Across Five Aprils, written by Irene Hunt, is a novel about a family of 7 that lived on a small farm in Illinois. That explains about Irene Hunt's grandfather Jethro that lived threw the Civil War. The story takes place between the North and the South in Illinois of April 1861. This was a ma...

Jethro as the protagonist in Across Five Aprils relays to us through his hopes, and fears through out the novel during a tumultuous time in our history. Jethro born in the year of 52 the same year that three of his siblings died form Child Paralysis was clearly a gifted child. Because of the loss...

I chose this name because Katharine is a modern day saint who lived in Bucks County. St. Katharine Drexel is a good role model-she was rich but gave her life and money to help poor African Americans and Native Americans. She worked hard for her whole life, and she formed an order of sisters to ca...

Throughout history, political, social, and economical issues have split America in half. In 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a forceful indictment of slavery and one of the most powerful novels of its kind in American literature, was written. As we start the 21st century, science allows us to push the l...

Twelve Years a Slave takes place during the 1840's and 1850's in the antebellum south. It explains the story of Solomon Northup who was once a free black in the north, but is captured into slavery in the south. The story depicts the brutal suffering, pain, and degradation that he went t...

On April 12, 1861, the Confederates stationed at Charleston Harbor opened fire on the Union vessel that was delivering supplies. This was the beginning of the Civil War. There were many events throughout the 1800's that led up to the succession of South Carolina and the rest of the Deep South...

The romanticism movement was different from the ways of neoclassicism which focused on facts and facts alone. Romantics placed strong emphasis on the mysteries of nature and the supernatural, imagination, and the history or tradition of the new nation. This style of writing appealed to emotion more...