Annette Kolodny

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

January 21, 2017. Protesters holding signs in crowd at the Women's March in Washington DC. feminism

Feminism: From Ancient Rome to the Women’s March

Girl Reading On Turquoise Couch

9 American Countercultural Books

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Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson

Vietnam War Timeline

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece

Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

The 6 Deadliest Earthquakes Since 1950

The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

January 21, 2019: Superbowl LIII will be played at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, February 3, 2019 against the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams.

What Was the Super Bowl’s First Blockbuster Commercial?

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Born	August 21, 1941 • New York City • New York
Died	September 11, 2019 (aged 78) • Tucson • Arizona
Notable Works	“Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Method, and Politics in Feminist Literary Criticism” • “The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860” • “The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters”

John Updike

John Updike

American author

Pound, Ezra

Ezra Pound

American poet

Camille Paglia

American academic

Carolyn Heilbrun

American author and literary critic

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Tillie Olsen

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

American author

Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott

American author

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates

American author

Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

American author

James Russell Lowell.

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

American critic

David Mamet, 2004.

David Mamet

American author

Fuller, Margaret

Margaret Fuller

American author and educator

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

American author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

American writer

H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken

American writer

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

American author