Essays on 19Th Century

The texts, written by the historians, writers, and philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, were published in 1848. The aim was essentially to expose the many flaws in capitalist society. Whilst promoting socialism and degrading capitalist ideology, they allude to what they believe society should...

Thomas Wiggins (Thomas Green Bethune), better known as “Blind Tom, ” had a very interesting life. Blind Tom had no eyesight since birth and was born in the Wiley Edward Jones Plantation in the state of Georgia on May 1849. He and his parents, Domingo...

“Blind Tom” is not his name. Declared an “idiot” and promoted as “a gorgon with angels’ wings” in freak shows, “Blind Tom” was a character created to market the persona of black inferiority. Blind and cognitively disabled he was exhibited in public by his owner...

The nineteenth century American short story often contains elements of the supernatural. In the short stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” by Washington Irving, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” have a...

At Andrew Jackson’s 1828 inauguration, varied bewhiskered buckskin-clad frontiersmen destroyed the White House whereas applauding the race of 1 of their own to the Presidency. In spite of the method that unreal in South geographical area, Jackson, equally as completely different others, had affected to...

Today, a guest lecturer came to give the class a lecture about the 19th century music. We revisited some content that we have actually already learnt in the previous weeks, which was about how the lieder song cycles, soirees, bon bons, which were played mostly...

The late 1800s and early 1900s were a time of impressive innovation and growth for America. Unfortunately, the progress America enjoyed was unevenly shared with its people. Due to their living and working conditions, and lack of educational and economic opportunities, the sharecropper and working...