The Industrial Revolution begins in England, though the Continent will experience it some decades later. Urbanization intensifies-along with urban poverty and class dissatisfaction. In the 1830's, Thomas Carlyle will write that "the Cash Nexus" has already replaced...
The South was basically agricultural, it produced excellent garvests of cotton, tobaco and sugar, which were exported to the states of the North or Europel However, it depended on the North for the obtention of manufactures and financial and commercial services...
The United States of America was originally inhabited by Indians, but with the coming of Europeans (particularly the Spanish, French, and British) and the Africans they introduced as slaves, the continent underwent a profound transformation. The United States...
He was born in 1819 in Brooklyn. Whitman left school at 11 to work in different jobs. Office boy, for a doctor, in the printing office of a newspaper. By fifteen, his family moved...
He was born in Boston in 1809. His parents were professional actors. His father abandoned the family some months after Edgar had been born. His mother would die two years later. Poe goes under the protection of John Allan, a scottish merchant. The relationship...
In the middle of the 19th century, white Americans of the North and South were unable to reconcile fundamental differences in their approach to government, economics, society and African American slavery. Abraham Lincoln was elected President, the South...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. Florida was at that time a village consisiting of log cabins. It also was a frontier village. His father was a merchant and a local magistrate. When Samuel was four, he and his family moved...
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural, slave-owning South was a watershed in American history. The innocent optimism of the young democratic nation gave way, after the war, to a period of exhaustion. American idealism...
The generation belonged to a period of transition from values already fixed to values that had to be created. Its members began by writing for magazines with names like Transition, 1924, Secession, Broom. They were seceeding from the old, but could adhere...
Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, that emphasizes the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. Normality returned to politics in the wake of World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern...