Helpful English 343 Websites

As Recommended By Students

Students from a section of this course in fall 2003 reviewed websites related to American literature and culture to prepare for presentations and papers. Late in the semester, students were asked to recommend one website to others that they found was reliable, informative, and easy to navigate. A list of these web sites follows:

 

1970s and 1980s

 

http://www.ku.edu/history/VL/USA/ERAS/20TH/1970s.html (1970s)

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70./html#music (1970s and 1980s)

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html (1970s)

http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/genx/htm (1980s)

 

 

Other Decades

 

http://www.fiftiesweb.com (1950s)

http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/~weatherr/Post1945/Links.html#USLit (Post 1945)

http://www.litkicks.com (Beat movement)

 

 

 

Criticism and Writers

 

http://www.criticalreading.com/ (Critical Reading)

http://www.middleenglish.org/Pages/htrfo.htm (O’Connor)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters.html (Biographies-Baldwin)

http://www.americanwriters.org (Info on American writers)

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rich/rich.htm?o=0 (Poets)

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit (Literary criticism)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feminism/Black Panthers/African American Issues

 

http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/nadir/feminism/infor.html (Feminism)

http://www.blackpanther.org/index.html (Black Panthers)

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/004.html (Black Panthers)

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/timeline/1970-1975c.html (Health care in prisons-Assata)

http://www.mxgm.org/thanks.htm (African American struggle)

http://www.cinepathos.com/assata%20shakur.htm (Assata Shakur info)

 

 

Miscellaneous Sites

 

http://www.journalism.org (Journalism-2nd response paper)

http://promo.net/pg/ (Search through full-text books)

http://cas.buffalo.edu/classes/eng/willbern/BestSellers/Peyton/ppstudy.html (US Best Sellers-Peyton Place)

http://www.notesinthemargin.org/glossary.html#s (Various)

http://www2.ctc.edu/~dpearson//popcult.html (Pop culture links)

http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu (History)