National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Turning the Pages Online
Learn about the history of science at this wonderful resource that provides virtual books in the biomedical sciences field for viewing at home. These are books and manuscripts that are hundreds of years old and would not be accessible...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Women in Science: Space Exploration
Through primary source documents, discover the history of NASA's "human computers," early aerospace industry pioneers, and the struggle for American women to be allowed into the astronaut program.
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Poems: Sonnet to Science
Read "Sonnet--to Science" by accessing this archive of the poem's publishing history.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Meet the Paleont O Logist: Mark Norell
Interview with paleontologist Mark Norell provides insights into his research interests, his career preparation, and his ideas about a range of paleontology-related topics.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Molecular Biologist: Rob De Salle
Interview with Molecular Biologist Rob DeSalle provides insights into his research interests, his career preparation, and a range of biology-related topics.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Letters on Newton
An interesting site from Fordham University that provides letters Voltaire wrote regarding Newton and his work.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: A Visit to James Clerk Maxwell's House
From the MacTutor History of Mathematics website, this page allows students to see the Edinburgh home of the 19th century Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
Brown University
John Carter Brown Library: Atlantic Materia Medica
Exhibit of scientific treatises and natural histories dating from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries demonstrates the impact of trans-Atlantic trade and travel on medical practice and principles.
Trinity College Dublin
The History of Mathematics: Roemer
A short biographical sketch of the life and work of Ole Roemer (1652-1719 CE). Identifies his scientific discoveries and contributions in astronomy.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Time: It's Like, So Deep
This video reviews over geologic time scale and methods to teach this appropriately in the classroom. [9:15]
Other
American Scientist: Author Interview: Neil De Grasse Tyson
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has made "Popularizing science a personal passion." Tyson's latest book, Origins, is the starting point here for a discussion of dark matter, intelligent life in our solar system, the possibility of...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Two Treatisies on Government
This site provides selections from John Locke's "Two Treatisies on Government." It contains evaluations on the sections 'Of the State of Nature' and 'Of Political of Civil Society.'
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905
This Nobel E-Museum website commemorates the work of Philipp von Lenard and his Nobel prize achievement. This detailed resource includes a biography, Lenard's Nobel Lecture, and the "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905 Presentation Speech."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: There Is No Cure for Polio
This collection uses primary sources to explore the polio epidemic and vaccine.
British Library
British Library: The Leonardo Notebook
Page through one of Leonardo's notebooks, in which he works out his observations about weights, measures, reflections, and similar material matters. Interesting examples of the master's characteristic "mirror writing" and of his...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Scopes Trial
This collection uses primary sources to explore the 1925 Scopes Trial.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Fifteenth Amendment
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Fifteenth Amendment.
NASA
Nasa: Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Apollo 11 Summary
This site from NASA provides a detailed and lengthy summary of the Apollo 11 mission. Comments (quotes) by each astronaut are provided giving personal accounts of the highlights of the mission which resulted in the first landing on the...
NASA
Nasa: Ed White Apollo 1 Summary
NASA report on Apollo 1 where Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White II were killed in a fire inside the Command Module of the Apollo spacecraft. Links to other Web sites with more information are included.
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