Pbs Learning Media: American Masters: Willa Cather's Childhood

This is a collection of four video lessons about Willa Cather and her work.

This video [7:43] from the American Masters film Willa Cather: The Road Is All explores Cather's iconic novel, My Antonia. The novel recounts the narrator's memories of a childhood friend and is based on Cather's own experiences growing...

This is a collection of three video lessons about Alice Walker and her works from the PBS American Masters Collection.

This is a collection of lesson videos about Carl Sandburg and his works from the PBS American Masters Collection.

This is a collection of six video lessons about Edgar Allan Poe and his works from the PBS American Masters Collection. Teaching materials are included.

In this video [3:24] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream, learn about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his notorious fictional character Jay Gatsby. Both were in the pursuit of the American dream and love....

In this video [3:06] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream, see the quest for the American dream as depicted in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath." Follow the Joad family as they search for work and...

This is a collection of videos lessons, media galleries, and photographs about Pedro E. Guerrero, a Mexican-American Mexican-American Photographer Pedro E. Guerrero famous for his photos of architecture and statues and his works.

This is a collection of one media gallery, eight videos, and one interactive about Maya Angelou and her works especially her autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

This is a collection of four media galleries of videos about Zora Neale Hurston and her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."