The science.ca website combines rich narrative biography with clear graphic explanation to describe Canada's greatest scientists and their achievements. The site is visited by thousands of students from across Canada every day, often as part of their provincial school curriculum.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, high schools were political and cultural battlegrounds. Gael Graham's article uses conflicts over boys' long hair to trace the connections between the desire for personal autonomy and the quest for power and participation among public high school students. Centering her narrative on the legal battles between Chesley Karr, a male high school student in El Paso, Texas, and school officials in that city, Graham sheds light on the high school student rights movement and the public debate about long hair. This installment of "Teaching the JAH " gives students the opportunity to explore the legal issues of the Karr case as well as the broader question of high school student rights.
A new initiative from the Journal of American History, this site provides resources and strategies for teaching with articles published in the journal. The most recent entry consists of materials for teaching about the debate over long hair in American high schools that was eventually considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. Exercises that go along with the article ask students to analysis the role of schools in defining rights, explore the issues at stake in dress code controversies, and to explore how this debate can shed light on transitions in American culture in the 1960's. As of October 2004, seven more installments have been added to correspond with other Journal of American History articles. Each section provides the JAH article, ideas for teaching with the article, supplemental materials, and exercises for students. This site would be interesting for teachers of history and anyone looking for new tools to challenge high school students to think more critically about history by using a wide range of information online.
A website designed to survey relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859)
Created by Ashton Nichols, Professor of English at Dickinson College, this interesting site should appeal to users in both the history of science and literature. Basically, the site explores connections between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin's _Origin of the Species_. At the site, visitors will first find several essays by Ashton, some short case studies, and a timeline. The site also hosts two collections of short biographies of prominent natural historians, literary figures, and illustrators from the period. A bibliography is also provided. All of the site's content is thoroughly hyperlinked and generously illustrated, and links to related sites are provided throughout.
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This site is dedicated to the electronic publishing of scientific and other scholarly materials. Of particular interest are the history of science, genetics, computational biology, and genome research.
The ESP site is dedicated to the electronic publishing of scientific and other scholarly materials. Of particular interest are the history of science, genetics, computational biology, and genome research. Full texts here include: the anonymous "Vestiges of Natural Creation" (1844), and numerous books by Aristotle, William Bateson, Charles Darwin, Thomas Morgan, Hugo Devries and others. The texts are in PDF format and are not searchable, however, each text comes with a table of contents linking to specific parts of the text making browsing fairly easy.
The genetic revolution affects us every day: our health, our food, our families. The DNA Files -- a series of 14 one-hour public radio documentaries -- explains how.
The programs have won a number of major broadcasting honors, including duPont-Columbia, Robert Wood Johnson, AAAS Science Journalism, and Peabody awards.
This site provides summaries, full transcripts and audio files of National Public Radio programs hosted by John Hockenberry that focused on the issue of genetic science and its impact on society. Though the programs largely describe the present and future of genetic research, some of the content is historical in nature. The site also includes background information about the individuals who were interviewed for the program as well as the program itself. Significant funding for the project came from the Sloan Foundation.
The Institute was established in March 1994. Its research is primarily devoted to a theoretically oriented history of science, principally of the natural sciences, but with methodological perspectives drawn from the cognitive sciences and from cultural history. All three departments of the Institute aim at the construction of a 'historical epistemology' of the sciences.
The research conducted by the Planck Institute has led to, often in collaboration with other organizations, a number of online projects on the history of science. Topics of these sites include an open digital library for the history of mechanics, a repository for European cultural heritage, a collection of Albert Einstein papers, an account of scientific voyages to the Canary Islands, and a collection of drawing and optical devices, among others. Abstracts and preprints of papers produced by the Institute are also available.
An exhibit of rare scientific works from the Cudahy Collection of Jesuitica.
A catalog of Jesuits who worked in various scientific fields, with biographies of the members and highlights of their work. Includes a bibliography and an index of names.
The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres was published under the direction of Diderot, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Contributors included the most prominent philosophes: Voltaire, Rousseau, d’Alembert, Marmontel, d’Holbach and Turgot, to name only a few. These great minds (and some lesser ones) collaborated in the goal of assembling and disseminating in clear, accessible prose the fruits of accumulated knowledge and learning. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Encyclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate Enlightened ideas.
These exhibits trace evolutionary thought as it has developed over time, pausing to ponder the contributions of scientists and thinkers including Aristotle, Darwin, Wallace, and many others.
This website includes a number of useful biographies of key thinkers in the development of evolutionary theory. It also includes a few links to full-text on-line works by Charles Darwin. Exhibits on early dinosaur discoveries and systematics are interesting if not illuminating. Newcomers to this subject will find the biographies useful. Experts on evolution, however, will find other sites on evolution to be more rewarding.
The Humbul Humanities Hub's strategy for building collections of Internet resource descriptions contributes to the achievement of our mission which is to provide an online environment in which the UK humanities community can access and use evaluated digital resources for teaching and research purposes.
The Humbul Humanities Hub is a service that collects and evaluates humanities websites in order to assist scholars in using these resources. Its History and Philosophy of Science category includes almost 1000 sites divided into six subgroups: projects/organizations, primary sources, secondary sources, research related, teaching and learning, and bibliographic sources. The sites can also be sorted by period and by target audience. Humbul is also searchable for more specific queries.
