Electronic Texts or Primary Source sites:
Project Gutenberg
This project provides many electronic texts that can be accessed directly
or downloaded.
Alex
- A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
Alex, with its own search engine, provides an index of many electronic
texts currently on the Internet.
The On-Line Books Page
This page provides a catalog of electronic texts.
Bibliomania; The Network Library
This site provides links to many electronic books, including A Student's
History of American Literature.
The University of Oklahoma
Law Center; A Chronology of US Historical Documents
This site includes important historical documents by date links to
hypertext docs in US history, organized chronologically.
The English Electronic
Text Center of the University of Virginia
This index of electronic texts is organized by collection or topic;
some of the texts are not generally accessible.
An Index
of Poets in Representative Poetry On-Line
This index of on-line texts compiled by the University of Toronto includes
both electronic texts and brief biographical esssay on each poet.
University of Michigan
Humanities Text Initiative; American Verse Project
This site, which can be browsed or navigated with a search engine,
includes a growing body of electronic texts by American poets.
Random Poems
and Poetry to Enjoy
This index of electronic poetry can be sorted by author or by date.
Rare
Map Collection at Hargrett Library
This archive of maps, compiled by the University of Geogria includes
resources from the discovery of the "New World" through the end
of the nineteenth century.
Reference:
Women's History
Sources for Women's History Month
This sites includes links to other major sites on women's history ,
achievement and specific fields of women's studies.
Books A to Z; Banned Books
and Censorship
This site by the ACLU addresses the banning of books in the U.S., and
includes descriptions of the reasons given for the banning of many different
books.
Internet Public
Library Literature Reference
This site, by the Internet Public Library, provides links to other
large general literature sites, some of which focus specifically on American
literature.
The First
Hypertext Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
This electronic book, copied from the 1894 print edition includes entries
on many major works, authors, and literary terms, and can be used as a
good reference manual.
A Student's
History of American Literature
This refernce work on American literature provides background material
on many authors and periods, and is divided according to chronology.
Essays on
Teaching American Literature
The essays, copied from the Heath Anthology Newletter, provide resource
information for teachers using the Heath Anthology, with topics ranging
from the teaching of colonial to Chicano and Gay literature.
Academy of American Poets
This site, with its own search engine, provides brief biographical
information on many major American poets.
TimePage History
Links
This large site on American history provides resource material including
maps, essays, basic information, and links to university projects.
Date - A Timeline
This timeline divided into three sections (to 1800, 1800-1850, 1850-1900)
is centered around Nathaniel Hawthorne, but includes historical background
information through the nineteenth century.
U.S. History - PreCivil War
America
This site compiled by a middle school includes links to sites with
background material on major historical events.
American
Literature
This electronic text provides a sweeping overview of American literature.
From Revolution to Reconstruction;
A Hypertext on American History
This extensive project on American history includes biographical information,
primary source material, and a glossary of major figures and events.
Voice of the Shuttle
-- English Literature Main Page
This site, organized by period, indexes pages on many American literature
authors, and is a good place to start searching for any author.
Native American Oral Literatures: Oral Narrative and Oral Poetry
Native American Literature Online
This site links electronic texts of books, articles, and speeches,
largely by contemporary Native American authors.
Internet Public Library; Native
American Authors
This index of Native American authors provides biographical information,
mostly on contemporary authors.
Native American Sites
This page privodes information on Native American nations, organizations,
and artistic projects.
Index
of Native American Resources on the Internet
This index includes information on Native American culture and language,
and links to electronic texts.
A Talk
Concerning First Beginnings; Teaching Native American Oral Literature
This essay by Andrew Wiget, copied from the Heath Anthology newsletter,
discusses the teaching of Native American literatures.
Cultures in Contact: Voices from the Imperial Frontier:
A
Shared Experience's Historical Survey; 16th & 17th Century Spanish
Exploration
This history essay discusses 16th & 17th century Spanish exploration.
Sexuality
& the Invasion of America 1492-1800
This essay addresses the issues of sexuality and women in early America.
Arrival of
European Explorers in America
This site provides a timeline of European exploration in the "New
World."
"Creation of the Whites" (Yuchi)
1492:
An Ongoing Voyage
This page by the Libary of Congress provides historical background
on Columbus and the events of 1492.
Columbus
Day
This page includes basic historical information, maps, and writings
on the controversies surrounding Columbus.
Christopher
Columbus & Early European Exploration
This page includes information of historical resources.
Topic Philately
Gallery - History of the Sea; Christopher Columbus
This historical essay also provides links to other Columbus web sites.
AP
US History; The Voyages of Columbus
This project includes historical material, articles, and maps, as well
as links to other Columbus web sites.
Encyclopedia
Britannica "Columbus"
This entry on Columbus provides basic information and maps of Columbus's
voyages.
The Columbus Navigation
Homepage
This page includes historical information and essay, and especially
material on Columbus' navigational techniques.
The Columbus Landfall
Homepage
This page focuses on the history of Columbus and where he arrived in
the "New World," with maps to illustrate.
Examining
the Reputation of Christopher Columbus
This essay by anthropologist Jack Weatherford discussses the reality
and myth of Columbus, addressing the treament of Native Americans by Columbus
and his crews.
Medieval
Source Book: Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal
This site provides primary source material by Columbus.
Windows to the
Unknown: Cabeza de Vaca's Journey to the Southwest
This extensive project at the University of Texas includes many analytical
essays on de Vaca's life and discoveries.
Cabeza de Vaca
This site provides background historical and biographical information.
Alvar
Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Along with biographical material and a map, the site includes a long
account of the voyage by de Vaca.
The
Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
This site provides the primary source by de Vaca on his journey, dating
from 1542.
The Environmental
History of De Vaca's Wonderous Journey By Dan Flores
This essay, part of the "Windows to the Unknown" project, focuses
specifically on de Vaca's "Relacion."
On the Trail
This page, with a poem and story, presents the story of Estevanico from
the time of de Vaca's journeys.
Historical Index
Tribes in Texas
This site provides historical information on the Native American groups
present in Texas at the time of de Vaca's journeys to the Southwest.
Gentleman of Elvas, Laudonniere, Aviles, Niza, Castaneda, Villagra, and Champlain
Cultures in Contact: Voices from the Anglo-American "New World"
Electronic Text or Primary Source sites:
The Leslie Brock
Center for the Study of Colonial Currency
This index includes essays and primary documents for a class on colonial
economic history.
Rare
Map Collection - Colonial America
This large collection of archival material shows images of early America,
mostly from the South.
Fire
and Ice; Puritan and Reformed Writings
This index provides links to electronic texts by Puritans and Reformers,
including Taylor and Mather
Close
Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1751
These archival documents include maps drawn by John Smith.
Documents
of the Early South
This index consists of 35 documents dating from 1585-1751, each with its
own brief introduction.
Reference sites:
Student's
History of American Literature; II. Pilgrims & Puritans in New England;
Historical and Descriptive Writers...
This section of a textbook on American Literature provides good background
information on many colonial authors, including many of those mentioned
in Heath.
Student's
History of American Literature; Puritan Poetry in New England
This section of the same textbook includes background information on many
colonial poets, inluding many of those mentioned in Heath.
PAL;
Perspectives in American Literature; A Research and Reference Guide; Chapter
1: Puritanism and the Colonial Period: to 1700
This site provides background information on colonial authors, with
biographies of early Americanists and material on basic Puritan themes.
Cycles of US History
- Colonial Cycle (1584-1700)
This essay provides basic historical information on the Puritans, Jamestown,
and general colonial history.
"Colonial Women's
Links"
This site includes essays on general women's history, family, and geneology
in colonial America.
Colonial
Era in Virginia
This site includes links to essays on Virginia history, divided by geographical
area, and links to primary documents.
The Wampanoag Tribes
This site gives a basic history of the area first settled by Puritans,
with biographies of the main figures involved.
APVA Jamestown Rediscovery
This site on the archeological project on rediscovery of Jamestown
includes historical information, lists of early settlers, a map, a timeline
of early colonial hist, and biographical information on John Smith and
others.
Historical Almanack Williamsburg
This site on Williamsburg includes links to a timeline, a glossary of important
colonial era figures, and a basic history of early America.
Handsome Lake (Seneca)
John Smith (see many of above links on Virginia history)
History
of Gloucester County
This site includes the basic story of Pocahantas, Powhatan and Smith
upon his arrival in America, with brief biographical sketches of each figure
involved.
Wingfield Family Society
This page provides links to the history of the Wingfield family, an
essay on Edward Maria, and historical backgrnd material.
Richard Frethorne
Thomas Morton
John
Winthrop
This Christian-biased page presents an essay on Winthrop, with analysis
of Puritanism.
William Bradford
Puritan
Theocracy in Colonial America
At a site on censorship, a basic biography is presented of Roger Williams.
Anne
Bradstreet
This student-written page presents a detailed timeline of Bradstreet's
life, a picture of her house, and a poorly written essay on Bradstreet's
life and poetry.
Biography of Anne
Bradstreet
This essay on Bradstreet's life also includes discussion of her work
and literary analysis of a number of poems.
Bradstreet;
Levels of Identity and the Triumph of Private Love
This Harvard student paper discusses Bradstreet's "A Letter to
her Husband."
