Word: 1840s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of U.S. drinking has been marked by two revolutions. The first dates from the 1840s, when the national temperance movement began its crusade to dry up the country. In the process, which led to the Prohibition Amendment of 1919, the U.S. developed a guilt complex about drink that it has not yet fully overcome. But there is increasing evidence of the second revolution in the public attitude toward alcohol: the country is learning to accept its drinking habit as a social custom that is as ineradicable as it is harmless when practiced in moderation. The alcoholic is a product...
...often the artist's escape. Such was the case of Charlotte Bronte, the most prolific of the Brontë sisters, who flowered briefly in England during the 1840s with strange, powerful novels and poetry. Charlotte was shy and ugly, proud and ambitious. Her three novels, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, are all switches on the old Cinderella theme: the rejected girl is not only poor but plain; her Byronic hero must see not only through the rags but also through the flesh itself to her spiritual beauty...
...lured on board a slave ship commanded by a Captain Legree and taken to the U.S. He was sold, assumed his owner's name and was freed after the Civil War. Some of his story seems to check out: Watkins was a common name in Liberia in the 1840s, and slave-ship records actually list two slave-ship captains named Legree. Charlie also recalls a few words of what has been identified as a Liberian dialect...
...Cole's wilderness was nothing compared with the expanses found by the artists who, from the 1840s onward, Set out to answer the cry, "Westward, Ho!" Freebooters, poets and discoverers though many of them were, they rode the rafts with fur traders, saddled up with military expeditions, visually discovered, in the still nomadic Indian tribes, a world adying, and saw in the lonely plains and mountains a new testing ground. Outstanding was Albert Bierstadt, whose monumental views of the Rockies, with their Wagnerian thunder and soaring rainbows , earned him $35,000 a canvas. But so rapidwas the conquest...
MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's surge to the Rockies...