My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Willa Cather Home Page
At this site, you can read several quotations from Willa Cather's work, conversations, and correspondence, including a brief excerpt from Cather's novel My Ántonia.

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Web site
This site provides a glimpse of the region of Nebraska that provides the setting for My Ántonia. The area has been established as the Willa Cather Historic District, and it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Here you can read about and see places that inspired the author's best works.

Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920 edited by Sarah Bird Wright

Edith Wharton: A Writer's Life in Pcitures and Text
This affectionate annotated slide show will introduce you to Wharton, her personality, and the world she inhabited.

Manners and Customs by Jim Barmeier

The American Experience: America 1900
For more details of everyday life at the beginning of the twentieth century, visit this site, which was created as a companion to a public television documentary. Browse through an illustrated month-by-month timeline, or find out more about specific people and events. (You can also click "SPECIAL FEATURE" to download a free family Tree builder to trace your own family's roots.)

Ellis Island: Land of Hope by Joan Lowery Nixon

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Ellis Island: Land of Hope tells of the Levinsky family's voyage to America and their struggle to survive on New York's Lower East side. To get a glimpse of how the Levinsky family might have lived when they first arrived on the Lower East Side, visit this interactive site and take virtual-reality tours through two tenement apartments.