Their house was modeled after an early American Pennsylvania farmhouse.
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Ratzer is known as a maestro of early American maps.
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Board games were not a force in early American history.
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All of these early American gun czars were capitalists to the
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Here is how one early American law book from the era
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Early American modern dance was a story of pioneers and rebels.
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Several are based on the forms of early American covered bridges.
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Early "American Masters" budgets, she said, were around $750,000 a film.
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The vast majority of early American colonists lived out bleak existences.
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He was in the kitchen for the most historic dinner in early American history.
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Babitz has yet to find her due as an important, early American food writer.
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John Singer Sargent, Klimt, N. C. Wyeth, a lot of the early American illustrators.
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The shipwreck isn't the only piece of early American history affected by the storm.
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Public hangings — of people of all races — were a routine part of early American life.
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He cast his defiance in the mold of Rosa Parks and the early American Revolutionaries.
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The early American Modernist, Blanche Lazell (1878 – 1956), is well-known for her white-line prints.
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Some early American Quakers had slaves; after the Revolution followers of the faith became passionate abolitionists.
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The world has had no shortage of iconic team-ups: Lafayette and the early American revolutionaries.
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In early American kitchens, white sauce stood in for cream, which was reserved for making butter.
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One thing quickly became clear: Oysters clearly played an extremely vital role in early American cuisine.
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She became an advisee of Jay Fliegelman, a professor of early American literature, during this time.
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Professor Lewis also served as president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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Alexis de Tocqueville's writings about early American life included the potency of civic associations for strengthening democracy.
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The event will feature early American music and a performance by the New York Baroque Dance Company.
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Shakers also helped spread another early American folk favorite, the rocking chair, a masterpiece of empathetic design.
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"It felt important to preserve and promote early-American food history," Elliott Toan, a co-owner, said.
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Does the article change how you understand early American history — specifically between European and Native American populations?
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Of more domestic vintage, turnpike and canal bonds were the subject of great speculation in early American history.
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It might be remembered as an early American classic, but our memories often remember its famous quote wrong.
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I teach early American history at Brown University and received my doctorate in American religious history from Harvard.
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Simply put, Soriano has become a sculptor who doesn't make objects — an itinerant, postmodern descendant of early American limners.
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Early American civic architecture sought to evoke ancient republican systems in a world with few other models to emulate.
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She wrested Kuniyoshi away from Charles Daniels and urged Alfred Stieglitz, the godfather of early American modernism, to share.
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Unlike much early American artwork, enslaved persons and manumitted individuals freed from slavery were highly visibly within ancient artwork.
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The author navigates a complex story, bringing to life the passions and ideologies that shaped the early American lexicon.
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Early American slaveholders were predominantly English, but they were also Highland Scots, Scots-Irish or Lowland or Ulster Scots.
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Because Philadelphia had no municipal trash service in early American history, public toilets also pulled double duty as trash dumps.
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The early American credit bureaus were local operations that scoured newspapers for information: notices of arrests, marriages, promotions and more.
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The flat frontal focus of Saar's cameo paintings and portraits recalls the charming naivete of early American Limner portrait painting.
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This year, I found a lot of success in teaching early American history through the lens of the environmental movement.
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Paper Promises: Early American Photography continues at the J. Paul Getty Museum (1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles) through May 27.
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Guided by the testimonies of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, they looked back to these early American modernists for inspiration.
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It would skip over, among other things, early American civilisations, the golden age of Islam, and the rise of the Mongols.
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I still curate (and sometimes read) a collection of actual books about early American history, which was my major in college.
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From an early American patriot to a famous rock star, these individuals all died after uttering some particularly memorable last words.
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Nothing like some early-American slut-shaming to put your parents' seemingly old-school one-to-a-bed policy in perspective.
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It's the longest international boundary in the world, and was the setting for a great deal of momentous early American history.
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But the South's political influence within the British Empire would have been vastly smaller than its influence in the early American republic.
