Maggie Nelson

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

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

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

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Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

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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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

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Born	March 12, 1973 (age 52) • near San Francisco Bay • California
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Mark Van Doren

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Donald Hall

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T.S. Eliot

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Ezra Pound

American poet

Alice Walker

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Joy Harjo

American author, academic, musician and artist

N. Scott Momaday

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James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Edmund Wilson

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Sandra Cisneros

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Gary Snyder

American poet

Joyce Carol Oates

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Harriet Monroe

American poet

Pat Mora

American poet, author, and activist

Robert Penn Warren

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Nikki Giovanni

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Maxine Kumin

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John Jay Chapman

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Ana Castillo

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Mary Oliver

American poet

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