27 October 2008: Teddy Roosevelt's 150th Birthday
Theodore Roosevelt Association  ---  The Strenuous Life: The TR Speech - NRO Commentary
Sid's Collection of References and Resources
The 3 Rs Etc.   Readin-Ritin-Rithmetic
Also History, Philosophy etc., etc., etc.
Sid note   October 2008
The links in this page were collected over the past 11 years. There now are so many more in-depth resources on the internet that this listing may seem quaintly redundant. However, you can always try your own topic searches starting at the ENGINE ROOM or try WIKIPEDIA or the WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY.       Happy clicking... 
CLICK for WWW Virtual Library
World Wide Web Virtual Library

WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
European University Institute, 
Florence, Italy
The HEAVY HITTERS
A select compilation of links to the biggest and best LISTS-of-LISTS
and REFERENCE / RESOURCE PORTALS
DAMN INTERESTING
About the website - Excerpt:
"... Damn Interesting was founded, designed, and developed by Alan Bellows in September of 2005. (They) occasionally post bits which could be described as “news,” (but their) primary aim is to collect and dispense damn interesting facts and ideas, whether they appeared in the past, the present, or the (anticipated) future. (They) don’t have a regular posting schedule .... each new article appears as soon as (they) decide that it’s shiny and delicious."
   About Link      Archives Link
Bartleby.com
Reference   Verse   Fiction   Nonfiction
Bartleby.com began as a personal research experiment in 1993 and within one year published the first classic book on the Web: Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.     Since its incorporation in 1999 and the release of preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web, meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious.
Try  The Elements of Style  by William Strunk Jr.
Project Gutenberg
CLICK for CLEVER KEYSCleverKeys is free software that provides instant access to definitions at Dictionary.com, synonyms at Thesaurus.com, facts at Reference.com and more -  from almost all Windows or Mac OS programs, including word processors, Web browsers and most e-mail programs. With CleverKeys, the answers are just a click away.  Learn more, or download CleverKeys for free!  Copyright © 2008, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
Word Spy
"This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't 'stunt words' or 'sniglets,' but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources."
ARCHIVING EARLY AMERICA
George Washington's
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION - 1789
AMERICAN DOCUMENTS
REARVIEW MIRROR  An extensive collection of American History vignettes. Here's a sample - Has a submarine in it too.   Presented by THE DETROIT NEWS.
The History Net  "Where history lives on the net"
History Net ARTICLE INDEX
WORLD HISTORY COMPASS
An excerpt (with some paraphrasing) copied from the WHC website:

"About World History Compass

World History Compass is provided as a free service..... Its immediate goal is to provide links to history sites anywhere in the world. While it's probably impossible to link to every site.... WHC offers enough links to at least get you going on the right trail. Hopefully, WHC is making a small contribution to the study of history.

....the design of WHC as simple and straightforward as possible. The focus is on content and ease of use. ...simple searching capabilities (have been added). At this time searching is limited to words and phrases. ....more sophisticated searching (will be added) at a later time.
...
Sites dealing with propaganda, conspiracy theories, religious or ethnic hatred will not be considered."

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The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Women of the Civil War
(Both North and South) Links and text copied from the University of San Diego
Dixieland Web Ring
The Art of Being a Redhead
Adam Smith  via  McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Internet Anagram Server
BIBLIOFIND   Find old, rare out-of-print books
LIBRARY WEB RESOURCES FOR ENGLISH
Mae West's Quotable Quotes
Index of Children's Literature
Hyper History
Quotes R Us
The Book of Cliches
American-British     British-American Dictionary
Irish History on the Web
International Lyrics Server
Your Dictionary.com
Classic Short Stories
CivilWarTraveler,com
On-Line Resources For Writers
The Heinlein Society
Ayn Rand
WritersNet:
Internet Resource for Writers,
Editors, Publishers and Agents
Historical Documents
The National Book Foundation
Word Play
The History Net
Language Automation
Library of Congress Home Page
James Madison Center     Site Index
Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government
The Avalon Project :  Alphabetic Author/Title List of all the Avalon Project Documents
INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Declaration Foundation
Constitution and Ammendments
Cornell Law School
 
