Baertracks
Creative Quotations: Upton Sinclair
Read and think about what the great "muckraker" Upton Sinclair had to say about various topics. Also provides source information.
Washington State University
Washington State University: American Authors: Questions on Daisy Miller
Use these questions to focus discussion or guide reading of Henry James' "Daisy Miller" Site offers contemporary comments on the work as well.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Edward Everett Hale
This Bartleby.com site provides some information on Edward Everett Hale's career as a writer.
Other
Eugene O'neill Theater Center
This is the online home for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Find information about playwrights, conferences, and performances.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Distant Relative" by w.w. Jacobs
The full text of the short story "A Distant Relative" by W.W. Jacobs.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Dixon's Return" by w.w. Jacobs
The full text of the short story "Dixon's Return" by W.W. Jacobs.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Worksheets to Go: Charlotte's Web: Matching
Match eleven characters to their descriptions. Printable, with a link to answers at the bottom.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "An International Episode" by Henry James
Text of the book "An International Episode" by Henry James. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Other
History Buff: The Story Behind "Casey at the Bat"
This website provides information on the history of Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat," tracing the poem's rise from obscurity to "immortal."
Other
Civil War Homepage: "Recollections of a Private"
This Civil War Homepage site provides some of the text to Goss's published account of the life of a soldier in the Civil War. Part I is a good second-hand look at the Battle of Bull Run. Part II, a march from Washington to Harper's Ferry...
Other
Liz Library: Letters Between Abigail and John Adams
A short series of correspondence between Abigail Adams and John Adams. The two discuss the place of women in the developing American nation. Links to a women's suffrage timeline follow.
Other
The Cranberry Isles: Rachel Field's God's Pocket
This website, part of a larger site celebrating the Cranberry Isles, ME, provides a reproduction of the dust jacket from Rachel Field's work God's Pocket: The Story of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Junior of Cranberry Isles, Maine. The site...
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: Edna St. Vincent Millay
This site from the University of Pennsylvania offers two sonnets from THESE GRAPES(1934) by Millay.
Other
Quotes on Liberty and Virtue
Follow links to find various quotes on Liberty and Virtue. Some are from other famous people.
Other
Edan St. Vincent Millay,thou Famished Grave
This site offers the poem THOU FAMISHED GRAVE, by Millay.
Other
University of Regensburg: Red Indian Skeptics
This site provides a conversation between missionary Rev. Cram and Sagoyewatha ("Red Jacket", Chief of the Seneca).