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This is an incomplete list of historical common names. Names may have been changed because they were considered pejorative. Names may have been changed because they were considered pejorative. Places
Punctuation marks are seen more often within African-American names than other American names, such as the names Mo'nique and D'Andre. [2] [9] Even with the rise of creative names, it is also common for African Americans to use biblical names such as Daniel, Michael, David, James, Joseph, and Matthew as well as European names like Christopher ...
Morris. Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of American History (7th ed. 1996) Purvis, Thomas L. A Dictionary of American History (Blackwell 1997) Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Almanac of American History (2nd ed. 1993) Thompson, Peter, and Chris Cook. Dictionary of American History: From 1763 to the Present (Facts on File, 2000)
Literature in the European sense was nearly nonexistent, with histories being far more noteworthy. These included The History and present State of Virginia (1705) by Robert Beverly and History of the Dividing Line (1728–29) by William Byrd, which was not published until a century later. Instead, the newspaper was the principal form of reading ...
It is widely held that before the 1950s and 1960s, most African-American names closely resembled those used within European-American culture. [4] Even within the European American population, a few very common names were given to babies of that era, with nicknames often used to distinguish among various people with the same name. [5]
1800s American novels (4 P) ... History of the United States (1789–1815) The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; J. Jefferson–Hemings controversy;