No event in this century has affected the planet more than World War II, and with the recent success of the D-Day epic Saving Private Ryan (and a whole slew of related movies coming soon), a new generation is learning about this epochal struggle. The Web is a great place to [...]

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When your friends all get together and chat, are you the one left wondering “What does jocose mean?” or “What the heck is apocrypha?” Here’s the bad news: Your friends are dorks. Here’s the good news: There are myriad sites on the Web that have definitions of little-known words, word games [...]

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Listen to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech as you study photographs and accounts of the August 28, 1963, great march on Washington. Imagine yourself among the masses gathered before the Lincoln Memorial, captivated by the civil rights leader’s vision of change through nonviolent protest.

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“Son, don’t you need the permission slip signed for your field trip?” Not anymore, Pops. Tonight, Junior is going to the Egg Nebula as seen through the lens of the Hubble Space Telescope.   The Discovery Channel Online and The Learning Channel both provide engaging, virtual field trips to exotic places that students [...]

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Mrs. O’Leary and her lantern-kicking cow may or may not have sparked Chicago’s Great Fire of 1871, but there’s no doubt that in some ways the tragedy turned out to be one of the best things to happen to the city. In The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory, the [...]

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Whether you are a novice programmer or a code-savvy veteran, you can acquire and improve your skills online. Below are some of our favorite sites for learning how to be a programmer.

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