Critical Analysis:

Web Databases:

• Literary Reference Center
  (password required for remote access)
• Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors
  On-campus Access
  Off-Campus Access (password required)
• LION (Literature Online)
  (password required for remote access)
• Magill on History
  Password required for remote access)

Web Sites:

• 19th Century United States Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies Online
• American Authors
• Internet Public Library
• Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

Print Reference Sets:

• Authors and Artists for Young Adults
• Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults
• Beacham's Guide to Popular Literature
• Library of Literary Criticism
• Novels for Students
• Poetry for Students
• Short Stories for Students
• St James Guides to Literature

Historical biography and timeline:

• 19th Century United States Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies Online
• Lives, the Biography Resource
• A&E Biography Online
• History Channel
• Timeline of American Lit & Events Pre-1620 to 1920
• My History is America's History Timeline
• Library of Congress - American Memory
• Native American History
• Events in African-American History
• African American History
• Internet4Classrooms Timelines