Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.You can now view a one hour webinar by the authors as part of the MERLOT Classics Series on Elluminate at the following site: " target=×´_blank×´>https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsde
Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice and Settling the Land: A Historical Whodunnit
This site includes a complete collection of historical documents and images related to a famous murder case in British Columbia. When three Black men are murdered in the space of 18 months around 1868 on bucolic Salt Spring Island, alarm bells go off. Who is killing the Blacks of Salt Spring? A year later an aboriginal man was charged, tried and hanged in short order for one of the murders, that of William Robinson. But did he really do it? Visitors can look at the collection of archival materia
Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
This site includes a collection of nine historical mysteries which draw students into Canadian history, critical thinking and archival research through the enticement of solving historical cold crimes. Each of the mystery archives includes an average of 100,000 words in English (and in French), as well as up to several hundred images plus maps. Some of the mystery websites also include 3-D recreations, videos and oral history interviews. Site users can look at the collections of archival materia
Design Generation of the Central Asian Caravanserai
Challenges for the study of Islamic architecture include its abundance and diversity in expression and its classification based on distinct functional or stylistic types. We address these issues by presenting shape grammars as a methodology for the analysis and design generation of Islamic architecture, with a specific example in the form of a parametric shape grammar for central Asian caravanserais. The grammar is developed by identifying distinct design types. Shape rules are created based on
Mark Twain in His Times
"This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today. Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many differen
Online Poetry Classroom
Poets.org provides a wealth of content on poems and poetry, emphasizing but not limited to contemporary American poets. It receives an average of 400,000 unique users each month, and it provides online educational resources such as free poetry lesson plans for teachers.
Documenting the American South
This site offers "a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century." The collection is categorized by First-Person Narratives of the American South, a Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 and The Church in the Southern Black Community. The collection can be searched by subject, author or title.
A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series - Dadi Perlmutter
David (Dadi) Perlmutter is a 30 year veteran of the computer and semiconductor industry with many contributions in technology and business. He holds several patents in computer architecture. He left Intel earlier this year, but his most recent position (which he held since 2009) was Executive Vice President of Intel Architecture Group and Chief Product Officer.
Managing Money: Savings for Students
How students can save big through these tax credit tips. (01:59) These may only apply to Canadian citizens.
Analysing European Romanticism
The principal tenets of the movement known as Romanticism first began in Germany and England, with the former pioneering the moral and philosophical beliefs and the latter producing the first Romantic artists and poets. This album concentrates on the development and spread of Romanticism in mainland Europe, analysing in clear, concise terms the metaphysical questions and beliefs that engendered the movement, along with the cultural and historical contexts that encouraged its development. The alb
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robin
How have famous books been read and received by audiences in the past? This free course, History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts a case study of Robinson Crusoe, is the second tutorial in a series designed to help users of the UK Reading Experience Database (UK RED) search, browse and use this resource, and explores the use of historical evidence to understand the reading and reception of a literary text, in this case Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe. The first t
Algebra2go: Pre-algebra Conversions
This is part of the course for community college students featuring Professor Perez and his student Charlie, teaching how to make conversions between different kinds of units.
Catholic Church in Lithuania : sanctuaries and pilgrimage sites
The Sanctuaries and Pilgrimage Sites website from the Lithuanian Catholic Internet Service provides information about churches, sanctuaries, monasteries and shrines in Lithuania, a country rich in catholic monuments. There is a page for each of seven pilgrimage sites: Sanctuaries of Siluva; the Hill of Crosses; the Gate of Dawn; Zelmaiciu Kalvarija; the Marian shrines in Pivasiunai and Krekenava; and the relics of Matulaitis. Each page contains an explanation of the site's religious meaning, as
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Oslo Kommune: Byarkivet (Oslo City: city archive) webpage, in Norwegian, contains information about the archives held by Oslo City. The archives are public due to the freedom of information legislation in Norway so this site may function as a contact point for those interested in researching the archives. The site contains general information as well as a series of video clips from a series about Oslo, broadcast on TV-Norge/OsloTV in 2005 and 2006. There is also a link to Tobias, the journal of
Dr. Clifford Canku, a professor of Dakota Studies at North Dakota State University, presents on the relationship between culture and agriculture.
This Web page gives free access to a series of free literature reviews written for the Newcastle-based charity Creativity, Culture and Education, the national organisation which manages the Government-funded Creative Partnerships initiative for arts in state schools. At March 2010 there are eight reviews by noted academics, each available as a free PDF file. These include, among others: Justin O'Connor's history of the formation and definition of the creative sector; Kate Oakley's overview of th
Interactive simulation tool demonstrating the formula for calculating the volume of a 3D cylinder
Interactive simulation quiz, 8 questions, Find the Angle using the simulation and enter the answers
