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Ad*Access
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The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. [40]
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As students are studying different decades during the 20th century, they might be asked to desktop publish a magazine for those years including articles, photographs, and creative writing. To add color or atmosphere to the publication, students might download and include ads from the decade from this database.
In media literacy studies, students might be asked to identify the approaches that various ads are using to promote their ideas.
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Duke University
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Cantaria
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Cantaria is a learning library of bardic songs. This library currently contains lyrics for over 80 songs, most with accompanying sound clips of the songs being performed. Songs are categorized under the headings below.
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Chivalry Music and Internet Publishing
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Humanities Text Initiative: American Verse Project
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The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded. [125]
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University of Michigan
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John Keats
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Portico: The British Library
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Samuel Beckett
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George Washington University
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Aesop's Fables
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online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables(Some with Real Audio), indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) the rest are from Jean De La Fontaine in French and translated to English by several good internet souls. [119]
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John R. Long
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Aesop's Fables Online Collection
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Nearly as old as the Olympics, bigger than Dinosaur, older than the
Titanic, more complex than Pokemon and more of them than Beanie Babies are
Aesop's Fables," explains Web site creator John R. Long, who offers free
access to over 655 Fables with more on the way. The Fables are listed by
title and by moral of the story -- many include illustrations and over a
dozen are available as audio narrations. The site also provides links to
lesson plans, including those submitted by site visitors. Unsure where to
start in this extensive online library? Long provides an excellent subset 86
Fables "selected for their ease of reading and concise moral understanding. [411]
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John R. Long
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American Folklore: Famous American folktales and legends, Native American myths, weather folklore, ghost stories and more from each of the 50 States.
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This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read about all sorts of famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and many more. So grab a cup of coffee or a soda, pull up a comfy chair, and stay awhile. [329]
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This web site makes a wonderful source for story telling. One student centered way of using these stories might be to have students illustrate them, build presentation slides, or even create a video of the stories.
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Freelance Author, Sandra E. Schlosser
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American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
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"Rationalize rhetoric, and it speaks to your mind. Personify her and she speaks to your soul." I wide range of sources of rhetoric, including christian rhetoric, movie speeches, rhetoric of 9-11, speach bank, top 100 speeches, etc. [481]
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Michael Eldenmuller
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Ancient India
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The Ancient India Web site from the British Museum is designed especially
for middle schoolers and teachers, but all ages will enjoy exploring. There
are six chapters: Buddha, Geography, Hinduism, Indus Valley, Time, and
Writing; each with divisions entitled Story, Explore, and Challenge. Story
in the Buddha chapter is the life of the Buddha; Explore under Hinduism
features trading card-sized images of 16 Hindu gods and short descriptions;
and the Geography Challenge is to plan a pilgrimage to see holy sites of the
Buddha's life, traveling on foot. Other fun sections include the Writing
section challenge, where students decipher ancient Indian writing, and the
interactive timelines in the Time chapter. Throughout the site, clicking
linked words in the text pops open a glossary with definitions of difficult
terms. [461]
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The British Museum
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Ancient World Mapping Center
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Classics Unveiled was developed by Neil Jenkins, Sumair Mirza and Jason Tang
as a way to teach the web-browsing public about the various aspects of the
ancient world, ranging from the massive world of Greek and Roman mythology,
Roman history, Roman culture, and the Latin language and its pervasive
influence on English. The site is divided into four primary areas, and
visitors may opt to browse through any of them and their accompanying
features, which include primary extended essays and informative games and
quizzes. In Rome Exposed for example, users will learn about Roman
residences, entertainment, attire, cuisine, and several other aspects of
Roman culture and mores. In MythNET visitors can learn about the twelve
Olympian gods, read about the Trojan War, and explore genealogical charts
that trace the various relationships between the pantheon of Rome and
Greece. [443]
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http://www.classicsunveiled.com
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Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
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Buried in Westminster Abbey (under a plain slab adorned with the words, Rare
Ben Jonson), Ben Jonson was one of England's most renowned playwrights
during the 17th century. A contemporary of Shakespeare, Jonson was born in
1572, educated at the Westminster School, and as a young man joined the
theatrical company of Philip Henslowe in London. Shortly after joining the
company, Jonson's second play, Every Man in His Humour, was performed in
1598 at the Globe, with a cast that included William Shakespeare. Ever the
quick wit and satirist, Jonson's reputation was firmly secured by the
comedies he wrote between 1605 and 1614, which included The Alchemist and
Bartholomew Fair. This site, provided by the Luminarium, contains most of
Jonsons' plays and lyric poetry, a brief biography (with hypertext links),
additional Web resources, and a number of critical essays on Jonson's body
of work. Visitors will want to make sure to read Jonson's homage to William
Shakespeare, titled "To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William
Shakespeare." [445]
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Anniina Jokinen
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Children's Literature Web Guide
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This website holds a wealth of information to support young students in their exploration of literature. This site has been popular for a very long time.
[120]
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University of Calgary
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Cool Quotes - Coolest quotations on the Web, random quote, Quote of the Day, famous quotes, funny quotes, movie quotes, inspirational quotes, friendship quotes, motivational quotes, love quotes
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CoolQuotes is striving to be the best place on the internet to get cool quotes. Please feel free to browse through our quotes database and discussion forums. Send a quote to a friend or relative by email. Suggest a favorite quote of your own, to be added to our database. Try our random quote generator. Enjoy our Quote of the Day feature. Additionally, for your convenience, we have provided your favorite quote categories to you on our front page. They are: famous quotes, funny quotes, movie quotes, inspirational quotes, friendship quotes, motivational quotes and love quotes. [490]
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CoolQuotes.com
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Cornell Library Historical Monographs
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Beginning in 1990, the Cornell Library initiated an ambitious early attempt
to create digital surrogates for materials that were rapidly deteriorating
and becoming brittle. Utilizing prototype equipment developed in tandem with
Xerox, the materials were scanned and placed online. Currently, the
materials available include 441 entire monographs, totaling 159,961 pages.
The search engine located on the site allows visitors to search the holding
by author, title, and text. Additionally, visitors can browse the collection
by author or title. The monographs include Shelley's "An address to the
Irish people," Comte's "Positive Philosophy," selected writings of Richard
Wagner, and Sir Richard Burton's "Personal Narrative of a pilgrimage to el
Medinah and Meccah." The Web site concludes with a help section that
contains information about searching and browsing this interesting
collection of online monographs. [412]
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Cornell Library
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Dance Instruction Manuals: Ca. 1490 - 1920
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presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another. [266]
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These publications provide a unique view of life before TV. Ask you students, as they browse through the manuals, why they think this subject was of such interest to people in past centuries?
In PE, use the manuals to teach some folk dancing.
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The Library of Congress
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Digital Book Index
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Digital Book Index provides access to more than 80,000 titles records.
It is the sole index that gathers both commercial and non-commercial
eBooks from more than 1800 publishers and private publishing
organizations. Titles range from the Ancient Agriculture to Space Flight
in most major disciplinesLiterature, History, Science and the History of
Science, Social Science, Medicine, the Arts, Religion, and various Area
Studies (Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Women's Studies), etc. An
extensive Reference section includes more than 2000 Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Thesauri, Glossaries, Bibliographies, Timelines,
Chronologies, Literary Histories, and includes, as well, a section on
Writing & Style Guides that would be hard to surpass anywhere. Library
subscribers to NetLibrary will find most of those eBooks indexed as well.
More than 25,000 titles from public archivesall indexed hereare available
free, while many others are available at very modest cost. Thousands more
contemporary titles, ranging from the Nancy Drew mysteries to Star Trek,
Ernest Hemingway or John Le Carr, are available from many leading
publishers." [449]
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Digital Book Index
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Doucette Index
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The Doucette Index provides access to books and websites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books. The books indexed are those held by the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, but many of these books will also be available in other libraries. [279]
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Faculty of Education, University of Calgary
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Edgar Allan Poe - Collected Works of the Master of the Macabre
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Much of Poe's work was published multiple times. Often changes to the title, or text itself, accompanied these various publishings. On a number of these pages you will find more than one version of a work. [352]
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Gibson Grafx
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Einstein Archives Online
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This impressive digital archive
features the writings, scholarship, and thoughts of Albert Einstein, one of
the 20th century's greatest scientists. The site allows visitors to view and
browse 3,000 high-quality digitized images of Einstein's writings, ranging
from his travel diaries (many of which are in German) to his published and
unpublished scholarly manuscripts. [423]
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The travel diaries might be used by German classes as a source of information to translate. Notes might be used to enhance the study of contributions by scientists in the area of Physics.
