Note as well that, while many web sites may be informative and useful, they are typically no substitute for the more sustained scholarly discussion of a book.
This site is under construction, so please check back often. As well, please consult CALPAL (Contemporary American Literature Pal) and please check out
JAZZPAL and FILMPAL on this site.
GENERAL
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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, JAZZ, THE JAZZ AGE, AND BEYOND
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- JAZZ, PBS companion site to film by Ken Burns (2001)
- The New Negro I
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Who Were the Harlem Hellfighters?
- Harlem 1900-1940, An African-American Community
- African American World Timeline (PBS)
- Black Renaissance in Washington, 1920-1930s
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How World War I . . . Transformed Black America
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Alain Locke Finally Laid to Rest (NPR)
- Visual Arts in Harlem Renaissance
- Aaron Douglas I, II,
III
- Archibald Motley I, II
- Jean Toomer I, II,
III
Allyson Hobbs,
'A Chosen Exile' (on passing, J Toomer)
- Claude McKay,
Amiable with Big Teeth (2017)
- Langston Hughes I, II,
Not Without Laughter
- Wallace Thurman I, Niggerati/Fire!!
- Oscar Micheaux I,.II, III, Within Our Gates I, II,
III;
see also 28 Days, 28 Films below
- Yale History of Sexuality: W Thurman, van Vechten, G Stein, etc.
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Richard Wright I,
II: Black Boy,
James Baldwin on Native Son
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28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month (NYT
2018)
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The Evolution of Gospel Music -- and the Hammond Organ
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- Ralph Ellison I,
II: Invisible Man
- W.E.B. DuBois I,
II,
W.E.B. Dubois Papers,
Heart of Smartness: Why we read W.E.B. Dubois?
- Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro (1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number)
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Power
of Prose -- The Harlem Renaissance (PBS)
- The Harlem Renaissance I, II,
III
- Sterling Brown,
The Negro Caravan (documentary)
- Zora Neale Hurston I
, II,
Mules and Men,
"Sweat",
Their Eyes;
for H's amazing (and little-known) field work footage, see 28
Days, 28 Films below
- Charlotte Osgood Mason I
- Carl van Vechten I, II,
III,
IV
- I Hear America Singing (PBS)
- Minstrel Shows
- Gullah I, II
- A Nightclub Map of Harlem
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The HR-Student Discovery Sets (iTunes/Lib. of Congress)
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Sex, Booze and Jazz in 1920s Paris
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A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It
(Robert Penn Warren, Maya Angelou,
Richard Wright, Marshall Frady)
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INDIVIDUAL WRITERS
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For 20th/21st-century American poets, the Modern American Poetry site (above) is generally useful.
See also:
Annenberg Foundation Voices & Visions |
- Willa Cather I, II,
III,
Art in WC,
"Wagner",
Selected Letters (2013) I,
SL II
- John Dos Passos I,
II,
III,
JDP: The Art of Fiction
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Theodore Dreiser I,
II
II,
Dreiser Short Stories
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TS Eliot-Letters (rev. ed., 2011),
Waste Land iPad App,
Waste Land links (The Guardian),
T.S. Eliot & Roger Vittoz
- John Fante I, II,
Sad Flower in the Sand
- William Faulkner I, II,
"A Courtship"
- F.Scott Fitzgerald I, FSF II,
Gatsby--Treasure Hunt ,
FSF/Zelda F, Gatz,
Jesmyn Ward, "JG:
A Dreamer to be Excluded" (NYT, 2018)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
"The Yellow Wallpaper" I,
II
- Ernest Hemingway, [to be done]
> A. E. Hotchener,
Heminway in Love
(2015),
Hemingway the Spy I
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II,
III,
H
Letters Project: the young Hemingway
> Mary V. Dearborn,
Ernest Hemingway, A Biography (2017)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, ESt.VM II,
- Eugene O'Neill I,
EON II
- Carl Sandburg I
- Gertrude Stein I, II,
III,
GS & Robert Haas
- John Steinbeck,
The Joads Turn 75
- Edith Wharton
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Wallace Stevens,
MAP-WS
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- Hart Crane I,
MAP-HC
- Robert Frost I,
RF II,
RF's Last Adventure
- Susan Glaspell I,
II
- H. L. Mencken I,
II,
III,
IV
- Marianne Moore I,
"Nevertheless,"
- Ezra Pound I, II,
EP-Marshall McLuhan,
EP-Documentary,
EP in Rapallo,
"Ezra Pound Speaking" (radio transcripts);
The Life an Afterlife of EP in Italy;
EP and Olga Rudge: The Last 10 Years,
Pound and Casa Pound,
Brunnenburg and Merano;
The Sound of Pound: A Listener's Guide
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American Modernist Writers and the Orient
- Upton Sinclair,
Jungle Centennial (1906),
II,
III
- Robert Penn Warren I, II,
III
- Nathanael West I,
NW II,
Lonely, Locust,
Lonelyhearts (Bio)
- Thornton Wilder, Our Town
- William Carlos Williams,
"The Great Figure",
"WCB-Bio / "To Elsie"
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Genius: Thomas Wolfe & Maxwell Perkins (2016)
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Eudora Welty, reading
"Why I Live at the P.O."
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RELATED FIGURES & DEVELOPMENTS
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- Armory Show I,
II
- Expressionism I, II
- Eadweard Muybridge I, II
- Thomas Alva Edison I,
"Fred Ott's Sneeze"
- Imagism I, II
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Klu Klux Klan
I,
II
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Margaret Sanger I, II,
III, MS Papers
- Charlie Chaplin I,
II Modern Times
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Reginald Marsh I,
II
- Precisionism I, II
- E Hopper,
Nighthawks,
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Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler, Manhatta,
II,
III
- Red Scare I, II,
III, Creel Commission,
First Red Scare
John Reed I,
II,
III,
Ten Days
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Bruce Barton
I,
II
- The Great Depression, Woody Guthrie,
"Dustbowl Blues"
- Oswald
Mosley -- founder of the British Union of Fascists
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Test Results Are In: The Secret About Harding is Out
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"The Bonus Army" and the Torching of Hooverville
- Sacco & Vanzetti I, II,
III
- The Scopes Trial I, II
- Provincetown Players I,
II,
III, IV (Art)
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Literary Naturalism I,
II,
III
- Vorticism I,
II,
III,
IV
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Wie deutsch ist Pablo Picasso?
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The Case against Woodrow Wilson at Princeton
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DVD & VHS (in Stewart Library),
Misccellaneous
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