Michael Wigglesworth
The Bay Psalm Book and The New England Primer
Mary White Rowlandson
The
Poems of Edward Taylor
This biographical essay includes links to electronic text of 7 poems.
Samuel Sewall
Cotton Mather
John Williams
A Selection of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
A
Letter to His Parents George Alsop
This letter is a primary document from 1663
Tales of Incorporation, Resistance, & Reconquest in New Spain
Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Patroness of the Americas; The Apparitions and the Miracles
This site includes a narration/translation of the story of the apparition,
and is one of a number of religious pages on the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Our Lady of Guadalupe;
Patroness of the Americas
The homepage for another religious site on the Virgin of Guadalupe;
it includes a timeline of the miracle.
Interlupe Page of the Center of
Guadalupan Studies
This site is another religious page on the Virgin.
"Virgin
of Guadalupe hits ‘Net"
This Associated Press article discusses the modern day "cyber-cult"
on the Virgin of Guadalupe (as represented in the previous three sites).
Don Antonio de Otermín and The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)
Indian
Pueblo Cultural Center
This site includes a brief essay on pueblos, and links to pages describing
20 specific pueblos, mostof which have references to the Pueblo Revolt
of 1680.
History of the
Santa Fe Fiesta
This essay discusses the history of the fiesta, with information on
de Vargas and the reconquest of 1692 in which he was involved.
Tradition and Change in Anglo-America
Eighteenth Century Studies
This site provides links to electronic texts, mostly by British authors,
but some Americans (Edwards, Franklin).
Eighteenth
Century Resources
This extensive page with its own search engine provides information
literature and history, electronic texts by indexed authors, and links
to other pages on 18th century studies (as well as 17th and 19th century).
Sarah Kemble Knight
Artifacts
and Pictures Relating to William Byrd II
This page includes links to primary documents on Byrd.
William
Byrd II: The History of the Dividing Line Betweixt Virginia and North Carolina
This table of contents for a student project on Byrd includes links
to analytical essays and primary materials on Byrd.
Writings of
Jonathan Edwards
This site consists of electronic primary texts of four of Edwards writings.
Sermons of
Jonathan Edwards
This site provides more primary electronic texts
A
Treatise Concerning Religious Affections in III Parts, by Jonathan Edwards
Another primary document by Edwards has been marked up here.
Jonathan Edwards
On-line
This index provides an extensive collection of Edwards writings on-line.
Here's What's New
This site provides more electronic texts of Edwards works, divided
by genre.
Jonathan Edwards;
Theological Works
This site provides more electronic texts by Edwards.
Jonathan
Edwards
This site provides a long biographical essay on Edwards life and work.
Elizabeth Ashbridge
A Selection of Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Enlightenment Voices, Revolutionary Visions
Ben Franklin: Glimpses
of the Man
This site provides thorough biographical information, a timeline, and
links to more Franklin resources.
Benjamin Franklin
This site provides a brief biography of Franklin and links to priamry
sources by Franklin, including "Proposals Relating to the Education
of Youth in Pennsylvania," "The 13 Virtues," "Autobiography"
& "Poor Richard's Almanack"
The Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin
This electronic version of Franklin's autobiography consists of the
entire text and student analytical papers responding to the work.
Gopher Menu
This site provides an index of electronic texts by Franklin.
The Benjamin Franklin
Centre
The homepage for a group restoring Franklin's house on Craven St,the
site provides a good biographical essay and maps of the house.
Bright Ideas
This introductory page (one among many on the web) presents very basic
backgorund information of Granklin, and a timeline of his life.
James Grainger
John Leacock
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
The Artist as
Editor: Crèvecoeur's Dialogue
This college-student written analytical essay addresses the range of
de Crèvecoeur's life and work, with quotations in French.
What
is an American?
This site consists of the electronic primary text of "What is
an American?"
Letters
from an American Farmer
The table of contents page of this primary electronic text divides
this work by each letter.
A Biography of
Thomas Paine
This site, by the Thomas Paine Historical Association consists of a
biographical essay with links in the text to electronic texts, including
Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, American Crisis,
and Rights of Man, sa well as information on names and events.
The Thomas Paine Library
This site has links to the electronic texts of Common Sense,
Age of Reason, American Crisis.
John Adams
This site, by the Internet Public Library, is part of a larger project
of the Presidents of the United States, and consists of historical information,
specific material on the presidency and election, and electronic texts
of "Novanglus," Inaugural Address, "XYZ Affair," and
"Thoughts on Government."
Declaration
of Independence
This electronic text includes the primary document with a brief introduction
explaining the Declaration's historical background.
Thomas Jefferson
This site provides links to other web sites on Jefferson.
Gopher Menu
This index consists of links to electronic texts by Jefferson.
