Open Culture

Newly launched: The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a new digital collection that features pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays. Here, for example, you will find rare early editions of Hamlet, including all 32 existing quarto copies of the play in one place. An online first. ...

We take you back to 1967, to the three-day Monterey Pop Festival in California, which was kind of a precursor to the Woodstock Festival held in 1969. Monterey marked, among other things, the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who...

It happened 40 years ago. A 14-year-old Beatles fan named Jerry Levitan managed to sneak intoJohn Lennon’s Toronto hotel room and asked for an interview. And he got one. ...

It’s nice to see cultural anthropology professor Michael Wesch getting featured right now on YouTube’s homepage. (A professor getting featured on YouTube? Th...

In the past couple of years, The New Yorker has rolled out a series of animated cartoons, which puts in motion its famous cartoons. They can be watched asvideo podcasts or as streamed videos. You should definitely head over toThe New Yorker web site to view the larger collection.

A quick fyi: Starting today, you can find online legal opinions from the Supreme Court, as well as federal and state courts, thanks toGoogle Scholar. When you visit Google Scholar, click on the”Legal opinions and journals” radio button, and then begin your query. If...

We gave youTchaikovsky’s Voice Captured on an Edison Cylinder (1899) andJames Joyce Reading from Finnegans Wake. And now, thanks to Robert, we let you listen in on interviews with two other great composers — Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) andBéla Bartók (1881-1945) recorded in 1944.

This musical bit is easier watched than described. Click through, start the 20 videos playing in any order/timing that you want, and see what you get. You can read the FAQ for the InB b 2.0 project here. Thanks V for the tip!

Vladimir Nabokov wanted his last unfinished novel destroyed (learn more about it here). But, 32 years after his death, the book is being published. You can buy The Original of Laura starting Tuesday. Meanwhile, you can alsoread through a few excerpts thanks to the Times Online.

Two weeks ago, we presented a list of 35 sites where you can watch free movies online. Now, we’ve taken the next step and added 100 high-quality films to our list. Some films are contemporary, but many are classics created by legendary directors, actors & actresses. ...

Take a quick trip back in time, to 1890. Here you can listen to Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, etc.)and other eminent musicians having some fun, recording their voices on a then new-fangled technology, the phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1870...

A quick fyi, The Teaching Company, which provides university courses for lifelong learners like you, is running a big sale until Sunday night. In a nutshell, the sale gives you a 75% discount on all audio downloads of Teaching Company courses...

Today, Clicker.com comes out of beta and promises to become the complete guide to Internet Television...