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Art and literature; 1371 in poetry: 1371 in various calendars; Gregorian calendar: ... Year 1371 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
It was expanded in 1836 and retitled History of Texas. [1] A later author in this period, John Crittenden Duval, was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie. Duval wrote Early Times in Texas (serial form, 1868–71; book, 1892) and Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace (1872). [1]
Sumerian literature is the oldest known literature, written in Sumer. Types of literature were not clearly defined, and all Sumerian literature incorporated poetic aspects. Sumerian poems demonstrate basic elements of poetry, including lines, imagery, and metaphor. Humans, gods, talking animals, and inanimate objects were all incorporated as ...
In September, an appointed citizens review committee for a library in Montgomery County, Texas recategorized a children's book by Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) member Linda Coombs from ...
As of the 2017–18 academic year, there are approximately 4,014,800 K–12 teachers in the United States (3,300,000 traditional public school teachers; 205,600 teachers in public charter schools; and 509,200 private school teachers). [224]
It is a new oral poetry originating in the 1980s in Austin, Texas, using the speaking voice and other theatrical elements. Practitioners write for the speaking voice instead of writing poetry for the silent printed page. The major figure is American Hedwig Gorski who began broadcasting live radio poetry with East of Eden Band during the early ...
Students on the merry-go-round at Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, in a photograph taken in the 1940s. The far west Texas school was once one of many schools throughout the American Southwest ...
The New American History (1997) 397pp; 16 essays by experts on recent historiography; Foner, Eric, and Lisa McGirr, eds. American History Now (2011) 440pp; essays by 18 scholars on recent historiography excerpt and text search; Garraty, John A., and Eric Foner, eds. The Reader's Companion to American History (2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ...