arts & Letters Daily
Austen Information Page
Best of History Web Sites
Bibliofind Used and Rare Books
Biographical Dictionary
Biography
Book Riot
BookCrossing
Brough's Books
Classical Literature (a useful basic introduction to major authors, etc.)
Classical Japanese Literature and Culture Web Site
The Deadly Writers Patrol
Design Observer
The Dickens Project
DigitalVerse.org
ECLAT: The 'Essential' Comparative Literature and Theory Site
Electric Lit
The Elizabethan Era
Encyclopedia Mythica
Granta
A Guide to Life Costumes and the Work of Shakespeare
The Greatest Books
Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction
H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online)
Hilobrow
How to Read Lovecraft: A Practical Beginner's Guide
International Center of Photography
International World History Project
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Issac Asimov Home Page
Jane Austen's World
Joseph Campbell Foundation
Literature Resources (collected by L. Kip Wheeler)
Literary History (index of literature resources)
Literary Hub
The Literature Network
Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Medieval Troubadours
The Millions
Naval History and Heritage
The Paris Review Blog
Preservation Directory (index of historical societies, plus information on jobs and grants)
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
Pulitzer Prizes
The Rumpus
Scholars' Guide to the WWW (by Richard Jensen)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Science Fiction & Fantasy: A Research Guide
Science Fiction Resource Guide
SF Site
Shakespeare Online
Speculative Literature Foundation
Symbols.com (encyclopedia of symbols)
Teachinghistory.org
The Teeming Brain
Theoi Greek Mythology
United States Air Force Historical Studies Office
United States Army Center of Military History
The Victorian Web
Voice of the Shuttle
Web Sources for Military History
Return to Top

Museums, Galleries, and Visual Arts

American Museum of Natural History
Art History Resources
Art Institute of Chicago
Artcyclopedia
AskArt
British Museum
The Broad
Detroit Institute of Arts
The Field Museum
Flint Institute of Arts
The Getty
Google Art Project
Guggenheim Museum
Harvard Art Museums
The Hermitage
International Council of Museums
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Louvre
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of New Zealand
Museum of Online Museums
Museum Search ("Find a Museum") at the American Alliance of Museums
MuseumsUSA (directory of museums and search engine)
The National Gallery (London)
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
National Museum of the Air Force
National World War II Museum
Natural History Museum (London)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Royal Academy of Arts
Serpentine Galleries
The Smithsonian's Museums (portal to museums, galleries, etc.)
The Tate Gallery
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Vatican Museums
Victoria and Albert Museum
Visual Arts Encyclopedia
WebMuseum
Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Return to Top

Politics, Law, and International Affairs

270toWin
Anti-Defamation League
Atlantic Council
Ben Shapiro's Truth Revolt
Brookings
Center for Democracy and Technology
Center for International Maritime Security
Center for Media and Public Affairs
Center for Naval Analyses
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Charters of Freedom (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights)
Commission on Presidential Debates
Copyright and Fair Use Page at Stanford University
Council on Foreign Relations
Critical Threats
Daily Kos
Democratic Leadership Council
Democratic National Committee
The Diplomat
Discourse.net
E-Democracy
Electoral-Vote.com (Electoral Vote Predictor)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
The Encyclopedia of Earth
European Union
FactCheck
Federation of American Scientists
FindLaw Internet Legal Resources
FireEye
FiveThirtyEight
FollowTheMoney
Foreign Policy
Fund for Peace (includes Failed State/Fragile State Index)
Guide to Political Research On-Line (by Richard Jensen)
Global Issues
Global Security
Global Terrorism Database
Gov.uk (British government)
The Hill
HPI Political InfoSystem Gateway
Institute for the Study of War
International Court of Justice
International Crisis Group
Justice Map
Legal Insurrection
The Long War Journal
Media Bias/Fact Check
Municode (City Ordinances)
The Nation
National Security Archive at George Washington University
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nautilus Institute
Naval Recognition
Naval Technology
Naval Today
Nolo Self-Help Law Center
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Nuclear Threat Initiative
OnWar
OpenCongress
OpenSecrets
Pacific Institute
People for the American Way
Pew Research Center
Politico
PolitiFact
ProPublica
PRWatch (Center for Media and Democracy website)
Rand Corporation
RealClearPolitics
ReliefWeb
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (includes FOIA resources)
Small Wars Journal
Southern Poverty Law Center
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Strategic Studies Institute
Talking Points Memo
United Nations
United States Naval Institute
United States Naval War College
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Vision of Humanity (includes Global Peace Index)
War Is Boring
War News Updates
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
WikiLaw3k
World Affairs
World Affairs Board
World Economic Forum
World Health Organization
Worldwide NGO Directory
Return to Top

