Humanities and Fine Arts Resources
http://www.sc.edu/edu/bck2skol/fall/lesson10.html
These are the humanities links from “BCK2SKOL,” a free electronic library classroom created by Ellen Chamberlain, Head Librarian, University of South Carolina.

American Authors on the Web
http://ernie.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

Book Lovers
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/
Some of the links are a good passage to the rest of the book-oriented Web; others have a more restricted scope.

Banned Books On-Line
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/banned-books.html
This is a special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here range from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood.

American Booksellers Association: Bookweb
http://www.bookweb.org/

Poets’ Corner
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems
Created by Steve Spanoudis, Poets’ Corner is a searchable anthology of more than 3500 poems by 300 poets.

Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org
Vast resources, including audio segments.

Science Fiction / Space Technology” Tools for Learning
http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov/~woodfill/SPACED/SEHHTML/scifi.html
The unusual site from NASA uses Science Fiction literature to teach space technology. This rich informational site will, no doubt, bring English and science teachers together. Scroll down to “Scientific Laws Often Abused in Science Fiction,” “Space Technology Tutorials” and more.

Tales of Wonder: Folk & Fairy Tales from Around the World
http://darsie.ucdavis.edu/tales/
Includes tales from many different cultures and regions.

Children’s Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
David K. Brown’s excellent site at the University of Calgary continues to be the best in this area!

A Celebration of Women Writers
http://www.sc.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/celebration.html
From Carnegie Mellon University, this site is devoted to promoting an awareness of the importance, breadth and variety of women’s writing. The site can be browsed alphabetically by name, by century, or by country. Links take you to sites devoted to specific writers developed at Carnegie Mellon and elsewhere around the world.

American Dreams through the Decades
http://www.town.pvt.k12.ca.us/Collaborations/amproject/student.html
Developed by teachers, the “American Dreams” WebQuest challenges students to tackle a complex topic, access rich resources, and work together to synthesize their learning into an informed perspective on the topic. This is an excellent site for English teachers seeking to work cooperatively with their social studies colleagues. “American Dreams” uses the resources provided by the American Memory sections from the Library of Congress.

American Verse Project (University of Michigan)
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/
The American Verse Project is an electronic archive of volumes of American verse prior to 1920. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included. The full text of each volume is available and is searchable.

Victorian Web Overview
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html
George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History at Brown University, designed and edited this web, made many of the links, and is responsible for most of the materials on the individual authors and works. The Victorian Web also draws upon several other hypertext webs developed under Professor Landow’s direction, and demonstrates the potential of hypertext in literary study. Links to life during Victorian times under Social Context and the Search capabilities make this particularly useful for many projects.

Authors: LSU’s Libraries Webliography
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/authors.html
Provided by Louisiana State University Libraries, this directory is an index of indexes. “It contains pointers to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers.”

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1901 edition)
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
This is database of quotations and is searchable by author and subject. Note the publication date!

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
This comprehensive Shakespeare site contains the Web’s first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. It includes a discussion area, a tool to search the works, links to related resources on the Internet, a chronological listing and alphabetical listing of plays, and Bartlet’s familiar Shakespearean quotations.

Literary Resources on the Net
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Developed by Jack Lynch, Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, this set of pages is a collection of links to sites devoted to English and American literature. Included is a simple search engine.

Researching American Literature on the Internet
http://www.sccd.ctc.edu/~sbeasley/mais/maishome.html
For students in American literature who want to understand the Internet and how to use it, or who want a resource guide for material of interest for their work.

Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web
http://marktwain.miningco.com/
Courtesy of the Mining Company, this excellent site lists resources by or about Mark Twain, including electronic texts, biography and a good collection of critical essays and book reviews. Students not researching Twin will envy the student who is! And teachers will find the Teaching Resources section very helpful.

Voice of the Shuttle: Humanities Subject guide
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu
Index to humanities-related Internet sites. Useful tool for browsing in a particular subject area.

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/
Developed by Michael Lee Groves, English Teacher at the West Linn-Wilsonville School District, Oregon, this site provides a quick reference for students and teachers to the many literature and writing resources on the World Wide Web.

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ELECTRONIC BOOKS, JOURNALS AND INDEXES

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html
An on-line archive of thousands of electronic texts that are not necessarily all within the public domain. Examine the various collections that include manuscripts and illustrations.

E-Journal list
http://www.edoc.com/ejournal
The WWW Virtual Library Electronic Journals List, includes list of newspapers, academic journals on the Web.

Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitally Republished
http://promo.net/pg/
Over 1700 works of Public Domain Literature and Reference works to use, read, quote and search. One of the original projects that utilized the Internet for sharing information.

Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu./Collections/
Comprehensive collection or materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority, of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.

Online Books Page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html
For the student interested in online books, this site from Carnegie Mellon includes the full-text of more than 6,000 books and features that are frequently updated.

English Server
http://eng.hss.cmu.edu/
English Server is a cooperative that has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. Today it offers over eighteen thousand works, covering a wide range of interests.

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VOCABULARY AND WRITING RESOURCES

A Spelling Test
http://www.sentex.net/%7Emmcadams/spelling.html
A spelling test that delivers immediate results, plus some spelling tips.

Library Research at Cornell: A Hypertext Guide
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/tutorial.html

A Plus Research & Writing for High School and College Students Home Page
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus

Purdue Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/writers/by-topic.html
Purdue University’s site offering tools for writers: prewriting strategies, help with mechanics, proofreading skills, etc. Vast resources for writers and teachers of writing. The sections' titles “Writing Across the Curriculum” and “Writing in the Disciplines” will assist you in everything from creating short, single discipline writing assignments to newsletters.

Vocabulary University
http://www.vocabulary.com
This site offers “free vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery at three levels, beginning with grades 5-6. Exercises are endorsed by teachers to enrich classroom curriculum and to help prepare for the SSAT, GED, SAT and ACT.”

Wild World of Words
http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/challenge/challengeframe.html
This list offers a set of Web-based contests (including writing contests for students in K-4, 5-8, and 9-12) and word puzzle for a variety of skills and levels.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
http://www.idbsu.edu/english/cguilfor/paradigm/
Developed by Professor Chuck Guilford of Boise State University, Paradigm helps students think about what goes into writing before they ever start to draft. There are sections on discovering what to write, organizing, revising and editing. Several types of essays are addressed: thesis/support, argumentative, exploratory, and informal.

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