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The early American republic maintained only a token military force in peacetime, and instead relied heavily on state militias for national defense.
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One of the tenets of early American civic republicanism was that acting publicly on behalf of the community required individual economic independence.
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Chinese products, which also included hand-printed wallpaper and ceramics, were adored as status symbols for early American colonists and the British.
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I took the opening to segue into a quick primer on early American history, since Sascha had been learning only French history.
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She later earned master's degrees in American culture and history and a Ph.D. in early American history from the University of Michigan.
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Ms. Negrin, 29, is a doctoral candidate in early American history at N.Y.U., where she also earned a master's degree in history.
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Here in the Historic Triangle, I had learned more about early American history in four days than I had in 30 years.
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Every song had a lesson—usually the lesson was about Appalachia or early American music or a specific artist like The Everly Brothers.
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The early American slave economy, Cook contends, was largely non-capitalist too (which is not to imply that it was any less monstrous).
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It's interesting to me that the reasons that many early American leaders distrusted the market are the same reasons they distrusted pure democracy.
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Of course it is true that in different legal contexts, such as voting, early American laws often set an age limit of 220006.
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Some see him as powerless, others as heroic — either way, I see the most beautifully painted person of color in early American art.
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Her singular paintings are among the most spellbinding in the history of art and the best, with Marsden Hartley's, of early American modernism.
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The music is an amalgamation of Shakespearean-era Renaissance and early American — banjo, blues and work songs — joined occasionally by Ms. Williams's poetry.
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Samples will be available, but brace yourself: from what I've heard, whiskey distilled by early American methods is not for the faint of heart.
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Our crime columnist, Marilyn Stasio, chose this little-known tale of an early American scoundrel as her favorite true crime book of the season.
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It's hard not to notice the immediate influence of early American animation when looking over the jubilant paintings of Chilean-born artist Victor Castillo.
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He specialized in Colonial and early American money, but his interests ranged over international currencies, engraving, production methods, printing errors, counterfeiting and other subjects.
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In July, Nike saw another controversy when Kaepernick called on the company to pull sneakers featuring an early American flag, which the company did.
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I'm interested in the fact that both The Witch and The Lighthouse are kind of about paganism, or pagan things, in an early American context.
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While early American politicians hotly debated how and when immigrants could become U.S. citizens, there were no serious attempts to limit migration itself for decades.
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Her singular paintings are among the most spellbinding and enduring in the history of art and the best, with Marsden Hartley's, of early American modernism.
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As the recent documentary Horror Noire lays out, most early American horror films featuring black characters play very different for black audiences than for white ones.
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Each location you visit features a plotline that flirts with the assorted popular ideas and myths of what early American life looked like in that region.
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That led him to buy and restore several Colonial-era homes during the early 20th century and to become a leading authority on early American antiques.
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The lesson of U.S. engagement is that early American leadership can make a difference in mitigating and preventing genocide and other forms of atrocities against civilians.
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He was a popular and useful focus of national celebrations, a rare figure in early American history free from association with the recently-vanquished British Empire.
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They recently compiled a survey of early American and English writings and precedents about bribery, as well as discussion in more contemporary scholarly works on impeachment.
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On the fifth floor, the colorful paintings of Shara Hughes push natural forms toward feverish abstraction using the Fauves and early American modernists like Charles Burchfield.
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Red Dead Redemption launched in 2010, meaning that fans of the franchise have waited for almost a decade to continue their adventure through the early American frontier.
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Like contemporary accounts, reports of early American gun accidents were concerned most of all with the living, and with the precarious hold they have on the world.
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Set in the stark brutality of the early American landscape, our Puritan protagonists in this disturbing period piece are rigidly pious and obsessed with misery and shame.
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She is the daughter of Deidre J. Byrne and Raymond Rebholz of Saugerties, N.Y. The groom, 32, is an assistant professor of early American history at Princeton.
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The early American calls for Mr. Assad to leave office have been muted because of fears that a power vacuum in Damascus would be exploited by jihadists.
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Early American statesmen regularly used the creation of free and slave states to maintain the political equilibrium between the North and the South before the Civil War.
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Future research may reveal a deep-seated love for oyster ice cream among the masses throughout early-American history, but it doesn't look likely in the least.
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Her prior work includes reproductions of Dutch and early American still lifes, including fruit and floral arrangements styled to an exacting degree to resemble centuries-old paintings.
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"John Singer Sargent is one of the beloved painters of early American art — he's canonical," said Nikki A. Greene, an assistant professor of art at Wellesley College.
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Some sources claim that the idea for the festival actually came from the American musician Joel Cohen, a composer and performer who specializes in early American music.
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Fea references, too, the work of early American revivalist preachers like Jonathan Edwards, who believed the second coming of Christ was imminent in Boston during the 18th century.
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Still, plenty of early American Presbyterians, Baptists, and others took up arms not only in the war against the British, but later as settlers in America's western expansion.
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Democrats assembled in Philadelphia, PA for their convention, a city synonymous with early American history and the Democratic political system and once the capital of the United States.
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Certainly, not every animated film that came out during this period was a bastion of excellence — hello to Pocahontas, a deeply confused movie about early American race relations.
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Right away, Gabler was challenged by a New World scholar no one had ever heard of, his name right out of some early American morality play — John Kidd.
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"I see it as Harvard asserting its primacy as an early American institution," Barry Bergdoll, a professor of modern architectural history at Columbia University, said of the room.
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" For these early American conservationists, the frontier was a place infused with, as the environmental historian William Cronon has written, the vigor and independence of America's "national character.
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He quickly introduced Bruce into his orbit of talented and progressively-minded colleagues, which included innovative jujitsu master Wally Jay and early American kenpo karate pioneer Ed Parker.
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Recently the field of early American history has been all abuzz with our growing understanding of the depth and magnitude of the enslavement of Native Americans over time.
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Forrest McDonald, a presidential and constitutional scholar who challenged liberal shibboleths about early American history and lionized the founding fathers as uniquely intellectual, died on Tuesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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According to Paul Freedman, author Ten Restaurants That Changed America, early American cookbooks were always heavy on the desserts, but once processed food became a staple, sugar became ubiquitous.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Hamilton, which was an unlikely marriage of early American history and hip-hop, is slated to enter a much more logical union with porn.
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Where the putting surface of the 16th hole is situated, though, once existed one of the most talked-about features in early American golf: the sport's first island green.
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Gregory Ablavsky, a professor of early American legal history, said there is no direct precedent on which either side can rely because of the unique nature of the deal.
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Most of the traffickers and smugglers we talk about today are socially marginalized characters, but in early American history, the merchants involved in smuggling were the pillars of society.
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Freshmen typically live in Harvard Yard, the university's historic center, and take their meals in Annenberg Hall, a grand Victorian cafeteria lined with portraits and busts of early American leaders.
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In some respects the 21st-century witch — someone who is one because others insist she is, not because she identifies as a Wiccan priestess — closely resembles her early American forebears.
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So the answer is "Early American", (across) EARLY AM — (down) ERICA — (across) N. At this point, I'd opened the puzzle up a little bit but hadn't quite cracked it open.
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"The idea that a president and his current and former advisors enjoy absolute immunity from subpoena—particularly during impeachment proceedings—finds no support in early American practice," the group wrote.
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Like Melville and Thoreau, who invested their descriptions of early American wilds with an expansive vitalistic otherness, VanderMeer stages encounters with a nonhuman world that refuses to yield the foreground.
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The content of Wiseman's films, which often focus on the kind of social programs that only a "big" government can provide, might remind one of WPA-funded early American documentaries.
