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University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Poems Relating to the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Although he was not, strictly speaking, a combatant in the American Revolution, Philip Freneau (1752-1832 CE) nevertheless spent time on a prison ship in New York Harbor. Some of the poems in this volume speak to that experience.
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University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South: John Hill Hewitt, "War"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This gives the history of the Civil War from its beginning to the Battle of Richmond in poetic verse written by John Hill Hewitt (1801-1890 CE). The introduction firmly establishes the sourthern sympathies of the writer.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.