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History Buff: The Story Behind "Casey at the Bat"

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Civil War Homepage: "Recollections of a Private"

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Liz Library: Letters Between Abigail and John Adams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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The Cranberry Isles: Rachel Field's God's Pocket

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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University of Pennsylvania: Edna St. Vincent Millay

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Pennsylvania offers two sonnets from THESE GRAPES(1934) by Millay.
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Quotes on Liberty and Virtue

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Follow links to find various quotes on Liberty and Virtue. Some are from other famous people.
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Edan St. Vincent Millay,thou Famished Grave

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers the poem THOU FAMISHED GRAVE, by Millay.
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University of Regensburg: Red Indian Skeptics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a conversation between missionary Rev. Cram and Sagoyewatha ("Red Jacket", Chief of the Seneca).