Periods of American Literature: Media
Learn about the history of American literature.
Videos
“If for a day joy masters me / Think not my wounds are healed.”
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Images
Page from an 1884 edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, p 42. The American Publishing Company, 1884.
A statue of Phillis Wheatley in Boston by Meredith Bergmann, dedicated in 2003.
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Mark Twain in Constantinople, c. 1867, during the travels he later described in The...
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-28851)
American author Richard Wright posing in his study, photograph by Gordon Parks, May...
OWI/FSA/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; photograph, Gordon Parks (LC-USW3-030278-D)
Interactives
Interactive showing a selection of U.S. poet laureates.
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