Myths, Tales, and Legends
Explorations of an "American" Self
Issues and Visions in Pre-Civil War America
The Flowering of Narative

Documenting the American South
This index provides links to primary documents and other resources on Southern American, and goes through 1920.
"Dialogic Romanticism in the Literature of the Civil War"
Mathew Conner, from Prometheus Unplugged, the third national graduate student conference on Romanticism.

Myths, Tales, and Legends

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa) Tales from the Hispanic Southwest

La Llorona, Malinche, and Guadalupe

Washington Irving

Chapter 3: Romanticism; Washington Irving
This site provides biographical information and the texts of and analytical essays on Irving's Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Gopher Menu
This index includes the electronic texts of many Irving writings.
Student's History of American Literature; Washington Irving 1783-1859
This entry in a text book provides background information on Irving's life and work.
Rip Van Winkle
This electronic text is divided by chapters and includes illustrations.
Sleep Hollow
This version on the Irving work is an interactive hypertext.

Mordecai Manuel Noah

James Fenimore Cooper

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
This site presents essays with Mark Twain's opinions on Cooper's work.
James Fenimore Cooper
This site provides a good biography of Cooper.
Bibliomania: The Last of the Mohicans
This electronic text is divided by chapters.
Romancing the Indian; Sentimentalizing and Demonizing in Cooper and Twain
This student project on Twain and Cooper addresses the authors' attitudes toward Native Americans, and includes links to excerpts from Cooper's "Notion's of the Americans: Indians."
Fenimore Cooper's Dissension Between Societal and Natural Law
This analytical essay by a college students focuses on Cooper's The Pioneers.

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Edgar Allan Poe

The Complete On-line Works of Edgar Allan Poe
This site provides an index to other Poe sites and electronic texts.
A Complete Collection of Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
This index provides a listing of electronic poetry texts by Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe
This site provides a thorough biography with links to selected works.
Edgar Allan Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher"
This student project provides the text of the Poe story, analytical essays on it, and biographical material.
Payge's Poe Page
This long biography also provides links to other Poe resources.
The Poe Page
This site provides electronic texts of most of Poe's poetry

Humor of the Old Southwest (Crockett, Fink, Longstreet, Harris)

Davy Crockett Web Links
This site provides and index of links and descriptions of other web resources on Davy Crockett, and tries to compare the real Crocket with that of legend.
Augustus Longstreet
This brief biography also contains a link to a section of Tom Sawyer, "The Fight", with a picture of Longstreet Southwestern Humor and Mark Twain
This site includes an analytical essay , inks to biographies of all four humorists as well as others, and electronic texts of some of their writings.
Comic Antiheroes in Southwestern humor
This student project on Southwestern humor includes an analytical essay and links to more specific sections of the project; the previous entry here is part of this project.
A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920
This index of electronic texts that can be downloaded includes Harris' "Sut Lovingood."

Explorations of an American Self

Transcendentalism
This site provides links to resources and works by and about Emerson and other Transcendentalists.

George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Ojibwa)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
This extensive site includes links to primary works by Emerson and others, analytical and critical essays on Emerson's works, and links to associated figures and periods, as well as other Emerson pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Quotes
This site provides a list of Emerson quotations.
On Ralph Waldo Emerson's Harvard Divinity Address, by Arthur Paul Patterson
This essay, written in 1839 in response to Emerson's address, addresses Emerson's faith, his relationship with nature, and other themes; it is both an analytical resource and a primary document.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This index of electronic texts by Emerson includes those texts available from the Gutenberg Project.
A View on Emerson
This site provides analytical essays on Emerson's work.
Gopher Menu
Gopher Menu
These sites provide indexes to electronic texts by Emerson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This site provides links to other Emerson resources, including projects on him, primary documents, and images. Hijacking of American Education - Part 4; Ralph Waldo Emerson
This essay on Emerson's religious philosophy and his popular acceptance from his time to now has a religious bias; the project's thesis is to show how Christian influences have been edited out of American Literature education.
The Early Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
This biography provides a good overview of Emerson's life, and continues from early life through later parts of his life on successive pages.
Emerson on Transcendence, Polarities, and the Active Soul
This analytical essay incorporates author's analysis with long Emerson passages.
Electronic Archive of Selected Writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature
This index lists the electronic texts available by Emerson specifically about nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson; A Brief Biography
This site provides a biography on Emerson.
American Transcendentalism
This short but dense essay discusses the roots of Transcendentalism and Emerson's philosophies.