Religion and Religious Rhetoric

Bibles.net
Jewish Encyclopedia
Jewish Virtual Library
Judaism 101
Judaism and Jewish Resources
Mechon Mamre (Online editions of the Hebrew Bible)
Mourner's Kaddish
MyJewishLearning
ReformJudiasm.org
Return to Top

Film, Television, and Popular Culture

'Merica Magazine
Absolute Anime
American Film Institute (includes their lists of greatest movies)
Anime and Manga Research Circle
Anime News Network
AnimeCons
Ansible (Index of SF Links)
Badmovies.org
The Belfry WebComics Index
BoredPanda
Buzznet
CBR.com
Comic Book Resources
Comic Rocket
Comicbook
ComicsResearch.org
Comics Scholarship Links
ComingSoon
Convention Scene
Crank Dot Net (sadly, most of the links are dead, but the titles should give you some search terms to try out)
Digital Spy
Discovering Fanzines
En World (rpg news and reviews)
Famous Monsters of Filmland (my favorite magazine when I was a kid)
FanCons (SF conventions, etc.)
Fandom (powered by wikia)
FolkLib (index of folk music links)
GameSpot
Geek Gals
Geeks Are Sexy
The Good Men Project
Goodreads
Graphic Novel Reporter
How to Tell if You're American
I Can Has Cheezburger?
IGN
IndieWire
Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Firearms Database
Kotaku
Krypton Radio
LetsSingIt (online encyclopedia of music)
Lyrics.com
Lyricsmode
The Mary Sue
Monkeys Fighting Robots
Monsters & Critics
MRQE (Movie Review Query Engine)
MyAnimeList
Nerdlist
The Onion
Online Comics
Online MMO and MMORPG Games
ParaSeek (paranormal search engine)
Polygon
Rotten Tomatoes
RPG.net
Sci Fi & Fantasy Fanzines at UMBC
Scifisource (Sci-Fi Directory)
Screen Rant
ScreenCrush
Top Web Comics
Upcomingcons (SF conventions, etc.)
Urban Dictionary
Vulture
Warhorn
We Got This Covered
Webcomic List
Webcomics Hub
Webtoon
Return to Top

Online Media

Amateur Radio and DX Guide
Archiveaudio
Broadcastify (large collection of police, fire, ems, etc. broadcasts)
Crunchyroll
Dailymotion
DX Zone (Online Radio Information)
Earthcam
Foreign Internet Radio
Foreign Internet Television
Funny or Die
Hulu
Icecast Directory (streaming media directory)
Kittenwar (trust me...there are days when you will need this)
Listening Post (online shortwave receiver)
LiveATC (air traffic control broadcasts)
Live-Radio.net
Metacafe
NASWA: North American Shortwave Association
NPR
Online Receivers (shortwave, ham, etc.)
OVGuide (online Video Guide)
PBS Online
Pluto TV
PodcastAlley
Podnova
Police Scanner (live police, fire, etc. scanner broadcasts)
Radio-Locator
RadioReference (includes live audio feeds)
Radiotime
Radiotuna
Shortwave Radio
Shortwave Radio Listening
Squid TV (online streaming tv directory)
Stream the World (searchable online radio player)
Streema (Directory of Online Radio and Television Broadcasts)
Truveo
TuneIn (World Radio Online)
Twitch
Veoh
Vimeo
Vine
WebSDR (online radio receiver for ham radio, etc.)
wwiTV
Return to Top

