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Godmother of Thanksgiving: The Story of Sarah Josepha Hale [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
You may not have heard of Sarah Josepha Hale, but you are very familiar with her work. Learn about the remarkable nineteenth century New Hampshire woman who convinced a president to proclaim a national holiday - Thanksgiving. And that's...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Catharine Beecher

For Students 9th - 10th
Catharine Esther Beecher was a nineteenth century teacher and writer who promoted equal access to education for women.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Costumbrismo

For Students 9th - 10th
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, explorers and travelers (mainly of European descent) in Latin America, popularized a genre called costumbrismo: the depiction of local folklore, including social "types" and genre scenes....
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A Classification of American Wealth: America in the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site's section, which is part of a larger article on the Gilded Age, focuses on the railroad which began to grow in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Modern British Poetry: Biographical Sketches

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers brief biographies of many British poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These include Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, A. E. Housman, and many more.
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The Newberry Library

The Newberry: Chicago Defined: Space and Place, Homes and Journeys

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module examines how writers and artists have portrayed the city of Chicago as well as the response to the city's changing population and character during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Primary sources and questions for...
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University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood

For Students 9th - 10th
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has provided the full text of Paul (Pavel) Birukoff's book entitled "Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood."
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The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has much to offer the Tolstoy scholar. There is a diary entry written by a young woman the day after Tolstoy's death which reveals the emotions of the Russian people at the passing of this great man. There is the text of...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Les Miserables, Volume 1 Fantine

For Students 9th - 10th
An HTML version of the first volume of Hugo's famous novel is available here from the University of Virginia.
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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia: Les Miserables, Volume 5: Jean Valjean

For Students 9th - 10th
The last volume of Hugo's novel is found at this etext from the University of Virginia.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia Library: Les Miserables Volume 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At this collection from the University of Virginia Library, Hugo's novel continues in Volume 2 with the story of Cosette. Read the whole volume.
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New York University

New York University: Literature Annotations: The Idiot

For Students 9th - 10th
Sponsored by a multi-disciplinary Medical Humanities program at The University of New York School of Medicine, this brief summary/commentary focuses on the medical aspects of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."
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Middlebury College

The Definitive Study Guide for the Brothers Karamazov

For Students 9th - 10th
Middlebury College provides this site authored by a professor of Russian language and literature that provides summaries and analyses for all sections of The Brothers Karamazov, a biography of Dostoevsky, character analyses, and a...
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Middlebury College

Middlebury College: Dostoevsky and the Devils

For Students 9th - 10th
Authored by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site has much to offer the student of Dostoesky's novel The Devils. The site contains plot summaries, character analyses, and links to related...
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro (1865 85)

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition brings together the work of two masters of the early modern period, Cezanne and Pissarro. Compares and contrasts their styles, choices of subject, techniques, and development, with interesting thematic pathways into the...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: John Greenleaf Whittier

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to twelve of Whittier's most widely-read poems, including "Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyl," "Barbara Frietchie," "Ichabod," and "The Worship of Nature." Also includes a brief biography.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Bryant and the Minor Poets, Bibliography

For Students 9th - 10th
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry provides a complete bibliography of William Cullen Bryant and related minor poets among his contemporaries.
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University of Michigan

Making of America: Ballads of New England

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Michigan provides access to online text for "Ballads of New England," an 1870 collection of Whittier's poetry. Poems can be viewed in plain-text format or as page-by-page images from the original work.
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Project Gutenberg: The Human Comedy (Honore De Balzac)

For Students 9th - 10th
The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.
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Louvre Museum: Thematic Mini Sites: Ingres, 1780 1867

For Students 9th - 10th
Retrospective, with full-color reproductions of Ingres's masterworks, including the "Grande Odalisque," traces the major episodes in the painter's artistic career.
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Old Nyc

For Students 9th - 10th
Mapping historical photos from the NYPL.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: The Wife, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides multiple digital formats of this eBook.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Traits of Indian Character

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia essay offers a selection of Irving's work from the larger work, "The Sketch Book."
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia Library: Washington Irving

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia essay offers text summarizing and critiquing Washington Irving's work, "A History of New York."

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