Project #18

Project:#18 American Literature

Art Links Art supplements to the literature

You should become familiar with the contents of these American Literature resources. Read through many of the sites to get a good overview of each period in American Literature. We will be using this info often, so your familiarity will make your work better and your life easier. It will be the foundation of this year's course. It is important!

A pretest and posttest from Stephanie Bearden

Forgotten Founders Ben Franklin, the Iroquois and the Rationale for the American Revolution. The Original site

BASIC READINGS IN U.S. DEMOCRACY

NET13 database of American Authors

Virtual Museum of New France Developed as an educational and informative online tool by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Virtual Museum of New France explores various aspects of France's involvement in the New World throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. First-time visitors may want to start by taking A Photographic Exploration of Canada, which offers a visual overview of the land as the first French explorers might have encountered it. The photographs are rather evocative, and can be browsed by various themes (such as explorers or trade) or by geographic region. Another section, titled The Explorers, will be equally informative as it features brief essays on some of New Frances' most celebrated explorers, such as Champlain, Cartier, Marquette, and Nicollet. Additionally, there are some fine visual exhibits provided by the Museum, including "Settling in New France," "Personal Hygiene in Canada, 1660-1835," and "The Education of Children in New France." Overall, the site will be helpful for young people learning about European exploration and settling of this part of North America, and for those with a general interest in the exploration of what is now modern-day Canada and the Great Lakes.

Huck Finn

American Notes: Travel in America, 1750 - 1920. While Alexis de Tocqueville's, Democracy in America may remain one of the most important and compelling commentaries on the American condition, the American Memory project at the Library of Congress has compiled this wonderful collection of 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors from the period of 1750 to 1920 for the convenience of the Web- browsing public. The criteria used to determine which narratives would be included in the collection were that the work had to be primarily in the first person, that it was free of copyright restrictions, and that it was part of the Library of Congress's General Collections. Along with familiar works by Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper, the collection includes works by lesser known persons, such as Josiah Gregg's, The Journal of a Santa Fe trader, 1831-1839 and Captain Basil Hall's, Travels in North America, in the years 1827 and 1828.

Table of Contents for History of American Literature from a Japanese point of view.

American Collection

American Lit 1 from earliest times to 1865

American Lit 2 from 1865 to now.

American Lit on the Web by Akihito Ishikawa, Department of English at Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages, Japan.

American Lit resources

Ballads and Songs of America

Ben Franklin

The Creed What Poor Richard cost Benjamin Franklin.

Bestsellers of 20th Century

Literature resources for the High School and College Student. Michael Groves

American Lit since 1865

American Writers This site provides discussion questions to support online video clips of an ambitious programming effort by U.S. cable channel C-SPAN. Students can watch and listen to online video clips and use them as the basis for discussion. ****

The Hemingway Resource Center [RealOne Player]

Mark Twain Webquest from Carla Beard.

Perspectives in American Literature PAL A Research and Reference Guide by Paul P Reuben

Puritan Tracts

Jonathan Edwards

Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692

17th Century Colonial New England

The Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Director's Choice [Quick Time]

Examples:

A Student's History of American Literature. Excellent read and good info.

American Lit Survey Site Marist High School.