The California Digital Library has been working on bringing a wide array of primary and secondary materials online over the past few years, and this particular digital endeavor is one that will delight both academics and those who are just plain curious about everything from the influence of Elvis Presley on Mexican popular music to the ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians. All told, the...

In the summer of 2001, noted author Eudora Welty passed away in her home state of Mississippi. Throughout her ninety-years she made significant contributions to the art of the short story and other literary forms, and she remains the subject of scholarship and admiration in many quarters. Fortunately, the Eudora Welty Foundation was established in 1999 to celebrate her works and also to make sure...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty was known for her elegiac, character-driven novels and short stories about the South. Over her decades-long career, she published nearly two dozen works of fiction. This enriching site from the National Endowment for the Humanities offers an unusual inroad to Welty's classic short story, "A Worn Path." Educators can access guiding questions, learning...

The European Literature Network (ELN) was founded by Rosie Goldsmith, formerly of the BBC show "Europhile." While working on this show, Goldsmith interviewed a number of writers across continental Europe and "quickly realized how hard it was for even the best writers to become known in the UK, in a country which reads so little in translation." This experience inspired her to launch the European...

Every Week was a women's magazine published between 1915 and 1918 that featured fictional stories, advice, editorials, and advertisements. Melissa Homestead, an English professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has created this online resource that allows visitors to explore this magazine and, by extension, learn more about how the popular women's magazine that portrayed issues of gender,...

Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/freud02.html Emotions and Disease: Psychosomatic Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/emotions/psychosomatic.html Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/ Hysteria by T.S. Eliot http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/t__s__eliot/poems/15187 Nerves and Narratives: A...

William Faulkner was born in 1897 in Oxford, Mississippi and toiled away in relative obscurity until unexpectedly winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. His novels henceforth earned him two Pulitzer prizes, and several of them are almost always listed on "best of" lists for 20th century literature. This University of Virginia site is a Faulker treasure trove. From the homepage, visitors...

This impressive project, spearheaded by Robert Pinsky during his term as U.S. Poet Laureate in 1997, features 50 Americans, young and old, of diverse races and creeds, reading their favorite poem. Drawn from the 18,000 poetry lovers who wrote into the project, each video starts with a beautifully produced mini-documentary. During these five minute films, the subject talks about his or her life,...

The first Festival de Flor y Canto (Festival of Flower and Song), a literary celebration that took place in 1973, brought together Chicano novelists, poets, and short story writers in Los Angeles. After this initial success, subsequent festivals were held in Austin, San Antonio, and other cities. Fortunately many of these early events were captured on video and this website from the USC Digital...

Last featured in the 1-9-2017 Scout Report, Fiction Unbound continues to offer fans of speculative fiction reviews and critical analyses of this diverse set of genres. Fiction Unbound is a group blog dedicated to critically reviewing and analyzing books in the genre of speculative fiction. Founded in January 2015, Fiction Unbound is written by a number of speculative fiction authors and readers...