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"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world." From a map of the world, click on a country and then choose from place, time period, topic, or type of item (maps).

"The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color...The site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia."

Science-related videos from Wired Magazine and PBS: "Each week, WIRED Science correspondents take viewers to the frontiers of discovery across the country and around the world, spotlighting the cutting-edge innovations and research that are defining 21st-century culture, and introducing the high-tech mavericks who are making it happen."