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And then….19th century (with flashforwards and flashbacks, maybe) – Henry David Thoreau (w/Martin Luther King?); Walt Whitman (w/Alan Ginsberg?); Frederick Douglass (w/ Olaudah Equiano?).
Then…20th century: melting pot, immigrant literature, making it rich (or not), what is an American?? etc: w/The Great Gatsby; Citizen Kane?? ; and various short things – Henry James?, Richard Rodriguez, Gloria Anzaldua?, etc.
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The Sequoia Research Center Native Writers Digital Text Project
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First presidential debate (of 3, plus one vice-presidential debate) is schedule for this Friday, September 26th at 8:00 P.M.
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The Library of Congress – American Memory Project - From their mission statement: “American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.”
Cornell University Making of America project – “The Making of America collection comprises the digitized pages of books and journals. This system allows you to view scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th century texts.”
The Internet Archive American Libraries collection
Project Guttenberg and wikipedia entry on PG
University of Virginia American Studies project (this website is incredible!)
Georgetown U’s American Studies Crossroads Project
The Early Americas Digital Archive, 1492-1820
Dr. Richard Gardiner’s The American Colonist’s Library - A Treasury of Primary Documents
The New York Public Library Digital Gallery of Special Collections