Sarah Margaret Fuller

Woman in the 19th Century
This site provides the complete electronic text of this Fuller work.
Sarah Margaret Fuller; A Brief Biography
This site provides a short biography of Fuller.
Hijacking of American Education - Part 3; Sarah Margaret Fuller
This analytical essay on Margaret Fuller's life and work has the same religious bias as the essay, by the same group, on Emerson (see above).
Chronology
This site provides a timeline of Fuller's life.
Margaret Fuller:Biography of Adult Life
This site presents basic biographical information.
Margaret Fuller
This site presents basic biographical information.

Frederick Douglass

The Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center
This homepage for the museum contains links to a photo gallery, a chonology of Douglass' life, biographical material, and links to other Douglass resources.
Frederick Douglass
This site contains links to four electronic texts by Douglass, including Narrative of the Life...
Frederick Douglass in Britain
This site includes links to many analytical essays on the subjects of race and Douglass' experiences in Britain, as well as biographical material and electronic texts of Narrative of the Life... and My Bondage and My Freedom.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
This electronic text is divided by chapters.
The African American Journey: Frederick Douglass
This site presents basic biographical information.
Celebrating Rights and Responsibilities
This site includes links to electronic texts of Narrative of the Life... and Douglass' 1870 speech as well as links to other resources.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The Encounters of Slavery
This analytical essay discusses Mary Prince's and Jacobs' narratives.

Issues and Visions in Pre-Civil War America

Background
This index includes sites on the Civil War, abolition, the suffrage movement, the Underground Railroad, and other Civil War era topics.
Selected Underground Railroad Sites
This index of sites provides pages with historical information on the Underground Railroad, biographical information on the major figures involved, and a link to a page on The North Star periodical of the railroad. Indian Voices

William Apess

John Wannuaucon Quinney (Mahican)

Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)

Seattle (Duwamish)

John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee)

The Literature of Slavery and Abolition

African American Journey: Abolition Movement
This site provides historical information, with links to biographies of major figures.
Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
This site provides short descriptions of primary sources with links to images of both abolitionists and of primary documents.
Documenting the American South: Narratives on Slavery
This site presents an index of slave narrative electronic texts.
Index to Images from the Archives & Special Collections Department
These electronic images include the cover pages of authros such as Joel Barlow, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, and Lydia H. H. Sigourney.
Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
This index of primary documents includes images of Garrison's first issue of the Liberator, maps of US pre-civil war, and others.

David Walker

William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison
This site provides basic biographical information and anaylytical essays.

Lydia Maria Child

The Life and Work of Lydia Maria Child
This long biographical essay is somewhat biased (created by by the International Workers' Bulletin).
Stand From Under
This annotated electronic text was Child's first work to be printed in The Liberator.
A Boy's Thanksgiving Day
This site presents the electronic text of a song that was originally a poem by Childs.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Gift of Tritemius
This site provides the electronic text of a poem by Whittier.
John Greenleaf Whittier
This site provides biographical information.
Roth Publishing: The Library
This site provides the electronic text of the poem "The Library" by Whittier.
John Greenleaf Whittier
This site includes biographical material on Whittier and links to 12 poems by Whittier.
Maud Muller
This site presents the electronic text of this poem by Whittier.
Poems of Kansas
This index presents links to 3 poems by Whittier under the "W" entry.
A Student's History of Literature - John Greenleaf Whittier
This entry in a textbook provides a long biographical essay on Whittier and events surrounding life.
John Greenleaf Whittier
This site provides the electronic texts of 6 Whittier poems.
Chicago - Whittier
This electronic text poem describes the Great Chicago Fire.
John Greenleaf Whittier
This index provides links to other primary document resources.
Gopher Menu
This index provides electronic texts of works by Whittier

Angelina Grimké Weld

Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké
This site provides biographical material on Angelina Weld Grimké and links to four poems, and focuses specifically on lesbianism of Grimké's poetry.
Sarah and Angelina Grimké
This essay includes extensive biographical material on both Grimké sisters.
African American Playwrights; Angelina Weld Grimké
This short biography also includes links to the beginning of "Rachel," and to the lesbian poetry page.

