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Native American
Native American History - Early History
The History of Native Americans is both fascinating and in many ways, tragic. Estimates range from about 10 – 90 million Native Americans inhabited America at the time of the European arrivals. They had lived in the land many, many years before white man set foot on their soil. It is believed that during the ice age, they had traveled a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from Siberia into what is now Alaska. -
Puritans
The Puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England and worked towards religious, moral and societal reforms. The writings and ideas of John Calvin, a leader in the Reformation, gave rise to Protestantism and were pivotal to the Christian revolt. They contended that The Church of England had become a product of political struggles and man-made doctrines. The Puritans were one branch of dissenters who decided that the Church of England was beyond reform. Escaping pers -
Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) was a cultural movement of intellectuals in the 17th and 18th centuries, which began first in Europe and later in the American colonies. Its purpose was to reform the way of thinking using reason, challenge related to tradition and faith, and advance knowledge through the scientific method. It promoted scientific thoughts, skepticism and intellectual interchange and completely opposed any kind of superstition, -
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of nature. It elevated folk art, language, and custom, as well as arguing for an epistemology based on usage and custom. -
Gothic Fiction
Gothic fiction is a genre of literature in which romance and horror are mixed together and originated during 1764. Gothic fiction originated with the novel "Castle of Otranto," written by Horace Walpole and emphasized the newly found extensions of Romantic literature as well as and employing a sense of terror within at the same time. The genre was well accepted at the time of its origination, the English romantic period, and was further employed by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe. -
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement based in the Easter United States during the 1830’s and 1840’s and was a protest to the culture and society at the time, mostly intellectualism and Unitarian church doctrine. Transcendentalism emphasized the goodness and well treatment towards nature and people and the belief that society, especially political parties as well as organized religions, corrupted the individual purity. Transcendentalism also believed that through self-reliance was the k -
Realism
Realism in the arts may be generally defined as the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements. -
Naturalism
Naturalism commonly refers to the viewpoint that laws of nature (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe, and that nothing exists beyond the natural universe or, if it does, it does not affect the natural universe.[1] Adherents of naturalism (naturalists) assert that natural laws are the rules that govern the structure and behavior of the natural universe, that the universe is a product of these laws.[2] -
Contemporary
Contemporary history describes the period timeframe that is without any intervening time closely connected to the present day and is a certain perspective of modern history. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least by the early 19th century.[1] In the widest context of this use, contemporary history is that part of history still in living memory. Based on human lifespan, contemporary history would extend for a period of approximately 80 years. Obviously, this concept shifts in ab -
Imagism
Jump to: navigation, search Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language; it was described as the most influential movement in English poetry since the activity of the Pre-Raphaelites.[1] As a poetic style it gave Modernism its early start in the 20th century.[2] and yet as Rene Taupin remarked 'It is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctrine, nor even as a poetic school, but as the association of a few -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.[1 -
Regionalism
Regionalism (art), an American realist modern art movement that was popular during the 1930s -
Modern Age
Modern Age is an American conservative academic quarterly journal, founded in 1957 by Russell Kirk in close collaboration with Henry Regnery. Originally published independently in Chicago, in 1976 ownership was transferred to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
