American Literature Teacher Resources

This website provides historical background to the political events of the time Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience." It also includes background information about Thoreau and the text of Thoreau's essay.

Gives biographical information on famous writer, Edna Ferber. Discusses her early life, her career, and her works including "So Big" which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1924.

A complete online text from The Thoreau Reader of Henry David Thoreau's (1817-1862 CE) essay "Life Without Principle," as well as quotes about the essay's impact.

This biography of Emily Dickinson quotes three of her poems as illustrations.

This is the full text of the short story "The Affair At Coulter's" by Ambrose Bierce.

This is the full text of the book of poems Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Amy Lowell. It includes two sets of poems: "Sword Blades" and "Poppy Seed."

This is the full text of the novel The Errand Boy by Horatio Alger. It is a simplistic and moralistic tale of a young man to which bad has been done, and who does good in return.

This twenty-six part blendspace is a scavenger hunt that will lead students to learn about the author John Steinbeck, the setting of The Red Pony, and why he wrote The Red Pony. Writing assignments, rubrics, primary sources, video...

In this video episode [5:36] from The Favorite Poem Project, John Doherty, a construction worker from Boston, describes himself and explains why Walt Whitman's poem entitled "Song of Myself" is an inspiration to his life. Then Doherty...

Selected full texts of Paine's Age of Reason, The Rights of Man, as well as lesser known writings on religious themes, slavery, and the like.

This site, presented by the University of North Carolina Press, provides a summary and reviews of this book by Daniel J. Singal. More importantly, the site offers links to a few excerpts from the book, which is a critical biography. The...

This is the complete text of the novel Cressy by Bret Harte.

This is the complete text of the novel A Day Of Fate by Edward Payson Roe.

This is the complete text of the novella Daisy Miller by Henry James.

This is the complete text of the novel Danger; or Wounded in the House of a Friend by T. S. Arthur including a preface.

This is the complete text of the novel Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart.