The trend began with the‘reporting’of the period by Renaissance scholars,who first applied the label‘the Dark Ages’to the centuries that preceded them. AsPeter BURKEonce noted, a key error of the nineteenth-century Swiss historian JacobBURCKHARDT, whose legacy still shapes our conception of ...
Although since 1970 African American writers, led by Toni Morrison, have earned widespread critical acclaim, this literature has been recognized internationally as well as nationally since its inception in the late 18th century. (Read W.E.B. Du Bois’s Britannica essay on African American ...