http://www.nga.gov
The National Gallery's Web site offers in-depth information for teachers on sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, an analysis of the Shaw Memorial, an overview of the time period, and related lesson plans and activities. The Gallery's Web site also features an in-depth study for teachers of Copley's Watson and the Shark.

http://www.nga.gov/kids
On the National Gallery Kids site, students can read about Watson and the Shark and re-create their own scary adventures through drawing and writing. Click on the picture of the shark to begin the adventure.

http://www.heroes.com
This site gives names of heroes by category—musicians, athletes, astronauts, entertainers, everyday people, writers, activists, etc.—and provides Web site links to locations where students can learn more about them. Use for Journal Entry of My Favorite Hero activity.

http://www.myhero.com
"Features" allows you to search by entering the name of a favorite hero. Directory leads to hero links. Included are artists, environmentalists, lifesavers, animals, peacemakers, poets, etc. Use for Quiet Heroes and Heroines activity.

http://www.artsmia.org/mythology/introduction.html
This online curriculum packet on World Myths & Legends in Art, produced by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, includes a menu item called "Art by Theme." Click on it for access to "Hero Myths" that includes images and texts on heroes and heroines from New Guinea, Western Europe, Mali, Nigeria (Kingdom of Benin), Egypt, and the Navajo culture.

Hodges, Margaret. St. George and the Dragon.
New York: Little Brown and Co., 1990.
This book tells the segment of the story from Spenser's Faerie Queen in which a knightly hero slays a dragon and brings peace to the land. Beautiful illustrations and elaborate page borders by Trina Schart Hyman.

Winter, Jeanette. My Name is Georgia.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1998.
This story recounts the life and art of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. She had a personal way of looking at the world and translated this vision into art. Her achievements as a female artist helped to fill a void in a male-dominated art world.

Waldman, Neil. The Starry Night.
Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mill Press, 1999.
The author celebrates the magic of Vincent van Gogh's art via an imaginary encounter between a boy in Brooklyn and the artist. Van Gogh inspires young Bernard to look at the world anew and to enjoy art as a viewer and creator. Despite the difficulties of Van Gogh's life, he is a hero in terms of the brilliant body of work he left behind.

The Shaw Memorial: The Power and the Glory of Public Art
[Cat. #VC213] (30 min.)]
This video tells about the history, literary connections, and artistic significance of the monument. Archival photographs, documents, and location footage of related sites provide additional content.

The Inquiring Eye: Classical Mytholyogy in European Art
[Cat. #TP314, 20 slides, 5 study prints, and 2 text booklets]
This teaching packet discusses Greek and Roman mythology as the source for themes in art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Two booklets provide content, discussion of objects, and stories of mythological figures and adventures.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment
[Cat. #063, 20 slides and illustrated booklet]
Students can learn more about the first African-American infantry unit from the North to fight for the Union during the Civil War. This regiment's courageous assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, was recounted in the movie Glory.