- Artists, Movements & Ideas
The following essays address specific artists, movements, and ideas that influenced American poets, American writers, and the composition of American art song.
The Alcotts
The Alcotts were a remarkable family, embracing reform movements and leaving a lasting legacy in the worlds of philosophy, education, and literature.
Image: Louisa May Alcott, 1888, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital ID: cph 3a02242 More
- The American Renaissance and Transcendentalism
- Artists of the American West: Albert Bierstadt & Frederic Remington
- General William Booth
- Mathew Brady
- Thomas Carlyle
- Concord, Massachusetts
- Edward S. Curtis
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Daniel Decatur Emmett and the American Minstrel
- Walker Evans
- Daniel Chester French
- Margaret Fuller
- Anne Gilchrist
- The Great Awakening and Revivalism in America
- Harlem Renaissance
- Hudson River School
- Thomas Moore
- William Sidney Mount
- Norman Rockwell
- Romanticism
- The Shakers
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
