Features include hypertext, graphics, problems and answers, a calculator, and the use of virtual reality to demonstrate dimensions, structures, compounds, and molecules. Doomed to repeat this history, I extend my thanks to the folks at NYU for including sage advice like the following. Prompted to look at a picture of gas, I click on the little hand pointing to gas. I click again. Then, I see the explanation below the little hand.
Gas is invisible.
Originally an eight-part documentary series that aired on PBS stations during September 1996, the site allows users to experience again each episode of the series and offers images, commentary and research materials. We learn about the history of the West through 1914, its attraction to adventurers and to those forced from their homes, the mix of cultures that settled the land, the Indian culture already in place, the abolitionists and Civil War. We read about the people like Joseph the Younger, Chief of a band of Nez Perc Indians. We learn about his Indian name, its significance, and his role in the history of the West. We can even read some of his statements and speeches.