PBS
Nilolai Gogol's Dead Souls
This PBS site discusses the influence of Ukranium folk tales on Gogol's work. Includes audio/video excerpts from the film versions of Vij, The Overcoat, and Dead Souls.
Other
Roger Ebert: Review of Anna Karenina
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, reviews the 1997 film version of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina. The movie starred Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean as Anna and Vronsky.
Other
Wired for Books: Community Reconsidered
Read the transcripts of a conversation among three Ohio University literature professors about The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy. The conversation took place on July 27, 1997 at the Ohio University...
Other
Zvi Har El: Jules Vern Collection
This collection includes a biography, a complete bibliography, pictures of Jules Verne stamps, scholarly articles, a chronology and a Jules Verne virtual library.
A&E Television
Biography: Fyodor Dostoevsky
This resource provides a very basic biography of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College: Dostoyevsky and the Problem of God
A student-written essay entitled "Dostoyevsky and the Problem of God." Includes bibliography and references.
Contemplator
Popular Songs in American History: Turkey in the Straw
This site provides the lyrics to an early minstrel song that was popular during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Cousin Bette: Reading Guide
Critical background information, as well as a biographical sketch and discussion questions are offered here by the publisher.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Young Republic
This site is provided for by the Library of Congress. Painter and printer John Rubens Smith sketched rivers, roads, cities, bridges, and mills throughout America between the years 1810 and 1840. Digital images of his art are provided...
Library of Congress
Loc: "O Captain! My Captain!"
This site from the Library of Congress provides comments on a poem written by Walt Whitman at the death of Abraham Lincoln. Image of the manuscript available at this Library of Congress site.
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Ite About 'The Banquet'
This painting is the last of a four-part series painted for Charles Jacoby. The notes will help familiarize you with the content of the work and the special zoom feature will give you a closer look at the painting technique.
A&E Television
Biography: Vincent Van Gogh
A brief look at the creative, but tumultuous, career of artist Vincent van Gogh. Discusses several of his most famous works ("The Potato Eaters" and "Sunflowers"), his artistic influences, and legacy.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Us History: The American Transportation System
Read and study the sources about the American transportation system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As you read the four sources, think about how the development of the transportation system in the United States...
University of Virginia
Iath: University of Virginia: Collective Biographies of Women
This project promotes on-line collaborative research on nineteenth and twentieth century English-language collections of biographies of women.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb, with the editorial help of her brother, Charles, rewrote twenty of Shakespeare's plays into stories for children. This is a copy of the tex which introduced Shakespeare to many people of all ages throughout the nineteenth and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries:drawing From Life: Caricatures and Cartoons
A website dedicated to displaying a selection of political cartoons and caricatures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes biographies of many famous cartoonists and commentaries on the cartoonist's style and interests.
Other
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
This resource includes a detailed biography, transcripts of his letters to his beloved brother Theo, photographs, numerous reproductions, and more. The museum also collects Western paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from the...
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: The Slave Narrative
In addition to defining "Slave Narrative," this website includes information on the styles and influences associated with slave narratives. Also provided, are links to several examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave narratives.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Child Labor in America
Historical photographs provide learners with a firsthand look at the issue of child labor during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this lesson, students will use photographs to further understanding of the politics,...
Curated OER
Introduction
This site explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the long journey...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Md: B&o Trans Museum & Mount Clare Station
Collections of 19th- and 20th-century artifacts related to America's railroads; 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock; 15,000 artifacts; four nineteenth-century buildings, including the historic roundhouse; a mile of historic track.
Curated OER
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Tenements
An encyclopedia entry about tenements that focuses on the housing situation of poor immigrants in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Chicago. Includes information about early efforts to improve public housing in the city.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hannibal
Hannibal's Passage of the Alps. Hannibal determined to carry the war into Italy. To do this, he had to fight his way through Spain and cross the Alps, which were regarded as an impassable barrier between Italy and the North. In this he...
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