Jessica Loving

Documenting the American South:
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/. Visitors to this site will find a full-text database housing reproductions of primary resources detailing Southern life from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. Texts are divided into the categories "Southern Literature," "First Person Narratives of the American South," and "North American Slave Narratives." Resources include literary works, diaries, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives.

Artistic Justice: The Artist as Historian and Social Critic:
www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/guides/
1996/1/96.01.02.x.html. This online lesson plan by Medria Blue uses the poetry of Langston Hughes to analyze the artist's role as social critic and to explore what art can say about the historical period in which it was created. The lesson is aimed at students in grades 6-8.

Heath Anthology of American Literature:
www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/index.html [link unavailable as of 6/13/00]. Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Publishers, this site provides resources for teaching literature. It offers useful background to history instructors preparing to use literature in the classroom for the first time. Course assignments, instructors' guides, and links to related sites are all available through this home page.

Literature @ SunSITE:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/. This section of the Berkeley SunSITE (Software, Information, and Technology Exchange) supplies links to online texts of many major American authors. Visitors can access "Civil Disobedience," by Henry David Thoreau; The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair; and The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, to name but a few.

Mark Twain in His Times:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html. The Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia maintains this site, which presents reproductions of texts and manuscripts, contemporary reviews and newspaper articles, graphic images, and interactive exhibits concerning the life and works of Mark Twain. Utilizing these resources, the site seeks to connect visitors with "what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other."

Poetry and Music of the War Between the States:
www.erols.com/kfraser/. This site offers a unique perspective on the Civil War as it examines the conflict through the music and poetry of both Union and Confederate sympathizers. Visitors can search the text database by author, title, or first line of the work.

Writing Black:
www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html. Keele University (United Kingdom) sponsors this page, which offers "literature and history written by and on African Americans." Full-text reproductions of text and various web resources are available on such authors as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Jean Toomer, and Phillis Wheatley. The site also offers links to historical texts such as the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as other libraries and indexes.