American Literature Background American Individualism (1800-1860)

Websites of Note
The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets, The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction Transcendental Ideas: An Overview of American Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism Perspectives in American Literature: Early Nineteenth Century: American Transcendentalism The American Renaissance and Transcendentalism (from PBS Online) Romanticism (from PBS Online) Norton Anthology of American Literature Vol. B: 1820-1865: Overview 1820-1840: Slavery (from the GilderLehrman Institute of American History) 1840-1877: Antebellum Era, Civil War, Reconstruction (from the GilderLehrman Institute of American History)
General Historical Websites
American Literature on the Web American Memory Historical Collections Biography.com
Other Electronic Sources
BCPS Digital content (Obtain a login and password from your library media specialist) look in:	Baltimore County Public Library Databases (BCPL library card barcode number needed to access these) Biography Resource Center Encyclopedia Americana Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Online Interactive Information Service (Available as a cooperative service of Maryland libraries) AskUsNow
Recommended Reference Resources (Print)
In addition, check for these specific print reference sources in your library:
Dictionary of American History (Scribner's) Encyclopedia of American Studies (Grolier) American Eras Series (Gale) American Decades Series (Gale) Literature and Its Times (Gale) Drama for Students (Gale) Nonfiction for Students (Gale)		Novels for Students (Gale) Poetry for Students (Gale) Short Stories for Students (Gale) Literary Lifelines (Diagram) American National Biography (Scribner's) Dictionary of American Biography (Scribner's) Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale)
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