Word: revolutionize
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1917 Lenin sparks the Russian Revolution
1781 Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, ending the American Revolution
In American art, social memory can surface in odd, oblique ways. There is no big commemorative painting--or none of any merit--that shows a battle from the worst trauma in the country's history, the Civil War. In fact, the best Civil War painting doesn't show a war...
The American Revolution gave artists a new subject: now that America had a history with its own large repercussions on the world, and a cast of heroes and Founding Fathers to match, it needed icons of both. The test case was George Washington, who died in 1799. Paintings of him...
There are several ways in which the Puritan legacy has formed all modern Americans, no matter what the color of their skin or their ancestors' place of origin. The Puritans implanted the American work ethic and the tenacious primacy of religion. They also invented American newness--the idea of newness...