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Environmental Issues

 

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History

 

Databases

Websites

  • History Matters - Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
  • Columbus Navigation Homepage - a page that examines the history, navigation, and landfall of Christopher Columbus
  • 1492 An Ongoing Voyage Exhibit - Exhibit at the Library of Congress
  • What did Europeans see when they looked at the New World and the Native Americans? (PDF)- an array of source documents collected by Peter Pappas – including journal entries, letters, maps, and illustrations. It examines European views of Native American and the New World in the Age of Exploration. While it is a rather one-sided account, the documents also reveal a great deal about the cultural "lenses" that the Europeans "looked though."
  • Exploration Through the Ages - Retrace the steps of the great explorers from ancient Egypt to the North Pole and beyond... From

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Poetry

 

Databases

  • LitFinder for Schools - Formerly World's Best Poetry, Story Finder, Essay Finder, Play Finder, Speech Finder
  • Literature Resource Center - Includes:  Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography

Websites

  • Poets.org - a resource from the Academy of American Poets with thousands of poems, essays, biographies, weekly features, and poems for love and every occasion.
  • Poetry 180 - home page of the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project.
  • Poetry Connection - a showcase of quality poetry for literature students and aficionados alike. In addition to texts of published poems, there is also a biography on each featured poet.
  • American Verse Project - a searchable electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
  • The EServer Poetry Collection - poetry links and poems from the Carnegie-Mellon English Server.
  • Bartleby.com Verse - With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web.

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