Ernest Hemingway -- In Our Time

• Ernest Hemingway Biography: The Paris Years
• Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum; Key West, FL
• Ernest Hemingway: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography
• The Hemingway Resource Center
• In Our Time: The Critical Reception
• Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in his Time. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Nella Larsen -- Passing

• Nella Larsen: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography
• Nella Larsen: Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color -- biography and resources directory
• "Nella Larsen's Passing and the Fading Subject." By Neil Sullivan. African American Review (Fall 1998)

Claude McKay

• Claude McKay: Academy of American Poets
• Claude McKay: Modern American Poetry Project
• Claude McKay: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography
• "Home at Last: The Pilgrimage of Claude McKay." By David Goldweber. Commonweal (Sept.10, 1999)
• Selected Poetry of Claude McKay: Representative Poetry On-Line

Langston Hughes

• Langston Hughes: Academy of American Poets
• Langston Hughes: Books and Writers --detailed biography
• Langston Hughes Centennial Advisory Committee: Cleveland State University, Ohio
• Langston Hughes: Modern American Poetry Project -- biography, criticism, and works
• Langston Hughes: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- critical bibliography and works list
• Langston Hughes: Teacher Resource File -- gateway for author

Gwendolyn Bennett

• Gwendolyn Bennett: The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C. -- biography
• Gwendolyn Bennett: Modern American Poetry Project -- biography and criticism
• Gwendolyn Bennett: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography

Anne Spencer

• Anne Spencer -- nine poem texts
• Anne Spencer: Modern American Poetry Project -- biography and criticism
• Anne Spencer: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography
• Anne Spencer's House: Lynchburg, VA

Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman

• Arthur Miller: Books and Writers -- biography
• Arthur Miller: Kennedy Center Honors
• Arthur Miller: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography
• Arthur Miller Society: Official Website
• Death of a Salesman: 1999 Official Production Site -- Tony-award winning cast
• ISU Play Concordances: Death of a Salesman
• "Tragedy and the Common Man." An Essay by Arthur Miller. New York Times Feb. 27, 1949

Mary McCarthy -- Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

• Mary McCarthy: Books and Writers -- biography and works list
• Mary McCarthy: New York Times on the Web -- free registration for viewing interviews, reviews, and audio clips
• Mary McCarthy Papers: Vassar College Libraries -- includes author biography
• Mary McCarthy: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography

Adrienne Rich

• Adrienne Rich: Academy of American Poets
• Adrienne Rich: Modern American Poetry Project -- criticism, biography, and other resources
• Adrienne Rich: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography
• Adrienne Rich Station -- current updates on poet, geared for teachers and students
• "A Rich Life: Adrienne Rich on Poetry, Politics, and Personal Revelation." By Michael Klein. Boston Phoenix, June, 1999
• "Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts, 1997." By Adrienne Rich. LA Times Book Section, Aug. 3, 1997

Sylvia Plath

• Annotated Works of Sylvia Plath: NYU -- literary database
• More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath: New York Times Books, Archives -- free registration to view articles and other resources
• PlathOnline.com -- gateway for poet resources
• Sylvia Plath: Books and Writers -- biography and works list
• Sylvia Plath: Academy of American Poets -- biography and works
• Sylvia Plath: Modern American Poetry Project -- biography and other resources

Audre Lorde

• Audre Lorde: Academy of American Poets
• Audre Lorde: Modern American Poetry Project
• Audre Lorde: New York State Writers Institute -- biography, works list, and bibliography
• The Audre Lorde Project -- gateway for author
• Audre Lorde: Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color

Grace Paley -- Conversation with my Father

• "All My Habits are Bad." Interview with Grace Paley. Salon.com: Books
• Grace Paley: New York State Writers Institute -- biography and works list
• "Writing with Both Ears." By Wendy Lesser. Salon.com: LitChat -- interview with Paley

N.Scott Momaday -- Way to Rainy Mountain

• The Buffalo Trust -- Native American foundation chaired by Momaday
• N. Scott Momaday Bibliography: University of Arizona Libraries -- author is member of U of AZ faculty
• N. Scott Momaday: Keeper of the Flame. PBS: The West -- biography
• N. Scott Momaday: Modern American Poetry Project --biography, criticism, and other resources
• N. Scott Momaday: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) -- works list and critical bibliography

Denise Chavez -- Last of the Menu Girls

• Denise Chavez: Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
• Denise Chavez: World Lit Today -- criticism and other resources on author

John Irving -- The Water-Method Man

• "John Irving and the Architecture of Character." Interview by Alden Mudge. BookPage Interview, May 1998
• John Irving is God -- fan-created site featuring publishing history, biography, and bibliography
• John Irving: Random House -- official site from publisher
• Life and Times: John Irving: The New York Times -- requires free registration to read interviews and book reviews
• The Salon Interview: John Irving -- March, 1997 interview

Major Themes of Course

U.S. Imperialism

• The Age of Imperialism: An On-line History of the United States
• Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935. Edited by Jim Zwick -- historical documents, literature, and other sources

Urbanization

• America, 1900: The American Experience, PBS -- comprehensive view of culture
• American History Files: Urbanization -- introduction to topic

The Suffrage Movement

• "One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview." Timeline compiled by E. Susan Barber.
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection, 1848-1921. American Memory Project, Library of Congress
• Worcester Women's History Project (WWHP) -- birthplace of women's civil rights movement (1850)

Modernism in America

• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century: 1910-1919. -- directory of resources from Kingwood College Library
• Welcome to the 1913 Armory Show -- birth of modernism in American culture

The Harlem Renaissance

• The Harlem Renaissance -- gateway of art, poems, and prose
• The Harlem Renaissance, 1900-1940: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The Cold War

• Cold War International History Project: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Harvard Project on Cold War Studies

Second Wave Feminism and Postmodernism

• International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism
• Postmodernism. An Introduction by Mary Klages, Prof. of English, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Postmodernism and its Critics. By Shannon Weiss and Karla Wesley. Anthropology Dept., University of Alabama