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4 days ago · The richest period in American literary history, the American Renaissance (1830–1865) produced Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson.
5 days ago · Gwendolyn Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist who was a vital figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Bennett, the daughter of teachers, grew up on a Nevada Indian reservation and in Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended Columbia University and Pratt.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · American Revolution and French Revolution. The Enlightenment has been frequently linked to the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789—both had some intellectual influence from Thomas Jefferson.
1 day ago · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
2 days ago · W.E.B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist. He was the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. His collection of essays The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is a landmark of African American literature.
- Elliott Rudwick
5 days ago · With the Harlem Renaissance the New Negro became an apolitical movement of the arts. We have come a remarkably long way from Booker T. Washington’s image of the New Negro at the turn of the century. . . .
4 days ago · Research Guide for Digital Renaissance studies and Digital Humanities projects concerning the Renaissance
