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Videos from the online Cornell X course "American Capitalism"

This is very well done. I have added a link in the first chapter of Interactive Internet Economic Notes http://www.textbooksfree.org/Economics_1_Economics_Defined.htm and plan to add individuals throughout the notes. Chapter 3 on the Characteristics of Market System Capitalism and Political Economy may be useful. http://www.textbooksfree.org/Economics_3_Basic_Characteristics_of_Capitalism.htm. One page on capitalism is at http://www.textbooksfree.org/Quick%20Notes%20History%20Political%20Economy%20Capitalism.htm.

Our students know that divorce is part of life, yet it is not a part of their history courses, it is rarely, if ever mentioned. Divorce has a history all of it's own, and many, many American's lives were shaped by it. In the early 1900s, the ability to obtain a legal divorce was difficult and in some instances, required relocation to a jurisdiction that offered liberal divorce laws. Although Las Vegas, Nevada might be known for quick marriages, it was in Reno, Nevada that legal divorces were available to residents who there for only six weeks. This online exhibit organized by Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno, Libraries, presents documents from the city's heyday as the divorce capital of the United States.

Our students know that divorce is part of life, yet it is not a part of their history courses, it is rarely, if ever mentioned. Divorce has a history all of it's own, and many, many American's lives were shaped by it. In the early 1900s, the ability to obtain a legal divorce was difficult and in some instances, required relocation to a jurisdiction that offered liberal divorce laws. Although Las Vegas, Nevada might be known for quick marriages, it was in Reno, Nevada that legal divorces were available to residents who there for only six weeks. This online exhibit organized by Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno, Libraries, presents documents from the city's heyday as the divorce capital of the United States.

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya nasceu no dia 13 de setembro de 1923, na província de Tambov, na União Soviética. Seu nome é uma referência aos santos Cosme e Damião (Kosma e Demyan, em russo). Aos seis anos, sua família muda-se para a Sibéria, onde Zoya tem uma parte de sua infância em grande contato com a natureza. Aos oito anos, nova mudança. Dessa vez para a capital, Moscou. É lá que Zoya inicia sua formação política, ingressando nas Pioneiras, a organização responsável pelos primeiros ensinamentos socialistas às crianças e jovens de oito a quinze anos. Aos dez anos, seu pai morre precocemente.

"A Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were written shortly after the conquest. Speeches of Motecuhzoma and Cortés When Motecuhzoma [Montezuma] had given necklaces to each one, Cortés asked him: "Are you Motecuhzoma? Are you the king? Is it true that you are the king Motecuhzoma?" And the king said: "Yes, I am Motecuhzoma." Then he stood up to welcome Cortés; he came forward, bowed his head low and addressed him in these words: "Our lord, you are weary. The journey has tired you, but now you have arrived on the earth. You have come to your city, Mexico. You have come here to sit on your throne, to sit under its canopy. "The kings who have gone before, your representatives, guarded it and preserved it for your coming. The kings Itzcoatl, Motecuhzoma the Elder, Axayacatl, Tizoc and Ahuitzol ruled for you in the City of Mexico. The people were protected by their swords and sheltered by their shields. "Do the kings know the destiny of those they left behind, their posterity? If only they are watching! If only they can see what I see! "No, it is not a dream. I am not walking in my sleep. I am not seeing you in my dreams.... I have seen you at last! I have met you face to face! I was in agony for five days, for ten days, with my eyes fixed on the Region of the Mystery. And now you have come out of the clouds and mists to sit on your throne again. "This was foretold by the kings who governed your city, and now it has taken place. You have come back to us; you have come down from the sky. Rest now, and take possession of your royal houses. Welcome to your land, my lords! " When Motecuhzoma had finished, La Malinche translated his address into Spanish so that the Captain could understand it. Cortés replied in his str

Test your legal and historical know-how in this quiz of Supreme COurt decisions and constitutional controversies.

"At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the third Ming emperor, YungLe, created one of the most dazzling architectural masterpieces in the world. The Forbidden City, located in the center of China's capital, Beijing, displays an extraordinarily harmonious balance between buildings and open space within a more or less symmetrical layout."

ustamente para as primeiras festas da Páscoa revolucionária, o governo provisório anuncia distribuições excepcionais de manteiga, farinha e leite nas grandes cidades. A multidão, que já se comprime nas igrejas, poderá festejar em regime republicano a ressurreição de Cristo com gigantescos ovos vermelhos. Precisamente naquele dia, um trem chega ao anoitecer à estação da Finlândia. Na Rússia, é um costume bem arraigado acompanhar os amigos até a estação, bem como lá ir receba-los; mas para Lênin, que acaba de atravessar a Alemanha, seus partidários desconhecidos, que se multiplicam de hora em hora, fizeram as coisas direito. Como as fábricas estão fechadas para as festas, os operários convocados estão presentes, e, pela primeira vez, as célebres tripulações da frota do Báltico, vindas de Kronstadt. Dispuseram-se na plataforma auriflamas e rosas em profusão, O presidente do Comitê Executivo do Soviete da capital, Tchekheidze, espera em pessoa, de péssimo humor, após ter atravessado a praça por entre uma imensa multidão.

Story of the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid giving an elephant to Charlemagne through diplomats sent from the Frankish Kingdom to the Abbasid capital in Baghdad

Article describing the Edict of Milan. Includes this important note on sourcing: "[The Edict's] terms are known to us only from a rescript issued six months later by Licinius. (This rescript was sent from his capital in Nicomedia-now Izmit in Turkey, just east of the Bosporus-to the governor of the nearby province of Bithynia. The Christian writer Lactantius has preserved its original Latin, while the church historian Eusebius gives it in Greek. ) "

A series of collections of advertising, posters and magazine covers from the mid-twentieth century. Some of them are a bit racy...

An excellent collection of public domain ebooks run out of the University of Adelaide, focussing on literature, philosophy, science and the queen of all subjects, History. She deserves a capital.

Has a massive and easily searchable bank of primary documents on British history. Quite amazing some of the stuff in there, especially primary documents on that Empire (capital 'E') that the sun was never going to set on... Forgive my impertinent colonial humour. I've got Irish blood.

A 1976 educational video on basic economics. "Return to Mocha" (1987) examines economic systems and international trade.

I added this resource to V. Country Economic Policies of Chapter 3 Characteristics of Market System  Capitalism and Political Economy. Suggestions welcome. http://www.textbooksfree.org/Economics_3_Basic_Characteristics_of_Capitalism.htm#V._Country_Economic_Policies