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem & California Institute of Technology
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Electronic Text Center -- English
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This rich website features works of modern, middle, and old English. In the moder English section, works can be browsed by African American, Native American, American Civil War, Best Sellers, and special collections. [121]
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University of Virginia Library
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Electronic Text Center -- French
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An extensive selection of French literature. [122]
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University of Virginia Library
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Electronic Text Center -- German
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An extensive selection of German literature.
[123]
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University of Virginia Library
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Electronic Text Center -- Latin
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An extensive selection of German literature. [124]
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University of Virginia Library
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Expressions & Sayings
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Have you ever wondered where some of the expressions and sayings used in everyday language come from? In fact, many of the words and phrases common in daily English originate from a wide variety of sources such as mythology, folklore, literature, religion, science, history, superstition, old customs and practices, the language and culture of other countries, and many more. Here are some common expressions and sayings you may well have used yourself, along with explanations of their meanings and where they originated. [417]
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Scorpio Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Quotes, the life, works, and essays from and about Geoffrey Chaucer. [293]
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Anniina Jokinen
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. (Others of course are welcome to use it.) It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page. [402]
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President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Illustrated Shakespeare, 1826 - 1919
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For illustrations of puckish glee, turn to this digital collection from the
University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries, which includes selections from
twelve works by and about William Shakespeare (and a few other British
playwrights), originally published in places ranging from Philadelphia to
Leipzig, dating 1826 - 1919. The books chosen for this digital collection
are heavily illustrated versions of Shakespeare. While some text is
available, such as picture captions, title pages, bits of dialogue, and
synopses of plays -- all of which is fully searchable -- the collection is
really designed to enable users to flip to the pictures. For example, a 5
volume set, The spirit of the plays of Shakspeaire [sic], drawn and engraved
by Frank Howard, 1833, consists of a series plates for each play, with some
explanatory text. The dramatic souvenir: Being literary and graphical
illustrations of Shakespeare and other celebrated English dramatists,
published by Charles Tilt, also 1833, has about two pages per play: a
synopsis, and several pictures. [447]
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Libraries -- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Indepth Analysis of Macbeth
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This site is essentially an online cliff notes for MacBeth. It has one added feature that uniquely takes advantage of the Internet. The authors created a Shakespeare dictionary and hypertexted the dictionary to the play. Cool! [253]
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My classic assignment for literature is to have students,pretending to be selected characters of a play or book, pose questions through a message board to other characters that explore their motivations. Then they return, read a question posed by a classmate, and do some research to answer the question speculating on the motivations. This site would be an ideal resource for such an activity.
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ThinkQuest
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Internet Library of Early Journals
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ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The Journals include: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. [126]
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Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
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Irish Folk Songs
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An extensive list of lyrics to traditional Irish folk songs. [72]
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John-William DeClaris
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LibriVox
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LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. [544]
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LibriVox
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Loyalist, British Songs & Poetry of the American Revolution"
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The full text of songs and poems of the British and loyalists. An interesting and potentially valuable find.
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M. Christopher New
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Lyrics Search Engine
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Type in a word, and this tool searches for songs that have that word in the title. It includes both famous and more obscure music. [262]
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If you are teaching a new concept, you might go to this search tool and look for word lyrics that have some relation to the concept.
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Astra Labs
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manybooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA
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 There are a number of places to get books online, but this recent addition
to that cadre of websites is definitely worth a look. The staff members at
Manybooks.net have adapted the e-texts created by the Project Gutenberg DVD
and placed them online in a host of formats, including pdf, eReader, and as
Palm document files. Visitors can begin by browsing by author, title,
category, or language. [528]
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Manybooks.Net
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Medieval Writing
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Developed and maintained by Dr. Dianne Tillotson, this site is a good
location to begin learning about handwriting and manuscript production in
the Middle Ages. Needless to say, the art and science of deciphering these
manuscripts is terribly time-consuming and complicated. The site is divided
into approximately thirteen sections, and first-time visitors would do well
to read the "What is paleography?" essay first, in order to learn about this
elaborate decoding process. The other sections of the site describe (through
words, illustrations, and photographs) the life of a scribe during the
Middle Ages, the tools utilized to produce the manuscripts, and the various
forms that manuscripts took during this historical era. One rather
delightful aspect of the site are the paleography exercises where visitors
can try their hand at deciphering various passages from medieval
manuscripts, including Dante's Inferno and the Book of Hours. [Flash] [435]
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Dr. Dianne Tillotson
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
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Welcome to the latest edition of Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet. Newcomers should read the Introduction for an explanation of the way things are arranged. Old timers should read What's News each visit for highlights and new features. [345]
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Terry A. Gray
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Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print
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A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index. If you need help with something, feel free to drop us a line. [478]
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Read Print, Inc
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PiNet Library -- The Landmark Project
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This site contains samples of Greek and Latin prose and poetry texxts, read by various scholars and in different styles. It is designed to help students of the classical languages to acquaint themselves with the sound of Greek and Latin and to practice their own reading skills. [383]
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Princeton University
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg was the first to begin digitizing the great works of civilization. It began work in 1971 to enter texts into computers and then eventually to make them available via FTP, the Gopher, and now the Web. [128]
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Michael Hart
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Shakespeare Navigator
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 This web site has basic information on a few of the major works of Shakespear. It is, in a sense, a clicknotes for the Bard [251]
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Philip Weller
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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The full text of Shakespeare's sonnets with commentaries and pictures. [254]
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Since large numbers of the sonnets are printed to single web pages, students (and teachers) can use their browsers find function to find sonnets with specific keywords and phrases.
