A transcript of a newscast after Cardinal Bernardin's death. Includes facts about him and responses to his life from many prominent Catholics. Click over to the interview with him by Clarence Page.

This site evaluates at how Saint Francis of Assisi viewed work and physical labor. It takes a look at physical labor and how it was viewed in monastic life, and then takes a closer look at the views of Saint Francis.

Provides biographical information on the Roman general and political leader Julius Caesar, presented in a timeline. Covers major events of his life including his military career, rise to power, and death by assassination. This page is...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to accompany the Minimus textbook, lesson 10. It also contains photographs of Roman hairstyles.

As one of the primary spokesmen for the Epicurean philosophy, Lucretius (99-55 BCE) wrote a philosophical epic "De Rerum Naturum," in which the Epicurean belief in the atomic nature of matter is presented. Look for the section entitled...

Turn from the typical studies of society's politics, economics, etc. to focus on the way the family unit fits into society in this unit.

Learn about the life and religious work of Jorge Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in March 2013.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Primary and secondary source documents, timeline, PowerPoint, and lesson plan reinforcing life during the Dark Ages in Europe. Over several days students will come to understand all aspects of this...

Several chapters from a text published in 1963. This site is a scholarly study of the life of women in a medieval convent.

History for kids provides an overview of the life and controversial leaderhip of the Roman emperor Nero who served in the 1st Century AD.

If you look up at the sky on a clear night, you may see a red dot among the stars. This dot is Mars, named in ancient times after the Roman god of war. Although no one has ever visited this red planet, we know a lot about it. This site...

This resource presents a biography of Gaius, known as Caligula, the third emperor of Rome. Written in timeline form, it gives literary and artistic evidence about his life. It stresses the lack of credible information about his life and...

This site focuses on the Greek hero Heracles including his ancestry, pictures, events in his life, and links to myths about him.

The Magdeburg Panel is one of a group of sixteen ivory plaques depicting a cycle of scenes from the Life of Christ. The original set, numbering forty or fifty, decorated a large piece of church furniture in Magdeburg Cathedral.

Poor Mary, Queen of Scots. Read about her life as Queen of a religiously divided country and find out how that affected her reign and death. Archived.

A short but detailed biographical sketch on St. Augustine with nice information about his early life, his role in early Christianity and more.

An in-depth study of the Christian philosopher from the 6th century C.E. There is a comprehensive biographical sketch plus nice analysis of his major works and ideas.

This site provides a brief biography by Plutarch on the life of Cleomenes, king of Sparta. His attempts to restore the prestige of the city are well described in this biography.

Learn about Pompeii, its discovery and excavation, and what it has taught us about what life was like living in a town under Roman rule.

Some 40 villages grouped in eight parks situated in north-western Syria provide remarkable testimony to rural life in late Antiquity and during the Byzantine period. Abandoned in the 8th to 10th centuries, the villages, which date from...

An interesting biography of the life and religious influence of a Roman Catholic nun, Sor Juana de la Cruz.

History for Kids presents information on the early Middle Ages in a kid friendly format with animated images and easy to read language. Begins with the Roman Empire moving on to teach us about the culture of monastaries, knights and...

A heart map is a visual representation of a student's heart, displaying topics that "live" there; these topics are ones the student would show passion about and interest towards when writing about them. In writer's workshop students...

The Dirksen Congressional Center provides abundant lesson plans on all aspects of the US Congress and the US Constitution. All lessons contain time frames, objectives, and links to material, and are built around Bloom's taxonomy.