Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Zora Neale Hurston
This site provides information and activities focused around Zora Neale Hurston's life and work. Check out this site featuring links to several sites focused on Hurston's work.
Stanford University
Dime Novels: Adventures of Buffalo Bill From Boyhood to Manhood
Dime novels were popular literature about the West. Stanford University Library offers this e-text of the dime novel about Buffalo Bill Cody's adventures in his early life.
Seymour Brody
Jewish Heros in America: Edna Ferber
Gives biographical information on famous writer, Edna Ferber. Discusses her early life, her career, and her works including "So Big" which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1924.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Whittier
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry is a bibliography of the works of John Greenleaf Whittier, including their original dates of publication. Lists works of biography and criticism written about Whittier...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 6: 1865 1898: Reform in the Gilded Age
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Reform in the Gilded Age is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Urbanization 1870 1900: Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
American writers and intellectuals played an important role in articulating the changes taking place in Industrial America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Learn about some of the prominent writers, scientists, and philosophers at that...
Other
Eldrbarry's Raven Tales
A collection of tales that focus on the exploits and adventures of the Raven. Raven is a prominent character in Native American tales from the Pacific Northwest.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Lydia Maria Child (1802 to 1880)
Read excerpts from Lydia Maria Child's first book, Hobomok, about a Native American who helped the early New England settlers.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Beat Movement
This encyclopedia entry surveys the Beat movement in American literature and culture during the 1950s and early 1960s, which was personified by such writers as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by G. Harvey Ralphson
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This book, Boy Scouts in Southern Waters, was written by G. Harvey Ralphson, one of the first American Boy Scouts Masters. Published in the early 1900s, this is the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Boy Scouts on Motorcycles by G. Harvey Ralphson
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This book, Boy Scouts on Motorcycles, was written by G. Harvey Ralphson, one of the first American Boy Scouts Masters. Published in the early 1900s, this is the fourth...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Boy Scouts in Mexico by G. Harvey Ralphson
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This book, Boy Scouts in Mexico, was written by G. Harvey Ralphson, one of the first American Boy Scouts Masters. Published in the early 1900s, this is the first book...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Charles Dickens
Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: A Brief Guide to Modernism
Concise explanation of modernism as it applies to literature. It's mainly a discussion of the poetic movement of the early twentieth century, and it discusses many of the important figures of the era.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lord Byron, Poe, and Poetry: Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Explore the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, and "the most poetical topic in the world" in this series of videos from the American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive. Discussion questions, teaching tips, and a student...