News in Brief

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has created The Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection contains 215 medieval or Renaissance manuscripts that date between the 11th and 17th centuries.

The Foreign Service Institute is offering free language courses online.

Ever wonder how to pronounce something correctly? Forvo can help you out with that.

Brooklyn College of the University of New York has developed a Shirley Chisholm archive.

We're all worried about the oil spill. And if you're not, you should be. NOAA has a website to the Deepwater Horizon incident, and the evolving catastrophe. Definitely worth keeping an eye on and NOAA has made it easy.