Literature
Today in History primary source sets
- The Alcotts
- Sherwood Anderson
- James Baldwin
- L. Frank Baum
- John Burroughs
- Lewis Carroll
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ralph Waldo EmersonWilliam Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- H.L. Mencken
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Rare Children’s Books
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Gertrude Stein
- Mark Twain
- Robert Penn Warren
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Thornton Wilder
- Owen Wister & Cowboy Culture
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Online exhibitions
- Books That Shaped America
- Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America
- A Thousand Years of the Persian Book
- To Know Wisdom and Instruction: The Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of Congress
Videos
Teaching resources
PSN literature links
- Kicking It Off with Kate DiCamillo
- Alice in Wonderland
- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
- Esperanza Rising
- Her Right Foot
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- My Daniel – Hunting dinosaurs in Nebraska
- Ruth and the Green Book
- The Women of Copper Country
Literature connections blog posts
- 12 Years a Slave: Primary Sources on the Kidnapping of Free African Americans
- Edgar Allan Poe: Using Primary Sources from the Library of Congress to Deepen Understanding of “The Raven”
- Frederick Douglass: Activist and Autobiographer
- The Great Gatsby: Establishing the Historical Context with Primary Sources
- Jules Verne and His Geographical Novels
- Kate DiCamillo: Stories Connect Us
- Macbeth at the Library of Congress
- Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn: Controversy at the Heart of a Classic
- Of Mice and Men: Exploring the Context with Primary Sources
- Preserving Songs and Culture: Zora Neale Hurston and the Federal Writers’ Project
- Reading is for Everyone
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Resources from the Library of Congress for Teaching English and Language Arts
- Teaching with Historical Children’s Books
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Fugitive Slave Act
- The Unexpected (and Illustrated) Dante
- Walt Whitman’s War Work: Primary Sources in the English Classroom
- William Shakespeare through the Ages: Different Visions of the Bard in Primary Sources
Literature lesson plans from the Library
- The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
- The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources from the Roaring Twenties
- Mark Twain’s Hannibal
- Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved
- To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective
More teaching resources
- Citizen U Lesson Library: ELA & Civics multidisciplinary lessons
- Integrating Tech: Post-It App & Primary Source Analysis
- Learning from the Source: Abraham Lincoln & Me Activity Book
- Predicting & Inferring About Woman Suffrage
- Teaching Now: Using Primary Sources to Create a Lincoln Assassination Newscast