A quiz testing your knowledge of the Big Bang.

One poet, Philip Freneau, incorporated the new stirrings of European Romanticism and escaped the imitativeness and vague universality of the Hartford Wits. The key to both his success and his failure was his passionately democratic...

Discussion of the creation of the chemical elements that make up the matter we observe throughout the universe.

A detailed look at comets. Content outlines our observational history, as well as the origins of comets and an explanation of the appearance of comets.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Adventures of a Penny by Mrs. Perring (1865), a fictional account of the life of a penny as told by the penny itself.

This site provides a description of the universe and what it contains. Includes links to definitions, activities, and an audio song. Printable version available.

A comprehensive look at the economic condition of the 1970s termed stagflation. Authors take a different view noting that oil price increases were not as essential to stagflation as thought. They develop the relationship between monetary...

Take a five question quiz to review over your knowledge of the formation of complex elements and where they are found throughout our universe. The quiz is multiple choice.

This is a site containing the original text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights written over fifty years ago.

Describes the history of Greek mathematics and the major figures and schools of mathematics.

Primary source materials that focus on the segregation of African Americans that took place on the railroads in the 1800s. Content includes newspaper articles, anecdotal accounts, letters, legal cases, etc.

Students will apply the atomic number of elements on the periodic table to the origin of heavy elements in the star cycle.

Maintained by the Electronic Texts Center at the University of Virginia, this library reproduces a collection of poems that Lowell originally published in 1920 in the literary magazine "The Dial."

This University of Virginia Library site provides the full text of Carroll's English fiction poetry, "The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits." Also available are original photos of the cover and title page.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel The Dog Crusoe: A Tale of the Western Prairie by R.M. Ballantyne (1861).

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Strange Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple and His Five Disciples by Costantino Beschi (1861), a collection of stories about Gooroo Simple and his...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Seven Little Maids: The Birthday Week by Mary A. Lathbury (c1884), includes an illustrated poem for each day of the birthday week.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Rip Van Winkle: A Legend of the Hudson by Washington Irving (1887), a children's novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Children of the Week by William Theodore Peters (1886), an illustrated children's novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book We Are Seven: A Story of the Dogberry Bunch by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1892). This is an illustrated novel that includes two parts: "We Are Seven" and "Rocky Fork."

The full text of Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is provided. Includes facsimile of the original illustrated 1858 text.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Monsters of the Sea, Legendary and Authentic by John Gibson (1890), a collection stories about sea creatures both real and legendary.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Circus Stories: Wonders of the Circus by McLoughlin Bros. (1883), a picture book of poems having to do with the men, monkeys, and dogs of the circus.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Story of the Robins by Sarah Trimmer [1870], a novel designed to teach children the proper treatment of animals.