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May 30, 2024 · On April 13, 1776, George Washington and his revolutionary army rolled into town but the Battle of Long Island was an absolute disaster for the young Americans.
May 20, 2024 · Emanuel Leutze was a German-born American historical painter whose picture Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) numbers among the most popular and widely reproduced images of an American historical event. Leutze was brought to the United States as a child. In 1841 he returned to Germany to study.
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2 days ago · September 6, 2024–January 5, 2025. The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to present The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917, featuring more than one hundred artists’ studies created for large commissions at civic institutions nationwide. From precise pencil drawings and sensuous pastels to dynamic bronzes ...
1 day ago · John Trumbull's painting Declaration of Independence has played a significant role in popular conceptions of the Declaration of Independence. The painting is 12-by-18-foot (3.7 by 5.5 m) in size and was commissioned by the United States Congress in 1817; it has hung in the United States Capitol Rotunda since 1826.
3 days ago · In June 1776, the British tried to establish a foothold in the South. In response, the Americans began to construct a fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina. What was the name of this fort where the Battle of Charleston was fought?
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3 days ago · Manifest destiny was a phrase that represented the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny").
1 day ago · The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position.
