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American Literature         Poetry         Drama         Movies         Shakespeare       
Mythology     World Literature        Holocaust Resources       

General Resource Links

Indiana Reading List - Indiana Department of Education reading list that meets the academic standards for English/Language Arts

Great Books Online-Bartleby - Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget II: The New Thesaurus, American Heritage Book of English Usage, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,  Gray's Anatomy, and more

Edsitement - Search for best humanities sites.

Classic Bookshelf - Public domain e-texts of classic works of (primarily) British and American literature

Pulitzer Prize Winners

Discovery Channel - TV schedule, themes, lesson plans

NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English Web site

SparkNotes Online Study Guides

Bibliofind - Millions of rare books, out-of-print books, magazines, etc

Bookfinder - Search for out-of-print and used books

Books and Book Collecting - Find any book in or out of print

Random Reading Group Guides

Reading Group Choices

Science Fiction Online Study Guides

Puzzlemaker - Create various puzzles

Based on the Book - Selected books that have been made into movies

Wired for Books

Encyclopedias/Dictionaries

The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia -  Outstanding reference work features 17,000 articles with more than 170,000 links to other resources on the Web

OneLook Dictionaries  - Search more than 450 dictionaries for the correct definition and spelling of words.

Dictionary - Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition 

Biographical Dictionary - Contains biographies of more than 22,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.

Familiar Quotations: a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

Ye Olde English Sayings - Origins of Old English sayings plus a  link to a list of other etymology pages

Author/Criticism Links

African American Writers - Huge site of resources for teachers, students, librarians, and parents

Authors on the Web - Biographies, books, and essays

Authors and Illustrators on the Web

Author Guides - Search alphabetically by author

Book Page

Gale Research index

Greenwood Press Online Criticisms

Novel Guide - Classic and contemporary literature profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, and biography

Online Literary Criticism Collection - Excellent site from Internet Public Library

Book Review Resources

Amazon Books

Barnes and Noble

Book Radio - Interviews with authors

Booklist Homepage

English Server Fiction

Great Books Index

American Literature

American Literature on the Web - American literature and its social, cultural contexts with over 300 author homepages

Anniina's Amy Tan Page - Readings, essays, interviews, bibliographies, book reviews of Amy Tan's work

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page

Jack London Collection

Norton Websource to American Literature - Literary  timelines, study questions, plus great sites

Richard Wright- 1908 to 1960 - Biography, bibliographies, and links to other sites

To Kill a Mockingbird Then and Now

To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide - Notes on words, allusions, and idioms

Voices from the Dust Bowl - American Memory Library of Congress

Walt Whitman Home Page - From Library of Congress American Memory

Witchcraft in Salem Village - Primary documents and other related materials related to the Witchcraft Outbreak in 1692

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) - Indiana University Digital Library Program collection of American fiction that attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875

World Literature

Norton Websource to English Literature - Literary timelines, study questions, plus great sites

Classical Origins of Western Culture - Provides information on Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Antigone, Euripides' Medea, Plato's Apology and Republic, Vergil's Aeneid plus others.

Jane Austen's Writings

Essays on Early 17th Century Literature - John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Sir Francis Bacon and others

Classic Bookshelf - Public domain e-texts of classic works of (primarily) British and American literature

World Literature in English Online Study Guides

18th and 19th European Classics Online Study Guides

India, Africa, and the Carribbean Literature Online Study Guides

Medea Myth Study Guide

 

Poetry

About.com
http://altreligion.about.com/library/graphics/bl_inferno.htm
Images by various artists and illustrators depicting Dante’s Inferno

American Verse Project - Full-text collection of 19th century poetry

Artcyclopediahttp://www.artcyclopedia.com/ - The guide to great art on the internet

Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Page - Interviews, audio and essays

Bartleby Verse: American and English Poetry: 1250 - 1920

British Poetry 1780 to 1910

Danteworlds - http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/ - take a multi-media journey through Dante's Inferno

Digital Dante - http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/

Everypoet for Every Man - Search by name, title, first line, etc.

Favorite Poem Project - Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project shares audio and video of people reading their favorite poems.

Find a PoetThe Academy of American Poets provides information on favorite poets, both the famous and the lesser-known

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - http://www.famsf.org/

Great Writers and Poets - Lists of author homepages

Modern American Poetry - A multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Poetry Center - Knopf Publishing

The Poets - Modern American Poetry

Web Gallery of Art - http://www.wga.hu/

Drama

Costume Page - Comprehensive site for costume history

Fashion & Costuming Resources - List of links, with excellent annotations, to web sites relating to costuming, fashion (both historical and current), the fashion industry, education, and more from the Association of College and research Libraries' C&RL.

Movies

All-Movie Guide - Look up movies and actors

Internet Movie Database - Search by title, character, etc.

Shakespeare

Absolute Shakespeare - The essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre

Elizabethan Era - Comprehensive site

Debate Continues on the Shakespearian Mystery

Elizabethan Theatre - Description of Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatres

Folger Shakespeare Library

Seven Ages of Shakespeare's Life

Humours - System for describing personality types (Click the right arrow at the bottom of each page for more information and examples.)

Life in Elizabethan EnglandExcellent, comprehensive site

Middle Ages: Religion - Annenberg/CPB project - What was it really like to live in the Middle Ages?

Renaissance Views of Madness: King Lear - Essay on belief that illness results when a humour is out of balance

Shakespeare Authorship Debate

Shakespeare Theme Page - Curriculum resources, lesson plans and more

Shakespeare's Food

Shakespeare's Life and Times - History, music, art, politics and more

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - The original Globe and the new Globe

Tudor History - Life, architecture, and historical figures of Tudor England

Mythology

Bulfinch's Mythology - Encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and magic contains well over 1800 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, and legendary creatures and monsters from cultures and beliefs all over the world.

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Encyclopedia Mythica - An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend

Folktales and Mythology

Olympian Gods

Perseus Project - Library of ancient civilizations

Dance

Dance Resources - Dance links, ballet links, and other resources

 

Holocaust Teaching Resources

About.Com The Holocaust

America and the Holocaust

Anne Frank - The Attic  - Teacher Workbook

Auschwitz Museum

Auschwitz-Birkenau - History of the camps, period and current photographs

Calvin Minds in the Making - German Propaganda Archive

Bergen-Belsen Memorial -History of the camp and camp chronology

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies - Exhibitions and art created by Holocaust survivors

Cybrary of the Holocaust

Forgotten Camps - Special emphasis on lesser-know subcamps

Hidden History of Kovno Ghetto - Artifacts and documents buried as a historical record by inhabitants of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania

Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy

Holocaust Album - Contemporary photographs

Holocaust Art - View works of artists and read their biographies

Holocaust ArtView works associated with a ghetto or camp and read about its history

Holocaust Art Restitution Project

Holocaust Chronicle

Holocaust History Project - Documents, photographs, recordings, essays, and links regarding the Holocaust, with special attention on refuting Holocaust denial and revisionism

Holocaust Museum Houston

Holocaust on Trial - Based on a television documentary about the Irving vs. Lipstadt trial in 2000. Features a timeline on Holocaust denial and revisionism, and biographies of Holocaust deniers and revisionists.

Holocaust Teacher Resource Center

Holocaust Timeline - A complete chronicle of Nazi persecution of the Jews with photos and text from The History Place.

Images of Internment  -  Painting and drawings Josef Nassy created depicting daily life in the camps.

Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killing

Kindertransport Organization - Children who lived in Great Britain without their parents during the ten months of the rescue operation called the "Kindertransport"

Last Expression: Art & Auschwitz - Art produced by concentration camp inmates, with a special focus on Auschwitz-Birkenau

Learning about the Holocaust through art

Missing Identity

Night by Elie Wiesel Teacher Cyberguide

Nizkor Project -Based on Shattered! 50 Years of Silence, the History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria, the site provides background and personal testimonies.   

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II

Reflections on the Holocaust - a thorough, inclusive and well-organized site

Search and Unite

Shtetl  

Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Site Map

Teaching with Movies: Learning Guide to Schindler's List

Teaching with Movies: Learning Guide to Anne Frank

Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

To Save A Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue

Transdiffusion Broadcassting System - Hitler's Radio

U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Voices of the Holocaust -   In 1946 Dr. David Pablo Boder of Illinois Institute of Technology  interviewed Holocaust survivors.  The  interviews took place one year after liberation, while the victims were still in displaced persons camps throughout Europe. Excellent source

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Museum