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Twitter was all too quick to jokingly comment on the lack of similarities between the Me Too movement and the witch hunts that actually occurred in European and early American history.
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Named for a New York industrial arts teacher who collected early American craft and industry tools, the trove includes everything from bark spuds and froes to twibills and wool wheel fingers.
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I also learned a touch of early American history playing The Oregon Trail and how to draft a business letter using an early word processing program known as Bank Street Writer.
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"[Coffee] mitigates headaches, cherishes the animal spirits, takes away listlessness and languor, and is serviceable in all obstructions arising from languid circulation," wrote John Hull Brown in Early American Beverages in 1966.
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John Jay may have written only five of the 85 articles in the Federalist Papers, as students of early American history — and the legions who have memorized the "Hamilton" cast album — know.
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In the Brazilian interior, a vast area with few roads or railways, the battles for land and survival among settlers, miners, ranchers, and indigenous groups recall life on the early American frontier.
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Nor has she looked back — like some in her generation — and become a revivalist of early American Modernism, aligning herself with such artists as Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, or Albert Pinkham Ryder.
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Until I read these labels, I really did not know much about how early American art in New England was influenced by slavery; like many, I tied slavery predominantly to the South.
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"The idea that a president and his current and former advisors enjoy absolute immunity from subpoena — particularly during impeachment proceedings — finds no support in early American practice," the GOP ex-officials contend.
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When: Tuesday, September 20, 7–9pm Where: Old Stone House of Brooklyn (1 Third Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn) Have you ever longed to see a demonstration of early American baking and whiskey distillation techniques?
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But instead of succumbing to despair, the mother takes a near-delusional comfort in yet more tales of early American fortitude, plainly unwilling to let go of the promise of the American dream.
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"The Christian Oerter rifle exhibits exemplary early American artistry, and is a reminder that courage and sacrifice were necessary to secure American independence," R. Scott Stephenson, the museum's president, said in a statement.
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"The history of the city provides a framework for grasping the whole of the American experience," Professor Burrows said in a 2012 interview with The Junto, a blog devoted to early American history.
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Early "American Dirt" blurbs from prominent writers, several of them Latinas (Sandra Cisneros, Erika Sánchez), have recently been underscored by book selfies from prominent Latina movie stars (Yalitza Aparicio, Salma Hayek, Gina Rodríguez).
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"It would mean that judges couldn't consider the public safety need for any given gun law and would only be looking at whether the law is supported by early American history," she said.
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"Living Modern" has been organized by the influential historian of early American modernism, Wanda M. Corn, and has been coordinated in Brooklyn by Lisa Small, the museum's curator of European painting and sculpture.
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During the civil rights movement in the mid-1950s, Jacob Lawrence (1917-22017) — one of the leading black artists of his day — painted a series of 21859 panels re-examining early American history.
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Northcutt's is more like the more side on styles which became popular in America through the seventies and eighties and which produced the great early American kickboxers such as Bill Wallace and Chuck Norris.
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Nike canceled Monday's launch of its new limited edition USA-themed Air Max 1 sneaker for the Fourth of July holiday after criticism that it featured an early American flag that some found offensive.
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In recent years, the flag, like a number of early American symbols, has been co-opted by groups to harken back to a picture of America before a large centralized federal government was established.
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But it also includes antiques such as early American buttons made of copper, tin and brass and engraved with "Long Live the President - GW" to commemorate George Washington's inauguration as the nation's first president.
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That stands in contrast to towns like New Harmony, Indiana, where a museum marks the site of two short-lived early American utopian communities—the second of which, Embree said, somewhat resembled Walser's vision.
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Albers is about to segue to the "Homage of the Square" paintings in these works, but their visionary effect also links him to early American modernists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Burchfield and Arthur Dove.
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As an artist in residence, he produced eight compelling recordings available on the museum's website that provide the back stories on objects ranging from early American portrait paintings to the Egyptian Temple of Dendur.
