General Links

Manitoba Author Publication Index
    Want to find out more about Manitoba's talented writers and their works?  Visit this page, hosted by the Manitoba Writers' Guild.  

Drama and Theatre

Shan's Costume History and Theatre History Site
    An eclectic site with a focus on theatrical costume.  If you have speakers, Pachelbel's Canon plays as the page loads.

Theatrecrafts
    Designed to be the "best resource for practical information and advice about technical theatre."  Whether it's lighting, sound, props, wardrobe, this site has links!

The Great Depression of the 1930's

America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA-OWI
    This collection from the Library of Congress' "American Memory Historical Collections" offers more than 112,000 black and white and 1,600 colour photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information collection.  A wonderful collection of images, many of which are now famous.

By the People, for the People:  Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
    A collection of 907 posters produced by the U. S. Government Work Projects Administration (WPA).  A good source of graphics.

New Deal Network:  The Great Depression, the 1930's, and the Roosevelt Administration
    This may be the single best source of web information on the American experience of the economic depression of the 1930's, the decade in which Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States.  Search the Subject Index of the New Deal Document Library  or the many categories of photo images in the New Deal Photo Gallery.

North Carolina:  Images and Voices from the Thirties
    This collection offers photographs and "life histories" (brief biographies) of farmers and their families living in North Carolina during the 1930's. 

 The US History Image Database - University of California at Davis
    Click on "The Great Depression" to view a series of powerful photo images - many by the noted American photographer, Dorothea Lange - portraying life on the road and in the Dust Bowl of the United States during the 1930's. 

"We Made Do" - Recalling the Great Depression
    What was it like to live during the 1930's?  This site, an on-going project of students at a high school in Mooresville, Indiana, contains interviews, photographs, and a list of prices for various commodities. 

Shakespeare: His Works, His Theatre, His Life and Times

Shakespeare Theme Page
    This collection of sites, provided by BC's Community Learning Network, offers teachers and students a rich collection of informational and curricular resources.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
    This site attempts to "to be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet . . . [and] to present new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet."  An excellent Internet resource, well-organized and annotated with comments on the usefulness or value of the various sites.

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
    A research database site, sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), which offers information about the early Globe Theatre and the reconstructed playhouse that opened in 1997.

Shakespeare Resource Centre
    This site offers brief articles on many aspects of Shakespeare, his life, and times.  Not as comprehensive as "Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet".

Life during the Time of William Shakespeare

The Elizabethan Costuming Page
    A truly fascinating work, this page provides comprehensive information on clothing during Shakespeare's time.  After viewing this page, you will never again complain about the difficulty of deciding what to wear in the morning!  

Renaissance, the Elizabethan World
    A gateway to a collection of sites, one of the most useful being "Life in Elizabethan England:  a Compendium of Common Knowledge, 1558-1603."

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
    This is the site of the official organization which preserves and maintains the houses linked to Shakespeare's life as well as a library and museum.  "About Shakespeare" and "The Shakespeare Houses" are the two sections most likely to provide useful information.

Stratford-upon-Avon Tour Guide of Shakespeare Country
    The town of Shakespeare's birth is a major British tourist attraction, as this site attests.  However, this site does contain some useful information about the town as it would have been, in Shakespeare's time.

Grade 9 Language Arts

Black History

The History Channel - Black History links
    The History Channel celebrates Black History Month with a listing of famous African-Americans, including Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, and Ida Wells-Barnett

The Underground Railroad @ National Geographic
    Enter this site and experience the life of a slave escaping to freedom in Canada, via the Underground Railroad.

Mississippi Freedom Rides
    At one time, even buses were segregated in the American South: That is, blacks and whites could not ride together on the same bus. This site tells the story of the movement to desegregate buses.

World Book Encyclopedia - The African American Journey
    Click on the featured site, "The African American Journey" to visit an impressive collection of information on slavery, the Civil Rights movement, and many aspects of Black History. 

Human Rights/Holocaust Studies

Anne Frank House
   This site offers an interactive tour of the house in which Anne Frank wrote her famous diary.

