Crossroads is the Illinois Humanities Council's virtual meeting place for visitors curious about the expanding boundaries of what we call the humanities. You will find scholarly articles, virtual art and museum exhibits, historical archives, provocative reviews, and more. This site, complete with instructions, houses some of the over 3,000,000 objects held by the National Museum of American History , Behring Center . A Few of our Favorite Things , this experimental site includes 450 objects selected by curators from across the Museum.
Items vary from the famous to the unusual , and everyday .
All of them have interesting stories to tell. RootsWeb , one of the oldest genealogical sites in the world, is here to help you. It offers a free newsletter and many ways to track down people. Since 1990, there has been a visible explosion of literature about of U.S. Latino culture. The book celebrates the cultural literature of Chicanos , Puerto Ricans , Cubans , Mexicans and others of Latino ethnicity .