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At the start of the 20th century offices aimed to maximise efficiency by mimicking the factory layout with rows of supervised typists and clerks, as promoted by Frederick Taylor, an early American management consultant.
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Early American Presidential elections were not popular elections, not only because the vote was mainly restricted to white male property owners but also because delegates to the Electoral College were elected by state legislatures.
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Their work records, in colorful and expansive detail, the bravery and fortitude of early American pioneers and also — because we look at the objects in hindsight — the social and environmental casualties their migration precipitated.
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Elizabeth Ellis, a professor of early American and native history at N.Y.U., and a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, described these public spaces as snapshots of what's important to our society.
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On the other hand, as a recent article by Mark Sturges in Early American Studies details, anti-slavery rhetoric was tied up with the maple sugar industry in the late 18th and early 19th century.
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The University of Notre Dame is facing a lawsuit over a collection of early American art worth $575,000 that was allegedly stolen from the late Jay Leff by his wife after he filed for a divorce.
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Mr. Giddins calls the film "a Rosetta stone of early American pop," emphasizing that the musicians were "all top professionals," and pointing out that Mr. Anderson's elaborate stagings anticipate the production numbers associated with Busby Berkeley.
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One early American conspiracy theory, propagated by religious officials in New England during the late eighteenth century, held that the Illuminati had orchestrated the French Revolution and were planning to import Jacobinism to the United States.
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They're all united at the American Folk Art Museum in "Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock," a handsome and unexpectedly passionate exhibition on art, science and education in the early American republic.
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As Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman explained in a recent article, Scalia's suggestion that the power to investigate crimes and bring prosecutions is reserved to the executive branch is hard to square with early American history.
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"It's very, very exciting to find these names of actual women who voted," Rosemarie Zagarri, a historian at George Mason University and the author of "Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic," said.
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I think there's something really interesting about having these abstract pieces by Eric Mack, a contemporary artist who usually works in textile, along with early American decorative and a work by Thornton Dial, an outsider artist.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — The premise of Paper Promises: Early American Photography, the Getty Museum's current photography exhibition, may at first strike the visitor as aimed mostly at a specialist audience of photohistorians.
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Art by early American modernists including John Marin, Charles Burchfield and George Bellows is mixed with contemporary pieces by Judy Pfaff and Michael Zelehoski and furniture designed by George Nakashima, Charlotte Perriand, Paul Evans and Ettore Sottsass.
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Hunt's novel draws on sources such as the Brothers Grimm and Early American imagery, producing a sense of a rabbit hole that only gets deeper and wider, or a game abundant in mysteries but scant in resolutions.
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Full of tense moments and complicated family dynamics, and illustrated in stark black-and-white by Revel that invoke everything from early American woodcuts to Chick tracts, Wendigo is a 70-page love letter to folkloric horror.
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"Massive Black Hole in the Dark Heart of Our Milky Way," a large new piece dangling from the museum's stairwell, extends the gold leaf to early American flags applied to the blank backs of flattened beer boxes.
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The former home of the statesman and abolitionist Rufus King (1755-1827), this house museum will be filled with historically costumed educators demonstrating early American tasks like blacksmithing, broom making, carding, spinning, weaving and open-hearth cooking.
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"There's a spectrum of responses to the musical among academics, but to me this is the supreme teaching moment for early American history — not to teach the play, but to use it to teach," Ms. Freeman said.
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They have lent his most valuable pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and they host events for their contemporaries, in hopes of building awareness of early American and contemporary design.
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" —Kate Bubacz, deputy photo director, BuzzFeed News "Paper Promises: Early American Photography looks back at the influence of early photography in the United States and the many ways in which it shaped the country that we know today.
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At last month's sales in New York, Sotheby's couldn't find a buyer for "Prewar Pageant," one of an admired group of abstracts by the early American modernist Marsden Hartley, which the house had guaranteed for about $240 million.
