Learn various perspectives on the issue of smoking in public places in New York City in this video segment from New York Voices.

This slide presentation provides information regarding how geography affected cultural development during the development of early civilization. It describes city-states, early religious beliefs, social structure and technology of the...

Fordham University's Medieval Source Book is a collection of copy-permitted texts from the public domain related to medieval and Byzantine history. This site contains the full-text translation of a letter dictated by Joan of Arc to the...

An English translation of The Life of Cicero, by Roman biographer, Plutarch. Text is from the Loeb Classical Library, 1919 edition, and is in the public domain.

In this learning module, students will examine images of Brazil's Amazon rainforests that were captured by satellites between 1994-1996, to observe and measure the impact of deforestation over time. A download of a public domain software...

The Alberta Airphoto Collection consists of around 30,000 public domain images from the University of Calgary Library's collection of airphotos. The images cover urban areas at various scales and years between 1924 and 1952. These...

Classic Reader offers over 3000 unabridged texts of works which are in the public domain. These texts are primarily from the 19th and early 20th century, but some are older, including many of Shakespeare's works. Many authors' works are...

Students are given examples of graphing exponential functions as well as the difference between exponential growth versus exponential decay graphs.

A public interest organization working for public policies that advance civil liberties and democratic values in information technologies. Contains links to information on free speech, data privacy, wiretapping, and cryptography.

This sampling of newspaper editorials from the mid-1950s reflects the range of public opinion and responses to the Brown decision.

In this letter written to his friend and mentor Charles Lyell less than three weeks after the publication of "On the Origin of Species", Darwin describes the reaction of the great anatomist Richard Owen to his theory. From Charles...

In this What's Up In The Environment? video segment, learn how a contaminated plot of land in Philadelphia was recycled into a beautiful public park called Liberty Lands.

Not everybody who benefits from a public good contributes to its creation or maintenance. Learn about free riders.

The Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. provides many links to information on copyright laws. Explains what they are, who needs them, what they protect, and what a copyright violation would be.

This site contains general information about copyright and fair use as well as specific information about intellectual property and technology.

This online collection is an index, rather than an archive of online texts. It points to over 25,000 texts that exist online in other collections. The site is searchable by title, author, subject, and serial, and has grouped some of its...

In Module 3 of this course on web design, students learn about copyright law and the Fair Use Act and how these apply to web design. They learn how to find free images online and save them to a computer, how to cite sources, and how to...

The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who...

Browse PDFs of all issues of the "New York Times" now in the public domain. Includes every edition of the paper published since September 18, 1851, when the paper's first issue was produced, through 1922.

This magazine article discusses the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act and its impact on society, public domain, the First Amendment, and monopolistic power in the USA. (Feb. 17, 2003)

El Paso Independent School District in El Paso, Texas created this US Government text for its high school course using OER, CC, and public domain content from a variety of sources curated by educators in the district. The course is...

The copyright process has become fairly simple with traditional works like books, plays, movies, and theater. But copyright is a little more difficult with the advent of the internet. For example, bloggers must be aware of what they...

In this segment from Independent Lens, three candidates for class monitor make a final speech to grab the win.

This article focuses on selecting a poem to memorize and ways to memorize the poem. It includes two poems that would be good choices to memorize, Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice" and Walt Whitman's "Oh Captain! My Captain!"