Authors and Works of Literature 

Bell Ringer: Confucius (4:26)

Bell Ringer: Tour of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC (12:33)

Video Clip: The Relevance of Shakespeare (1:50)

Bell Ringer: Shakespeare's Language and Power (2:27)

Bell Ringer: Shakespeare and Loss (1:01)

Bell Ringer: Philosopher Thomas Hobbes (6:07)

Bell Ringer: Philosopher Montesquieu (4:17)

Video Clip: Mary Wollstonecraft (2:45)

Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac (3:44)

Bell Ringer:  Benjamin Franklin and Pseudonyms (2:13)

Bell Ringer: Thomas Paine's Common Sense (4:10)

Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Book Collection (7:39)

Video Clip: Tocqueville on Race Relations in 19th century America (4:11)

Bell Ringer: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe (15:35)

Bell Ringer: Life and Legacy of Frederick Douglass (10:24)

Bell Ringer: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Impact on the Nation (2:43)

On This Day: Publication Of Uncle Tom's Cabin (3 Clips)

Bell Ringer: American Transcendentalism (3:33)

Bell Ringer: Ralph Waldo Emerson (5:46)

Bell Ringer: Thoreau's Walden Pond (9:02)

Bell Ringer: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (3:58)

Bell Ringer: Herman Melville - Sailor and Writer (13:12)

On This Day: Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is Published in the US (3 Clips)

Video Clip: The Civil War and American Art: Paintings and Literature (3:11)

Lesson Plan: Author and Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child (12 Clips)

Lesson Plan: Author and Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child (12 Clips)

Lesson Plan: Mark Twain (6 Clips)

Bell Ringer: Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Mark Twain (2 Clips)

On This Day: Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" is Published (3 Clips)

Bell Ringer: W E B Du Bois (5:06)

Bell Ringer: O. Henry (8:10)

Bell Ringer: True Crime & Mrs. Sherlock Holmes (2 Clips)

Video Clip: Langston Hughes (1:17)

Lesson Plan: Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance (9 Clips)

Bell Ringer: George Orwell (1:27)

Bell Ringer: Career and Politics of George Orwell (4 Clips)

Lesson Plan: Toxic Plots - The Science Behind Agatha Christie’s Murder Mysteries (4 Clips)

Bell Ringer: The Life and Legacy of William Faulkner (7:43)

Lesson Plan: Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" (6 Clips)

Lesson Plan: John Steinbeck (8 Clips)

On This Day: James Arthur Baldwin Birthday (5 Clips)

Lesson Plan: The Cold War and Global Literature (9 Clips)

Lesson Plan: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail (7 Clips)

Lesson Plan: "Silent Spring Revolution" - Conservation Efforts in the U.S. (7 Clips)

Bell Ringer: Pearl S. Buck (8:34)

Lesson Plan: The Ruby Bridges Story (6 Clips & Slides)

On This Day: Publication of The Feminine Mystique (4 Clips)

Lesson Plan: Author Jacqueline Woodson (11 Clips)

Lesson Plan: J.D. Vance and "Hillbilly Elegy" (18 Clips)

Lesson Plan: Kamala Harris and "The Truths We Hold" (14 Clips)

Bell Ringer: Author John Grisham & the Innocence Project (2 Clips)