Cultural Contexts: arts and letters Daguerrotypes: the first camera . . Library of Congress Daguerrotype Collection - Smithsonian Romantic Music: Ludwig von Beethoven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Prints by Currier and Ives . . Museum of the City of New York History of the McGuffey Reader . . Univ. of Virginia Pictures from Godey's Ladies Book . . Univ. of Virginia Hudson River School of Painters 150 years of American Painters . . Brigham Young Univ. Thomas Cole . . Syracuse Univ. Sites focused on some of the Transcendentalists The Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson: texts Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson and Inheritance Emerson: an appreciation Sermon on Emerson's Bicentennial Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" text Nineteenth Century American Transcendentalist...Univ. of Calif, Stanislaus
Emily Dickinson: Dickinson Electronic Archives . . Univ. of Virginia Biographical Notes on Dickinson (with note on psychology) . . Univ. of Texas Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, MA Emily Dickinson International Society . . Case Western Reserve Close readings of Dickinson (and Plath) Dickinson's Life and Poetry . . North Carolina EMWEB: discussion archive of Dickinson's works Brigham Young University Categorical Index to Dickinson
Frederick Douglass: On-line e-text Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center Frederick Douglass Papers . . Indiana / Purdue Univ. Frederick Douglass Biography . . Rochester Univ. Frederick Douglass Biography
Edgar Allen Poe: TBA
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne and Antebellum America Hawthorne as storyteller Hawthorne's "The Organgrinder" Keywords in The Scarlet Letter Text of The Scarlet Letter Updike's rewriting of The Scarlet Letter Electronic version of The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville
Life and Works of Herman Melville Some quotes from Melville Nantucket's Tried-Out Moby-Dick, Robert A. diCurcio's COMPANION READER to Melville's Masterpiece Peter Batke's Text Archive of Moby-Dick Introduction to a study of Melville's use of Irony by Lewis Parkhill "Bartleby, the Scrivener"...text archive, Columbia University "Bartleby, the Scrivener"...Univ. of Texas Herman Melville and Moby-Dick Billy Budd, an electronic version New Bedford Whaling Museum Walt Whitman Walt Whitman and Daguerrotypes Sites focused on antebellum historical controversies The Presidency of Franklin PierceWhite House page (plain text) The Presidency of Franklin PierceWhite House page (graphics version) The Presidency of Zachary Taylor Grolier Encyclopiedia Lincoln's Lyceum Speech, 1838 Contemporary Drawings and Lithographs of Mexican War Berkeley, CA Frequently Asked Questions on the Mexican War Dept. of the Navy War of 1848 . . PBS Images from War of 1848 The Compromise of 1850 Univ. of Texas The Compromise of 1850 site to be determined Ante-bellum Sectionalism site to be determined Mass. Law on fugitive slaveszzz Pres. Miller Fillmore, signer of the MIssouri Compromise site to be determined Sojourner TruthBRITANNICA Guide to Black History Kansas Nebrask Bill...Furman University Kansas Nebraska Act The History Place Dred Scott Decision The History Place The Facts of the case: Dred Scott site to be determined Archive Photos. Dred Scott Dred Scott v. Sandford . . the role of Dred Scott in U.S. Const. history Dred Scott Case Washington Univ., St. Louis To send e-mail to Prof. Langston, please click on the following tag: Send a message to the instructor