Links

Just a beginning, but better the few sites we have here than nothing. I hope you will all keep me posted on what you find. I think you will find the writing, reference, and general American lit sites quite useful. I am still developing the individual author lists.

Writing Skills and Grammar

nutsandbolts The best writing skills site I have found on the web. I refer to it frequently in course notes and the Writer's Guide:. It covers all the key concepts that appear in course writing rubrics and provides great alternative explanations and examples. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (and sometimes required).

Looking for Grammar Help? Try one or more of these sites:

Darling’s Guide to Grammar: Exercises, explanations, quizzes, etc. Highly recommended!!
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Purdue University Writing Center Site—The grandmother of all writing sites. Very good grammar and style explanation worksheets.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

If these do not do it for you, try some alternative sites and approaches to grammar:
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/help/grammar_help/
http://englishplus.com/grammar/

Reference Resources

• Encylopedia Britannica and Merriam Webster Dictionary: http://www.search.eb.com/
• MLA documentation information: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/
• An all purpose reference site. You can search through encyclopedias, dictionaries, the King James Bible, Quatation dictionaries and more. http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
• The Oxford English Dictionary (the definitive dictionary in English) :http://dictionary.oed.com/

Good starting points for American Literature Research

• Professor Donna Campbell's site includes author bibliographies, historical timelines, and explanations of literary movements, periods, and concepts. A tremendous resource! http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/
• Another amazing site with comprehensive links: http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/
• Voices from the Gaps offers detailed information about a wide range of women writers who happen to be of color, a much needed corrective to the distorted perspective provided by many other American literature resources: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
  

Authors Covered In Course (Alphabetically)

Anne Bradstreet:

Pattie Cowell’s introduction of Bradstreet for the Heath Anthology of American Literature:
http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/colonial/bradstreet_an.html
A web site with eleven of Bradstreet’s poems and a brief bibliography
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/abrad.html

A college class web site with a strong bibliography and other links
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/bradstreet.htm

Jonathan Edwards:

http://WWW.JonathanEdwards.com/

Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.rwe.org/

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/declaration/declaration.html

Harriet Jacobs

This site includes the complete text of Incidents in the Life of a Slave and other supporting resources: .http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hjhome.htm

This site includes a useful chronology and some interesting correspondence from Jacobs: http://www.drizzle.com/~tmercer/Jacobs/

Voices from the gap also features a good section on Jacobs.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/HarrietJacobs.html

Sylvia Plath

http://home.san.rr.com/cinderella/sylvia.html (Plath)

Adrienne Rich

http://www.barclayagency.com/richwhy.html
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rich/onlineessays.htm
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=50&CFID=2653571&CFTOKEN=11683116

Anne Sexton

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=14&CFID=2653571&CFTOKEN=11683116

Henry David Thoreau

http://www.walden.org/thoreau/

Mark Twain

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
The best of all Twain web pages—includes searchable texts of all Twain works and lots of background goodies (Connecticut Yankee resources are especially good).

http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/
The official web site for the recent Ken Burns PBS special has a chronology, some useful photos, and other goodies (warning: site is pretty commercial)

http://www.marktwainhouse.org/
Site operated by the folks who maintain the Mark Twain house in Connecticut. I do not think you can understand Twain until you look at and think about this house and what it tells us about him.

http://www.twainquotes.com/quotesatoz.html
An excellent collection of Twain quotes on all manner and range of topics.

John Winthrop

An essay, "John Winthrop and the Origins of American Multiculturalism," advocating for the continued importance of reading Wintrhop:: http://www.iso.gmu.edu/~drwillia/winthrop.html

An e-text for "A Model of Christian Charity" : http://history.hanover.edu/texts/winthmod.html

A web page for a college lit class that provides a bibliography and useful links: http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/winthrop.htm