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Article History Key People: Iván Duque Pablo Neruda Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Jorge Luis Borges Mario Vargas Llosa Related Topics: Brazilian literature gaucho literature magic realism criollismo vanguard literature See all related content Latin American literature, the national literatures of the Spanis...
Roth won new readers with his trilogy on 20th-century American history—American Pastoral(1997),I Married a Communist(1998), andThe Human Stain(2000)—and withThe Plot Against America(2004), a counter-historical novel about the coming of fascism in theUnited Statesduring World War II. The Po...
1. National myths are essential to the culture that supports a nation-state. We are born to our families and home communities. We must learn to see ourselves as members of a national community, who have a shared history. Myths are the traditional stories through which that history is remembe...
AP® United States History: White-Native American Contact in Early American History 2008 Curriculum Module Credits: Page 19: Wilson, James. Th e Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America. 2000. New York: Grove Press. Page 20: Th omas, David Hurst, et al. Th e Native Americans: ...
American History: The 19th Century Figure 1.--There are three movements which dominated American history in the 19th century: 1) political and economic liberty (democracy and capitalism), 2) emancipation of the slaves, and 3) Westward settlement. The Westward settlement is probably the most cel...
Certainly in the United States many historians speak glowingly about the need for and the benefits from comparative history. Participants at major national conferences, however, often find rather different responses. Sparse attendance at the few comparative sessions is common. Even more striking is the...
For many or most Americans, the association of the Declaration of Independence with July of 1776 has forever established that year as a repository for all American myths, themes, and values, such that it has come to encompass all other years within its red, white, and blue mystique. That ...
Much of the history of the region was overtly influenced by myths, many of which were perpetuated by dime novels, the media, and booster propaganda, whereby nonindigenous residents of the West promoted the influx of outside capital, manipulating associated rhetoric to serve their own interests (...