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	Academy of American Poets	Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this site contains biographies of poets and the texts of hundreds of poems, many with images and sound files.
	African Studies WWW	Cultural, educational, and statistical resources covering the African continent.
	African-American Women On-line Archival Collections	Historical collection of letters and memoirs by African-American women in the nineteenth-century.
	American Collection: An Educator's Site	Highlighting the works of six great authors—Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty—the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides.
	American Masters (*NEW*)	(NEW) An ongoing series of award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of America’s most outstanding cultural artists.
	American Memory Project (Library of Congress)	Archival resources for exploring many aspects of American history and culture.
	American President	A wealth of information about the history of the American Presidency, including an archive of essays on the year 2000 general election.
	American Studies at the University of Virginia	The site is a repository of scholarly concentrations on such humanities topics as the 1930s, cultural maps, American literature, avant-garde and postmodern art exhibitions, and the U.S. Capitol building as an American icon. The site houses hypertexts of several American authors, including: Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
	American Verse Project	Electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920
	The Antislavery Literature Project (*NEW*)	(NEW) Primary source texts on the antislavery movement as well as podcasts and videos. Accompanied by teachers’ guides.
	Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events (*NEW*)	(NEW) A comprehensive timeline on American history from the mid-17th century through 1920, as well as a robust listing of American literary movements.
	The British Academy Portal	The British Academy's directory of online resources in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed as an entry point to available resources for those working in higher education and research.
	Bucknell Russian Studies Department	Multi-layered reference on the history, culture, and language of Russian people.
	Connecticut History Online	Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Mystic Seaport, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
	Conversations with History	Interviews with a broad range of historical figures from the latter half of the twentieth century.
	DanteWorlds (*NEW*)	(NEW) A richly visual site providing compelling images, both new graphics and classic artwork, to supplement a classroom reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Includes character studies.
	Dartmouth Dante Project (*NEW*)	(NEW) A searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
	Digital Classroom (National Archives and Records Administration)	Historical documents, activities, and training for educators and students.
	Digital Dante	Texts and contexts for the study of the Italian Renaissance writer Dante.
	Digital Scriptorium (Columbia U.) (*NEW*)	(NEW) An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
	Do History	The site centers upon the historical work surrounding the diary of Martha Ballard, an 18th Century midwife. The core of the site is Martha's actual diary, which can be browsed or searched online, but the site also includes a large archive of primary sources about Martha and colonial America.
	Documenting the American South	Growing collection of primary materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners.
	Documents of Civil War Women	Resources by and about women during the Civil War.
	The End of Europe's Middle Ages	The End of Europe's Middle Ages is designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history.
	Episteme Links	Comprehensive resources related to philosophy.
	F.Scott Fitzgerald Centenary	The site offers a comprehensive view of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life, works, and influence on American literature. Links to audio clips, film clips, and quotations from Fitzgerald and other notable figures deepen visitors' understanding of the author.
	Geoffrey Chaucer Website	Texts and contexts on Chaucer and life in the Middle Ages.
	Goethe Institute	An international collection of resources for study of the German language and German culture.
	Great War Primary Documents Archive	Documents, memoirs, and images for study of World War I.
	Gulliver's Travels	Comprehensive resources for the study of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
	Harpweek	Created by Harper's Weekly as an online archive of 18th and 19th century issues of the magazine, the site contains ten free features utilizing rich primary sources and scholastic commentary on topics that range from Immigrant and Ethnic America to The World of Thomas Nast.
	Hawthorne in Salem	This site draws on the collections of The Peabody Essex Museum, the House of Seven Gables Historic Site, and the Salem Maritime National Historic site. It features critical approaches to Hawthorne’s work and includes a timeline, an image gallery, and links to several electronic editions.
	Humanities Interactive (*NEW*)	(NEW) The Texas Council for the Humanities places its resources in the hands of teachers and librarians in an interactive format.
	Ile en Ile	This French-language site, designed and hosted at the City University of New York and associated with a French non-profit educational association, focuses on the history, society, and literature of various French-speaking islands located throughout the world.
	Indivisible: Stories of American Community	Indivisible, a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, documents, through photographs and interviews, the struggles and achievements of 12 communities that have made differences on their residents. The American communities, from Chicago's Southwest side to the North Pacific Coast of Alaska, each face different challenges, but their stories all feature individuals of exceptional vision and commitment.
	International Children's Digital Library	The mission of the ICDL is to select, collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old.
	Internet Medieval Sourcebook	A library of texts and translations recording all aspects of medieval life.
	Internet Public Library	Produced by the University of Michigan School of Information, this site contains a vast collection of online texts, including novels, newspapers, magazines, and tutorials for students of all ages.
	Jazz: A Ken Burns Film	This highly interactive site offers many ways to introduce jazz as a musical genre and cultural tradition. An interactive map features hot places for jazz in America; a lounge defines jazz with recordings of key elements and genres; and audio files feauture nine different songs of nine artists. Artists featured on the site include: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan.
	Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening	The site features 13 works by Chopin, including The Awakening, a transcript of the documentary, interviews with a Chopin descendent and Chopin scholar, and a basic chronology of Chopin's life.
	KateChopin.org (*NEW*)	(NEW) The official website of the Kate Chopin International Society. Provides a network and forum for the study of American author Kate Chopin (1850-1904). The society encourages and supports scholarship and activities that illuminate Chopin’s contribution to the American literary tradition, and it seeks to preserve her literary significance for future generations.
	KidReach: The Online Reading Center	Designed to encourage reading and appreciation of literature for students in grades K-12, the site divides its content into six main categories: anticipation guides, lesson plans, book reviews, reading links, online writing lab, and a chat section.
	Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies	Texts, images, and commentary for the study of the Middle Ages.
	Latin Literature	Sponsored by Kentucky Educational Television, this site supports an online course in the study of Latin and offers additional resources on Roman culture.
	LitGLoss	The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English. The texts are of literary, cultural, or historical interest to speakers of English, and likely (we think) to be better appreciated if read in the original language.
	Mark Twain in His Times	Broad range of materials on Mark Twain the writer and his times.
	Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure	Based on a PBS lecture series narrated by Michael Palin, this site provides younger students with an overview of the life of Ernest Hemingway.
	Modern American Poetry	Described as an online journal and multimedia companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry, produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the site includes articles analyzing specific poems and the oeuvre of 161 modern American poets.
	Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet	Annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet, including links to primary texts, information on the Globe Theatre, and aspects of Shakespearean theatrical performance.
	Nathaniel Hawthorne	A richly documented portrait of the author of The Scarlet Letter.
	National First Ladies Library	Background on the women of the White House.
	New Perspectives on the West	Guided tour through the history of the American West, following in the footsteps of filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives.
	The Online Books Page (*NEW*)	(NEW) Exhaustive list of text-encoded books available for free online through various sources. Also includes banned book feature.
	Papers of George Washington	Digital library from the George Washington Archives, including historical materials on Washington's life and times, as well as a selection of Washington?s papers.
	Perseus Project	Maps, texts, translations, and commentary for students of the ancient world.
	Plymouth Colony: Archive Project	The site presents a collection of searchable texts, including court records, Colony laws, 17th century texts, research and analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, and architectural and material culture studies.
	Poetry Foundation (*NEW*)	(NEW) Children’s section offers imaginative ways to incorporate poetry in children’s lives, interviews with poets, and more. Includes an interactive poetry tool for searching through poems.
	Representative Poetry Online (*NEW*)	(NEW) Site includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
	Romantic Circles	Texts and contexts for the study of Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and their contemporaries.
	Scribbling Women	Online resources for teaching American women's literature using dramatizations produced by The Public Media Foundation
	Shakespeare for Kids	The Folger Shakespeare Library site for kids, with activities for children and families.
	Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric	Interactive encyclopedia of literary forms and figures of speech.
	Teaching Shakespeare	An educator's guide to teaching Shakespeare for students in grades K-12.
	Thomas A. Edison Papers	Encyclopedic database on Edison?s life and work as an inventor and businessman.
	The Thomas Gray Archive	This “interactive hypermedia repository” describes itself as a “dynamic online environment that serves as a reading aid for the interested general reader and as a research tool for professional readers of Gray’s work.”
	Thoreau Reader (*NEW*)	(NEW) Annotated works of Henry David Thoreau and an extensive resource list on his life and works. Teaching Thoreau feature with further resources.
	Treasures@Sea	This site provides clear, multi-layered humanities and scientific content that seeks to educate elementary school students about the ocean and the life it contains.
	The Truman Presidential Library	Created by the Harry S. Truman Library, this site teaches K-6 children about the life and times of President Truman.
	Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture	This website from the University of Virginia presents a vast multimedia archive of primary material, 1830 to 1930, organized around Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal work. Educators should preview the material, particularly the various representations of race and slavery in the archive, to determine what is appropriate for use in their own classroom discussion.
	United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	Straightforward access to the Museum?s archives, including photographs, transcripts of lectures, and guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust.
	Valley of the Shadow	Multimedia resources bring to life two communities divided by Civil War.
	Victorian Web	Resources on literature, politics, science, and art during the Victorian age in Great Britain.
	Victorian Women Writers Project	Texts and contexts for students of 19th-century British literature.
	VRoma	Take a tour through a virtual reconstruction of Rome! A community of scholars, both teachers and students, created these on-line resources for teaching Latin and ancient Roman culture.
	The Walt Whitman Archive (*NEW*)	(NEW) An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers (U. of Nebraska, Lincoln, and U. of Iowa).
	William Blake Archive	An online library of the visionary British poet's illuminated publications.
	Wired for Books	For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
	Witchcraft in a Salem Village	The site provides accurate information about the history of the Salem witch trials using primary documents almost exclusively. These texts include complete court documents, profiles of those involved, rare books and treatises about witchcraft and the Salem trials, and original maps.
	Women of the West Museum	Online exhibits about the experiences of women in the American west.
	The World of Dante (*NEW*)	(NEW) A multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site.






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