NASA has a number of sites devoted to disseminating material about its various scientific expeditions and discoveries, and the Destination Earth is one of the clearinghouse-style sites that will be of great interest to the general public. From the site's homepage, visitors can choose overviews of the different epochs of NASA discovery (ranging from 1958 to 1997) or by looking through the "Today in...

American Black Journal (ABJ) first went on the air in 1968, and its focus was "to increase the availability and accessibility of media relating to African-American experiences in order to encourage greater involvement from Detroit citizens in working to resolve community problems." With funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities, Detroit Public Television and Michigan State University...

If there was ever a city that seemed to embody the dynamic American economy of the early 20th century, it may have been Detroit. The city was awash with massive civic buildings, a well-developed mass transit system, and a thriving cultural scene. Much of this began to change as the century progressed, and by the late 1960s, the city was the embodiment of the so-called urban "crisis" that was faced...

It might be argued that in terms of the built environment, Americans love what is new and are, at times, dismissive of that historic urban fabric of their past. As many parts of the country continue to be reinvigorated with new urban developments, it also becomes increasingly difficult to preserve those unique developments that are an integral part of a place's history. One city that is currently...

Started in 1988, "Dialogue" was originally a weekly radio program that featured conversations with important public figures, journalists, authors and other prominent persons. The program has grown since then to include a television series and it remains based at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The program is hosted by George Liston Seay, and visitors can click on "About the...

Funded with substantial monies provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the United Kingdom, the Diasporas, Migrations & Identities research programme is designed "to research, discuss and present issues related to diasporas and migration, and their past and present impact on subjectivity and identity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics and sociality."...

Provided by the online Library and Archives of Canada, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography site is a tremendously helpful source of brief and informative profiles of those personages of importance throughout Canadian history from the year 1000 to 1930. The print edition of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography's first volume was released in 1959 and was a collaborative research and publishing...

The need to interfere in Sudan’s Darfur Region http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051130/ESUDAN30/TPComment/Editorials African Union: The Situation in Darfur [pdf] http://www.africa-union.org/DARFUR/homedar.htm Greater Darfur Crisis [pdf] http://www.unsudanig.org/emergencies/darfur/index.htm Darfur Drawn: The Conflict in Darfur Through Children’s...

This section of DigiNole, Florida State University's (FSU) digital collections, consists of 70 e-book versions of herbals and cookbooks dating back to the seventeenth century. The scanned books are equipped with an auto page turner that will turn the pages automatically if viewers choose. It's also possible to turn the pages by hand and jump directly to a particular page. As an example, page 37 of...

Georgia State University has scholars working on educational policy matters, applied economics, and biostatistics, to name only a few. The Digital Archive @ GSU website brings together research and scholarship from various members of the university community, and visitors can browse around the materials by collection type, discipline, or author name. The six primary sections here include "Faculty...