Decade/Events
Weblinks
Civil War
Civil War/Slavery
Research:​
http://www.historynet.com/civil-war
​
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-hist
ory
Poetry from/about the Civil War Era
Walt Whitman​
- I Hear America Singing
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-hear-america-singing
Francis Miles Finch​
- The Blue and the Gray
http://www.civilwarhome.com/blueandgray.html
Sojourner Truth​
- Ain’t I a Woman?
http://www.crmvet.org/poetry/ftruth.htm
1920s
Harlem Renaissance
Research:
http://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literatu
re-and-art
Great Depression
Research:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/
dustbowl-great-depression/
Gangs/Mafia
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/20th-gangsters.html
http://www.history.com/topics/origins-of-the-mafia
Poetry from/about the 1920s
Langston Hughes​
- Dreams
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/dreams
I, Too ​
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-too
Harlem ​
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175884
Countee Cullen​
- Tableau ​
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tableau-2/
Jean Toomer​
- People ​
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/people/
Robert Frost​
- A Lone Striker
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma05/dulis/poetry/Frost/frost2.html
1940s
World War I & II/Holocaust
Research:
World War Ihttp://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
World War II- ​
http://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II
Holocaust-​
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=100051
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Poetry from/about the 1940s
Ernest Hemingway​
- Champs D’Honneur
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/21/4#!/20573
899
Wilfred Owen​
- Anthem for a Doomed Youth
https://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html
Martin Niemoller​
- First They Came
http://hmd.org.uk/resources/poetry/first-they-came-pastor-martin-niemo
ller
1960s
Civil Rights
Research:
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
Space Race (Man on the Moon)
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/history/timeline/60s-decad
e.html
http://www.history.com/topics/space-race
Vietnam War
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war
Music of the 60s
http://www.history.com/topics/1960s/videos/ask-steve-the-60s-music
Poetry from/about the 1960s
Paul Lawrence Dunbar​
- We Wear the Mask
http://www.crmvet.org/poetry/fdunbar.htm
Julian Bond​
- I Too, Hear America Singing
http://www.crmvet.org/poetry/pbond.htm
Dudley Randall​
- Booker T. and W.E.B.
http://www.crmvet.org/poetry/arandal.htm
1980s­
2000s
9/11
Research:​
http://911digitalarchive.org/
​
http://www.britannica.com/event/September-11-attacks
http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-attacks
http://www.legacy-project.org/index.php?page=lit_detail&litID=38
http://web.archive.org/web/20040919071559/http://poetsagainstthewar
.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=1641
http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/plumlythemorning.html