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Books
A Chronicle of American Music: 1700-1995
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Essay
Song of America: Diary of a Nation
By Thomas Hampson“America” has always meant different things to different people. The American poetic tradition is a particularly rich narration of our people and of becoming a culture--a culture chiseled with a fierce independence of mind and heart and soul unmistakably grounded in the very myriad of racial heritages from which it was born. More
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Artists, Movements & Ideas
The Alcotts
The Alcotts were a remarkable family, embracing reform movements and leaving a lasting legacy in the worlds of philosophy, education, and literature.
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Image: Louisa May Alcott, 1888, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital ID: cph 3a02242-
POET LAUREATES
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