American frontier; macadam roadThe First American Macadam Road, painting by Carl Rakeman depicting workers laying a macadam road between Hagerstown and Boonsboro, Maryland.(more) New Englanders of that period found a single road running west from Boston. It divided at theConnecticut Riverand sent...
There, I feel its entire relativity, its inexpressible inevitability, normality, theanchorless happening – of a star, a person, a group – that seems always suddenly to collapse into its own significance(s), to become a hole dragging the dark and the light into it. Before seeing L’Oeil ...
Top Questions What was the significance of corn in the Southeastern Indigenous cultures? How did the political organization of Southeastern tribes function? What was the political impact of European colonization on Southeastern peoples? Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast, any of theNative Americ...
Painting restoration on a prominent Tibetan Buddhist monastery in northwest China's Gansu Province had begun May 3, local authorities said Monday. Chinese, U.S. scientists make first reversal of pest resistance to GM cotton The issue of pest resistance to genetically modified (GM) crops has recei...
Did You Know?Originally named after a small Italian Riviera village, San Remo has a unique historical significance and has served as a home to many families who have shared similar dreams of building a new life. This exhibit was made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Smithtown Senio...
In the coming year I plan to conclude a pair of other projects-in-progress, focusing on American literature through 1900 and American history through 1917. The year 1776 regularly serves as a synecdoche for American history–as a small part of the thing that stands in for the whole. For ...
3.What do you think is the significance of"Tennessee"in this poem?What makes this particular state special,or not? 4.Many critics have compared"Anecdote of the Jar"as a reaction to Keats's"Ode on a Grecian Urn".What do you think is the connection between the two poems? Chinese Translat...
Saint Luke painting the Virgin and Child with an Angel, Russian Icon The earliest New Testament account of Mary is in the Epistle to the Galatians, which was written before the Gospels. She is referred to as “a woman” and is not named: “But when the fullness of time had come, ...
Whistler and His Circle in Veniceexplores Whistler's struggle to find a "Venice of the Venetians," through a sumptuous collection of his pastels, etchings, watercolors, and oil paintings. It goes on to examine in detail the significance of Whistler's etchings in terms of his technical and co...
American Progress, chromolithograph print, c. 1873, after an 1872 painting... Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital id: ppmsca 09855) Homestead Act of 1862 Homestead Act of 1862. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) ...