Links Early American Literature
Salem Witch Trials
A link with information about the Salem Witch Trials in Puritan New England Salem information
More information about the Salem Witch Trials Hypertext of Anne Bradstreet's "To my Dear and Loving Husband"
Follow this link to a hypertext version of Anne Bradstreet's poem, "To my Dear and Loving Husband" Anne Bradstreet
A link to more information about Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet
Tayari Jones' Website Transcendentalism http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ A link to an extensive understanding of transcendentalism--including an annotated version of Emerson's "Self-Reliance" http://thoreau.eserver.org/amertran.html http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm History of the poll tax in MA
Annotated text of WALDEN Whitman http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21919 http://kirjasto.sci.fi/wwhitman.htm http://anglistika.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/sg-whitman-song-of-myself.pdf Comparison of LEAVES OF GRASS to St. James Bible Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novel vs. Romance
An explanation of the genre "romance" Hawthorne
a link to biographical information about Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne
some terrific links to all kinds of information about the author of The Scarlett Letter Young Goodman Brown
A link to essays about Hawthorne's short story, "Young Goodman Brown" Melville
Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Here is a link to some excerpts from 60 MINUTES on Huckleberry Finn and the N word: http://www.cbsnews.com/1770-5_162-0.html?query=Huckleberry+Finn&tag=srch&searchtype=cbsSearch Trying to teach Huck Finn
conversation with a teacher who has taught Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for a number of years Expelling Huck
the attitudes of the NACCP towards Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck stirs race discord
A link to a newspaper article about the racial controversey in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck Finn in the classroom
an article about a debate at Vanderbilt University over teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck Finn: A Masterpiece or an Insult?
A link to another newspaper article about a challenge to teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the classroom. Willa Cather Research project links
Diana Hacker A Writer's Reference
Click here to access an online version of Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference. Site includes: formatting your in-text and works cited citations; PBS American Novel Timeline Here is a link to the American Novel Timeline, showing novels, writers, Literary movements, and events in American History. They Say/I Say Here is a link to the first 63 pages of They Say/I Say Harlem Renaissance
Writers, artisits, musicians of the Harlem Renaissance** (This is one of the best Harlem Renaissance sites!).
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND THE GREAT GATSBY American Dream
Research Links
AMERICAN HISTORY VIA AMERICAN LITERATURE Check out this link to C-Span videos featuring various American authors throughout the ages Books that Shaped America - Check out the Library of Congress' exhibit The New American Dreamhttp://www.marketplace.org/--Check out this project on Marketplace.org |
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