Henry Highland Garnet

Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips: Shall Women Have the Right to Vote?
This primary document was an address given by Phillips in Massachusetts.
Wendell Phillips
This primary document is a passage by Phillips on Native American resistance.
Background Notes: Haiti 09/96
This State Department description of Haiti includes a brief history, with reference to the uprising led by L'Ouverture.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Introduction to Todd and Higginson editions
This description of Higginison's collection of Dickinson poetry includes links to 4 Dickinson poems.
Emily Dickinson's Letters, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
This electronic text includes both Dickinson's letters to Higginson and Higginson's interspersed description of them.
Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country
This electronic text was a speech made by Higginson.
Address to the Colored People of the United States
This electronic text was a joint effort by Higginson, Garrison & Boutwell.

Caroline Lee Hentz

A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginning to 1920; Caroline Lee Hentz
This electronic text is the complete text of Hentz's A Planter's Northern Bride.

George Fitzhugh

Derek on the Ideology of Slavery
This analytical essay on Fitzhugh and others' ideas of slavery provides a good summary of Fitzhugh's defenses of slavery

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Abraham Lincoln

Primary materials:
Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address
This site includes the electronic text of the address, links to Civil War maps, and short essays on events and figures in war.
Douglass -- "Abraham Lincoln, Address before the Young Men's Lyceum
This site provides the electronic text of another Lincoln speech.
Inauguration: Abraham Lincoln's First
This site provides the electronic text of Lincoln's first inaugural address.
Inauguration: Abraham Lincoln's Second
This site provides the electronic text of Lincoln's second Inaugural address.
Academic American Encyclopedia: Abraham Lincoln
This encyclopedia entry on Lincoln is annotated with links to more information on references within entry.
Lincoln's Speeches and Writings
This index includes electronic texts of Lincoln's oral and written works.
The Gettysburg Address
This site on the Gettysburg Address includes different drafts of the address, photos from Gettysburg at the time of the address, and other primary materials.
"A House Divided," Abraham Lincoln
This site includes a description of the Dred Scott case and the electronic text of this speech to Congress.
U.S. Civil War Center -- Civil War Documents
This index of links to electronic texts on the Civil War includes many texts by many by Lincoln.
Secondary material
The Lincoln Museum - Time Line
This site presents a thorough time line of Lincoln's life and historical events surrounding his life.
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
This site provides an index of web projects on Lincoln.
The World of Abraham Lincoln
This site provides both biograpgical material and analytical essays on different facets of his life, with links to primary documents.
The History Place presents Abraham Lincoln
This project on Lincoln is arranged as an annotated chronology with links to glossary entries and primary documents off of timeline.

Literature and the "Woman Question"

NAWSA Timeline
This site provides a timeline of the suffrage movement.
Women's Rights Declarations and Convention Resolutions, 1848-1876
This index of speeches and decisions by the Women's Rights convention contains a large number of primary documents.
American Transcendentalism; The Women's Rights Impulse
This site provides an introduction to and the electronic text of Stanton's and Mott's Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls
Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society Constitution
This electronic text is the constitution of a women's abolition group (also a source for The Literature of Abolition and Slavery)
Human Rights
This index includes links to biographical and primary materials on women, with a section19th c. Suffragists; the site runs from Addams through Gloria Steinem.
Timeline of Legislation, Events, and Publications Crucial to the Development of Victorian Feminism
This site provides a thorough timeline of the early feminist movement.
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
This long essay discusses the early feminist movements.
The Concord Review: Sample essays
This analytical essay by a college student discusses major figures of the suffrage period.

Sarah Moore Grimké

Sarah and Angelina Grimké
This essay includes extensive biographical material on both Grimké sisters.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Women's Rights Page
This site provides the electronic text of Stanton's speech at the first Women's Rights convention.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This site provides a short introductory biography.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This site presents the electronic text of Stanton's speech delivered at Seneca Falls Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This site includes a short biography, information on abolition, temperance, and Seneca Falls Convention.

Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton)

Sojourner Truth

Ain't I a Woman?
This electronic text presents this speech in "standard english."
Women in Christian Tradition: Sojourner Truth
This short dramatic introduction to the text of "Ain't I a Woman" in dialect was written by Gage in History of Woman Suffrage; the text is incomplete, interspersed with narrative and paraphrasing. with narrative and paraphrase interspersed.
Who Was Sojourner Truth?
This site presents a short biography.
Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl
This electronic text was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about Truth.
19CWWW:Books:Electronic Library:Truth
links to bio on Truth, 3 speeches, and interview with a Truth scholar and biographer

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
This site includes an image and the electronic text of Harper's poem "Double Standard."
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-?)
This site includes a short biography and a link to the electronic text of Harper's poem "To the Union Savers of Cleveland."
Tanya Bickley Enterprises: Speakers/Performers
This site includes a biography and poem by Harper, on the page of a performance artist doing a piece on Harper.

