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A brief introduction to the life and work of writer James Baldwin

Created: Nov 27, 09 Modified: Jan 28, 13

This trail provides basic background information about the Beat Generation and two of the most famous writers from the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. There are also text and audio versions of several poems by Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti.

Created: Nov 23, 09 Modified: Nov 23, 09

This trail shares information about the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee, the life and writing of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), and the life and writing of Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa).

Created: Dec 21, 09 Modified: Feb 13, 12

A brief introduction to the life and writing of early American colonist William Bradford

Created: Jun 08, 09 Modified: Aug 16, 13

pages about the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor

Created: Jun 08, 09 Modified: Aug 16, 13

This list provides information about Gwendolyn Brooks' life, several of her poems, and some interpretations of these poems.

Created: Nov 27, 09 Modified: Jan 26, 13

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked in Texas and was one of the first Europeans to travel throughout the North American Southwest and parts of modern-day Mexico. This is an introduction to his life and excerpts from his own story, The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.

Created: Jul 20, 09 Modified: Jul 20, 09

A brief introduction to the life and work of Charles Chesnutt

Created: Mar 11, 09 Modified: Mar 11, 09

This list introduces readers to the lives and works of the authors Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Created: Dec 21, 09 Modified: Mar 01, 12

This trail briefly introduces readers to the lives and work of Stephen Crane and Upton Sinclair.

Created: Dec 21, 09 Modified: Mar 09, 13

This trail introduces readers to the life and poetry of Countee Cullen.

Created: Dec 21, 09 Modified: Feb 17, 11

An introduction to Bartolome De Las Casas and his account of his time in the Americas: The Very Brief History of the Devastation of the Indies

Created: Jul 20, 09 Modified: Jul 20, 09

an introduction to the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson

Created: Aug 02, 09 Modified: Aug 19, 13

an introduction to the life and autobiographical writing of Frederick Douglass

Created: Aug 02, 09 Modified: Aug 19, 13

This trail gives a brief introduction to the lives and work of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.

Created: Dec 21, 09 Modified: Dec 21, 09

This trail offers a brief introduction to the life and work of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Created: Dec 21, 09 Modified: Dec 21, 09

An introduction to key concepts of Enlightenment thought in American literature

Created: Jul 22, 09 Modified: Aug 16, 13

an introduction to the life and work of Olaudah Equiano

Created: Aug 01, 09 Modified: Aug 01, 09

This trail introduces readers to F. Scott Fitzgerald, his novel The Great Gatsby, and the decade of the 1920s.

Created: Dec 21, 09 Modified: Apr 22, 13