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Early American sales of that Nonesuch record were strong, but the symphony truly took off after a newly established British radio station, Classic FM, placed it in regular rotation in September 1992, during its first week on air.
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INDOORS This Georgian-style house was last owned by historians with an interest in early American architecture, and has Federal, Greek Revival and Egyptian Revival elements added at various times during the past two and a half centuries.
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For that matter, like early American patriot soldiers outmaneuvering the rigid regimental columns of red coats, our children are revolutionizing lobbying by outflanking the impact of the establishment's money and power to achieve or block specific policy goals.
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"The idea that we're so progressive because we got the vote 100 years ago — Native women look at that like, 'Hm, well,'" said Wagner, who wrote the book "Sisters in Spirit," about Iroquois women's influence on early American feminists.
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Mary Doty Smith, the daughter of one of the early American missionaries there, wrote of tea merchants who stopped by their home in the 1850s to hear her mother play what was, for a time, the island's only piano.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A portrait on loan to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will probably challenge many people's understanding of early American history, particularly in regards to the presence of Muslims during that formative period.
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But with his first two features, he's reached specifically into early American history and injected it with wild, menacing enchantment and terror, like a kid flipping rocks over and finding creepy-crawlies underneath that rear their heads and bite.
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The difference starts early: American girls ages 10 to 17 spend two more hours than boys on chores each week, and boys are 15 percent more likely to be paid for doing chores, according to a University of Michigan study.
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In Washington Square, for example, it's easy to see how the stolid, demure brickwork of the Greek Revival homes gave a New Yorker like Henry James a sense of security in his position as a descendant of early American aristocracy.
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On December 28th 1973, for example, the three crew members of Skylab, an early American space station, decided to cut off contact with ground control and refused to do any of their assigned tasks—something they called a "work slowdown".
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Both have made it their mission to memorialize the vital role that New York played in shaping the early American government, and they finally persuaded Councilwoman Margaret Chin, a Democrat who represents Lower Manhattan, to formally propose the new name.
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Despite their camera phones, the rural journalists seem in some ways like a throwback to the early American press—or the zine movement—in which anyone with the urge and some printing money could put out his or her own newspaper.
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Early American modernism is now part of the larger story, partly thanks to recent acquisitions from the defunct Corcoran Gallery, which up the count — a little bit; nowhere near enough — of work by women and nonwhite artists in the collection.
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Historians discussed that topic as well as how they examine evidence in a conversation moderated last Friday by Ms. Wulf, the executive director of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History & Culture, and organized by The New York Times Magazine.
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While she admits that Lewis and Clark's journals aren't very fun to read, through these accounts of early American life, she found that they were "covering the same territory and seeing the same places" as the travelers she was reading about.
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In the soaring surroundings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Medieval Sculpture Hall, the group charted a long history of holiday music, from 12th-century mysticism to early American fugues, with a subtly feminist tinge that emphasized hymns to Jesus' mother.
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"Early American practice reveals that the Framers viewed the Congress not only as a legislative body but also as one charged with constitutional duties of oversight deemed essential to preserving the separation of powers and guarding against tyranny," they wrote.
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A few years ago, Hay began her second act as the founder of an eponymous clothing label, a cheeky collection of printed early American-inspired dresses with high necklines and voluminous sleeves, originally made from her Upper West Side apartment.
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According to Perri and her colleagues, early American dogs "likely played key cultural and ecological roles" in the lives of humans, and their "intentional burials suggests they were an important part of human domesticity" in the Americas by the late Paleolithic period.
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But the real achievement of Calloway's detailed and nuanced portrait is its illumination of the ways early American history and American Indian history are intertwined — juxtaposing the birth of one nation, as his title has it, with the twilight of many others.
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Before the 1830s, newspapers and pamphlets were mostly produced either by political parties (appealing to men who could vote) or business interests, which created trade journals; and, before advertising took hold, early American newspapers were in some cases subsidized by the government.
