Mr. Arndt

General Web Sites:
Mark Twain in His Times
This site sponsored by the University of Virginia contains a great deal of material on how Mark Twain and his works were "created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated." http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html

Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg carries full-text versions of many of Twain's works. Check here if you forgot your book at home/school!
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/t


Brief history of slavery and its aftermath in the United States (Jim Crow laws, etc.)
The African American Mosaic; Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Chronology on the History of Slavery, 1790-1990
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html

African American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

Slavery and the Making of America
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/

African American World
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/index.html

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

The History of Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/

Civil Rights Timeline
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

Additional Resources
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/civilrights/


Tradition of humor and SATIRE in American literature as well as a discussion of Regionalism in American Lit.
History.com American Literature
Section on Humor
also use Command "F" to find "Satire"
http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=200885

Satire; Wikipedia article—use for reference only; confirm all facts elsewhere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire

The Purpose and Method of Satire
http://www.virtualsalt.com/satire.htm

American Literature
The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
US Department of State
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/lit5.htm

Perspectives in American Literature-American Realism
California State University
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/5intro.html

Regionalism and Local Color Fiction, 1865-1895
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html

Regionalism and Local Color
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html

Regionalism and Local Color
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/regionalism.htm


Social realities of life on the American Frontier. (Life on the Mississippi River mid to late 19th century.)
Twain’s Mississippi
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain/about.html

Mark Twain Scrapbook
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/scrapbook/index.html

Riding the Overland Stage, 1861
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/stage.htm

Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum
http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/index.php


Mark Twain bio and his thoughts on Huck Finn. Critical reception of Huck Finn then and now.
Select:  Biography Resource Center
http://library.columbusacademy.org/resources.html

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Biographical Sources
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/hf_bio.html

PBS Mark Twains interactive Scrapbook
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/index.html

Promoting Huckleberry Finn
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hucadshp.html


Controversies surrounding the novel. Critical reception of Huck Finn then and now.
Reviews of Huckleberry Finn
Search for Reviews – by date (1866-1895), nationality (American or British) or by tone (Favorable, Unfavorable or mixed)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hucrevhp.html

Huckleberry Finn Debated
Scan down website for reviews from 1884-2001
Later review deal with controversies surrounding the novel
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/hf_debate.html

“The texts and illustrations below attempt to capture both the novel's achievement and some aspects of its controversiality.”
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/huchompg.html

Representing Jim, 1885-1985
“As a perennially popular text, Huck Finn has appeared in numerous editions, many of them illustrated. Every illustrator must "see Jim" in order to draw him, and at the same time their various illustrations together say a lot about the way that American book-makers and book-buyers have imagined the African American slave.”
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/jiminpix.html