Publishers

Adams Media
Barron's Educational Series
Baywood Publishing
Bedford/St. Martins
Broadview Press
Cambridge University Press
Columbia University Press
Continuum
CRC Press
Dedalus Books
Dover Publications
Duke University Press
Eerdmans Publishing
Greenwood Publishing Group
Guilford Publications
Hackett Publishing
Harvard University Press
HarperCollins Publishers
Heinemann-Boynton/Cook
Henry Holt
Hesperus Press
Houghton Mifflin
John Wiley & Sons
Jossey Bass
Kessinger Publishing
Kurodahan Press
Library of America (Academic Editions)
McFarland
McGraw-Hill
O'Reilly & Associates
Orion Publishing Group
Oxford University Press (USA)
Palgrave Macmillan (includes St. Martins, Tor, FS&G, and Henry Holt)
Pantheon
Pearson Higher Education (includes Addison Wesley Longman, Allyn & Bacon, etc.)
Penguin Books (includes Ace, Berkley, Putnam, and Viking)
Penguin Classics (includes Signet Classic)
Periplus Publishing Group (includes Tuttle and Java)
Perseus Books Group
Prentice Hall
Prime Books
Random House (includes Ballantine, Del Rey, Doubleday, Everyman, and Vintage)
Routledge
Sage
Simon & Schuster
Soho Press (includes Soho Crime)
Thoemmes Press
Tokyopop
Tor Books
Viz Media
W. W. Norton & Company (includes New Directions)
Wadsworth
Waveland Press
West End Press
Wildside Press
Return to Top

Maps and Geography

ADS-B Exchange (co-op of unfiltered flight data)
AirNav RadarBox
Countries of the World
Cranky Flier
Flight Delay Information (FAA)
FlightAware
Flightradar24
GeoCurrents
GeoNames
Google Earth Hacks
Google Sightseeing
I-Boating Navigation Charts
Live Ships Map at AIS Marine Traffic
Lonely Planet
Mappery (large collection of maps)
Mapquest
Maps of World
Marine Vessel Traffic
The National Map (USGS)
Nations Online
NUKEMAP (in case you need to see how a nuclear warhead would affect where you live)
Perry-Castaeda Library Map Collection
Plane Flight Tracker
The Racial Dot Map (demographic map of the United States)
Shipspotting.com
Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps
Vidiani (Maps of the World)
Virtual Globetrotting
World Digital Library (maps, images, etc.)
Return to Top

People and Places and Other Investigative Links (aka Stalking the Web Fantastic)

ADS-B Exchange (unfiltered flight data)
Black Book Online (free public records search)
Classmates
Community Index (includes town and city index)
eInvestigator
eVerify (people and public records search)
FamilyTreeNow
Fonefinder
Free Public Records at SearchSystems
FreeSearching (international phone directories, etc.)
Great Schools
Hoax-Slayer
Homefacts
Infobel (International Telephone Directories)
International White and Yellow Pages
Investigative Dashboard
Investigative Links at CrimeLynx Investigations
Investigative Links at Right Path Investigations
Neighborhood Scout
NNDB ("People tracker" providing online biographies)
OfficialUSA.com (directory of businesses and other services organized by state)
Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records (in case you ever need to find out whether or not you are dead)
PeekYou
Phonebook of the World
PI Mall
Pipl (people search)
Radaris (includes reverse phone directory, people search, etc.)
Realtor.com
Redfin
Reverse Directory
ReversePhoneLookup
Rough Guides
SchoolDigger
SearchBug
SearchSystems (free public records search)
The Skeptic's Dictionary
Snopes (Urban Legends Reference Page)
SocialCatfish (people search, etc.)
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (includes large map gallery)
Spies Online
Spokeo (includes people search and reverse phone directory)
SpotCrime
The Straight Dope
Superpages (Yellow Pages)
Trulia
Truthfinder (search public records)
United States City Guides (includes links to local chambers of commerce)
Vitalrec (vital records search engine)
Websleuths
White Pages
WhoWhere People Finder
YP ("yellow pages," includes people and business search engine)
Zabasearch
Zillow
Return to Top