Auschwitz Alphabet
    An online alphabet book of the author's selection of "the most significant facets of life and death in Auschwitz."  Each entry includes a brief description and excerpts from Holocaust-related sources.

A Cybrary of the Holocaust
    A comprehensive Internet resource, containing a wealth of resources, including strong visuals and audio materials.

Learning about the Holocaust through Art
    The "explore" section of this site contains art works produced during the Holocaust.  Each artist is profiled in a biography.

The Lodz Ghetto
    An account of the Lodz Ghetto, located in the Polish city which, prior to World War II, once had the second largest Jewish population in Europe. 

The Nizkor Project
    Sections on the Holocaust, research guides, camps, people, places, the Nuremberg trials, organizations, and a variety of other links makes this a good starting point for Holocaust research. Nizkor is a Hebrew word meaning "we will remember."

Shamash
    Another excellent starting point for Holocaust research, this page contains photographs, many of which are quite graphic.  This site also provides materials refuting Holocaust-denial literature.

Simon Wiesenthal Center Online
    This site is hosted by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.  Information on these institutions, as well as other social action and Holocaust issues is presented here.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    This site offers information about the museum and its programs.

Yad Vashem on the Internet
    This is the web site of Israel's major Holocaust memorial, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. Information about Yad Vashem, collections, resources, publications and more are offered here.  There are also many links to related sites.

S4 English

Sites on Sleuths

The Cadfael Chronicles:  http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/cadfael/
    A site devoted to Ellis Peters' sleuthing eleventh-century monk, Brother Cadfael.

Feminist Mystery Corner: http://www.feminist.org/arts/mys_authors.htm
     The "Authors and Books" and "Online Mystery Resources" sections offer interesting information and links.

Sherlockian. Net:  http://www.sherlockian.net
    There are many Sherlock Holmes resources on the Web, but this is one of the most thorough.

The Mysterious Home Page:  http://www.cluelass.com/MystHome
    A major portal to mystery on the web.  Browse the site in general, or follow the many specific category links.

Virtual Murder:  What's on the Internet for Mystery Buffs? http://www.barbarapaul.com/virtual.html     
    Another major portal, originally created for a mystery writers' conference. Many links and specific categories are available.

Red Inkworks Mystery Writer's Resources: http://www.redinkworks.com/mystery_writers.htm
        Ever wondered where crime and mystery writers get their background information?  This site offers links to the many resources they might search.

The British Monarchy - Queen Victoria
    A biographical site providing information about the queen who gave her name to an era.

The Victorian Web
    A well-organized site containing sections on political and social history, gender issues, technology, writers, and Victorian design.  Not all sections are equally well-developed, but overall, a very useful site for research on the Victorian era.

Medieval Studies Theme Page
    This collection of sites, provided by BC's Community Learning Network, offers teachers and students a rich collection of informational and curricular resources.

The Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies
    This site provides links to a variety of resources related to the Middle Ages.  Besides topics on national cultures (Celtic, Scandinavian), there are more general topics such as music and religion, as well as specialized information on Arthurian studies, the Crusades, and medieval women.  

The SF Site:  The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    A combination of e-zine, resource list, and information provider.  There's something for every reader of sci-fi, fantasy and horror in this site.

The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
    A collection of nearly 5,000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works. A useful supplement to Kelvin Library's print resources.  Sites are usually authored by a scholar of literature and/or published under a recognized academic or professional sponsoring agency.  Canadian literature comes up short on this site, but British, American, and world authors are well-represented.

The Canadian Children's Book Centre
    A list of Canadian authors and illustrators, as well as a listing of notable awards for Canadian children's literature are amongst the highlights of this site.

The Children's Literature Web Guide
    A useful starting point for research on current children's literature.

Project Bartleby Archive
    One of the first projects aimed at placing "great books" on-line.

The Perseus Project at Tufts University
    Many different works are available, but the focus is on Classics - Greek and Roman literature in translation.

Gaslight
    "Mystery, adventure, and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919".  

William Blake Archive
    A stunning collection of full-colour facsimiles of William Blake's illuminated books.

Renaissance Electronic Texts
    A series of old-spelling editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts.