A comprehensive 32 page government document compiled as a final report concerning Guantanamo Bay Naval and Prison Base in Cuba. (January 22, 2010)

This site from the University of Michigan provides the online text to William Cullen Bryant's (1794-1878 CE) 1840 collection of poetry "Poems".

This site from American Verse Project provides the online text for "Anti-Slavery Poems: Songs of Labor and Reform" by John Greenleaf Whittier. Poems can be viewed in plain text or as page-by-page images of the original work.

Searchable text of poems by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, from the book "Atlanta Offering."

Although he was not, strictly speaking, a combatant in the American Revolution, Philip Freneau (1752-1832 CE) nevertheless spent time on a prison ship in New York Harbor. Some of the poems in this volume speak to that experience.

Part of the Humanities Initiative American Verse Collection, this resource offers links to more than fifty poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

This site from the University of Michigan provides the text for "John Greenleaf Whittier, A Sketch of His Life," written by Bliss Perry in 1907. Includes detailed biographical information and selected poems.

The 1855 edition of Washington Irving's essay collection Wolfert's Roost is provided in facsimile and can also be read in PDF and plain text form.

Maintained by the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan, this site provides the entire text of Sandburg's collection of poetry, "Cornhuskers."

Read and search for thirty poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, taken from the book "Early Poems." Includes a brief biography of Emerson.

This site from the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative provides a searchable full text of "Sonnets and Canzonets," poems by Bronson Alcott (1799-1888 CE).

Maintained by the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, this website offers the entire text of Hilda Doolittle's collection "Sea Garden," available through a series of links.

Online text of Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow." Links to each of his texts for easy navigation.

Maintained by the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, this website offers the entire text of three of Teasdale's collection, "Flame and Shadow," is available through a series of links.

Digitization of "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims," an early twentieth-century illustrated version of Chaucer's famous tales.

This site offers a chart that explains children's perceptions of death and their responses at different ages in their development.

Explains the grief process that children go through and their concept of death, plus helpful and not so helpful adult responses.

Unique site from the University of Michigan, this work was done under the pseudonym for Edgar Lee Masters! You can click on any chapter of the work.

Directions on how to make a simple loom from a wooden board and dowel rods. This style is representative to a traditional African loom. Try a new way of weaving in your classroom.

A lesson plan that introduces young students to African textiles. This is a simple paper weaving lesson based on African Kente cloth. Includes lesson adaptations.

This resource contains a short biography on the life and work of Romantic composer Carl Maria Von Weber.

This is the portal to a website that provides a graphically colorful tutorial to the English language including the parts of speech, sentences, style guidelines, usage, punctuation, spelling, and so on.

This resource provides a brief biography of Edvard Grieg, an international Scandanavian composer of the 19th century. Information is also given on his most famous work, "the Cello Sonata in A minor opus 36."

This resource presents a short biography on Luigi Boccherini, classical composer.