The National Women's Hall of Fame provides a brief discussion of the life and work of Edith Wharton, first female novelist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The site is provided by the National Women's Hall of Fame, a museum of women's...

An informational site on Harriet Beecher Stowe. Includes general information about her life, works, and writings, including Uncle Tom's Cabin. Also includes links to other sites.

This website provides links to numerous Iroquois stories and fables.

An informational site on Black Elk. Includes general information about his life, works, and writings, including Black Elk Speaks. Also includes links to other sites.

Teacher guide for Douglass's biography features 24 pages of chapter-by-chapter study questions, quotations, and activities. Valuable post-reading activities as well as methods for eliciting student responses also included. This is a .pdf...

Although brief, this discussion of the clash of cultures in the 1920s covers all the reasons for cultural discordance.

This exhibition documents the quest for utopian society through the literary works and manuscripts in the collection of Yale University's Beinecke Library, beginning with Thomas More's Utopia. With additional information on utopian...

This Library of Congress site provides a brief description of Crane's life as a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War and then provides some excerpts from some of his war correspondences. A bibliography of related works of...

The Milwaukee Public Museum provides this introduction to the Native American oral tradition and oral literature of the Great Lakes region. Describes common themes and characters, including trickster characters and windingo (ice...

Search the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress with this online bibliography resource. There are over 5,000 titles that explore both the social sciences and the humanities.

A brief summary of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Also includes an on-line text of the work as well as links to other informational websites.

The Nobel Foundation profiles the winner of its 1971 prize for literature, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

This site from PBS.org features a biographical note about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A photo of the author is also included.

Modernist poetry is featured in this comprehensive article.

This on-line encyclopedia article gives information about Phillis Wheatley, the Boston slave who surprised colonial America with her poetry. She was the first African-American woman to have her work published.

A site from Washington State University detailing the emergence of transcendentalism, and quotes from major authors of the time.

Maintained by the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, this website offers the entire text of Hilda Doolittle's collection "Sea Garden," available through a series of links.

This entry, from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature, provides a description of the poetry written in the second half of the nineteenth century by poets of the American West, namely Bret Harte. It examines common...

This site offers an analysis of the work of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883 CE) and explanations as to why much of Truth's work hasn't appeared in conventional American Literature anthologies.

A brief summary of The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain. Also includes an online text of the work as well as links to other informational websites.

Contains a biography of William Faulkner (1897-1962 CE), list of works, and links to additional information on the writer.

Brief biographical sketch of Mary Rowlandson, with an emphasis on her role in American literature.

A brief summary of "The Last of the Mohicans," by James Fenimore Cooper. Also includes an on-line text of the work as well as links to other informational websites.

Contains a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940 CE), list of works, and links to additional information on the author.