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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: George Eliot Middlemarch

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website, read the full text of George Eliot's novel, "Middlemarch." Included is a brief paragraph intoducing the book, its context, and its plot.
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Musee D'orsay: Gustave Courbet (1819 1877): A Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, "Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): A Biography" is presented with a breakdown of major periods of the artists life and examples of paintings from each period.
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University of California, Riverside: Balzac's Paris [1799 1850]: A Guided Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
Paris in the early 1800s through the eyes of the author Honore de Balzac. Born in 1799, Balzac lived in Paris during a period of intense renovation. The guided tour provides many unique insights into the city's development as a major...
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University of Virginia: Walt Whitman Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive archive of works by and about Walt Whitman, from the University of Virginia. Includes his manuscripts (transcriptions and page images), published works, biography, criticism, images, teaching materials, and much more.
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Penn: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Etext)

For Students 9th - 10th
The whole novel, including illustrations, is reproduced at this site hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. An interesting feature is the brief explanation of the provenance of the work, as well as the inclusion of Anne Bronte's...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Transcendentalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to the Transcendentalism period (1836-1860) in American Literature. It focuses on the beliefs and characteristics of transcendentalism and its leading authors: Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edmonia Lewis

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Edmonia Lewis in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: The Witch and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides the e-text in many digital formats of fifteen stories by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904 CE).
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University of South Carolina: Walt Whitman Exhibit

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive site studies the life and work of Walt Whitman. Provides a detailed biography and an analysis of Whitman's literary contributions. Includes detailed information about the development of "Leaves of Grass" and photographs of...
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides the text of Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Sketch Map of Mid Century Africa, Circa 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa around the middle of the nineteenth century showing European interests on the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established their territorial claims. The majority of the continent was unexplored at...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Business, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A painting and an appeal that explore the role business played in black uplift in nineteenth-century America. This resource focuses on the work of Edward Bannister (1828-1901), one of the leading black painters of the nineteenth century.
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University of Chicago

Lost Egypt: Early Photos of Egyptian Monuments

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of photos taken in the nineteenth century of various ancient Egyptian temples and other religious sites. There is also a good article on the history of early photography in Egypt including a description of how nineteenth-century...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cole, the Oxbow

For Students 9th - 10th
Thomas Cole was best known for his landscape paintings which embodied the beauty and grandeur of the American wilderness during the first half of the nineteenth century. When viewed through the lens of nineteenth-century political...
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History Today: Native Americans and the Federal Government

For Students 9th - 10th
Andrew Boxer traces the origins of a historical issue still as controversial and relevant today as in past centuries. At the start of the twentieth century there were approximately 250,000 Native Americans in the USA - just 0.3 per cent...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Culture, Making of African American Identity: Vol. 2, 1865 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
A chapter, an interview, and film clips that illustrate cultural expressions of African American identity in the late-nineteenth century. Culture is explored during the turn of the 20th century within this resource and is supported by...
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Web Gallery of Art

Web Gallery of Art: Index of Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
Go directly to an A-to-Z index of the names of hundreds of European artists from which you can link to artist biographies, sample artwork, and useful analyses. Also available are "tours" or curated collections of which focus on specific...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: James Clerk Maxwell

For Students 9th - 10th
James Clerk Maxwell was one of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century. His theoretical work on electromagnetism and light largely determined the direction that physics would take in the early twentieth century. Indeed,...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Sleb Settlements, Sociopolitical Organization, Religion and Expressive Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Sleb camps are currently small and scattered, sometimes even consisting of a single family, with one or two tents. In the nineteenth century, however, camps of fifteen to twenty-five tents, with twenty to thirty families per tent, were...
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
From twentieth-century posters, monuments, and letters to nineteenth-century maps, biographies, and paintings, this set allows students to gain a greater understanding of how perceptions of manifest destiny have changed over time.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Chagga Kinship

For Students 9th - 10th
In the nineteenth century the Kichagga-speaking people on Mount Kilimanjaro were divided into many small, autonomous chiefdoms. Early accounts frequently identify the inhabitants of each chiefdom as a separate "tribe." Although the...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Introduction to Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
This introduction provides some basic information as background for the detailed accounts of the particular cultures that follow. The cultures have been selected to represent Africa, in the sense that they include the larger and...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The West, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four nineteenth-century landscape paintings that suggest the meaning of the West in American life.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Self Image, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
An editorial and four poems that explore African American strivings for self-esteem in the late-nineteenth century. All documents referenced within this resource attempt to shine a light on African American self-image and identity.

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