bunnyjadwiga

http://www.shmoop.com/

This interesting and entertaining site is designed as a study aid for students of literature and American History. What I like about it is that it goes beyond the sort of cliffs'-notes treatment aims to address the sort of questions high school and sometimes college students have, like "What's up with the Title/Epigraph/Ending?" and "Why Should I care?" Hopefully this makes it more useful for advancing the student's reading and less for handing 'em the answers. I especially like that the literature section has a Sex Rating for each book; that there are famous quotes and 'brain snacks' to go with both topic areas. A great study aid/discussion starter.

The "Good Upbringing" of Ramon Llull's Blanquerna:
Appropriation and Misrecognition as Social Reproduction

http://www.illinoismedieval.org/ems/VOL12/12ch8.html

Has some stuff about breastfeeding and childraising in it

The Dung File-- Part I, Mostly Human

http://www.scirpus.ca/dung/human.htm

Bibliography of analyses of human fecal deposits. Has some stuff about medieval latrines.

Further links from some other resources:

• Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
  
• NYPL Science, Industry and Business Library Research Guides http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/guides/
  
• Daniel Boone Homestead http://www.danielboonehomestead.org (near my home, but I've never been there)
  
• Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory http://www.nanotechproject.org/index.php?id=44&action=intro (For Juergen)
  

Has anyone seen this before?
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/index.php

They have some nice pictures of cosmetic implements.

Living with the Romans, from the Liverpool Museum site:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/exhibitions/livingwithromans/

Includes pictures of the building of a reproduction roundhouse, and info on local (Liverpudlian/Chester) finds.