The American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940, collection contains typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.

The AFRO-AMERICAN Almanac provides an engaging and comtemplative exploration of the origins of the African in America.

Retellings of American folktales and legends, Native American myths, weather folklore, ghost stories and more from each of the 50 United States of America. Great for school children and teachers.

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Credits Note: This program now airs as part of LPB's Instructional Television schedule. Click here for broadcast dates. Funding for this program was provided by: ...

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Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore Information ...

Editor's Note: On July 20, 1879 an undersized thirty-year-old journalist from Atlanta known as Joe Harris began a journey from relative obscurity to interregional fame. On that day, the Atlanta Constitution published the young copy editor's Story of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox as told by Uncle Remus. Within months, magazines across the country were reprinting his tales, and after more than 1, 000 ...

FOLKLORE, LEGENDS, TALL TALES: AN INTERACTIVE CASEBOOK FOR KNOX COUNTY, INDIANA SUBMIT YOUR OWN FOLKTALE (SEE BELOW!) Don't forget to click RELOAD to read these frequently updated pages! All students around these parts (and possibly elsewhere in the United States) learn in their fourth grade Indiana History classes about the rich, vibrant past of Vincennes and Knox County (to learn about this ...

Collected by Gabriel A. Cordova, Jr. part of g-world | a virtual theme park | www.g-world.org Introduction My grandfather knew everything. Or so it seemed to me - he was a scholar, he spoke 12 languages, worked for NASA and the State Department, could hook up any kind of stereo equipment, and proved that - despite the opinions of some - no matter how far you go in life, you are helped along that ...

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Home Puerto Rican Folktales by Doris M. Vazquez Contents of Curriculum Unit 93.02.12: Narrative Objectives Myth Legend Guanina Tale Of Enchantment/Fairy Tale Folktale Lesson Plans Notes Annotated Bibliography Students Annotated Bibliography To Guide Entry The folktales of Puerto Rico reflect the culture of the people who have lived or influenced the lifestyle ...

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Civil War Folklore Folklorists have given rather little attention to the folklore of the Civil War, probably because the paradigms underlying the study of folklore in the United States generally have been ahistorical ones, with emphasis placed on collecting contemporary folklore and upon emphasizing the folklore of contemporary groups such as ethnic groups. Of course folklore collecting projects ...

Haitian Proverbs, Riddles, Jokes and Folktales ...

Women betrayed by love and lovers. Lost souls wandering the night, haunting the rivers of memory.