Here is a great tool to personalize and track all the information you want to follow about Congress. Search bills, senators, representatives, committees, issues, and forums. There are great tools to try out: facebook, widgets, and...

Read the full text of a collection of short stories titled "The Haunted House" by Charles Dickens. Dickens wrote the opening and closing story while other famous authors wrote the remaining stories centered around a haunted house.

This site from Bibliomania houses a transcription of the full and complete text of Walt Whitman's classic "Leaves of Grass."

At this site from Massachusetts Institute of Technology you can read about inventors, Anna Keichline and Lillian Gilbreth, who sought to make women's lives easier through their household items.

In the late 19th century, the Impressionists defied academic tradition in French art with their emphasis on modern subjects, sketchlike technique, and practice of painting in the open air with pure, high-keyed color. The Art Institute of...