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Founded in 1907, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. The mission of the organization is to promote excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and to encourage wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of all practitioners of history.

This wiki entry is from a teacher and it gives several ideas on how to explore American Romanticism. It also gives some more in depth information on Edgar Allan Poe.

The American literature greats!

lessons on everything american history and government

Quizzes on most subjects for American History lessons.

This page as ha presentation that talks about what Romanticism is and how different authors fit into it.

This site is put up by a teacher on many different times and events throughout history.  There are links by subject and there are links for students to look for articles published in the Journal of American History.  

This site is a brief overview of the American Civil War. It is sponsored by the National Park Service and includes Maps of the US during the different years of the war.  It also gives chronological lists of the battles.  

This website has the "Top 100 speeches" and provides the text of the speech and audio when available. Speeches from such people as Reagan, MacArthur, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Martin Luther King, etc.

Multiple lessons and descriptions of all of the major revolutions throughout world history.

Gives great insight of lesson plans, and also good ideas and articles related to american history in depth. 

This website contains valuable and interesting information on all types of mythologies from cultures around the world. It could be of use in English or history classes.

This is the History Channel website.  It has a lot of fun facts, games, and videos to engage the students.  I would caution them to check the historical accuracy for some of the website's videos though.  

This website has a lot of novels and short stories available. This could be a really valuable resource in a school that might not be able to afford as many books.

Compillation of poems from multiple centuries. Poems can be downloaded or copied and pasted for ease of access and distribution to students.

This compiles MANY peices of poetry that can be downloaded with ease and distributed to students for class assignments.