Voices from the Southwest

Juan Nepomuceno Seguin

The Alamo: 13 Days of Glory - Full Text: Feb ë96 Wild West Feature
This site provides the story of the Alamo with references to Seguin's role.
The Alamo - Background
This site includes an annotated essay and timeline on the Alamo.

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

The Bear Flag Revolt of 1846
This site provides background historical information on the raising of Bear Flag.

A Concord Individualist

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau
This college project includes essays with biographical material, a chronology of Thoreau's life, electronic images, and analytical essays and interpretations of various works.
Ecology Hall of Fame Links: Thoreau links
This index includes sites with both analytical and primary material on Thoreau, some of which are indexed here as well.
Henry David Thoreau
This index includes primary works by Thoreau and his associates.
CyberSauntry -- Henry David Thoreau
This site indexes links to other sites on Thoreau.
Cryptic Vision 4: Thoreau - Individualist and Realistic Man
This site provides an analytical essay on Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau
This site includes a biography of Thoreau and links to the electronic texts of his major works.
Henry David Thoreau
This inex includes other major Thoreau sites, electronic texts, and analytical articles on Thoreau.
The Problem of Political Obligation in the Liberal Political State: Locke's Response and A Critique
This analytical essay discusses "Civil Disobedience" and political and philosophical issues addressed therein.

The Flowering of Narrative

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Books - Nathaniel Hawthorne
This extensive site includes a short biography and and index of links to electronic texts of books by and about Hawthorne.
Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne
This index presents the complete on-line works by Hawthorne.
Nathaniel Hawthorne listings in the Short Stories Search Engine
more of the same
These indexes provide the on-line texts of short stories by Hawthorne.
EducETH-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
This site includes links to a chronology, biographical material, electronic texts by Hawthorne, and a list of people and characters in Hawthorne's life and work.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This site inlcudes links to biographical material and critical and analytical writings on Hawthorne.

Caroline Kirkland

Netscape - Chapter 21
This site includes the electronic text of a chapter in a text book with part II entitled "From Caroline Kirkland to Hamlin Garland."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Project Gutenberg Etext Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
This site provides the electronic text Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This site includes a brief biography, links to material by and about Stowe from her period.
Calvinism Feminized: Divine Matriarchy in Harriet Beecher Stowe
This site provides a long analytical essay on Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This electronic text of Uncle Tom's Cabin is divided into chapters.
19thCWWW:Books:Electronic Library:Stowe
This index includes links to articles and poems by Stowe.

Herman Melville

The Life and Works of Herman Melville
This extensive site by the Melville society includes biographical information, primary source material on and by Meville, links to other Melville sites, electronic text of his correspondence with Hawthorne, critical materials, and related material (ex. Melville in the Arts, sailing pages, etc.).
Melville On-line
This index contains most of the electronic texts by Melville.
Research on Herman Melville
This preface to a doctoral dissertation is entitled "Prophetic Fiction: Irony in the Novels of Herman Melville from Typee to The Confidence-Man"
Bartleby, the Scrivener
This electronic text is the only text not found on "The Life and Works of Herman Melville" site.

William Wells Brown

Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine: A Tale of the Southern States
This site provides the electronic text of this work by Brown.
William Wells Brown
This site provides a biography on Brown with links to the narrative of his life and an electronic text from his lecture tour in England.

Alice Cary

November, by Alice Cary
This site provides the electronic text of this Cary poem.

Elizabeth Stoddard

Lemorne Versus Huell
This electronic text is by the Gutenberg Project.

Harriet E. Wilson

Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson
This electronic text is by Gutenberg Project.

The Emergence of American Poetic Voices

Songs and Ballads

William Cullen Bryant

Bryant Biography
This short biography was written by a student.
Poets Corner -- William Cullen Bryant -- Selected Work
This site provides the electronic texts of about ten Bryant poems.
Selected Poems of William Cullen Bryant
This site provides the electronic texts of selected Bryant poems.

Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

Annie Finch's homepage, click on "An Unsung Singer
This project by a poet and essayist on Sigourney includes the electronic texts of selected poems, an analytical essay on revisionism in 19th century poetry by women (with references to Alice Cary and Emily Dickinson) and related links.
George Griffin and Lydia Howard Sigourney Papers
This biography discusses both George Griffin and Sigourney.
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
This site provides a brief biography of Sigourney.
Connecticut Crossroads -- Sweet singer of Hartford
This site provides a short biography of Sigourney.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Village Blacksmith
This site provides the electronic text of this Longfellow poem.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This site includes a biography and links to electronic texts of Longfellow poetry.
Norse Ballads of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This site provides selected electronic texts by Longfellow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This site provides the electronic texts and excerpts from three major works.
Longfellow: "Mezzo Cammin"
This site provides the electronic text of this Longfellow poem.
Tangerine on Longfellow
This site includes the electronic text of "Footsteps of Angels" and links to other Longfellow sites.
Hiawatha's Childhood
This site provides the electronic text of the Longfellow poem.
Longfellow: Biography- Early Life
This site includes a short bio of Longfellow's life until he was fourteen and the electronic text of "The Battle of Lovell's Pond."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Critique of an Important Work
This short analytical essay discusses Lonfellow's "A Psalm of Life."
Selected Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This site provides the electronic texts of selected poems.
The Hijacking of American Education: Part 2 - War of the Poets: Longfellow vs. Poe
This analytical essay discusses Longfellow and Poe, and is biased by the group's thesis of proving the editing of Christian influence in American Literature education.
The Courtship of Miles Standish
This site provides the electronic text of this Longfellow poem.
Digital Dante: Comedy
This large site on Dante's Divine Comedy includes the Longfellow translation.
Evangeline
This site includes the electronic images of the print version of this Longfellow work, as well as the complete electronic text.
Critical Response to Longfellow's "Mezzo Cammin
This site provides an analytical essay on this Longfellow work.
Evangeline's Odyssey
This project on Evangeline is off of a museum exhibit.

Frances Sargent Locke Osgood

Walt Whitman

(earlier sites are more extensive)
The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
This extensive project includes links to primary and biographical material.
Walt Whitman's page
This large site on Whitman includes biographical material and a link to the Leaves of Grass hypertext.
Walt Whitman
This Whitman site includes biographical material and links to various electronic texts.
Leaves of Grass
This site includes electronic images of cover page, a biographical note by Whitman, and the index page for the electronic text with links to each poem.
Walt Whitman's: Leaves Of Grass -- INDEX OF CHAPTERS
This version of Leaves of Grass is produced by Bibliomania.
Walt Whitman on-line sources from Library of Congress
This site focuses on the Whitman's recovered notebooks, with links to images of the notebooks and to otuher Library of Congress produced sites on Whitman.
Other Walt Whitman links...
This site provides an index of links to Whitman pages, some of which have been indexed here as well.
The Poetry of Walt Whitman
This site includes electronic texts by Whitman and a short biography; the page has a commercial affiliation.
Walt Whitman, "In Memory of Thomas Paine," 28 January 1877
This site provides the electronic text of a speech made by Whitman.
Reminiscences of Walt Whitman
This essay on Whitman was printed in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1902.
Whitman and ìNature Without Check with Original Energyî
This analytical essay discusses Whitman's Song of Myself.
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
This electronic text comes from "Memories of President Lincoln.
Walt Whitman
This site provides a short biography and links to two short poems and Leaves of Grass.
Whitman's Daguerreotypes: Objects of Democratic Union
This analytical essay discusses the relation between Whitman and photography.
Explication of Whitman's "Patroling Barnegat"
This analytical essay discussses "Patroling Barnegat" and includes the electronic text of the poem.
Jonathan Yordyís Dissertation
This dissertation on Leaves of Grass discusses the notions of music and emotional expression in Whitman's work.
Walt Whitman
This site provides links to electronic images of Whitman, the gopher version of "Leaves of Grass," and "Other Walt Whitman Links..."

Emily Dickinson

Dickinson, Emily. 1896. Poems.
This site provides the electronic text of Dickinson poems edited by Mary Loomis Todd (1896 edition) with an index of poems and links to electronic images of the front page material.
Dickinson
This site provides the electronic text of selected Dickinson poems.
Emily Dickinson's Letters
This site presents the correspondence between Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Dickinson, #657 ("I Dwell in Possibility")
This site provides four student-written analytical essays on Dickinson's poem "I Dwell in Possibility."
Emily Dickinson Poems On-line
This site provides links to other pages with Dickinson electronic texts, not all of which are listed here.
Emily Dickinson
This extensive site includes biographical material, related links, and electronic texts of poetry by Dickinson.
"I Had Been Hungry"
This analytical essay discusses the social issues raised in this Dickinson poem.