southern states

After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.

Chronicles African American slave resistance against their captors during the American Civil War, and explores how they were the driving force behind their own emancipation. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Provides a cultural and historical context for the development of the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes the first American colonies, the Jamestown settlement, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia, and more. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Nearly the entire Southeast is part of a deciduous forest biome. The wide range of different Southeastern traditions has led to it being considered the richest cultural region in the United States.

"The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there"--OCLC.

A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.

Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Cormac McCarthy.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of William Styron.

Presents the life and works of author, poet and critic Robert Penn Warren. Includes a chronology.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of John Crowe Ransom.