Very scholarly article that looks at the role literature helps teach us about the diversity of our culture. The author looks at various aspects of literature and then gives teacher resources and a helpful bibliography.

Provides an overview of the culture of Albania. Gives basic information on topics such as geography, ethnic makeup, languages, symbolism, economy, food, customs, social stratification, family life, education, religion, politics, etc....

Students will engage in a Reader's Theater adaptation of Cinderella after reading several different versions that come from various cultures. Students will complete a graphic organizer with story elements that apply to the story Cinderella.

Newberry Library learning module uses primary source documents and literature to explore the influence of gender on social and physical mobility and the concept of freedom in American culture from 1890 - 1950.

This site looks at Indian literature in English. Tracing the beginning of Indian literature from the 18th century this site analyses key literary figures up to present day.

Truly American literature based on American legend, native scenes, and American culture began to find a place in the 1820s. Read about three of the American writers that introduced American literature to a reading public.

This biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West includes a video [2:42] of West in New York and links to book reviews for all of West's works.

Syriac is a branch of the Aramaic family of languages and was the lingua franca of the eastern Roman Empire at the beginning of the Christian era. It is also spoken extensively in the regions farther east. It became the language of...

The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. The politics in the Gilded Age is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.

Synopsis of the huge cultural shifts that occurred in America in the 1920s in art, music, literature, and among intelligentsia.

Discover how Shakespeare's work was influenced by other cultures, and how in turn it's been interpreted in other nations over 400 years.

View a series of extracts from eighteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this period of overseas expansion, urbanization, and early industrialization. Accompanying essays explain various...

A nice description of the literary genre known as "travel literature" as it was seen during the Middle Ages in Europe. The author notes that many times, medieval writers would make up exotic creatures to entertain their readers.

Explore polite culture, sensibility, and sentimentalism in the 18th century, and how these concepts are reflected in the writing of the period.

Gothic fiction has intrigued and unsettled readers for more than two centuries. These articles research how these works reflect the political, social, and cultural contexts in which they were written.

Read a biography about Shmuel Agnon (1888-1970), the first Hebrew writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Provides a brief background about the lack of poetry writing in the early literature of the Middle and Southern colonies.

This site, part of the online version of the magazine BookPage, provides a 1998 interview with Gary Soto, in which he discusses the themes of some of his works, his background, and his use of different genres of writing.

James Baldwin is presented in this biography as a great African American contributor to the literary world during the civil rights movement. See "James Baldwin Activities" for more information.

Learning module in which students examine two pieces of Victorian literature, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, to explore the idea of the hidden or double self during the Victorian Age.

A biography on the Hebrew writer Uri Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981) and a collection of his famous works.

A description of the African-American literary and musical boom known as the Harlem Renaissance after World War I and before World War II. Profiles some of the prominent figures involved in the movement.

Elaine Showalter describes how, in Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf uses stream of consciousness to enter the minds of her characters and portray cultural and individual change in the period following the First World War.

This site, from the University of California Press, offers a description of Gerald Haslam's book about country music in California called "Workin' Man Blues." The site also offers a bit of information about Haslam's life and other works.