Released in December 2007, this 368-page report from the RAND Corporation looks at the ways that regulation and the legal system can discourage or encourage the entrepreneurial spirit. Susan Gates, director of the Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy remarked, "Unfortunately, some regulations place a disproportionate burden on small businesses. At the same time, exemptions...

At Plimoth Plantation, feasting as the Pilgrims did http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/20091122_Getting_the_Pilgrim_Experience.html Plymouth Rock Foundation http://www.plymrock.org/ US Census Press Releases: Thanksgiving [pdf] http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/014332.html Plimoth Plantation http://www.plimoth.org/ First...

Was Jane Austin Edited? Does it Matter? http://www.npr.org/2010/11/15/131335890/was-jane-austen-edited-does-it-matter Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html The Republic of Pemberley http://www.pemberley.com/ Austenbook http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/ The Jane Austen Society of North America http://www.jasna.org/ Since the earliest days of...

Labor history is rather fascinating, and this site offers up a serving of just this subject in the form of profiles and interviews with the men and women who worked in the Imperial Cannery factory in British Columbia during the twentieth century. The site opens up with a dynamic map that zooms in on the cannery's original location in southwestern British Columbia. After the introductory animation,...

The Big Cheese http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/09302006/business-b-930_cheese.html Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development [pdf] http://babcock.cals.wisc.edu/ Cheesemaking in Wisconsin: A Short History http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?id=WI.Cheesemaking Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association http://www.wischeesemakersassn.org/ Real...

Released in August 2005 by the U.S. Census Bureau, this timely 85-page report examines recent changes within the demographic profile of the real median household income of US residents, along with material on the nation's official poverty rate and those persons without health insurance coverage. The data in the report is based on information from 2003 and 2004, and notes that the nation's official...

Organic farming grows industrial edge http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/business/14744188.htm Mass Natural http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/magazine/04wwln_lede.html Bad food Britain: Why are we scared of real food? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=389321&in_page_id=1774 International Federation of Organic Agriculture...

The accompanying website for the Independent Lens film "Strange Fruit", about the famous protest song, allows visitors to hear a clip, or the entire song, of a famous rendition sung Billie Holiday. Strange Fruit is a phrase that actually comes from a poem that was turned into a song, and the song became the most renowned protest song of the 1940s. Visitors unfamiliar with the song will find that...

The road to creating a popular song can take decades and often includes a number of incarnations before the listening public finally becomes interested. Such is the complex and at times painful story of the song "Mbube" (which is perhaps best known in the United States by the version titled "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), which was first recorded by Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds in 1939 in South...

People may generally be familiar with the struggle for civil rights, but how many know about the racial injustices committed against entire black communities in Harrison, Arkansas or Pierce City, Missouri one hundred years ago? This thoughtful and troubling documentary on the forced removal of black residents was produced as part of the Independent Lens series on PBS. Visitors to the site can...