English Resources

"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven." Matthew 5: 13 – 16

The Civil War

Sarah Josepha Hale:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9366461 
• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/biography/sarah-josepha-buell-hale-dlb/ 
• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/biography/sarah-josepha-hale/ 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-52264
• Godey’s Lady’s Book - http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/ 
• Godley's Lady's Book - http://library.beau.org/gutenberg/1/5/0/8/15080/15080-h/15080-h.htm (Vol. 42, January, 1851)

• The book Poems for our children : including Mary had a little lamb : designed for families, Sabbath schools, and infant schools : written to inculcate moral truths and virtuous sentiments by Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, Publisher Boston : R. W. Hale, 1916. Or view the book at http://www.archive.org/details/poemsforourchild00haleiala 

Spirituals:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9379329 
• Listen and watch a version of the spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/singers/sfeature/songs.html 

James W. C. Pennington:

• The full book The Fugitive Blacksmith - http://www.archive.org/details/thefugitiveblack15130gut 
• Pennington, James WC - A Letter from Reverend J. W. C. Pennington to His Family Still in Slavery
• Pennington, James WC, Encyclopedia Britannica

Walt Whitman:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9382657 
• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/research/whitman-walt-aaw-02/ 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-15206
• The Walt Whitman Archive - http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
• The Library of Congress: A Whitman Notebook - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri038.html
• Selected Poetry of Walt Whitman - http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/355.html
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Related electronic books available to download in the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection located in the Learning Center computer:

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and online at- http://www.archive.org/details/leavesofgrass01322gut 

Abraham Lincoln:

• Background - http://www.bookrags.com/research/lincoln-abraham-aaw-02/ 
• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9370274 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-2973
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-72164
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-60797 
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-72167
• Video - Lincoln, Abraham - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-94779 
• Video - Lincoln, Abraham: Childhood http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-67736
• Video - Lincoln, Abraham: Gettysburg Address - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-82675 
• Video - Lincoln, Abraham: Assassination http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-67737 
• The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum - http://www.alplm.org/home.html
• Abraham Lincoln - A Life in Brief - http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/lincoln
• The White House: Biography of Abraham Lincoln - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html 

Related electronic books available to download in the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection located in the Learning Center computer:

• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by Orton H. Carmichael

The Gettysburg Address:

• Library of Congress: Abraham Lincoln and The Gettysburg Address - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/ 
• The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Listen to a Librivox recording of The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln at     http://ia301104.us.archive.org/2/items/gettysburg_johng_librivox/gettysburg_address_64kb.mp3 

Required Video:

Mark Twain:

• Background - http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9381401
• Image - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-87841 
• Mark Twain in His Times - http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
• Official Web Site - http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/
• The Mark Twain House & Museum - http://www.marktwainhouse.org/

Related electronic books available to download in the Blessed Hope Academy Digital Book Collection located in the Learning Center computer:

• Life on the Mississippi or online at http://www.archive.org/details/lifeonthemississ00245gut 
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark or online at http://www.archive.org/details/theadventuresoft00074gut
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark online at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/sawyr-table.html 
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain or online at http://www.archive.org/details/theadventuresofh00076gut