Blogs, Virtual Worlds, and Social Media

4chan
Academia
AOL
Badoo!
Behance
Blog Search Engine
Blogarama
Blogflux
Blogger
Blogher
blog-Search
CafeMom
Care2
Catster
Create a Forum
Curbly
deviantART
Discord
Disqus
Dogster
Dribble
Find A Forum
The Fanac Fan History Project
Fanlore
Gaia Online
Geni
Globe of Blogs
Habbo
Instagram
Instructables
List of Virtual Worlds
Letterboxd
LiveJournal
Medium
Meet Me
Meetup
Mixi
Mud Connector
MySpace
Nextdoor
Ning
Paranormal Societies
phpBB
Pintrest
ProBoards Forum Directory
RallyPoint
Roll20
Second Life
Snapchat
Tagged
Taringa!
Together We Served
Top MUD Sites
Tumblr
Typepad
VampireFreaks
Vetfriends
Viber
The Well
WordPress
Writing.Com
Zinewiki
Return to Top

News and Magazines

4 International Media & Newspapers
ABC News
ABYZ News Links (newspaper and media guide)
The Age (Australia)
Al Jazeera
Alert 5
AllAfrica
Alltop
AllYouCanRead
Almost.at
AlternativeNews.com
Ars Technica
The Art of Manliness
Associated Press
The Atlantic
Atlas Obscura
The Australian
BBC
Big Think
Billboard
boingboing
Business Insider
BusinessWeek
Buenos Aires Herald
BuzzFeed
CampusActivism.org
CBC
CBS News
Center for Media and Public Affairs
Chicago Tribune
China Daily
The Chosunilbo (South Korea)
The Christian Science Monitor
Chronicle-Tribune (Marion, IN)
CNN Homepage
CNNMoney
Consortiumnews
Curiosity
Daily Dot
Daily Mail
Defense Industry Daily
Design News
Design Observer
Detroit Free Press
Digg
The Dong-a Ilbo (South Korea)
Drudge Report
Economist
Egypt Daily News
El Pais (Spain)
Entertainment Weekly
Epoch Times
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Fark
Financial Times (United Kingdom)
Fleetunderground
Forbes
France 24
Gannett Government Media (includes Army Times, Navy Times, etc.)
GeekWire
Gizmodo
Global Post
Global Times (Chinese Newspaper/English Edition)
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
The Guardian (Nigeria)
The Guardian (United Kingdom)
Haaretz (Israel)
Hindustan Times (India)
Hollywood Reporter
Huffington Post
Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey)
In These Times
The International News (Pakistan)
The Jakarta Post
Jezebel
Japan Times
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish World Review
Journal & Courier (West Lafayette, IN)
The Kernel
kottke.org
Lakeland Times (Rhinelander, WI)
Latin American Post
The Local (France)
The Local (Germany)
Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
Mainichi (Japanese Newspaper/English Edition)
Manila Standard (Philippines)
Mashable
Media Roots
Mental Floss
Michigan Live
Michigan Live: Flint Edition
Michigan Public Radio
Mondo Newspapers
Mother Jones
MSNBC
Narratively
National Public Radio
National Review
The New Yorker
New Zealand Herald
Newsday
Newslookup
Newspapers.com
NHK World
Nowthis News
Oddee
Oddity Central
Offgrid Survival
The Oatmeal
Pacific Islands Report
People's Daily (China)
Perez Hilton
Pitchfork
PopMatters
Pravda (English Edition)
Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY)
The Progressive
Quartz
Radio Free Europe
Rapid City Journal
RawStory
Reuters
Rio Times
RT
Salon.com
Saudi Gazette (English Edition)
Slashdot
Slate
The Spectator
Spiegel (German News Magazine/English Edition)
Sydney Morning Herald
Taipei Times (Taiwan)
Techmeme
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
This American Life
Time
The Times of India
TMZ
Topix
TopSpeed
Treehugger
Upworthy
Variety
Vice
Vietnam News
Village Voice
Vogue
Voice of America
Vox
Washington Monthly
Washington Post
Washington Times
The Weather Channel
Weather Underground
Webwire
The Weekly Standard
Weird Asia News
The Wire (AP News Organized by Member Newspaper)
Wired
World News
World Newspapers and Magazines
Xinhua (Chinese Newspaper/English Edition)
Return to Top

Moving On...

The Rhetoric Page at Kettering University
Return to Top

You can send me e-mail at mgellis@kettering.edu

0
Looking