U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs

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Outline of American Literature follows the path taken by American literature as it has moved from the pre-colonial days of orally transmitted tales of Native American cultures, through the periods of realism, romanticism, and experimentation, to the prose and poetry of the past 50 years.

Writers on America presents 15 essays by a diverse group of contemporary American writers, poets, essayists, and intellectuals, on how being an American has affected their decision to write and what they have written during successful careers.

Literature On the Road

Literary Traveler was launched in March of 1998 by the husband and wife team of Linda and Francis McGovern. The McGoverns met while studying English at Suffolk University, in Boston. Their love of literature and travel inspired them to create Literary Traveler. Kerouac is here. Guide to the South is here.

VCU Library has some great Literary Links Celebrating Literature in Virginia. See also The Web of American Transcendentalism.



The Virginia Library in Richmond has several online exhibits,including Virginia Roots Music - Creating and Conserving Tradition.

The Language of the Land is an online exhibit at the U.S. Library of Congress containing links to regional literary maps.

The Psychedelic '60s at UVA

The Psychedelic '60s - Literary Tradition and Social Change is an online exhibit presented by the University of Virginia Special Collections Library. Other online exhibits can be accessed here.

The Classroom Electric

The Classroom Electric is a constellation of web sites on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and nineteenth-century American culture. Here users can explore images of original manuscripts, rare photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, letters, and maps in sites informed by cutting-edge scholarship. While each site works as a stand-alone case study useful to students and teachers, the sites also link to each other, to other resources, and to the Dickinson Electronic Archives and the Walt Whitman Archive.

Documenting America

Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA Photographs 1935-43

Documenting America - Annotated portfolios from the book Documenting America, 1935-1943.

Walker Evans - Before and After

Walker Evans Before and After

Getty Photographs Collection Turns 20

Ansel Adams

Mt. Williamson from Manzanar, 1944 by Ansel Adams

"Suffering Under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.

Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club.

Bob Dylan - Poet

Dylan, Master Poet? Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

'Dylan's Visions of Sin': It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Reading)

http://www.greilmarcus.com - Old Weird America

Photos of Bruce

The Newark Museum presents Springsteen—Troubadour of the Highway, an exhibition organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. Springsteen – Troubadour of the Highway is the first major exhibition devoted to New Jersey native and rock and roll legend Bruce Springsteen. The exhibition will be on view at The Newark Museum from June 17th through August 29th 2004.



Rock 'n' Roll Highway - Essay by Robert Santelli

Springsteen — Troubadour of the Highway - Essay by Colleen Sheehy

Annie Leibovitz on Women

Photographs from "Women" by Annie Leibovitz, and an essay by Susan Sontag, A Photograph Is Not an Opinion. Or Is It?

Photography Temple contains online photo essays about the work of famous photographers by students at Temple University. including Annie Leibovitz.



Annie Leibovitz exhibit at The Hospital

Democracy and Education

While some may consider the phrase oxymoronic, the belief in democratic education expressed by the father of progressive education, John Dewey, is worthy of reflection.

"I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience."
- John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed, 1897

English 11 Exam Review & Honors Summer Reading

English 11 2nd Semester Exam Review.doc

English 11 HONORS 2nd Semester Exam Review.doc

Strongsville H.S. Honors Summer Reading

Here's a piece from NPR on Summer Reading, including former Lakers coach Phil Jackson.

Lackey's Class Photos

11 Honors 3rd



11 Honors 7-8



English 11 4-5



English 11 9th

Some of my heroes

Dear Class:
Each class is, for me, another step on an adventure up the mountain called school. For better or for worse, the vistas we’ve shown each other along the way will be etched in our collective memory. We probably can’t choose what we’ll remember, if anything at all. What remains will be how we treated each other, our attitudes toward life and living, a few good books and still fewer original thoughts. For your stamina, resilience, talent, creativity, inspiration and persistence, each of you has, in your own way, joined the following list of my heroes.
D. Lackey



My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
- Henry David Thoreau

The American Scholar
An oration delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard in 1837.
Oliver Wendell Holmes called this speech America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible.
- Wendell Berry

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
- Edward Abbey

Life is what happens to us when we’re busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

I am a folk singer and composer of songs and ballads in the folk vein, writer of stories and articles, guitar player, harmonica blower and singer.
- Woody Guthrie

Don’t think twice, it’s alright.
- Bob Dylan

Time Magazine's Most Influential People of the 20th Century

This Is Just To Say . . .

This Is Just To Say
- William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Books With Appeal

A book list with teen appeal taken from Great Books for High School Kids by Amy Crawford and Rick Ayers of Berkeley, California.

Kerry Borrows Campaign Slogan From Langston Hughes

The NYTimes reports that John Kerry's latest campaign slogan is taken from the Langston Hughes poem by the same title - "Let America Be America Again."