CLICK for ONE LOOK Dictionary Search
D I C T I O N A R Y    S E A R C H
Celebrating 12 years!   Founded April, 1996
"A search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, (it will) quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, (it will)  help you do that too. No word is
too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine."    (Their statement - slightly modified)
Merriam-Webster's WORD OF THE DAY
ACADEMIC FREEDOM...
F I R E: The Foundation For Individual Rights in Education, Inc.
About F I R E    ||    THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY    ||    The Shadow University - Web Links
AEI Books  from American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)
Book of the Week Archives  from Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University   Review the books listed above then go to your local library and order them.
Internet Acronym Server
~ M.C. ESCHER ~
  • Info.com - M.C. Escher - reference.Info.com
  • World of Escher - Who We Are
  • The Official M.C. Escher Website
  • M.C. Escher Biography Page
  • Artists' Market - Escher Woodcuts and Lithographs
  • The History Place
    2009-Andrew Wyeth dead at 91
    The U.S. CIVIL WAR CENTER  A page dedicated to collecting everything on the net about the Civil War
    GREETINGS FROM THE PAST  Holiday picture postcards from the early 20th Century with the stories to go with them.     More like this from I WITNESS HISTORY   A collection of stories related by the old people who lived them
    Civil War Virtual Archive Web Ring
    ROMAN-BRITAIN.ORG
    British History - England, Britain, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Wales, Scotland
    Athena Review - Journal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration
    The World of the Ancient Britons
    LEWIS CARROLL Home Page
    The POETRY ARCHIVES
    ERRORS IN ENGLISH  Outstanding: Many Related links
    SHAKESPEARE
    MLA STYLE
    NY Times - BOOKS
    THE ELECTRIC BOOK
    Oregon Trail History
    World Wide Words
    Webster's Dictionary
    via ARTFL Project
    The Wind in the Willows  Complete via U of Va 
    The Wind in the Willows  Wikipedia
    Naval War College Press OnLine Portal
    Information about access via the United States Naval War College Press website:
    Visit the new Naval War College Press Online Portal for downloadable pdf's of Review articles, book reviews, and essays since 2001 and most of our Newport Papers. We're testing this portal as a way of making the site more useful to readers--let us know what you think.

    Note: You may see a warning, "There is a problem with this website's security certificate." Simply click "Continue to this website." It is perfectly safe--the portal's security certificate is valid.

    CIA  Access CIA World Fact Book and MAPS
    PRESIDENTS and FIRST LADIES
    Presidents who Served in the U.S. Navy 
    Child Labor In America  via the History Place
    Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
    SciSeek - SCIENCE SEARCH
    REPUBLIC of VERMONT    Wikipedia
    Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.
    PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP
    Algonquin Round Table via Wikipedia
    "Algonquin Round Table" - Google Search
    Teaching American History
    via Ashland university

    Document Library:   "...a list of letters, speeches, documents, web sites, books, and articles on signifcant people and events in American political thought and history. Rather than being a comprehensive list of available resources, it is meant to be a list of the best resources available on the given subject."

    American Studies at Univ of Va.
    Click above to enter
    Also see their SUBJECT INDEX and THE HYPERTEXT PROJECT
    The largest list of history websites I have ever seen
    RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SITE LIST

    American and British History Resources on the Internet

    Access by SUBJECT -- >> by PERIOD -- >> GENERAL HISTORY PORTALS

    American Documents
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    When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident:

    That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

    Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

    Declaration of Independence   July 4 1776


    Core Documents of U.S. Democracy via GPO
    NARA RESOURCES
    THE CHARTERS OF FREEDOM:
    The U.S. Constitution: The Delegates
    The Declaration of Independence
    The Constitution
    The U. S. Bill of Rights

    Legacy: Magna Carta


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