Born in England, emigrant Edward Taylor was a Harvard educated minister, writer, and poet of orthodox Puritan theology. Click on "Edward Taylor Activities" for related materials.

This is a biographical tutorial of Geoffrey Chaucer and his most famous work, "The Canterbury Tales." It starts with a slide show of the life of Chaucer and key information about "The Canterbury Tales." It offers an article by Jonathan...

This Fordham University site contains the speech delivered by General George Marshall at Harvard University on June 5, 1947.

This interactive resource from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics uses images and activities to understand the scope and scale of our universe. Featured are technologies used by generations of explorers.

In this 1998 FRONTLINE interview, Harvard sociologist Dr. William Julius Wilson explains why, despite an overall increase in the standard of living among African Americans, a segment of the population is falling farther and farther behind.

To better understand the scope of physical, mental and social consequences of digital technologies in areas such as exercise, homework, identity formation, distraction, cognition, learning, technology compulsions, nutrition and sleep...

Students perform many inquiry activities related to Earth's orbit. Included are recording daily temperatures, observing the sun's path over several weeks, tracking sunrise and sunset times, and angle of sunlight. Diagrams make lessons...

Read this early 20th century translation of Beowulf with hypertext footnotes.

This website offers much information about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Click on the topics to learn about his life, works, lesson plans, and related links.

Read about the winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, who was honored "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." This website is...

Chaucer, in his "Canticus Troili" from Book One of "Troilus and Criseyda," draws from Petrarch's "If Love Does Not Exist." The former is written in Middle English, the latter in Italian, both without glossaries or further translation, so...

CT scan identifying the thalamus. Also identifies some other brain structures.

CT scan identifying the thalamus. Also identifies some other brain structures.

CT scan identifying the hypothalamus. Also identifies some other brain structures.

Students perform many inquiry activities related to Earth's orbit. Included are recording daily temperatures, observing the sun's path over several weeks, tracking sunrise and sunset times, and angle of sunlight. Diagrams make lessons...

Students perform many inquiry activities related to Earth's orbit. Included are recording daily temperatures, observing the sun's path over several weeks, tracking sunrise and sunset times, and angle of sunlight. Diagrams make lessons...

These hands-on activities are are a great way for students to gain perspective on the relative sizes and distances of each planet, the relationship between the sun and Earth, and much more.

These hands-on activities are are a great way for students to gain perspective on the relative sizes and distances of each planet, the relationship between the sun and Earth, and much more.

This site, from retired Harvard professor John W. Kimball, provides a detailed but understandable explanation of sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Includes informative, well labelled illustrations.

Sourced from the Harvard Classics services, this resource provides informational text on the Mecklenberg Declaration of Independence written in 1775.

Strong was born to Caleb and Phebe Strong on January 9, 1745 in Northampton, MA. He received his college education at Harvard, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1764. Like so many of the delegates to the Constitutional...

Scientists at Harvard University recently invented a robot shaped like the letter "X" that can change its color to blend in with its surroundings. While this robot is currently limited to operating within a laboratory, it could...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye (1894), a collection of nonfiction, humorous stories, sketches, photographs, and memoranda from the Harvard Series.

Here, you can read an interview with Dr. Ichiro Kawachi, of the Harvard School of Public Health, who published a study concerning the effects of second-hand smoke on non-smokers. Included is a RealAudio version of this interview.