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Nike is pulling sneakers featuring an early American flag after former NFL football player Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn't sell a shoe that he and others consider offensive, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday evening, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Gerald W. R. Ward, a curator for the Portsmouth Historical Society, said the ring tends to cause "some sort of amazement and confusion" in visitors as they learn about the early American practice of remembering loved ones with rings inscribed with death dates.
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But more so, Miller chose the period to make a connection between the witch trials of early American history and the public effort to expose and banish Communists from American public life under the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, culminating in the McCarthy hysteria.
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"There's Monticello," the man behind me at Ford's Theater breathed as a handsome suite of French windows arrived onstage in "Jefferson's Garden," Timberlake Wertenbaker's sprawling, keen-eyed, early American tale, with an interracial love story at its center and some bitterness, too.
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As the historian Nancy Isenberg documents, the architects of the early American colonial enterprise saw the "new" continent as a "wasteland" — an under-exploited landscape to be populated by the labor of "waste people," the social detritus of the early modern British economy.
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Musicals that dramatize early American history — whether Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone's Tony Award-winning "1776," or Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's infamous flop "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" — have rarely delved deeply into the music of the period in which they are set.
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Clearly Mitch McConnell and his minions need to come up with some early American heroes who wouldn't have seen a problem with a president who tries to make secret deals with a foreign power in order to enhance his chances for re-election.
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By 1921, while other early American modernists, such as Marsden Hartley and Hopper, were still depicting rural scenes, namely White America, Davis, who was inspired by Walt Whitman ("our one big artist"), was trying to figure out how to introduce modern life into his work.
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A new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, entitled Paper Promises: Early American Photography, looks back at the influence of early photography in the United States and the many ways in which it shaped the country that we know today.
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Altering the face of this often-overlooked monument to early American history to make it an inclusive reflection of the present community has particular resonance for Olivier, who lives in Germantown and has spent a lot of time discussing the monument with her neighbors.
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After graduating from the City College of New York and studying in Strasbourg, France, on a Fulbright Scholarship, she received a master's degree in early American culture in Delaware from the Winterthur Program, which was created by the Winterthur Museum and the University of Delaware.
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Yet even more quarters of society — both in the public and private sector — need to follow academia's example and delve more deeply into their connections with slavery, especially the ways in which the enslaved contributed to the success of early American organizations and institutions.
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My family lived in Maryland from the time I was 8 to when I was 13 years old, so I spent a lot of time going to museums in D.C. I got to see a lot of early American history, a lot of Lincoln history.
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In the video below, you can hear more about Peck from Jonathan Fielding, whose collection of early American art at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, includes a portrait that was uncovered in 1997 on the TV series Antiques Roadshow.
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But Nike reportedly scrapped those plans after former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick voiced concerns with the design, according to the Journal Kaepernick, who is sponsored by Nike, said the early American flag was an offensive symbol connected to an era of slavery, the newspaper reported.
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With the exception of a thinly argued final chapter, the writer, a professor of history at George Washington University and the author of two previous books on early American history, rightly avoids drawing explicit lessons for today's controversies from the past, though readers can find plenty.
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Men shared the same bed with strangers in early American taverns, and scholarship is unearthing letters — including ones from Abraham Lincoln — revealing how men sometimes nurtured same-sex friendships that were more emotionally and physically intimate in nonsexual ways than the relationships they shared with women.
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The collection is replete with early American space age innovation, including a replica of the Bell X-1 rocket plane, the first manned airplane to break the sound barrier, and the Gemini X spacecraft that slingshotted astronauts John Young and Michael Collins around the Earth 43 times in 1966.
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For instance, O'Leary is interested in potentially comparing the technology of the early Soviet robotic spacecraft that landed on the Moon to the early American-made spacecraft, but that can only be done if the parts remain the same as they were when they landed in the 1960s.
