Hidden gold for writers

I love hanging out with other writers, which is why I belong to several writing groups.  My author-friends in the Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood run a great blog to help aspiring authors—and I'm the blog host on Tuesday, December 18.

We'll be discussing websites that we use to gather research for our manuscripts. 

I'm encouraging Ruby Blog visitors to add comments which list their favorite research sites. Throughout the day, I'll update this authoretc post with their recommendations.  By Tuesday's end, I hope to have a wonderful, cumulative list of Hidden Gold.

Free Books and Publications

• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Federal Citizen Information Center

Government Websites to Cultural Resources and Artifacts

• The British Museum 
• NC Dept of Cultural Resources

 
Websites about History and Historic Places

• Colonial Quill blog
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Costume Gallery
• Mount Vernon
• NC History: A Digital Textbook
• NC History Project 
• NC Historic Sites
• Old Bailey (Historic proceedings from England's court system)
• Recipes from the past
• Tryon Palace

  
Military, Law Enforcement, Crime, and Forensics

• All things military
• Dept of Defense registered websites
• Graveyard Shift (Blog about law enforcement)
• Firearms Tutorial
• Military Rank
• Navy Seals 
• U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
• U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
• U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• U.S. Joint Special Ops Command
• Weapons   
• Writer's Forensics Blog

Miscellaneous

• Old book repository
• On this day in history...
• Online Etymology
• Urban Dictionary