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3 days ago · Langston Hughes, American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and who vividly depicted the African American experience through his writings, which ranged from poetry and plays to novels and newspaper columns. Learn more about Hughes’s life and work.
- Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay was an American poet who—in an attempt to...
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Academy of American Poets - "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"...
- The Crisis
The Crisis, American quarterly magazine published by the...
- Fire
Fire!!, American magazine that exerted a marked impact on...
- Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill (born March 2, 1900, Dessau, Germany—died April...
- Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (born April 22, 1899, St. Petersburg,...
- Claude McKay
Harlem Renaissance. Claude McKay (born September 15, 1889,...
- Vachel Lindsay
4 days ago · The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
- United States
- Mid-1960s to early 1980s
Fully immerse yourself in mid-century American life! 1950s – Building the American Dream features a fully furnished, reconstructed Lustron home that you can explore and investigate.
2 days ago · ENGL 8830 - American Renaissance, 1820-1865. 3 Credit Hours Description Selected works by Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, and others.
6 days ago · Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Jamaica in 1889, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating peasant life in Jamaica to poems that protested racial and economic inequities.
2 days ago · Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance genius, revolutionized art and science with his masterpieces like the Mona Lisa while pioneering advancements in anatomy, engineering, and invention.
