Laurence Minot

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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5 Art Restorations Gone Wrong

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

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Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Flourished	1333 - 1352
Notable Works	“Poems on Interesting Events in the Reign of King Edward III”

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William Shakespeare

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John Milton

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Winston Churchill

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Samuel Johnson

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Charles Dickens

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William Blake

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Virginia Woolf

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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D.H. Lawrence

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John Bunyan

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George Meredith

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Edmund Spenser

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John Donne

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Alexander Pope

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Lord Byron

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