Horatio Alger

Frank's Campaign or The Farm and the Camp

Joe the Hotel Boy

Ballads

The Cash Boy

Cast Upon the Breakers

Driven from Home

Paul the Peddler

The Errand Boy

Paul Prescott's Charge

Phil the Fiddler

 

Gwendolyn Brooks

Modern American Poetry's We Real Cool Page;

Gwendolyn Brooks at Africana.Com.

Visit the Academy of Americans site if you would like to hear Brooks read "We Real Cool."

 

William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing Web Center

 

Charles Chesnutt

"The Wife of His Youth," and anthology of short stories published under the same title

Charles Chesnutt Site with Contemporary Reviews and Contextual Information;

Charles Chesnutt at Donna Campbell's American Literature site;

Charles W. Chesnutt on Race and on Publishing The Conjure Woman;

Charles Chesnutt, University of Virginia.

 

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"What the Black Man Wants"

Frederick Douglass at the Lyceum

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Writings (be sure to take at least a brief look at the section on Emerson's Influence on the people and ideas of 19th century America.)

"The Transcendentalist"

A Brief Biography of Emerson from Books and Writers;

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society;

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Page at PAL;

American Transcendentalism.

 

Benjamin Franklin

A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency

Journal of a voyage from England to Philadelphia, 1726

How I became a printer in Philadelphia, from his autobiography

The Autobiography

The Art of Virtue

WEB Benjamin Franklin: Works [At VTech] [At U Oklahoma]

The World of Benjamin Franklin: The Franklin Institute Online

The Will of Benjamin Franklin

The Way to Wealth;

"Apology for Printers"

"Experiments with Balloons"

"Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania"

 

Robert Frost

Thomas Lask, "A Poet of Rural Spirit, The New York Times, January 30, 1963

Irving Howe, "The Poet of Home," The New York Times, October 30, 1977

Robert Poole, "Books of the Times," The New York Times, 1949

Do a search for "Robert Frost" at The New York Times On the Web.

Do a search for "Robert Frost" at the American Memory site. (Be sure to search for "exact phrase" instead of "match any of these words.")

Robert Frost and The Atlantic Monthly: The First Three Poems and One That Got Away

Robert Frost at Bartleby.Com

Robert Frost and The Atlantic Monthly: The First Three Poems and One That Got Away

Robert Frost at Bartleby.Com

The Robert Frost Web Page

Robert Frost Exhibit at the Academy of American Poets

A Frost Bouquet: Robert Frost, His Family, and the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature

 

Hamlin Garland

http://www2.uncwil.edu/english/newlin/garland/index.htm

 

Susan Glaspell

Glaspell

 

Native American Writing

 The "Auobiography" of Angel DeCora originally published in 1911 in a journal called The Red Man.

EmoryWomen Writers Resource Project offers a number of texts regarding Native Americans, including Susette La Fleshe's "An Indian Woman's Letter," (originally from the letter written by an Indian teacher to the Omahas).

You can see projects done by Duke University Students on Native American Education: Documents from the 19th Century and Education of Native Americans: Hampton Institute 1878-1923.

 

Mary Rowlandson

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson

 

Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)

Indians of North America--Biography;

The School Days of an Indian Girl;

An Indian Teacher Among Indians;

Voices From the Gaps Gertrude Simmons Bonnin;

Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin);

The American Experience America 1900 People & Events;

Zitkala-Sa (short author bio);

WestWeb Western Women's History--includes links to Bonnin's texts

 

Henry David Thoreau

"A Plea for Captain John Brown"

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau,

The Thoreau Reader,

CyberSaunter - Henry David Thoreau;

Thoreau at the Lyceum

Comments about Thoreau by his contemporaries.

Emerson's essay on Thoreau,

Thoreau's Lecturing Activities at the Thoreau Home Page.

 

Mark Twain

The University of Virginia's Mark Twain in His Times site.

Ever the Twain Shall Meet: Mark Twain on the Web

Mark Twain in Cyberspace --Provides an annotated list of Twain-related sites on the web.

Mark Twain at the Mining Co. offers a large and useful collection of resources, including archives of reviews and essays related to the debate over banning Huck Finn.

Reformer and Anti-Imperialist: Mark Twain Gallery, 1901 - Mark Twain

 

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive: On-line texts and resources at the University of Virginia

Leaves of Grass

Prose Works

 

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