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Yacob and Amo: Africa's precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant | Aeon Essays - 2 views
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Article on philosophy emphasizing freedom of religion from outside of Europe.
Stoics, cynics and the meaning of life - 9 views
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This is a great site which features Greek philosophies- stoicism, cyncism, skepticism. They give good descriptions; easy to understand for most people. Also traces how some English words are from Greek.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 0 views
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This site doesn't contain primary sources, but might be useful for research into philosophers or the history of ideas. Might also help students with new terms they encounter in their study.
Religious Studies, Philosophy and Canon Law - 4 views
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Has links to other places and there might be some sources on the site itself.
Instruments for Science, 1800-1914: Scientific Trade Catalogs in Smithsonian Collections - 3 views
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Digitized versions of trade catalogs. Browse by company name, type of instrument, or category--acoustics, astronomy, balances, biology, chemistry, drawing instruments, education, electricity, engineering, geophysics, math, medical apparatus, meteorology, microscopy, natural history, natural philosophy, navigation, optics, photography, physics, spectroscopy, surveying. Images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes only; see the Permissions link forfurther details. Provided by the Smithsonian Institution
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Kay - saw your post and thought you'd be interested in the new set of scientific teaching collection videos we've (NMAH) posted on YouTube. We are in the middle creating a website for these videos, and we'll be adding more over the next year or so. http://www.youtube.com/user/SmithsonianAmHistory?ob=0&feature=results_main
Doris Duke Collection - 0 views
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'The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.'
Home - Journalist's Resource Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvar... - 1 views
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"Based at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the Journalist's Resource project examines news topics through a research lens. We surface scholarly materials that may be relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers. Our philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims. In 2013 the American Library Association named us one of the best free reference Web sites."
CollegeBinary's Channel - YouTube - 6 views
The Stoic Library - 0 views
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Not very extensive but it's always useful to have a collection of sources organised around a topic (in this case Stoicism) rather than period. Any Stoics out there? I thought the Christians killed them all off...
Education Internet Library - 0 views
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A collection of free Internet materials designed for help students studying to become teachers, new teachers, and experienced teachers with the art of teaching.
Humanistic Texts - 0 views
EyeWitness To The Ancient World - 0 views
eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online - 0 views
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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.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - 0 views
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This is a search engine which scans a collection of primary source websites for open access sources. They purport to focus on American and British literature.