Text of the short story "The Pursuit of the Ideal" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Puzzle" by an unknown author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Pygmies" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Quail Seed" by H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Queen Hortense" by Guy de Maupassant. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Digital facsimile of The Circus Procession, published in 1888. This rhyming tale of a parade of funny animals, clowns, and a fairy queen perfectly captures the essence of a favorite Gilded Age amusement, the traveling circus.

These tales from Eastern Europe are reproduced here in a very user-friendly environment that allows the student to customize the display to alter text size, background color and other variables.

Find the answers to questions about concert bands, such as how they differ from orchestras and marching bands, what the historical background is, and what kinds of music they perform. You can also listen to a stream of concert band...

Explore tunneling splitting in double well potentials. This classic problem describes many physical systems, including covalent bonds, Josephson junctions, and two-state systems such as spin 1/2 particles and ammonia molecules. Java...

Robert Andrews Millikan was a prominent American physicist who made lasting contributions to both pure science and science education. He is particularly well known for his highly accurate determination of the charge of an electron via...

View video streamed news/documentary stories and past Frontline classics online.

Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920....

Photographs of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers dancing (Time Magazine cover). Includes information about the film "Carefree" and career details for the dancing partners.

Review key features of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of ancient Greek architecture, with diagrams that label the cornice, frieze, architrave, metope, triglyph, capital, and column shaft of each order.

Information about one of Bach's most famous and most loved choral pieces, the mass in B minor. The article explains why the B minor mass is considered such an an enigmatic work. With a downloadable version of the text of the mass in...

This comprehensive teacher-created resource provides many resources for teaching the "Aeneid." Lots of help on vocabulary, scansion tests, and figures of speech. Activities for every book.

A survey of the life and works of Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), the German Baroque violinist-composer.

For this lesson, students will use the song "The 3 R's" by Jack Johnson to develop ideas about how to "green" up their own classrooms; they will learn two songs (written to the tune of old classics) that will inspire them to brainstorm...

McKenna Pope's younger brother loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven- because it was a toy for girls. So at age 13, Pope started an online petition for the American toy company Hasbro to change the pink-and-purple...

Discusses the topic of relevance (or relevant) logics. Presents the theory and applications of relevance logic, which attempts to resolve "fallacies of relevance."

Explains the differences between the Hellenic and Hellenistic ages. The Hellenic age was prior to the time of Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic age followed it.

Students learn to view Japanese paintings, they make a screen, and they learn about the culture of Japan. There are three lesson plans and all allow all needed materials to be downloaded.

This is an excellent biography with personal and professional information on Hegel. It includes seveal pictures of famous thinkers, associated in some way with Hegel.

Research and ideas about using music, literature, and film to teach the theme of Faust selling his soul for knowledge and power.