This digital archive was launched to accompany the 2009 Poe Bicentennial exhibition, “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe,” a joint venture of the Ransom Center and the Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Th
This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries. Searches may be entered by language(s), subject, or title/keyword. Search results provide the number of entries and
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Dr. Michael Broyles, distinguished professor of music at Pennsylvania State University shares his knowledge and understanding of Classic and Romantic music in a six part lecture series. Includes Subject Index and Master Audio Glossary. An ArtsEdge lecture
This site introduces teachers and students to online collections of the Library of Congress related to U.S. immigration. "It is far from the complete story, and focuses only on the immigrant groups that arrived in greatest numbers during the 19th and earl
A library assistant in Leeds, England, is doing wickedly subversive things with the illustrations he finds in children’s books. His bosses may disapprove, but we couldn’t be more delighted.
Tips for writing about poetry, which "can be one of the most demanding tasks that many students face in a literature class." Topics include reasons for writing about poetry, having a specific argument about the poems, what to write about (such as figures
This collection of lesson plans covers a wide variety of topics in poetry, such as epic poems, haiku, sonnets, modernist poetry, limericks and nonsense poems, writing poetry, metaphor and simile, line breaks in poems, and specific poets and works. A selec
Guide to poetry resources at the Library of Congress, including webcasts, digital collections, exhibitions, learning materials, and other features. Also provides links to guides to finding a poem, locating poetry criticism, official state poems, poets lau
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Compilation of federal government resources celebrating Women's History Month, observed in March. Features exhibitions, biographies, articles and stories, lesson plans and student activities, and other material about women's history. Also learn about the
Includes critical analyses of children's and young adult literature by or about American Indians along with links to full-text articles, Native writers' web sites, and other sites that will give teachers and librarians info and insight.
Data and analysis from a 2008 study that captures the newspaper industry "in the grips of two powerful, but contradictory, forces. On one hand, financial pressures sap its strength and threaten its very survival. On the other, the rise of the web boosts i
"News about Edgar Allan Poe, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times." Includes material back to the mid 1980s on topics related to Poe's final resting place, the Poe Cottage in New York, books with characters inspired b