Literature

A comprehensive timeline that matches the political and social history of the United States with the literature of the time, by decade for the early years and by year after the year 1800.

From San Antonio College, a listing and several links to the foremost African-American writers and their works, from the mid-1700s to the present day.

An on-line bibliography maintained by the Thomas Byrne Library at Spring Hill College that directs the reader to printed titles about American plays and playwrights, including biography, bibliographies and guides to criticism, and theater and drama journals.

From Tulane University, a resource guide that covers primary sources, guides and encyclopedias, surveys and chronologies, biographical dictionaries, and criticism, among other categories.

Includes three virtual libraries that contain, respectively, electronic texts and resources for 18th and 19th century American literature, electronic texts and resources for 20th century American literature, and literature by and on black Americans. Also includes links to other American and global literature Web sites, as well as an electronic archives for teaching American literature.

Contains the complete texts of some 25 popular American literary classics, along with a handful of British works, each arranged in a large-type chapter-by-chapter format. Among the selections are "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Main Street," "Moby-Dick," "The Red Badge of Courage," and "The House of Seven Gables."

One of the most comprehensive sites on the Web, this Sam Houston State University anthology provides access to information about the writings of more than 350 Americans from the 16th and 17th centuries to the 20th. Also includes photos or illustrations of most the writers, as well as a list of all Pultizer Prize winners in letters (fiction, drama, poetry, biography, and history) from 1917 to the present.

A very comprehensive site from Nagoya University that presents a chronological listing of almost 800 American authors and includes biographical authors and/or writing samples for the majority of them.

Includes biographical information on as well as the writings of a host of AfricanA very comprehensive site from Nagoya University that presents a chronological listing of almost 800 American authors and includes biographical authors and/or writing samples for the majority of them. -American writers, ranging over time from Jupiter Hammon in the 1700s to contemporary writers.

Maintained at the University of Southern California, provides links to resources on African-American literature, literary criticism, articles, dissertations, and general reference materials, as well as links to specific genres of literature -- poetry, drama, novels, and short fiction.