Read an overview of "The Garden Party and Other Stories" by Katherine Mansfield and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.

This article focuses on ten stories of bravery during the Battle of Britain with accompanying primary source photos. These stories include putting a fire out with bare hands, saving a village, and more.

A biography of Story Musgrave, one of the most accomplished and well-traveled American astronauts. He has studied his entire life, earning a total of seven graduate degrees in a range of disciplines. Site includes a profile, videos, and...

Young scholars need to have lots of opportunities to share their opinions based on text. In this lesson, the teacher will read the story, Jack and the Beanstalk, multiple times before the students create their opinion. The detailed...

South Africa's Freedom Day celebrates the nation's freedom from apartheid. Read personal stories of South Africans and how their lives have changed since April 27, 1997. Includes video

Welcome to Martha's STEM Stories! STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You may already know that doing STEM means testing ideas, collecting data, making calculations, and drawing graphs and charts-but you...

Read an overview of "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

The complete etext to the short stories of Charles Dickens.

Need help explaining the horrors of the Holocaust? Use these recommended short stories that were written by Jewish and non-Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Each short story has a short biography of the author, summary of the story, and...

This online museum features a digital archive. Students, and anyone around the United States, are encouraged to upload images of family objects and their stories. American immigration and migration are the foci for this archive.

The goal of Interactive Story Retelling: Encouraging Retelling with Picture Supports is to build early comprehension skills and promote oral expression by having students sequence the events in a story using pictures and then retell the...

This site provides the complete etext for Bret Harte's story, Susy, A Story of the Plains.

This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's "Twelve Stories and a Dream."

A reader's theater script, based on S. E. Schlosser's retelling of Fifty-Cent Piece, is provided on this site. Eight character roles are needed in this ghost story.

This site is the home of the Library of Congress Veterans' Project. Collected here are stories in multiple formats about specific topics dealing with a soldier's life in WWII, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam War. Pictures and other...

PBS explores one of the world's oldest religions, Hinduism, with a highlight of Agni the god of fire. Known as one of the deities most often found in hymns of the "Rig Veda." Describes Agni's physical features, his life story, and his...

This page is a series of writings by Joseph Story on the jurisdiction, both original and appellate, assigned to the Supreme Court by the Founding Fathers. Published in 1833.

This Lest We Forget site is the result of a project conducted by students of Smiths Falls, Ontario. The project had students research fallen soldiers from Smiths Falls using primary sources in hopes to tell the story of each Canadian...

Read along with Daniel in his story about his new baby sister, Margaret.

Full text of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". With links to other short stories by American writers.

Spooky stories featuring the supernatural were all the rage during the darkest time of the year. Towards the end of each year, as fireplaces are lit and hot cocoa is made, Americans have made it a tradition to revisit their favorite...

A learning module that begins with Herman Melville's literary text "Excerpt from "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...

This interactive exercise focuses on how line graphs can be used to represent mathematical data and provides an opportunity to translate actions from a story into graph form, then to write your own story to coincide with a line graph.

Part of the Library of Congress Veteran History Project, these stories tell of life altering occurrences events that occurred while on a mission, and the wait for those at home. These are historical and primary-source first person...