This website from the Lehigh University provides a fresh way of approaching the old question of the need for the atom bomb. The site also outlines the controversy over how this historical event should be remembered and represented,...

A series of articles on current issues in teaching biology. Several are available in Spanish.

Documentary chronology/timeline of selected events in the development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920.

These scripts (the first of two drafts) describe the events in World War II in the Pacific Theater.

This site details the controversial issues regarding slavery and the effects they had on the Civil War amendments as well as on the fifth amendment. The site discusses events such as the Dred Scott case, the addition of the Civil War...

Human Rights Watch, with this accompanying web site , is one of the leading organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. International attention is focused where human rights are violated and oppressors are held...

A brief encyclopedia article on biotechnology defines the term and discusses the many forms of biotechnology that there are. A brief timeline of historical events related to the field of biotechnology is also presented.

Biographical summary of Mill's most important writings as related to the events in his life. Scroll to his most controversial, "On Liberty",written in 1859 on the decline of individualism and fear of mass democracy. Some critics point to...

General Nathaniel Lyon (1818 - 1861) was the first Union general to be killed in the Civil War and is most known for his actions in the state of Missouri at the beginning of the war. General Lyon is a controversial figure from the Civil...