This provides some pretty extensive information about Truman Capote. This is good for both an overview of the author and for more detailed information.
This is from The American Experience, which always does an excellent job sharing America's stories. This one is about the Scopes' trial, on which Inherit the Wind is based.
This site has links to authors, history, and so much more. This is very much a general site, and I will need to tell students where to go for an assignment.
This is an interactive site to give you some background on what the witch hysteria did to people. You engage in the question -- would you have confessed to being a witch?