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General Links
WayBack Machine:
the Internet Archive indexes billions of webpages, showing how
they have changed over the years. With links to millions of pages
and themed collections, this collection is a useful starting
place for research on how the Internet has changed since its
creation in 1990.
American
Collection Literary Map The American Collection Literary
Map provides a visual gateway to authors across America. By selecting
any state, users can access author information or submit their
own information and related web links. This site is brought to
you by Exxon and the National Council of Teachers of English.
New
York Times Learning Network The New York Times provides
this free website with resources for students, teachers, and
parents.
Newsuem: The Interactive
Museum of News The Newseum features the front pages of
over 300 US and international newspapers, online exhibits, such
as one that features photographs that have received the Pulitzer
Prize and a fine exhibit on D-Day, and resources for educators.
American
Experience: Vietnam Timeline
History's
Time Portal to Old St. Louis
Interactive
Literature Links: The American Traditions Ebook supplement
Social
Studies Literature Connections
Manuscripts
American Studies Sites
Colonial America: The South
The New England Colony: Puritans &
Pilgrims
Supplementary Reading
Famous Colonial Americans
Slavery
Colonial America: New England
Religion
in Colonial America
Puritians For a further investigation of the Puritans,
check out the Salem
WitchhuntWebquest.
Philadelphia: The Quakers
Famous Americans: BenFranklin
1800-1840 A Growing Nation: From Reason to Romance
Introduction pages 164-179
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American Romanticism can
be broadly defined as that perspective which looks at objects
and sees them as emblems of a greater reality. In other words,
freedom of perception for the individual can be completely liberated.
Romanticism:Romanticism emphasized
the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative,
the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary,
and the transcendental.
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Romanticism
Webquest: Romanticism
in American Art (homework credit)
Early American Fiction
The
Rise of the Short Story
Transcendentalism
Artists/
Movements and Ideas: Utopias
For a further investigation of Transcendentalism and the first
Flowering of American Intellectualism, check out the Utopian
Communities Webquest.
The Western Frontier
Dime Novels: Popular Depictions of the West
Artcyclopedia:
Western Artists
The
National Cowboy and Western
Canadian Native Nations and English Treaties: English
Royal Proclamation of 1763
Images
of the West Webquest
The
First American West: The Ohio River Valley
American
Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920
North
American Map Archive: Territorial Exapansion of the United States
1783-1853
New Perspectives
on the American West
Native Americans
Encyclopedia
of American Indians This online version of Frederick E. Hoxie's
Encyclopedia of American Indians includes over 400 entries, covering
such topics as specific tribes, biographies of Native people,
historical topics such as boarding schools, and current issues
such as mascots.
Maps
of Native American Lands and History
Native
American Maps
Trail
of Tears Map
Native
American History and Culture
Treaties
Between the United States and Native Americans
Relations
Between the United States and Native Americans
Native
Americans Etexts of Primary Sources
Named
Campaigns of the Indian Wars
Indian
Wars Time Table
The
West: Indian Wars
Western
Expansion: Research Sites
Border
Wars or Indian Massacres
Famous Americans
PBS The
West: People
Connecting Text: The Autobiography of David
Crockett
Special Presentation: William
F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
This is a very good link to his life and to his autobiography.
Fiddle Tunes
of the Old Frontier
Buffalo Bill
Historical Center
Buffalo Bill Grave and
Museum
Buffalo
Bill on PBS
Buffalo Bill's Wild
West Show
Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show and Exhibit
Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show Photos
Denver Library's
Photo Collection: including Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and
Railroad Pictures
Harvey,
Charles M.. "The Dime Novel in American Life" Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library (1907)
American West Art Links
Artcyclopedia:
Western Artists
Two Rivers Gallery:
fine art of the American Wes
The
National Cowboy and Western
Maps
of Native American Lands and History
Native
American Maps
Canadian
Native Nations and English Treaties: English Royal Proclamation
of 1763
Trail
of Tears Map
Native
American History and Culture
Treaties
Between the United States and Native Americans
Relations
Between the United States and Native Americans
Native
Americans Etexts of Primary Sources
The Dakota Conflict
Film
and Media Archive: Washington University Library
Named
Campaigns of the Indian Wars
Indian
Wars Time Table
Historical
Maps: Including The Indian Wars
The
West: Indian Wars
Western
Expansion: Research Sites
Border
Wars or Indian Massacres
North
American Map Archive: Territorial Exapansion of the United States
1783-1853
New Perspectives
on the American West
PBS The
West: People
Cattle Drive Timeline
Kansas
Timeline: Kansas Historical Society
Events
in the West Timeline: PBS
Events
in the West Timeline: PBS 1860's Cattle Drives
Picture
of a Winter Cattle Drive
Timeline
of Texas and the Western Frontier
Texas
History Highlights: Why did cattle drives stop?
History
of Barbed Wire
Cattle
Brand History
American
West Timeline: School Project
The Civil War
The History
Channel: The American Civil War
For a further investigation of The Civil War, check out the
resources for the Civil War
Journals assignment, or the Online
Syllabus.
The South: Myth and Reality
The William
Faulkner Foundation
William
Faulkner Short Story Collection
Faulkner's
Characters: Glossary
Faulkner's
Genealogical Charts
A
Yoknapatawpha Timeline
The Moderns: Realism to Naturalism
For a further investigation of The 1920z, check out the resources
for the The Great Gatsby Magazine
Project assignment, or the Online
Syllabus.
Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
For a further investigation of The 1930z, check out the resources
for the The
Grapes of Wratth Project assignment, or the Online
Syllabus.
F. Scott Fitgerald and The Great Gatsby
Black
Mask: Pulp Fiction
Gumshoe
The Moonlit Road:
Ghost Stories and Strange Folktales of the American South
The
Hero's Journey: an environment to explore the classic mythical
story structure and create your own stories.
The Poetry Express:
15 poems you can write now.
Graphic Design
for the 1920s and 1930s.
Knowing
Poe: Cool site from the Maryland Public Television
The Mystery
Spot: Activities for teachers and students to solve mysteries.
The History
of Jim Crow: explore the African-American experience of segragation
form the 1870s through the 1950s.
American Writers:
C-Span
Writing
American
Dreams through the decades:This WebQuest challenges you to
investigate the American Dream ...look through the eyes of those
who lived before us ...use the American Memory collections, The
Library of Congress, to visit America's past ...learn research
skills and experience the richness of the library collections
...defend your ideas, create products that show your understanding
of others' dreams ...then share your dream for America's future.
Ancient
China: the British Museum
MOMa
Art Safari: An adventure in modern art
Museum of Modern Art
Blogs in Education:
This page is designed to provide you some resources if you want
to get started using blogs for yourself or with your students.
KAIROS: online
journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology,
and pedagogy.
Basic Steps in
the Research Process
The
Bell South Digital Storyteller Project:
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