Slaves, Jews, Jefferson,
and Jesus
This analytical essay addresses the problematic nature and contradictions
of Jefferson's life and morality.
Slavery
and the American Revolution, from Chapter 4 of Coombs' Immigrant Heritage
of American
This site provides an essay on the role of African Americans in early
Amerian history.
Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads
The
Liberty Song
This site provides the complete lyrics for this song.
Yankee
Doodle
This site provides the complete original lyrics for this song.
An
Irishman's Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston
This site provides the complete lyrics for this song.
Contested Boundaries, National Visions: Writings on "Race," Identity, and "Nation"
Internet
Resource for Students of Afro-American History - 18th Century
This index of electronic text links provides primary material on African
Americans in the 18th century; the site also includes material from the
17th and 19th centuries.
An address
to the negroes in the state of New York
This site provides the electronic text of this primary document.
Hartford
Black History Projects; Great Minds, Great Deeds; Jupiter Hammon
This site includes a brief biographical essay and a llink to Hammon's "address
to negroes in the state of New York."
Jupiter
Hammon: A Selection of his Writing
This site includes a biographical essay on Hammon and a link to "A
Selection of Hammon's Writings," consisting mostly of his poetry.
Samson Occom (Mohegan)
Briton Hammon
Prince Hall History
This brief history of Prince Hall Masonry is one among a number of
pages on Prince Hall Masonry with religious biases.
Judith Sargent
Murray
This brief essay provides material on Murray's work and the themes
addressed in her writing.
Philip
Freneau
This essay provides a good overview of Freneau's ideas and life, and
the major themes in his poetry.
Philip
Freneau: The Indian Burying Ground
This site includes the electronic text of a Freneau poem with a brief
introduction.
"Rules for
Changing a Republic into a Monarchy"
This site provides the elctronic text of this primary document within
the text of an e-mail message.
Timothy Dwight
Phillis
Wheatley
This site contains a brief biography and links to images of the first
two pages of "Poems on Various Subjects..." with a portrait of
Wheatley.
Phillis
Wheatley
This site includes a short biography of Wheatley and the electronic
text of "On Being Brought from Africa to America."
Phillis
Wheatley: Precursor to American Abolitionism
This site includes another biography and the electronic text of a Wheatley
poem.
A Letter from
Phillis
This electronic text also includes an image of the primary document
original
A Voice of
Her Own
This site provides a brief biography and links to enlarged images of
the first three pages of "Poems on Various Subjects..."
Gutenberg Project
Files - W
Project Gutenberg contains a file called "Religious and Moral
Poems" that can be downloaded.
An
elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned
Dr Samuel Cooper
This site provides the electronic text of this primary source by Wheatley.
Hartford
Black History Project; Emerging from the Shadows. Lemuel Haynes
This site provides an introductory biography, and links off of a page that
discusses the African American role during different historical periods
The Reluctant Envoy
This long essay details Barlow's life
This Day in Diplomacy:
Anniversary of the Release of the Algiers Hostages
This statement by Burns of the State Department in 19996 discusses
Barlow's role in Algiers history
Gutenberg Project
Files - T
The Gutenberg Project provides Tyler's "The Contrast" to be downloaded.
The Grant
of Marshfield, Vermont, to the Stockbridge Indians
This primary document is a charter signed by Aupaumut.
The
Canandaigua Treaty
This electronic primary text was an agreement signed between the US
and the Iroquis Confederacy and was signed by Aupaumut; it is preceeded
by a short introduction.
Material
Culture in Colonial American
This site contains images of colonial headstones and an essay on Foster's
"The Coquette" as well as other materials.
The
Project Gutenberg Etext of Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson
This site includes the electronic text of Rowson's Charlotte Temple,
preceeded by disclaimer material
Charlotte
Temple; Susanna Haswell Roswson
This site provides the elctronic text of Charlotte Temple, without
any of the disclaimer material.
Charles Brockden Brown
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions
Liberty and Limits;
The Federalist Papers
This site provides electronic texts of nine of the Federalist Papers
by Hamilton and Madison.
Liberty and Limits
This site consists of historical information on federalism, links to
other resources, essays, and discussion of the modern application of federalsim.
Thomas
Jefferson
This site provides the Federalist essay on Federalism vs Republicanism
during Jefferson's presidency.
About the
Federalist Papers
This essay presents a brief but thorough explanation of the writing
of the Federalist Papers and the ideas expressed therein.
Herbert
J. Storing; What the Anti-Federalists Were For
This summary of a book presents the aims of anti-federalists (not a
commercial site).
Missionary Voices of the Southwest
Mission
was slated for Ossos
This short essay, containing a quote by Palou, also discusses the founding
of a mission.
