Links

I'll often refer you to this page for in-class assignments as well as 
homework and reference. If you have any questions about or difficulties with 
any of the links, please drop me an email. The material is organized by 
subject.

The Crucible

Salem Witchcraft Trials: Primary Source Documents

The Salem Witchcraft Trials: An Interactive Journey

                       


 A very informative site on the Salem Witchcraft hysteria.

The McCarthy Era

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

4. Huck Finn: Full Recording
http://www.archive.org/details/huckleberry_mfs_librivox

The Great Gatsby

5. F. Scott Fitzgerald - Interviews
http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/vlp27_fitzgerald.asp

6.  The Jazz Age
http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/jazz_age.htm

7. F. Scott Fitzgerald PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fitzgerald_f_timeline_flash.html

Writing

                    

8. Refdesk: This is an excellent information hub page that 
provides links to worldwide media sources.
http://www.refdesk.com/

9. This site is where you will find all the information you need 
for properly citing sources and formatting formal research 
papers.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

10. This is another excellent site that offers MLA formatting 
information.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/03/

11. A well-organized grammar site.
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html

Race and Gender

                   

12. This site is devoted to the study of the Jim Crow era.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/

13. This is devoted to slave narratives.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

14. This is a website devoted to the study of Alice Walker, and 
it includes interviews that we will be using in class.
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/index.html

15. This essay offers a brief history of "the blues."
http://www.thebluehighway.com/history.html

16. This site, a branch of Amnesty International, is devoted to 
activism against violence toward women.
http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/index-eng

17. This site illuminates the development of racial identity in 
the US.
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm

18.Affirmative Action Timeline
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmative1.html

19. The Great Migration
A New York Public Library Site with images texts and maps detailing the post-emancipation African American diaspora in the United States

20. Kerner Commission Report
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03282008/watch.html

Macbeth

21. Medieval Scottish History/ Macbeth Resources
http://medievalscotland.org/

22. Shakespeare
http://ise.uvic.ca/index.html

23. A Shakespeare Concordance
http://shakespeare.clusty.com/

24. Scripts: Useful sites for downloading full text versions of 
Shakespeare's plays
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html

25. Thoreau: Walden    The Transcendentalist Web
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/walden/

McCarthy vs. Murrow

Arthur Miller Interviews

Bob Dylan: Talking John Birch Society Blues

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