Timeline by Michaela O'Halloran

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:27:59 UTC

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FACT #1

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:32:56 UTC

The Native Americans had many diverse cultures and languages across many tribes. Native American cultures are not uniform.

Source: https://www.history.com/news/native-american-tribes-facts

FACT #2

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:36:08 UTC

Christopher Columbus did not discover the Americas as there were already millions of indigenous people living here when Europeans arrived.

https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/informational/columbus-day-myths

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:38:54 UTC

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:39:05 UTC

FACT #1

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:41:17 UTC

Puritans were known for their strict adherence to religious doctrine, believing in a personal covenant with God.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism

FACT #2

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:43:41 UTC

The Puritans believed in education and founded Harvard in 1636. It is the oldest university in the United States.

https://www.ducksters.com/history/colonial_america/puritans.php

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:46:03 UTC

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FACT #1

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:47:18 UTC

A significant number of enslaved African Americans supported the British side hoping for freedom.

https://www.britannica.com/facts/American-Revolution

FACT #2

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:48:33 UTC

South Carolina was the site of over 400 battles, skirmishes and events during the Revolutionary-era, the second most in the United States.

https://southcarolina250.com/facts/

FACT #1

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:51:54 UTC

The nature of modern-day scientific research can be traced back to proto-Enlightenment philosophers like Descartes, who died in 1650.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/enlightenment-facts

FACT #2

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:53:17 UTC

The Enlightenment had a profound impact on the design of the U.S. government. This influence is present in the 1776 Declaration of Independence, which identifies life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as basic human rights.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/enlightenment-facts

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:55:35 UTC

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FACT #1

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:58:42 UTC

The transcendentalists thought of beauty as eternal, because a mere glimpse of it was enough to make them drop everything and simply take in what they heard or saw.

https://iep.utm.edu/am-trans/

FACT #2

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 04:59:52 UTC

Transcendentalists believed people and nature were filled with goodness. They believed society and institutions had corrupted people.

https://www.historyforkids.net/the-transcendentalists.html/

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 18:36:14 UTC

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FACT #1

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 18:43:53 UTC

Romantics emphasized passionate emotions over cold reason; they prioritized the imagination and the importance of the individual.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-romantics/

FACT #2

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 18:46:50 UTC

The Grand Tour included the custom of wealthy and aristocratic young men travelling the continent, and it had opened up Europe as a site of tourism to explore art.

FACT #1

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 18:49:46 UTC

Venice was famous for its glass work, while Milan was famous for its iron smiths during the Renaissance.

https://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance.php

FACT #2

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 18:52:39 UTC

Renaissance Literature mirrored changes in culture by turning away from primarily religious thinking and placing importance on classical thinking.

https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/medieval-and-renaissance-literature/#:~:text=Renaissance%20Literature%20also%20mimicked%20changes,teachings%20of%20Plato%20and%20Aristotle.

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 22:59:46 UTC

In the 1950s, thousands of Americans who toiled in the government, served in the army, worked in the movie industry, or came from various walks of life had to answer that question before a congressional panel.

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:00:39 UTC

The use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition.

FACT #1

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:09:18 UTC

During the first Red Scare, leftist organizations, such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), embarked on domestic terrorist campaigns through bombings and assassinations of their perceived enemies.

https://softschools.com/facts/cold_war/red_scare_facts/3692/

FACT #2

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:10:47 UTC

One of the major effects that the second Red Scare had on American pop culture was the creation of the Hollywood blacklist. Any writer, actor, director, or producers who was believed to be a communist or communist sympathizer was "black listed" and kept out of the industry.

https://softschools.com/facts/cold_war/red_scare_facts/3692/

FACT #1 - Langston Hughes

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:13:38 UTC

Langston Hughes was just 17 when he wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".

FACT #2 - Langston Hughes

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:13:57 UTC

Before Hughes’s poetry career took off, he was an engineering student at Columbia University in New York City.

FACT #3 - Langston Hughes

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:15:11 UTC

Hughes and 21 other Black actors traveled to the Soviet Union in 1932 to take part in a film about Black life in the American South called Black and White.

Source for all facts: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/655517/langston-hughes-facts

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:15:27 UTC

FACT #1 - Anne Bradstreet

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:17:30 UTC

Anne Bradstreet was the first published poet in America – male or female. Not only the first female poet, but the first published poet ever.

FACT #2 - Anne Bradstreet

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:18:37 UTC

Both Anne’s father and her husband were instrumental in the founding of Harvard University in 1636, and two of the poet’s sons would later be graduates, of the college.

FACT #3 - Anne Bradstreet

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:19:56 UTC

One of Bradstreet’s earliest works, written in 1646 or possibly earlier, was a long poem called The Foure Elements, which discussed the virtues of the four classical elements of earth, air, fire, and water.