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Oxquarry Books Ltd
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Shanties & Sea Songs
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A listing of many sea songs sung by sailers as their worked their jobs in rhythm on the square-rigged sailing ships. [281]
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It might be interesting to teach students some of these songs and have them sing them while they play a sport in PE class.
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Andrew Draskoy
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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This site provides access to all of the published works of the Bard. The plays are hyperlinked to a Shakespeare dictionary where unfamiliar words can be clicked for their meaning. [129]
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M.I.T.
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The Hemingway Resource Center
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Ernest Hemingway was the most influential writer of the last century. Explore our site to learn more about his adventurous life and his groundbreaking literary work. [407]
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The Hemingway Resource Center
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The Internet Classics Archive
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Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
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MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
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The Internet Classics Archive
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Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation. [130]
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M.I.T. Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
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The Internet Poetry Archive
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The works of contemporary poets (Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, Yusef Komunyakaa) in both text and Real Audio. [131]
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Paul Jones
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The Jazz Age Page
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An archive of text, images, and sounds of the Jazz Age, the 1920s. [236]
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This site has many resources for constructing reports and presentations about the Roaring Twenties. Students might also use the audio files as part of their F2F presentations or multimedia products.
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R. Richard Savill
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The Nineteenth Century in Print
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This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry. [267]
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For history classes, students might be asked to research 19th century life through these periodicals. You might also ask them to role play as writers of a previous time, and use some of the images from the periodics to dress student written publications.
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The Library of Congress
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The On-Line Books Page
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A database of full text books on line that is searchable. You can also browse by author, title, and subject.
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John Mark Ockerbloom
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The Online Medieval & Classical Library
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This site contains a collection of some of the most important literary works of classical and medieval civilization. [133]
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Berkeley Digital Library
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Tighsolas
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This is an extraordinary web site, in the making, that includes information relics of a Canadian-born, Canadian schooled man (Norman Nicholson), hemlock bark dealer, turkey salesman, Town Public Works Clerk, Inspector for the Transcontinental Railway and The Quebec Streams Commission, (I have all the documentation) was a work-a-day sort, devoted husband to the spirited feminist-minded Margaret McLeod, (also a Lewis descendant) doting father to three feisty and ambitious daughters Edith, Marion, Flora and one lost soul of a son, Herb.
An excellent source for making students real historians. [534]
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Dorothy Nixon
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Vintage Radio Script Library Page
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An archive of old time radio program scripts, including scripts from:
- Abbot & Costello
- Buck Rogers
- Doc Savage
- Flash Gordon
- Green Hornet
- Lone Ranger
- The March of Time
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Generic Radio Workshop
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Wired for Books
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For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. [518]
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Ohio University Telecommunications Center
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Words Without Borders
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Hosted at Bard College, with a dispersed staff composed of distinguished
writers, translators, and publishing professionals, Words Without Borders
(WWB) seeks to address the current "dangerous imbalance" in publishing
(about 50% of all books in translation worldwide are translated from
English, but only about 6% are translated into English). Browse the Web site
by issue -- July/August, September, and October 2003 are available -- or
select literature geographically. Readers will find both fiction and non-
fiction in the form of essays, poems, and excerpts from longer works. There
are also book reviews, brief biographical information about authors, and a
link to sign up to receive the journal via email. [441]
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Bard College
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