Digital Civilization

Part of our new mindset in the digital revolution

This contains an article by the National Archive on the history of the American Revolution, followed by several images from the National Archive about the American Revolution.

I found this website and really think it exemplifies creative use of digital learning and education.

This taped lecture. Summary: Beginning with its landmark decision in Baker v. Carr (1962), the Supreme Court has been actively involved in shaping American democracy for almost 50 years. In his dissent, Justice Felix Frankfurter warned we would rue the day we allowed judges, acting as amateur political scientists, to have the final word on the functioning of American democracy. Enough time has passed to test Justice Frankfurter's hypothesis. Do cases like Bush v. Gore (2000), where five Justices prevented the counting of Florida's votes in the 2000 presidential election, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), where five justices turned American democracy over to corporate lobbyists, mean that Frankfurter was right?

This is a collection of podcasts. Abstract:Economic Geography of the Industrial Word - Fall 2007. This course covers topics such as Industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth in the global North. Locational patterns in manufacturing, retailing trade, and finance. Geographic dynamics of technical change, employment, business organization, resource use, and divisions of labor. Property, labor, and social conflict as geographic forces. Local, national, and continental rivalries in a global economy, and challenges to U.S. dominance.

Summary : Michael Feldstein's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about how open source projects work from an economic perspective. Drawing on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase and Harvard economics professor Yochai Benkler, he will provide some perspective on how open source projects manage to defy conventional wisdom about economics and self-interested behavior, and gives some questions that universities can ask when considering whether a particular open source software project is likely to be successful.

This article gives a history of the political, social, and economic development of the West

Talks about how capitalism to led Industrial and French Revolutions

This is the Communist Manifesto. I felt like it would served to well to contrast it to the ideas of Adam Smith and traditional capitalism

this blog is reviewing a book about the Enlightenment. It makes several interesting points about the Royal Society of London.

This is from connexions and contains a great history of Europe and what was going on at the time. It also, a small history by country.

A great collection of essays by Francis Bacon.