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About HERA
The Historical Education Resource Archive (HERA) began its life as an assortment of ancient history resources, shamelessly knicked from MIT's Internet Classics Archive, Fordham University's Ancient History Sourcebook, the Latin Library, and possibly Project Gutenberg. At the time - around 2003/'04 - the Internet had definitely caught on, but people (including most college students) still weren't quite sure how to find the wealth of knowledge available online. So, I compiled a bunch of ancient sources, developed a simple HTML menu system - similar to what you're currently viewing, actually - and burned it all to CD's to the tune of around $5 apiece. The way I figured it, customers were paying me for my work of compiling and indexing those resources, and my modest financial ask would save them money on whatever Penguin Classics assignment that they'd received from Gary Ferngren for that term.
My interests eventually expanded and shifted slightly, and now HERA includes resources on American history, ancient history and classics, major religions and minor religious movements of specific significance, and world history. In keeping with tradition, virtually everything contained in HERA's archives has been knicked from elsewhere; contrary to tradition, I seek no payment for the compilation and indexing. These are resources that I've compiled from a variety of sources, for my own purpose, and they're provided as-is in case someone may be interested in the same or similar topics and otherwise unable to marshall them from such a distributed range of repositories.
Highlights include:
A variety of resources on the modern history of the Sultanate of Oman, which compliments the materials found in the Dhofarchive;
Consolidated resources on the history of the Rajneeshee movement, and the movement's incursion into Oregon during the early 1980's;
Documents generated by the British Admiralty, and later the U.S. Navy, regarding the maritime conditions along the coast of the Arabian peninsula;
Books written by the various European explorers of the southern Arabian peninsula; and
Biographical materials regarding William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
As with the other sections of HARDAC, this section is likely to expand in scope as I have time.
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