AUTHORS

• Contemporary Authors - Database available from Highland Park Public Library
• Gale Literary Index - From Gale Cengage Learning
• Celebration of Women Writers - From the University of Pennsylvania
• Tim O'Brien on the WWW
• Web Page for talk on Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

• Resources for the Study of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

CHARITIES

• Illinois Charity Directory - List of charities in Illinois.
• Charity Navigator - In-depth analysis of America's largest charities.  Searchable by name and category.
• GIVE - Connected with the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance. Lists and evaluates charities.
• GuideStar - Evaluative information on charities - must have an organization name to search.
• Network for Good - Designed to help people find volunteer and giving opportunities in their own communities and beyond.

LITERATURE ONLINE

• Bartleby - Several hundred full-text offerings organized by Reference, Fiction, Verse and Nonfiction.  Searchable by author, subject or title.
• Favorite Poems - A sampling of poems chosen for the "Favorite Poems" project sponsored by the Library of Congress.
• Find a Poem - Over 1200 poems searchable by keyword, title and first line.
• Net eBook Library - Public access section contains over 10,000 eBooks searchable by phrase and word.

POETRY

• Academy of American Poets
• Diamante Poems - from ReadWriteThink
• Poet's Corner 6000 full text poems

REVIEWS

• New York Times Book Reviews

Black Panthers/Black Power

• Black Panther - Black Panther Foundation official site and Ten-Point Program.
• From the Sixties to the Future - Homepage of Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther movement.
• Huey P. Newton Story - Created by PBS to give information on the co-founder and leader of the Black Panther movement.

Racism in the South

• African American Odyssey - Library of Congress shares pictures and information on segregation in America.
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Images, maps, timeline and stories from PBS.  

People of Mixed Race

• Project Race - An organization promoting a multiracial classification on all forms requiring racial data.

Orthodox Judaism

• Orthodox Judaism - From the Overview of World Religions page through St. Martin's College in Great Britain.
• Reform Judaism - From the Overview of World Religions page through St. Martin's College in Great Britain.

THE GREAT GATSBY

General

• 20th Century History by the Decades: 1920-1929

Automobiles

• Americans Adopt the Automobile - Images and text from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

• The Consumer Economy and Mass Entertainment - The impact of the automobile on 1920s life.

• Henry Ford  - The impact that Henry Ford had on the automobile industry from Time Magazine.

• Henry Ford and His Model T - From Annenberg/CPB Biography of America.

• People and Discoveries: Henry Ford  - Brief article from PBS.    

Charles Lindbergh

• Charles Augustus Lindbergh Home Page

• Lindbergh - From PBS's American Experience

Crime

• Al Capone  - Images and information on Al Capone and crime during the 1920s from he Chicago Historical Society.
• Teapot Dome Scandal - Brief article from Grolier.
• Teapot Dome Scandal - Brief article from InfoPlease

1920s Fashion

• Flapper Fashion 1920s

• Flappers in the Roaring 20's - from About.com

Stock Market Crash and Great Depression

• Causes of the Great Depression  - Notes for a class of Profession Steven Schoenheer at San Diego State University.

• The Great Depression - PBS presentation including a timeline with people and events from the Great Depression.

• The Great Depression and World War II - Photographs and text from the Library of Congress.

• The Great Crash and the Great Slump  - Professor J. Bradford DeLong explains the stock market crash and the Great Depression.

Immigration

• Immigration Restriction and the KKK - Ohio State University Department of History.

Music

• Bessie Smith

Prohibition

• Prohibition in the Progressive Era - Library of Congress.
• Temperance and Prohibition -  Professor K. Austin Kerr at Ohio State University's Department of History gives information on prohibition in America. 

Women's Suffrage Movement

• The Arguments of the Anti-Suffragists - University of Rochester gives a short summary.
• The Constitution: The 19th Amendment - Images and information from National Archives & Records Administration.
• Life Editorial  - Reproduction of an editorial from a 1906 Life magazine concludes that women do not want the vote..
• Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920  - Images from The Library Of Congress American Memory Collection.

Sports

• The Black Sox - Chicago Historical Society provide images and information on the sport scandal of 1919.
• Good Sports, Great Players - Article from the Seattle Times.

