Culture in the U.S.

By erijo.rustillo

  • "The Federalist" published.

    A series of 85 articles or essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.

  • Thomas Pane "The Rigths of Man."

    A book arguing for popular democracy. In 1991 his ideas were considered treasonable.

  • Haydn composes "The Creation."

    An oratorio written between 1796 and 1798. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as described in the biblical Book of Genesis and in Paradise Lost.

  • Noah Webster publishes "Compendious Dictionary of the British Language."

    The first truly American dictionary.

  • Jane Austen "Sense and Sensibility"

    It was Austen's first published novel, which she wrote under the pseudonym "A Lady".

  • Percy Bysshe Shelly "Prometheus Unbound"

    A play by the Greek poet Aeschylus, concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.

  • Delacroix paints "Death of Sardanapalus"

    An oil painting on canvas, Its dimensions are 392 x 496 cm or 12′ 1" x 16′ 3". It currently hangs in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

  • Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"

    Charles Dickens' second novel. It is about a boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and meets a gang of pickpockets in London. ...

  • Alexander Dumas "The Three Muskateers"

    Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers.

  • Nathanial Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter"

    a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, considered to be his "magnum opus", or most famous work

  • Thoreau "Walden"

    By Henry David Thoreau is an American classic. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance.

  • Edouard Manet paints "Luncheon on the Grass"

    is a large oil on canvas painting

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

    a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. ...

  • First Impressionist exhibit in Paris

    Was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. \

  • Gilbert and Sullivan H.M.S Pinafore

    refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.

  • First U.S. film "Fred Ott's Sneeze"

    n 1894 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson and starring Fred Ott. It was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.

  • Anton Chekhov "The Seagull"

    Is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.

  • Matisse begins Fauves with "Woman With a Hat"

    Is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1905.
    It is believed that the woman in the painting was Matisse's wife, Amelie.

  • Ezra Pound "Personae"

    Personae is the sixth collaborative live album by bassist Jonas Hellborg and guitarist Shawn Lane, released in 2002 on Bardo Records.

  • D.W. Griffith directs "Birth of a Nation"

    A 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play.

  • James Joyce "Ulysses"

    A novel by the Irish author James Joyce, first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris.

  • T.S. Elliot "The Waste Land"

    Modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century. ...

  • William Faulkner "Light in August"

    Novel by the American author William Faulkner.

  • S. Eienstein "Potemkin"

    A Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built.

  • Ernest Hemingway "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

    A novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a communist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.