The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. includes Ancient, Medieval, and modern Sourcebooks, also: African History, East Asian History, Global History, Indian History, Islamic History, Jewish History, History of Science, Women's History, and An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History.
Handwritten annotations in books are an important key to understand how historical readers used their books. ABO aims to bring these books together. It is a digital library that reveals the variety of traces that readers left in their books. These examples were previously dispersed over many different libraries in the world. Yet it is also a digital laboratory, where visitors can work together: ABO has tools to enrich the early modern annotations with transcriptions and translations. ABO seeks to encourage collaboration.
The Open Utopia is a complete edition of Thomas More’s Utopia that honors the primary precept of Utopia itself: that all property is common property. But Utopia is more than the story of a far-off land with no private property. It’s a text that instructs us how to approach texts, be they literary or political, in an open manner: open to criticism, open to participation, and open to re-creation.
Full text of many articles on "fraud" in science. This is a personal pursuit of examples of "fraud" in science based on the idea that science is frequently done as "fast practice" and scientists, like the rest of us, cut corners. Some of the best known scientists in history are covered.
The University of Adelaide. The purpose of this site is: to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation; Selection of titles is loosely based on what are described as “the Great Books”, but includes all manner of things that took the Editor's fancy. all of our eBooks are available in the ePub format.
The Homer Multitext seeks to present the textual transmission of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework. Such a framework is needed to account for the full reality of a complex medium of oral performance that underwent many changes over a long period of time. These changes, as reflected in the many texts of Homer, need to be understood in their many different historical contexts. The Homer Multitext provides ways to view these contexts both synchronically and diachronically.