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

• Harlem 1900-1940 - University of Michigan site based on the original exhibition created by the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Contains a timeline, photos and information on activism, arts, business, community, sports, and writers of Harlem from 1900-1940.
• Biographies of the Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem Renaissance: Pivotal Period in the Development of Afro-American Culture
• Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston - Perspectives in American Literature by Paul P. Reuben, Ph.D. at California State University Stanislaus.
• The Harlem Renaissance and the Flowering of Creativity - Library of Congress
• Migrations
• Wired for Books: Community Reconsidered - Transcript of a conversation among three literature professors about Their Eyes Were Watching God.
• Between Laughter and Tears - 1937-38 Reviews of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Richard Wright and Alain Locke
• Zora Neale Hurston's - Glossary of Harlem Slang (Slang terms circa 1930s)
• African American Culture through Oral Tradition - site sponsored by George Washington University

• The Great Depression - PBS presentation.
• The Great Depression and World War II - Photographs and text from the Library of Congress.
• Fairview: the Closing Chapter - Descriptions of past treatments of mentally retarded people.
• Importance of Friendships Between People With and Without Mental Retardation - From the Center on Human Policy at Syracuse University.
• Introduction to Mental Retardation - Information from the ARC, an organization of and for people with mental retardation disabilities.
• The Migrant Experience - Photographs and text from the Library of Congress.
• Of Mice and Men: Inappropriate in Illinois - Report from the National Coalition Against Censorship.
• Of Mice and Men: the Student Survival Guide - Annotated guide to the novel created by English teacher, Nancy Louise Rutherford.

• Buddhist Studies
• Bushido (The Way of the Warrior)
• China the Beautiful - Chinese culture including; classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy
• Confucius - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Explore Japanese Gardens, Culture and Food
• From War to War: 1931-1939:  Germany and Japan Seize Power
• Japan Corner - all things Japanese, including culture, cuisine, lifestyle, etiquette, and festivals
• Japanese economic history during the 1930s
• Japanese Architecture - Traditional and Modern
• Japanese Art and Architecture
• Shinto Religion
• Shinto Religion
• Taoism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Zen Buddhism

Elizabeth I

• History of the Monarchy:  Elizabeth I
• The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabethan England

• Elizabethan England Teacher Resources - Resources compiled by the Internet School Library Media Center at James Madison University.

Theatre

• The Elizabethan Theatre

• Shakespeare’s Globe

William Shakespeare

• The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs
• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
• Shakespeare's Life and Times

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

• To Kill a Mockingbird: a Student Survival Guide - definition of unfamiliar vocabulary, allusions and idioms in the novel
• Reporter Roy Newquist interviews Harper Lee in 1964
• The London Observer - 2006 interview with Harper Lee by Paul Harris
• Attracting the Northern Mockingbird
• Library of Congress Historical Perspective – essay by Dr. Raymond Crump Howard on why African Americans strive to control their fears, anger, and rage about racist slurs and violence
• Facts About Race/Color Discrimination
• Famous American Trials
• The Great Depression and World War II
• Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination
• Racism, Censorship, and Words that Sting
• Racist Memorabilia - From the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris University, Big Rapids, MI.
• Scottsboro: an American Tragedy 
• What was Jim Crow? - From the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris University, Big Rapids, MI.
• Timeline of Civil Rights Movement - collaboratively prepared by American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress

• Historical background on the Scottsboro Trial and the Civil Rights Movement - prepared by Claudia Johnson, Dr. Joanne Gabbin and Catherine Turner.

• Brown v. Board of Education - American.gov introduction to the landmark Supreme Court opinion involving "separate but equal" educational facilities.
• Brown v. Board of Education - ACLU retrospective on the landmark case.
• About Gandhi - From the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester.
• Gandhi: a Pictorial Biography - Images and information about Gandhi from the Gandhi Book Centre in Bombay, India.
• Jim Crow Image Gallery - Collections of Jim Crow images sponsored by New York Life.
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Images, maps, timeline and stories from PBS.
• Examples of Jim Crow Laws - Vernellia Randall, professor of law at the University of Dayton.
• Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary - Site celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine.
• Little Rock Nine Celebrates Its Victory 50 Years Later - From America.gov
• On the Front Lines with the Little Rock Nine - PBS information on the Little Rock Nine.