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Early American grifters profited from both a weak central government and the speculative nature of America as a country still coming into existence, with unfixed borders and newfangled paper money that was largely symbolic and occasionally worthless, issued by private banks without the bullion to back it up.
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Dr. Appleby, a former journalist who began her Ph.D. training at 19920 while caring for three children, rose to the top ranks of the discipline, serving as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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Nike had planned to release the sneakers featuring an early American flag designed by Betsy Ross in celebration of the July Fourth holiday, but pulled those shoes after former NFL football player Colin Kaepernick pointed to the flag's use during a period of slavery, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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"The show, for all its redemptive and smart aspects, is part of this 'Founders Chic' phenomenon," said David Waldstreicher, a historian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York who last September sounded an early note of skepticism on The Junto, a group blog about early American history.
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Mitchell, an early American airman, served with distinction in World War I and was the loudest voice in America afterwards in insisting that the future of warfare was in the air, not on sea, and that the United States needed to focus its war readiness on the development of aircraft.
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In this sprawling, chromatically saturated landscape of sculptures and assemblages, early-American furniture and cheap and cheerful finds from the corner store present competing definitions of "Americana," and fall somewhere on a continuum between the relentlessly upbeat materialism of Jeff Koons and the moodier, mass-cultural immersion of Mike Kelley.
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"For a time, the ease of modification and duplication enabled by negative-positive photography seemed to be a threat rather than a benefit," said Mazie Harris, the curator of Paper Promises: Early American Photography, a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles which runs through May 27.
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In her long, deeply sourced biography of the American evangelicalism that got Trump elected, FitzGerald draws an ambitious, fascinating throughline from early American religious movements and preachers through both Great Awakenings and into the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly the link-up between the Moral Majority and the Republican Party.
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Built over a period of 44 years, from 1772 to 1816, the simple, organic geometry of its beehive buttresses and off-kilter, hand-troweled walls have inspired such early American modernists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, and Paul Strand to capture the stark interplay of shadow and light across the building's Cubist forms.
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"There are few private archives in the world to rival this one for the depth and richness of materials on the Anglo-American 18th-century world," said Karin Wulf, the director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William & Mary, the project's main American partner.
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The fish — American shad, hickory shad and striped bass — have been unable to return to their traditional spawning grounds in the Pennsylvania section of the creek about 25 miles to the north since a series of dams was built across the creek by early American settlers, starting in the mid-2020th century.
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"Ironically, in trying to retrieve their property — the people they claimed as things — enslavers left us mounds of evidence about the humanity of the people they bought and sold," Dr. Mary Niall Mitchell, professor of early American history at the University of New Orleans and one of the three lead historians on FOTM, told Hyperallergic.
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If you think early American web pioneers had a tough time persuading investors and consumers to embrace the scary new world of e-commerce, imagine the challenge Ma's start-up faced: Most of China had no Internet, so his early clients were handing him thousands of dollars to create web services they themselves could not see.
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With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he produced a sweeping survey of early American culture and politics, "A Cultural History of the American Revolution: Painting, Music, Literature and the Theater in the Colonies and the United States From the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-89," for the bicentennial.
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Versions of this interpretation can be found in much of the scholarship into the origins and character of the Revolution that has marked the past 40 years or so of early American historiography — in part because historians of the past few decades have increasingly scrutinized the role of slavery and the agency of enslaved people in driving events of the Revolutionary period.
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In 1967, Parsons did a pencil and gouache portrait of the great early American modernist, Stuart Davis, which should remind you of just how long she had been around, and how much she had seen by the time she opened her gallery shortly after the end of World War II. At the same time, her commitment to appearance seems old-fashioned because she knew art was going somewhere else.
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Because we were so transitory, I grew up associating the idea of home less with a physical structure than with the objects that inhabited it: A place became ours, mine, only when the 19th-century pine chest was positioned in the living room, when the early American quilt with its worn calico squares was hung on the wall, when our books had been unpacked and placed on the shelves.
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