The Enlightenment Teacher Resources

This interactive map helps illuminate the relationships among the various composers as well as connections between music and its historical and cultural context. It also illustrates the importance of the physical and cultural...

Good discussion of the Age of Dryden. First section of a lengthy article from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Enjoy the historic progression from Skara Brae, the best preserved Neolithic village in northern Europe, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to modern Scotland. Find games and historical oddities as well.

The University of Groningen provides information about the 17th century British liberal philosopher. Includes concise biographical information and a link to the text of "A Letter Concerning Toleration." Read about what part of his...

AP European History learning module on the Age of Absolutism.

An easy-to-read HTML version of Fielding's novel is offered here.

A PBS website that contains Jefferson's views on political, religious, social, personal, and intellectual freedoms in the form of his original documents. Contains the Louisiana Purchase agreement. Tied to a larger site on a Jefferson...

Comprehensive resource with hyperlinks to music, writings, and biographical information on Rousseau.

Video introduced by Judge Sandra Day O'Connor where she talks about the judicial branch. It then takes us on a tour of the National Constitution Center where we are told about the Constitutional Convention, with statues of the Founding...

This site has the history of London from 1674-1913. Included in this history is a description of the city in 1775.

Extensive information on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Includes an extensive chronological timeline of events in her life as well as reviews of her work.

A detailed account of the Buddha's life and teachings written from a philosophical perspective.

Good biography of Henry Fielding (1707-1754 CE), the English Romantic novelist.

First section of a longer discussion on the Age of Johnson. Taken from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

This is the full text of Henry Fielding's satirical and party autobiographical novel. Commentaries are included.

Written in 1881, this brief work focuses on the moral philosophy work that Smith did before his fame as an economist.

This lesson focuses on Johnathan Edwards and The Great Awakening, a movement to revival the Puritan religion. It features information about the Great Awakening and why in wasn't successful and a link to the sermon "Sinners in the Hands...

This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on the Romantic Period including the shift in thoughts away from reason and science and toward the power of nature, emotion, imagination, and the individual man. It features links to a vocabulary...

This tutorial discusses the history of the Declaration of Independence, its structure, the philosophy on which it is based, the grievances against Great Britain, and the actual Declaration of Independence. A PDF file of the tutorial is...

The third and final part of this excellent series on Heidegger's Nazi involvement.

A book written by Arthur Young, well know English writer and economist who visited France just prior to the French Revolution. His book provided insights into the causes of the French Revolution. The book is in PDF format.

Video presents a conversation about Buddhism at the American Museum of Natural History between Dr. Laurel Kendall, Curator, Asian Ethnographic Collections and Dr. Monique Scott, Assistant Director of Cultural Education in front of four...

Listed as one of the 300 women who changed the world, Catherine the Great led Russia into participation in cultural and political life of Europe.

This is a text excerpt and a link to the full-text audio of Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller. The essay applies the idea of the individual to the enlightenment of all mankind: allowing women as individuals to have...