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Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an anti-slavery novel published in 1852, that was said to "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War." It was the best-selling novel of the 19th...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Catlin, the White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas

For Students 9th - 10th
George Catlin's paintings and illustrations show Native-Americans as real people as opposed to noble savages as Europeans often viewed them. View examples of his paintings and read their backstory in this essay.
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements: Gothic, Novel, and Romance

For Students 9th - 10th
This site defines and identifies characteristics for the Romance, the novel, and the Gothic novel. Uses good examples to distinguish between these genres.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: The Romantic Period, 1820 1860: Essayists and Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: The Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism in America. It looks at the relationship between religion and politics.
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Other

Poets' Corner: John Greenleaf Whittier Snow Bound

For Students 9th - 10th
This site houses the text to John Greenleaf Whittier's poem entitled "Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl."
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Walden: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of Chapter 2.2 of Walden by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. It focuses on where he lived and what he lived for.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Edgar Allan Poe

For Students 9th - 10th
The exotic settings and complex characters of Poe's work are explored in this brief essay.
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Other

Norval Morrisseau and Medicine Painting

For Students 3rd - 8th
Norval Morrisseau, a Canadian Ojibwa, is the founder of Woodland school of Native American medicine painting.
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Other

National Museum of Wildlife Art

For Students 9th - 10th
From the home page, click on the elk icon to enter, then go to "collections". The National Museum of Wildlife Art holds works of the American West from 1819 to the present, with themes of explorer art, sporting art, Romanticism,...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: From Courage to Freedom:frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this 3-lesson plan unit, students will read Douglass's narrative. They will analyze Douglass's vivid first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves and the behavior of slave owners to see how he successfully contrasts reality with...
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: William Blake

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a site from The Academy of American Poets about the poet William Blake (1757-1827 CE). While the primary purpose of the site is to provide a biography of the author, there are very good links on the page. By clicking on the links...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich Fordham University site of primary source material that include full-text, and multimedia sites. There are additional study and research guides such as Modern History in the Movies.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware

For Students 9th - 10th
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by German Emanuel Leutze is one of the most recognizable images in the history of American art. Read the backstory and view pictures of this painting.

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