Essay "I begin to see it": Lincoln the War President James M. McPherson Government and Civics In the spring of 1864, three years into the Civil War, it seemed that the Union was finally in a position to defeat the Confederacy, taking advantage of the significant losses the Confederacy had suffered in 1863. For three years,...
History Now Essay "I, Too": Langston Hughes’s Afro-Whitmanian Affirmation Steven Tracy Literature 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ To read the text and hear the poem click here. Whatever we say, whatever we write, whatever we do, we never act alone. Just as John Donne meditated upon the notion that "no man is an island," so, too, in the twentieth century did T.S.... Appears in: 39 | American Poets, American History Spring 2014
History Now Essay "If Ever Two Were One": Anne Bradstreet’s "To My Dear and Loving Husband" Charlotte Gordon Literature 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Anne Bradstreet is famous for being the first American poet. But she did not think of herself as either "first" or "American." She did not even think of herself as a poet. We would call her a Puritan, a term adopted by their enemies... Appears in: 39 | American Poets, American History Spring 2014
Essay "In the end you are sure to succeed": Lincoln on Perseverance Harold Holzer If there was one quality Abraham Lincoln believed essential both to individual success and to social advancement, it was industriousness. A child of the impoverished frontier who went on to take proud advantage of what historian Gabor...