Fray Carlos José Delgado
Francisco Palou
Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865
Documenting the
American South
This index provides links to primary documents and other resources
on Southern American, and goes through 1920.
"Dialogic
Romanticism in the Literature of the Civil War"
Mathew Conner, from Prometheus Unplugged, the third national graduate
student conference on Romanticism.
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa)
Tales from the Hispanic Southwest
La Llorona, Malinche, and Guadalupe
Chapter
3: Romanticism; Washington Irving
This site provides biographical information and the texts of and analytical
essays on Irving's Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Gopher Menu
This index includes the electronic texts of many Irving writings.
Student's
History of American Literature; Washington Irving 1783-1859
This entry in a text book provides background information on Irving's life
and work.
Sleep
Hollow
This version on the Irving work is an interactive hypertext.
Mordecai Manuel Noah
Fenimore Cooper's
Literary Offenses
This site presents essays with Mark Twain's opinions on Cooper's work.
James
Fenimore Cooper
This site provides a good biography of Cooper.
Bibliomania:
The Last of the Mohicans
This electronic text is divided by chapters.
Romancing
the Indian; Sentimentalizing and Demonizing in Cooper and Twain
This student project on Twain and Cooper addresses the authors' attitudes
toward Native Americans, and includes links to excerpts from Cooper's "Notion's
of the Americans: Indians."
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
The Complete
On-line Works of Edgar Allan Poe
This site provides an index to other Poe sites and electronic texts.
A Complete
Collection of Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
This index provides a listing of electronic poetry texts by Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe
This site provides a thorough biography with links to selected works.
Edgar Allan Poe
- "The Fall of the House of Usher"
This student project provides the text of the Poe story, analytical
essays on it, and biographical material.
Payge's Poe
Page
This long biography also provides links to other Poe resources.
The Poe
Page
This site provides electronic texts of most of Poe's poetry
Humor of the Old Southwest (Crockett, Fink, Longstreet, Harris)
Explorations of an American Self
Transcendentalism
This site provides links to resources and works by and about Emerson
and other Transcendentalists.
George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Ojibwa)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This extensive site includes links to primary works by Emerson and
others, analytical and critical essays on Emerson's works, and links to
associated figures and periods, as well as other Emerson pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson's
Quotes
This site provides a list of Emerson quotations.
On Ralph
Waldo Emerson's Harvard Divinity Address, by Arthur Paul Patterson
This essay, written in 1839 in response to Emerson's address, addresses
Emerson's faith, his relationship with nature, and other themes; it is
both an analytical resource and a primary document.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This index of electronic texts by Emerson includes those texts available
from the Gutenberg Project.
A View on Emerson
This site provides analytical essays on Emerson's work.
Gopher
Menu
Gopher Menu
These sites provide indexes to electronic texts by Emerson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This site provides links to other Emerson resources, including projects
on him, primary documents, and images. Hijacking
of American Education - Part 4; Ralph Waldo Emerson
This essay on Emerson's religious philosophy and his popular acceptance
from his time to now has a religious bias; the project's thesis is to show
how Christian influences have been edited out of American Literature education.
The Early
Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
This biography provides a good overview of Emerson's life, and continues
from early life through later parts of his life on successive pages.
Emerson
on Transcendence, Polarities, and the Active Soul
This analytical essay incorporates author's analysis with long Emerson
passages.
Electronic Archive
of Selected Writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature
This index lists the electronic texts available by Emerson specifically
about nature.
American Transcendentalism
This short but dense essay discusses the roots of Transcendentalism and
Emerson's philosophies.
Woman in the 19th
Century
This site provides the complete electronic text of this Fuller work.
Hijacking
of American Education - Part 3; Sarah Margaret Fuller
This analytical essay on Margaret Fuller's life and work has the same
religious bias as the essay, by the same group, on Emerson (see above).
Chronology
This site provides a timeline of Fuller's life.
Margaret
Fuller:Biography of Adult Life
This site presents basic biographical information.
Margaret Fuller
This site presents basic biographical information.
The Frederick
Douglass Museum and Cultural Center
This homepage for the museum contains links to a photo gallery, a chonology
of Douglass' life, biographical material, and links to other Douglass resources.
Frederick Douglass
This site contains links to four electronic texts by Douglass, including
Narrative of the Life...
Frederick
Douglass in Britain
This site includes links to many analytical essays on the subjects
of race and Douglass' experiences in Britain, as well as biographical material
and electronic texts of Narrative of the Life... and My Bondage
and My Freedom.
Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass
This electronic text is divided by chapters.
Celebrating
Rights and Responsibilities
This site includes links to electronic texts of Narrative of the
Life... and Douglass' 1870 speech as well as links to other resources.
