American culture started to take shape before the Civil War, but after the War of 1812, a wave of uniquely American art and literature marked the beginning of what is known as the American Renaissance. Learn how Romanticism, the Hudson River School of landscape painting, writers Walt Whitman ...
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Spanning the years of 1819 to 1845, this project traces the rise and fall of what I call the "antebellum culture of beginnings." After the War of 1812, especially with the rout of the British at the Battle of New Orleans, Americans felt a surge of nationalistic pride and desired ...
He (the Young American) owns a large part of the world, by right of possessing it; and all the rest by right of wanting it, and intending to have it. . . . Young America had “a pleasing hope—a fond desire—a longing after” territory. He has a great passion—a perfect rage—f...
Franklin’s self-attainedculture, deep and wide, gave substance and skill to varied articles, pamphlets, and reports that he wrote concerning the dispute with Great Britain, many of them extremely effective in stating and shaping the colonists’ cause. ...
American Culture 美国文化American Culture---A General Survey Course Objectives This course is a survey of American culture and society. The purpose of the course: To provide students with a general "feel" for the cultural characteristics of the USA. To promote students’ awareness, tolerance and...
Five Famous Symbols of American Culture The Statue of Liberty In the mid-1870s, French artist Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was working on an enormous project called Liberty Enlightening the World, a monument celebrating US independence and the France- America alliance. At the same time, he was in...
American culture, unfortunately, does much to obscure that truth. Compared with the rest of the world, most American Christians live in great material comfort, and for long stretches of time we are able to fool ourselves about the fragility of life. The culture as a whole facilitates our self...
is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson. The first use of Uncle Sam in literature was in the 1816 allegorical book The Adventures of Uncle Sam in Search After His ...
but the massive construction of railroads also had a profound impact on American politics and culture. This sheet music title page shows how abolitionists used railroad imagery to advocate for the immediate emancipation of enslaved people and to promote their political platform before the 1844 presiden...