Source for all facts:

https://interestingliterature.com/2023/01/facts-about-anne-bradstreet/

mdoh2630x — 2025-03-06 23:20:18 UTC

Realism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:33:19 UTC

FACT #1 - Realism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:34:42 UTC

Focused on depicting everyday life and ordinary people with a focus on truth and accuracy.

https://www.britannica.com/art/realism-art

FACT #2 - Realism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:35:26 UTC

Realism actually doesn't refer to an art style but is actually an art ERA between 1848 and 1890.

https://southern.libguides.com/arthistory/realism#:~:text=The%20Realist%20movement%20in%20French,objective%20vision%20of%20contemporary%20life.&text=Realism%2C%20in%20the%20arts%2C%20the,nature%20or%20of%20contemporary%20life.

Realism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:36:07 UTC

Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject-matter truthfully, without undue artificiality, exaggeration, or fictionalization. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are not necessarily synonymous.

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:36:46 UTC

FACT #1 - Jack Finney

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:38:29 UTC

Was given the name John Finney at birth, but was legally renamed Walter Braden Finney at the age of three.

FACT #2 - Jack Finney

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:39:25 UTC

Finney was an intensely private, almost reclusive man. He never wrote any memoir pieces; he spoke in public only twice, one of those times to his goddaughter’s grade-school class, and he rarely gave interviews.

FACT #3 - Jack Finney

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:41:26 UTC

In early 1995 Don Congdon, his agent for four decades, called Finney “an agent’s dream” because he never asked for advances and always delivered a full manuscript for sale.

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:41:53 UTC

FACT #1 - Sandra Cisneros

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:44:56 UTC

Sandra Cisneros's passions and interests include going to art museums, art exhibitions, and concerts. She is particularly passionate about collaborating with other artists, and about encouraging emerging writers.

FACT #2 - Sandra Cisneros

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:45:37 UTC

She holds a BA from Loyola University of Chicago and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa.

FACT #3 - Sandra Cisneros

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:49:42 UTC

Cisneros drew inspiration from writers like Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marguerite Duras, Harriet Doerr, and Jean Rhys, as well as her mother, Elvira, who was a voracious reader.

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:50:01 UTC

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:53:50 UTC

Modernism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:54:22 UTC

a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms.

FACT #1 - Modernism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:55:30 UTC

Modernism is an umbrella term encompassing various movements that rejected traditional art styles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing experimentation and subjective expression.

FACT #2 - Modernism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 01:56:34 UTC

Modernism is an extension of poetry.

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FACT #1 - 30s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 02:33:14 UTC

During the 1930's, the ideal American Dream consisted of three criterions: two children, a marriage, and a three-bedroom house with the infamous white picket fence. The American Dream rose to its greatest fame during the 1930's as a result of the on-going Great Depression from 1929 to 1939.

FACT #2 - 40s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 02:33:53 UTC

The American Dream in the 1940s was about establishing stability after a tough couple of decades, which generally included a house in the suburbs, a steady job and a solid family unit. It was the decade in which standard of living rose dramatically and the culture of consumption began to gain traction.

30s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 02:34:40 UTC

40s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 02:35:31 UTC

FACT #1 - 50s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 02:37:20 UTC

This era saw a surge in homeownership, car ownership, and consumerism, with families enjoying new technologies and leisure activities. A new teen culture also emerged, influenced by music, the automobile, and a thriving economy.

FACT #2 - 50s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 02:37:44 UTC

Nearly 60% of Americans were members of the middle class by the mid-1950s, double the percentage before World War II, indicating significant upward mobility.

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FACT #1 - Harlem Renaissance

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 03:24:44 UTC

The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential movement in African American literary history. The movement also included musical, theatrical, and visual arts.

FACT #2 - Harlem Renaissance

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 03:25:13 UTC

The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age for African American artists, writers and musicians. It gave these artists pride in and control over how the Black experience was represented in American culture and set the stage for the civil rights movement.

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FACT #1 - 80s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:48:53 UTC

In the 1980s, the American Dream took on a new meaning, with a focus on extreme success and material wealth, often associated with the rise of "yuppies" and the booming economy.

FACT #2 - 80s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:50:18 UTC

The internet started being worked on. The decade is also remembered for its contributions to pop culture, which included the debut of MTV.

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:50:48 UTC

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:51:06 UTC

FACT #1 - 90s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:52:36 UTC

The booming technology years, especially the rise of the internet and companies like Amazon and eBay, created new avenues for wealth creation and entrepreneurial success.

FACT #2 - 2000s Dream

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:53:16 UTC

The 2000s saw a strong association between the American Dream and homeownership, often fueled by advertising and public policies like the American Dream Downpayment Act.

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mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:56:47 UTC

FACT #1 - Postmodernism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:57:43 UTC

Postmodernism refused to recognize the authority of any single style or definition of what art should be.

FACT #2 - Postmodernism

mdoh2630x — 2025-05-19 09:58:26 UTC

Postmodernism also impacted fields like education, literature, and politics, encouraging diversity and critical examination of established institutions and social norms.

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