Welcome to the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), a research unit of Columbia College Chicago devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.

From the 1920's to 2000's we list all of the craziest fads that have come and gone. Go back a few decades and read about the silly to serious fads that helped change our society and create a pop-culture. Want to know which fads your parents experienced? W

Decades.com is a private venture, dedicated to the following goals: make history easily accessible; enrich history by filling the vaccuum in which it is typically found; and make history more person.

American history presented as a heirarchical timeline. Also other notes and resources related to American history.

A graphical timeline showing events in fashion throughout history.

Ever wonder what foods the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? Welcome to the Food Timeline. Food history

The Historical Event Markup and Linking project provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate historical materials on the internet.

Website for the History Channel, a cable television network devoted to history. Many resources and information from throughout history.

Information and history about Honky Tonk, Hymns, and the Blues provided by Public Radio International.

Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collabora

This website aims at providing a service for music educators and researchers interested in information about music education in various nations. Users can click on a world region above to see the links. Some links require a font in a language other than E

Founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band is America’s oldest professional musical organization. Today, “The President’s Own” is celebrated for its role at the White House and its dynamic public p

Internet delivered course on Anglo-American Folkmusic. Includes recordings and other files.

To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mo

Graphical presentation of the timeline of Rock and Roll history.

Website for Ralph Vaughan Williams, infamous British classical composer. Includes biographical information and other resources.

Wikipedia timelines for music. Organized into eras and shows what was happening in music throughout history.

Website about Wisconsine state folk music musicians and dancers.

Listen To Your Buds is a consumer awareness campaign by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association about the potential risk of hearing loss from unsafe usage of personal audio technology.

University of Colorado at Boulder Music Library web site provides access to digital versions of some of the categories of sheet music within their physical collection originally published between 1890 and 1922.

This is the web site for the book "This is Your Brain on Music" by Daniel J. Levitin. It includes a number of interactive features including musical examples, a discussion board, an interactive brain, and a media archive.

Learn about musical instruments from around the world.

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.

This is W3C's home page for the HTML Activity. Here you will find pointers to our specifications for HTML/XHTML, guidelines on how to use HTML/XHTML to the best effect, and pointers to related work at W3C.

NUMU is a dedicated safe space for young people to showcase their music, meet others and learn new skills.

This digital collection presents moving image footage recorded in 1976, when Suzuki spent two weeks at the American Suzuki Institute, giving lectures and demonstrations, as well as teaching both master classes and group classes.

Edutopia, a web site of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, has a number of articles related to assessment. Includes articles, research, video clips, and resources.

Although no longer kept up-to-date, this web site for the Eric Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation still provides useful information on assessment, evaluation, and research methodology.

The Test Collection at ETS is a library of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices that makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers.

A how-to hypertext on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.