History Through Literature Educational Posters

My Antonia -
Willa Cather
b. 12-7-1873; Virginia
d. 4-24-1947

"Cautiously I slipped from under the buffalo hide, got up on my knees and peered over the side of the wagon. There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields, If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made." My Antonia

• Willa Cather posters

The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
b. 11-1- 1871, NJ
d. 6-5-1900, Germany- tuberculosis

Quote Appearing on This Print: “He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part – a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country – was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand.” The Red Badge of Courage

• Stephen Crane posters
• Civil War posters

The Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
b. 3-3-1914; Oklahoma City, OK
d. 4-16-1994

Quote Appearing on This Print: "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms, I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, unerstand, simply because people refure to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• Ralph Ellison posters
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -
Harriet Jacobs
b. 1813; Edenton, NC
d. 3-7-1897; Washington, DC

Harriet Jacobs spent seven years hiding in a crawl space to avoid the advances of her owner and still be close enough to hear the voices of her children, before escaping North. She wrote her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, to awaken Northern women to the abuses done to female slaves.

Quote Appearing on This Print:
“The bill of sale!? Those words struck me like a blow. So I was sold at last! A human being sold in the free city of New York!... I well know the value of that bit of paper, but much as I love freedom, I do not like to look upon it. I am deeply grateful to the generous friend who procured it, but I despise the miscreant who demanded payment for what never rightfully belonged to him or his.”

The quote refers to Cornelia Willis, her employer and friend, buying her freedom for $300 in 1852.

• women author posters

Call of the Wild, History Through Literature Art Print

The Call of the Wild -
Jack London
b. 1-12-1876; San Francisco
d. 11-22-1916; Glen Ellen, CA

Poster Text: In his 1903 novel Call of the Wild, Jack London tells the story of Buck, a strong-willed sled dog who is taken from his California home to the cold reaches of the Yukon Territory during the gold rush of the late 1890s. Buck survives abusive masters and the harsh conditions of the Yukon to eventually live free with wild wolves. This photograph was taken in 1898 and shows a long line of miners climbing the "Golden Stair" trail to Chilkoot Pass in Alaska, which leads to the Yukon Territory.

Quote Appearing on This Print: “Buck did not read the newpapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, stong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of man were rushing into the Northland.”

• Jack London photograph

All Quiet on the Western Front History Through Literature Art Print

All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
Erich Maria Remarque
b. 6-28-1898; Osnabruck, Germany
d. 9-25-1970; Switzerland

• WWI posters

The Grapes of Wrath History Through Literature Art Print

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
b. 2-27-1902, California
d. 12-20-1968; CT

Poster Text: In the morning the dust hung like fog, and the sun was as read as ripe new blood. All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day it sifted down. An even blanket covered the earth. It settled on the corn, piled up on the tops of the fence posts, piled up on the wires; it settled on roofs, blanketed the weeds and trees. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939

• John Steinbeck at Amazon.com
• Banned Books and Authors
• 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature