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Republic of Texas: Paper Money
An overview with images and a brief history of the currency used in the Republic of Texas in the early nineteenth century.
Other
Texas Bob: The Fall of the Alamo
These reprinted letters show actual correspondence and tell the story of the fall of the Alamo in early nineteenth century Texas.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: American West: Images and Identities: Guns
Illustrated instructor's notes for an American studies course consider the use of firearms, including the Winchester rifle, in the American West from the onset of Spanish exploration until the end of the nineteenth century.
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: A Very Old Kitchen
Explore kitchen equipment from the Victorian period of late nineteenth century England.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: William Michael Harnett
Biographical profile of William Michael Harnett, an Irish-American still-life painter of the late nineteenth century.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Edward Mitchell Bannister
Biographical summary of the life and career of Edward Mitchell Bannister, a noted African American painter of the nineteenth century.
Curated OER
Man, Kneeling, in Traditional Clothing Portraying a 17th Century Aboriginal Man
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).
PBS
Nilolai Gogol's Dead Souls
This PBS site discusses the influence of Ukranium folk tales on Gogol's work. Includes audio/video excerpts from the film versions of Vij, The Overcoat, and Dead Souls.
Other
Roger Ebert: Review of Anna Karenina
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, reviews the 1997 film version of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina. The movie starred Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean as Anna and Vronsky.
Other
Wired for Books: Community Reconsidered
Read the transcripts of a conversation among three Ohio University literature professors about The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy. The conversation took place on July 27, 1997 at the Ohio University...
Other
Zvi Har El: Jules Vern Collection
This collection includes a biography, a complete bibliography, pictures of Jules Verne stamps, scholarly articles, a chronology and a Jules Verne virtual library.
A&E Television
Biography: Fyodor Dostoevsky
This resource provides a very basic biography of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College: Dostoyevsky and the Problem of God
A student-written essay entitled "Dostoyevsky and the Problem of God." Includes bibliography and references.
Contemplator
Popular Songs in American History: Turkey in the Straw
This site provides the lyrics to an early minstrel song that was popular during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Cousin Bette: Reading Guide
Critical background information, as well as a biographical sketch and discussion questions are offered here by the publisher.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Young Republic
This site is provided for by the Library of Congress. Painter and printer John Rubens Smith sketched rivers, roads, cities, bridges, and mills throughout America between the years 1810 and 1840. Digital images of his art are provided...
Library of Congress
Loc: "O Captain! My Captain!"
This site from the Library of Congress provides comments on a poem written by Walt Whitman at the death of Abraham Lincoln. Image of the manuscript available at this Library of Congress site.
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Ite About 'The Banquet'
This painting is the last of a four-part series painted for Charles Jacoby. The notes will help familiarize you with the content of the work and the special zoom feature will give you a closer look at the painting technique.
A&E Television
Biography: Vincent Van Gogh
A brief look at the creative, but tumultuous, career of artist Vincent van Gogh. Discusses several of his most famous works ("The Potato Eaters" and "Sunflowers"), his artistic influences, and legacy.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Us History: The American Transportation System
Read and study the sources about the American transportation system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As you read the four sources, think about how the development of the transportation system in the United States...
University of Virginia
Iath: University of Virginia: Collective Biographies of Women
This project promotes on-line collaborative research on nineteenth and twentieth century English-language collections of biographies of women.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb, with the editorial help of her brother, Charles, rewrote twenty of Shakespeare's plays into stories for children. This is a copy of the tex which introduced Shakespeare to many people of all ages throughout the nineteenth and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries:drawing From Life: Caricatures and Cartoons
A website dedicated to displaying a selection of political cartoons and caricatures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes biographies of many famous cartoonists and commentaries on the cartoonist's style and interests.
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