University of Oklahoma
Univ.of Oklahoma: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
This site presents the full text of Patrick Henry's famous speech, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
University of North Carolina
Documenting the American South: Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
This site from the University of North Carolina provides the full text of Phillis Wheatley's poetry, and her memoirs.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Here at this site from the University of North Carolina, read the full text to Mary Chesnut's (1823-1886 CE) "A Diary from Dixie." This website include biographical information and illustration from the original book, published in 1905.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: Franklin and the Presbyterians
A detailed essay describing an incident having to do with the sermons of Samuel Hemphill within the Philadelphia Presbyterian Church in 1734. Benjamin Franklin supported Hemphill.
Bill Carson
Puritan and Reformed Writings: "Meditation 1"
Full text of Edward Taylor's poem, "Meditation 1." Includes links to other information about Puritans and their writing.
Other
The Cyber Hymnal: James Russell Lowell (1819 1891)
This entry provides biographical information on the poet James Russell Lowell as a hymnist. Includes audio examples. Illustrated.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "In the Cage" by Henry James
Text of the book "In the Cage" by Henry James. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Marianne Moore Two Poems
This collection, from the e-text library at the University of Virginia, provides the texts of two poems originally published in "The Dial" magazine, "Picking and Choosing" and "England."
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Songs of the Pueblo Indians
Maintained by the Electronic Texts Center at the University of Virginia, this library reproduces a collection of poems that Lowell originally published in 1920 in the literary magazine "The Dial."
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Upton Sinclair: End Poverty in California: The Epic Movement
Upton Sinclair outlines how he would end poverty in his failed campaign for the governorship of California in a 1934 article for Literary Digest.
Other
Web Quest: Little House on the Prairie: Grades 4 6
This WebQuest (internet based project) asks students to "Persuade people that they should build a museum about Laura Ingalls Wilder in 'your state.'"
Other
Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's novel is offered by the Schomburg African American Women Writers project in machine-readable form.
Other
Rochester Institute of Technology: "Casey at the Bat"
This page from the Rochester Institute of Technology provides the text of Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat."
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin College: Sojourner Truth
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.
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin College: Eugene O'neill
The site is devoted to the study of "The Hairy Ape." The questions are very good and related links are embedded in the text.
This Nation
This nation.com's Library: "Abraham Lincoln" by James Russell Lowell Full Text
ThisNation site provides the full text of James Russell Lowell's "Abraham Lincoln". This is a printer friendly version!
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Outline of American Lit
Part of a larger series on "The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914," this website provides some brief analysis of Henry James' three writing phases: his two "international" phases (early and late) and his "experimental" phase.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Eudora Welty (B. 1909)
This site, part of online materials to help teachers plan classroom materials and activities on Welty's writing to accompany the Heath Anthology of American Literature, provides information about the major themes of Welty's works, her...
University of Pennsylvania
Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Maintained by a group called "A Celebration of Women Writers," this site offers an online text version of Fisher's "Understood Betsy." The story can be linked by individual chapters, and includes illustrations.
Yale University
Eastern Themes and Modernist Theater; O'neill
This is an introduction of Oriental thought in the works of Eugene O'Neill.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Selected Poetry of Ezra Pound
This resource provides the text of several of Pound's poems, including "Alba," "In a Station of the Metro," and "Canto I."
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Edna St. Vincent Millay
This resource offers thirty-eight pieces of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry.
American Indian Heritage Foundation
Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, 1863 1950
This site includes religious quotes and prayers from Black Elk that exemplify his spirituality.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "In the Family" by W. W. Jacobs
Text of the short story "In the Family" by W. W. Jacobs. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)