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Sito web parallelo alla serie televisva omonima del canale statunitense via cavo C-Span trasmessa durante il 2002. Il sito contiene brevi biografie e bibliografie di autori americani classici e moderni tra cui William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Edith Wharton, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac, Neil Shehan

The Universal Teacher website provides numerous resources for those teaching English literature, language and theatre studies at school and sixth-form levels in the UK. The site is approved by byteachers.com and adheres to the national curriculum as taught and examined. There are good online tutorials for specific texts, grouped according to level, including: Key Stage; GCSE; and A-Level standards. There are also sections for students with special educational needs, and teaching with ITC. Topics covered by tutorials include: researching dialects; language and gender; language change; Shakespeare's plays; Charles Dickens; Jonathan Swift; Arthur Miller; Thomas Hardy; Charlotte Brontë; John Steinbeck; Jane Austen; Geoffrey Chaucer; Ted Hughes; William Blake; Robert Browning; and popular films such as Forrest Gump and Star Wars. The site includes audio files of poetry, and various study guides.