The Encounters
of Slavery
This analytical essay discusses Mary Prince's and Jacobs' narratives.
Issues and Visions in Pre-Civil War America
Background
This index includes sites on the Civil War, abolition, the suffrage
movement, the Underground Railroad, and other Civil War era topics.
Selected Underground Railroad
Sites
This index of sites provides pages with historical information on the
Underground Railroad, biographical information on the major figures involved,
and a link to a page on The North Star periodical of the railroad.
William Apess
John Wannuaucon Quinney (Mahican)
Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)
Seattle (Duwamish)
John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee)
The Literature of Slavery and Abolition
David Walker
William Lloyd Garrison
This site provides basic biographical information and anaylytical essays.
The
Gift of Tritemius
This site provides the electronic text of a poem by Whittier.
John Greenleaf
Whittier
This site provides biographical information.
Roth Publishing:
The Library
This site provides the electronic text of the poem "The Library"
by Whittier.
John
Greenleaf Whittier
This site includes biographical material on Whittier and links to 12
poems by Whittier.
Maud Muller
This site presents the electronic text of this poem by Whittier.
Poems of Kansas
This index presents links to 3 poems by Whittier under the "W"
entry.
A
Student's History of Literature - John Greenleaf Whittier
This entry in a textbook provides a long biographical essay on Whittier
and events surrounding life.
John
Greenleaf Whittier
This site provides the electronic texts of 6 Whittier poems.
Chicago -
Whittier
This electronic text poem describes the Great Chicago Fire.
John Greenleaf
Whittier
This index provides links to other primary document resources.
Gopher
Menu
This index provides electronic texts of works by Whittier
Poetry of Angelina
Weld Grimké
This site provides biographical material on Angelina Weld Grimké
and links to four poems, and focuses specifically on lesbianism of Grimké's
poetry.
Sarah and Angelina Grimké
This essay includes extensive biographical material on both Grimké
sisters.
African American
Playwrights; Angelina Weld Grimké
This short biography also includes links to the beginning of "Rachel,"
and to the lesbian poetry page.
Henry Highland Garnet
Wendell
Phillips: Shall Women Have the Right to Vote?
This primary document was an address given by Phillips in Massachusetts.
Wendell Phillips
This primary document is a passage by Phillips on Native American resistance.
Background
Notes: Haiti 09/96
This State Department description of Haiti includes a brief history,
with reference to the uprising led by L'Ouverture.
Introduction
to Todd and Higginson editions
This description of Higginison's collection of Dickinson poetry includes
links to 4 Dickinson poems.
Emily
Dickinson's Letters, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
This electronic text includes both Dickinson's letters to Higginson
and Higginson's interspersed description of them.
Where
Liberty is Not, There is My Country
This electronic text was a speech made by Higginson.
Address
to the Colored People of the United States
This electronic text was a joint effort by Higginson, Garrison &
Boutwell.
A Digitized
Library of Southern Literature: Beginning to 1920; Caroline Lee Hentz
This electronic text is the complete text of Hentz's A Planter's
Northern Bride.
Derek
on the Ideology of Slavery
This analytical essay on Fitzhugh and others' ideas of slavery provides
a good summary of Fitzhugh's defenses of slavery
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Primary materials:
Abraham
Lincoln Gettysburg Address
This site includes the electronic text of the address, links to Civil
War maps, and short essays on events and figures in war.
Douglass -- "Abraham
Lincoln, Address before the Young Men's Lyceum
This site provides the electronic text of another Lincoln speech.
Inauguration:
Abraham Lincoln's First
This site provides the electronic text of Lincoln's first inaugural
address.
Inauguration:
Abraham Lincoln's Second
This site provides the electronic text of Lincoln's second Inaugural
address.
Academic
American Encyclopedia: Abraham Lincoln
This encyclopedia entry on Lincoln is annotated with links to more
information on references within entry.
Lincoln's
Speeches and Writings
This index includes electronic texts of Lincoln's oral and written
works.
The Gettysburg
Address
This site on the Gettysburg Address includes different drafts of the
address, photos from Gettysburg at the time of the address, and other primary
materials.
"A House Divided,"
Abraham Lincoln
This site includes a description of the Dred Scott case and the electronic
text of this speech to Congress.
U.S. Civil War
Center -- Civil War Documents
This index of links to electronic texts on the Civil War includes many
texts by many by Lincoln.
Secondary material
The Lincoln
Museum - Time Line
This site presents a thorough time line of Lincoln's life and historical
events surrounding his life.
Lincoln, Abraham
(1809-1865)
This site provides an index of web projects on Lincoln.
The World of Abraham
Lincoln
This site provides both biograpgical material and analytical essays
on different facets of his life, with links to primary documents.
The History
Place presents Abraham Lincoln
This project on Lincoln is arranged as an annotated chronology with
links to glossary entries and primary documents off of timeline.
Literature and the "Woman Question"
NAWSA
Timeline
This site provides a timeline of the suffrage movement.
American
Transcendentalism; The Women's Rights Impulse
This site provides an introduction to and the electronic text of Stanton's
and Mott's Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls
Human Rights
This index includes links to biographical and primary materials on
women, with a section19th c. Suffragists; the site runs from Addams through
Gloria Steinem.
Timeline
of Legislation, Events, and Publications Crucial to the Development of
Victorian Feminism
This site provides a thorough timeline of the early feminist movement.
The Concord Review: Sample
essays
This analytical essay by a college student discusses major figures
of the suffrage period.
Sarah and Angelina
Grimké
This essay includes extensive biographical material on both Grimké
sisters.
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton -- Women's Rights Page
This site provides the electronic text of Stanton's speech at the first
Women's Rights convention.
Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This site provides a short introductory biography.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This site presents the electronic text of Stanton's speech delivered
at Seneca Falls Convention.
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
This site includes a short biography, information on abolition, temperance,
and Seneca Falls Convention.
Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton)
Women in Christian
Tradition: Sojourner Truth
This short dramatic introduction to the text of "Ain't I a Woman"
in dialect was written by Gage in History of Woman Suffrage; the text is
incomplete, interspersed with narrative and paraphrasing. with narrative
and paraphrase interspersed.
Who Was Sojourner Truth?
This site presents a short biography.
Sojourner
Truth, The Libyan Sibyl
This electronic text was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about Truth.
Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper
This site includes an image and the electronic text of Harper's poem
"Double Standard."
Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-?)
This site includes a short biography and a link to the electronic text
of Harper's poem "To the Union Savers of Cleveland."
Tanya Bickley Enterprises:
Speakers/Performers
This site includes a biography and poem by Harper, on the page of a
performance artist doing a piece on Harper.
The
Alamo: 13 Days of Glory - Full Text: Feb ‘96 Wild West Feature
This site provides the story of the Alamo with references to Seguin's
role.
The
Alamo - Background
This site includes an annotated essay and timeline on the Alamo.
The Bear Flag Revolt
of 1846
This site provides background historical information on the raising
of Bear Flag.
The Flowering of Narrative
Books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
This extensive site includes a short biography and and index of links
to electronic texts of books by and about Hawthorne.
Writings of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This index presents the complete on-line works by Hawthorne.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne listings in the Short Stories Search Engine
more
of the same
This site includes links to a chronology, biographical material, electronic
texts by Hawthorne, and a list of people and characters in Hawthorne's
life and work.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
This site inlcudes links to biographical material and critical and
analytical writings on Hawthorne.
Netscape -
Chapter 21
This site includes the electronic text of a chapter in a text book
with part II entitled "From Caroline Kirkland to Hamlin Garland."
Project
Gutenberg Etext Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
This site provides the electronic text Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
This site includes a brief biography, links to material by and about
Stowe from her period.
Calvinism Feminized:
Divine Matriarchy in Harriet Beecher Stowe
This site provides a long analytical essay on Stowe.
Uncle
Tom's Cabin
This electronic text of Uncle Tom's Cabin is divided into chapters.
The Life and Works of Herman Melville
This extensive site by the Melville society includes biographical information,
primary source material on and by Meville, links to other Melville sites,
electronic text of his correspondence with Hawthorne, critical materials,
and related material (ex. Melville in the Arts, sailing pages, etc.).
Melville On-line
This index contains most of the electronic texts by Melville.
Research
on Herman Melville
This preface to a doctoral dissertation is entitled "Prophetic
Fiction: Irony in the Novels of Herman Melville from Typee to The Confidence-Man"
Bartleby,
the Scrivener
This electronic text is the only text not found on "The Life and
Works of Herman Melville" site.
Clotelle;
or, The Colored Heroine: A Tale of the Southern States
This site provides the electronic text of this work by Brown.
William Wells
Brown
This site provides a biography on Brown with links to the narrative
of his life and an electronic text from his lecture tour in England.
Lemorne
Versus Huell
This electronic text is by the Gutenberg Project.
Our
Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson
This electronic text is by Gutenberg Project.
The Emergence of American Poetic Voices
Digital
Tradition Folk Song Titles
This alphabetical-by-title index of folk songs that can be downloaded
(both lyrics and audio) includes many of the slave songs and songs of white
communities in the Heath Guide, as well as many other songs.
Bryant Biography
This short biography was written by a student.
Selected
Poems of William Cullen Bryant
This site provides the electronic texts of selected Bryant poems.
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney
Annie Finch's homepage,
click on "An Unsung Singer
This project by a poet and essayist on Sigourney includes the electronic
texts of selected poems, an analytical essay on revisionism in 19th century
poetry by women (with references to Alice Cary and Emily Dickinson) and
related links.
George
Griffin and Lydia Howard Sigourney Papers
This biography discusses both George Griffin and Sigourney.
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
This site provides a brief biography of Sigourney.
Connecticut
Crossroads -- Sweet singer of Hartford
This site provides a short biography of Sigourney.
The
Village Blacksmith
This site provides the electronic text of this Longfellow poem.
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
This site includes a biography and links to electronic texts of Longfellow
poetry.
Norse Ballads of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
This site provides selected electronic texts by Longfellow.
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
This site provides the electronic texts and excerpts from three major
works.
Longfellow:
"Mezzo Cammin"
This site provides the electronic text of this Longfellow poem.
Tangerine
on Longfellow
This site includes the electronic text of "Footsteps of Angels"
and links to other Longfellow sites.
Hiawatha's
Childhood
This site provides the electronic text of the Longfellow poem.
Longfellow:
Biography- Early Life
This site includes a short bio of Longfellow's life until he was fourteen
and the electronic text of "The Battle of Lovell's Pond."
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow: Critique of an Important Work
This short analytical essay discusses Lonfellow's "A Psalm of
Life."
Selected
Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This site provides the electronic texts of selected poems.
The
Hijacking of American Education: Part 2 - War of the Poets: Longfellow
vs. Poe
This analytical essay discusses Longfellow and Poe, and is biased by
the group's thesis of proving the editing of Christian influence in American
Literature education.
The
Courtship of Miles Standish
This site provides the electronic text of this Longfellow poem.
Digital
Dante: Comedy
This large site on Dante's Divine Comedy includes the Longfellow
translation.
Evangeline
This site includes the electronic images of the print version of this
Longfellow work, as well as the complete electronic text.
Critical
Response to Longfellow's "Mezzo Cammin
This site provides an analytical essay on this Longfellow work.
Evangeline's Odyssey
This project on Evangeline is off of a museum exhibit.
Frances Sargent Locke Osgood
(earlier sites are more extensive)
The Walt Whitman
Hypertext Archive
This extensive project includes links to primary and biographical material.
Walt Whitman's page
This large site on Whitman includes biographical material and a link
to the Leaves of Grass hypertext.
Leaves
of Grass
This site includes electronic images of cover page, a biographical
note by Whitman, and the index page for the electronic text with links
to each poem.
Walt
Whitman's: Leaves Of Grass -- INDEX OF CHAPTERS
This version of Leaves of Grass is produced by Bibliomania.
Walt Whitman on-line sources
from Library of Congress
This site focuses on the Whitman's recovered notebooks, with links
to images of the notebooks and to otuher Library of Congress produced sites
on Whitman.
Other
Walt Whitman links...
This site provides an index of links to Whitman pages, some of which
have been indexed here as well.
The Poetry of Walt Whitman
This site includes electronic texts by Whitman and a short biography;
the page has a commercial affiliation.
Walt Whitman, "In
Memory of Thomas Paine," 28 January 1877
This site provides the electronic text of a speech made by Whitman.
Reminiscences
of Walt Whitman
This essay on Whitman was printed in the Atlantic Monthly magazine
in 1902.
Walt
Whitman
This site provides a short biography and links to two short poems and
Leaves of Grass.
Whitman's
Daguerreotypes: Objects of Democratic Union
This analytical essay discusses the relation between Whitman and photography.
Explication
of Whitman's "Patroling Barnegat"
This analytical essay discussses "Patroling Barnegat" and
includes the electronic text of the poem.
Walt Whitman
This site provides links to electronic images of Whitman, the gopher
version of "Leaves of Grass," and "Other Walt Whitman Links..."
Dickinson,
Emily. 1896. Poems.
This site provides the electronic text of Dickinson poems edited by
Mary Loomis Todd (1896 edition) with an index of poems and links to
electronic images of the front page material.
Dickinson
This site provides the electronic text of selected Dickinson poems.
Emily
Dickinson's Letters
This site presents the correspondence between Dickinson and Thomas
Wentworth Higginson.
Dickinson, #657 ("I Dwell
in Possibility")
This site provides four student-written analytical essays on Dickinson's
poem "I Dwell in Possibility."
Emily
Dickinson Poems On-line
This site provides links to other pages with Dickinson electronic texts,
not all of which are listed here.
Emily Dickinson
This extensive site includes biographical material, related links,
and electronic texts of poetry by Dickinson.
"I Had
Been Hungry"
This analytical essay discusses the social issues raised in this Dickinson
poem.