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The UCLA Folkmed Database

cog_nate — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:39:12 -0800

The UCLA Folkmed Database A searchable database of over 200,000 distinct folk medicine remedies for ailments of all kinds. The entries are pretty barebones, but -- oh, oh ick.

An online history of jurisprudence, and lack thereof

foxy_hedgehog — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:57:11 -0800

Sacco and Vanzetti et al. The amazing Famous Trials website, compiled as a labor of love by University of Missouri law professor Douglas Linder, is a motherlode of information on historically significant trails, ranging from Galileo to the Amistad to Lenny Bruce. It features not only official transcripts, but also equally intriguing details such as a map of the railroad cars in the Scottsboro Boys trial, Klan documents from the Mississippi Burning case, and opinion polls related to the My Lai courts martial.

Children's literature 1850 and up

schoolgirl report — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 09:10:55 -0800

Online collection of children's literature circa 1850 and up. Primarily American and British, from thrilling stories of the ocean to a peep at the beasts. Every page (and even the spine) digitized in both JPEG and PDF format, and in some cases color-corrected. (Similar collections have been posted here previously)

A treasure trove of math history

wobh — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:36:26 -0800

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive from the University of St. Andrews' School of Mathematics and Statistics.