Learn how pilot libraries in the Revitalizing High School Libraries Initiative, seeking to support adolescent literacy, doubled their circulation, increased visits from students and teachers, and expanded the role of library media...

Here's a lesson plan from the Woodrow Wilson Library that has students investigating the education of Woodrow Wilson's daughters through the use of primary sources.Also a brief discussion of education in general in the Progressive Era.

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication Louis' School Days by Edith J. May, a fiction book for children.

The complete etext to a collection of speeches made by Charles Dickens covering social and literary subject matter.

This site provides the complete etext for Sir Walter Scott's story, The Talisman.

This site provides the complete etext for Walter Raleigh's work, Style.

This site provides the complete etext for George Bernard Shaw's story, "Mrs. Warren's Profession."

This site provides the complete etext for Henry James's story, "In the Cage."

This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's "Twelve Stories and a Dream."

Visitors can read the complete 17 chapter text of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Maria, Or the Wrongs of Woman." Includes a preface by novelist William S. Godwin.

This site provides the complete etext for Zane Grey's story, "The Lone Star Ranger."

This site provides a copy of James Knox Polk's inaugural address on March 4, 1845.

This ebook version of Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.

This site provides the complete etext to Henry James's The Ambassadors.

This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, Amended Obituaries.

This site provides the complete etext for Walter Scott's story, "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror."

Where can your school, library, or community group find free or low-cost books for kids? There are a number of national organizations as well as local programs you can turn to for help filling the shelves of your library, classroom, or...

The freed slaves needed skills to thrive in industrial America so many industrial schools were opened to address these needs. However, many saw these practical skills learned in these schools as perpetuating the status of an African...

The article, written for the North Carolina Law Review, takes the position that the government overlooks what parents deny their children in the name of their religious convictions. Children are denied schooling as well as medical care...

This resource provides a thorough treatment of the politics of affirmative action from researcher Robert Fullinwider, of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.