| Expat_Expert Offers information for those living, moving, or returning home from extended stays abroad. |
| Expat_Focus Expat links, currency converter and discussion forums. |
| Expat_Interviews Interviews with people living outside their home countries. Topics include what motivated them to live abroad, how they generate their income, and what they’ve learned from their experiences. |
| The_Expat_Network Information on overseas jobs, country profiles, healthcare, plus in articles and industry reports on issues which affect expatriates. |
| Expat_Today Includes information on conditions of expatriation, employment, returning home, and finances. |
| Expatica_com Resource offering country profiles, business and finance, money, politics, IT, lifestyle and expatriate activities. |
| Expatriate_Groups Directory of expatriate discussions at Yahoo. |
| Expatriates_com Classified ads, resource directory, and discussion board for expatriates. |
| Expats_Power Discussion group for expats working away from home in the power industry on overseas assignments or looking for a job. |
| ExpatSite_com Offers resources, shopping, moving, and discussion forum for members. |
| Guardian_Abroad_co_uk Information, resources and community for expatriates of all nations. Includes diaries, reader blogs, country profiles and Ask an Expert. |
| iAgora Virtual community for people who live, study, or work abroad. Offers essays of personal experiences, news, humor, forums, chat, practical information, and resources. |
| Interaction,_Inc_ Global service and support network for individuals involved in trans-culture issues, studies, and research. |
| International_Couples Forum discussion among international couples sharing ideas worldwide, exchanging experiences and providing information about relationships. |
| International_Living Articles, news, classifieds, home swaps, and information on retirement, real estate, living abroad. |
| PMI_Expatriate_Mail_Service Mail forwarding service for expatriates founded in 1987. Provides mail forwarding, record keeping and description of services offered. |
| Sentimental_Refugee Articles, interviews and resources for immigrants and expatriates of all nationalities. |
| Tales_from_a_Small_Planet The literary and humor magazine for expatriates worldwide offering reviews of major cities, forums, and resources. |
| Transitions_Abroad Provides practical information for international travelers looking to work, study, or live abroad. |
| US-UK_Couples_N_Families Discussion of immigration issues and experiences for US-UK couples. |
| US-UK_Couples_Webring Links for couples married or engaged with one partner a UK citizen the other partner a US citizen. |
| Agelong_Tree Software intended for building family trees, processing information about relatives and events in their lives. |
| Ages Family tree shareware which features multi-page tree printouts. |
| Ancestor+ A commercial RISC OS application for recording family trees. Capable of importing and exporting GEDCOM files, and to HTML. |
| Ancestral_Author Windows program to document genealogical research. Creates hyperlinked Adobe PDF files from GEDCOMs, text files, images, and other user input. |
| Ancestral_Quest Genealogy program that reads PAF files in directly. Features available include multimedia capabilities, advanced search and filtering. |
| AprilTree_com Web based application to build, share, and manage family trees online. Allows addition of photos, census details, and documents. |
| Brother\'s_Keeper Windows shareware program to organize family history and print a variety of charts and reports. |
| Cumberland_Family_Software Windows shareware program centered around creating family books, with an emphasis on event-based genealogy. |
| Desai_Technologies_Family_Tree_Drillet Lets you create pictorial family trees that can be shared like a document. |
| !Family BASIC program to maintain a family tree. Uses the worldwide standard GEDCOM file format to store information. (RISC Operating System only). |
| Family_Historian Family tree program offering complete diagram capabilities. |
| Family_Historian_User_Group_Portal Web portal for users of Family Historian software. |
| Family_Origins Windows-based genealogy program geared to users with large databases. Extensive reporting features. |
| Family_Reunion Windows-based genealogy software by FAMware. |
| Family_Tree_House Genealogy software accessible by the internet only which will create an online family tree. |
| Family_Tree_Legends Intelligently links ancestors with SmartMatching and utilizes Real-Time Internet Backup and Publishing. |
| Family_Tree_Maker Popular family tree software which creates charts and trees in a variety of formats. |
| Family_View Two part shareware genealogy program for Windows. Includes pedigree and descendant charts, and photo album. |
| FamilyMatters Microsoft Access database program for documenting family history and generating a family tree web site. |
True history and good stories work at cross purposes. History in fact is a rambling mess, which stories tidy up. Successful narratives feature heroes and heroines, clear plotlines, and neat beginnings and endings, but in real life, things don’t usually happen that way. Clumsy Goliath generally overwhelms clever David, but you’d never guess it from the tales we hear or read. Traditional stories of our nation’s birth are driven not only by these narrative demands, but also by political concerns. Invented in the nineteenth century to serve the interests of an expansive nationalism, we cling to them today because they give us an honored and exclusively American tradition. In his recent books on the American Revolution, award-winning author and historian Ray Raphael explores this intriguing intersection between history-making and story-making. Our best-loved tales sell America short, he says. This nation was founded not just by the handful of “Founding Fathers” we have come to revere, but also by the revolutionary activities of hundreds of thousands of patriots dedicated to the notion that all government must be firmly rooted in “the body of the people,” as they said at the time. Raphael’s critically acclaimed People’s History of the American Revolution, the first volume of Howard Zinn’s People’s History Series, highlights the experiences of common people of the Revolutionary Era — farmers and farmwives, artisans and laborers, African Americans and Native Americans. “Ray Raphael has probably altered the way in which future historians will see events,” wrote the London Sunday Times. “His narrative is a tour de force.” The First American Revolution presents a close-up of one dramatic episode that has been hidden from history: the forcible overthrow of British authority in 1774, staged by tens of thousands of common farmers throughout Massachusetts the year before Lexington and Concord. His in-depth research has caused scholars to re-evaluate their notions of how the Revolution began, and texts are now being revised to include his findings. Founding Myths: Stories that Hide our Patriotic Past details how and why our most cherished tales were invented in the nineteenth century, and why we continue to tell them now. By deconstructing thirteen stories such as Paul Revere’s Ride, the “Shot Heard Round the World,” the winter at Valley Forge, and “Give me liberty or give me death,” Raphael shows that any honest history of our nation’s founding must come to grips with the many distortions that still anchor our core narrative. Ray Raphael is currently working on an inclusive, popular narrative of our nation’s birth, casting people from diverse levels of the social hierarchy as “founders.” Seven lead characters drive the story forward, interacting with one another and evolving over the entirety of the Revolutionary Era. If other popular histories position known celebrities at center stage, this book spotlights life-sized people from all walks of life and lets the reality of what they did stand, without distortion or mythology. The Constitution’s framers and ordinary farmers, bankers and blacksmiths, slave masters and slaves help shape the story, as they once shaped the course of a newly emerging nation. (Read Introduction.) top of page ©2004 3rdIdesign.com 