University of Virginia: Lecture on Kepler

In this collection from the University of Virginia you can read the text of "Notes on the State of Virginia" by Thomas Jefferson. Access different sections of this 1782 document by clicking on the appropriate links.

The Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University established the Mahatma Gandhi Lecture series to promote the values of nonviolent resistance. Most of the speeches, all by prominent activists and leaders, are available here.

This site by the Sixties Project gives the text of the speech given by Bob Muller, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, to a meeting of the Student Assembly of Columbia University on July 23, 1971.

View contemporary coverage of the Civil Rights Movement from two Roanoke, VA television stations including 230 video clips that feature both national events, such as the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy, as well as...

This is the full text of one of the earliest books on women's rights, "Vindication of the Rights of Woman."

A series of lectures on the Industrial Revolution, written by one of the most famous economic historians of the nineteenth century.

Access a collection of Thomas Jefferson's Public Papers provided for by the University of Virginia. Content ranges from bills to "Observations on a Whale Fishery" to Opinions on French Treaties.

Analyze the Civil War through a multitude of primary source documents. This comprehensive site chronicles the Civil War in Virginia from its roots to the battles, and finally the consequences of this divisive war. Read letters and...

A discussion of the number system used by the ancient Babylonians. Examples are provided for various mathematical operations based on the number 60 (our number system is based on the number ten).

An article explaining how the Greeks were able to use their science and mathematics to predict where astronomical objects such as the Planets could be found in the nighttime sky even though their underlying premise was that the earth did...