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Paradise's Painful Past
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ON Donald Byrd's visit to St. John, that tropical island paradise
in the U.S. Virgin Islands, he felt uneasy amid the intense beauty of
the sea, sky and landscape. Uneasy that in a place of such
breathtaking splendor, slaves once toiled, cutting sugar cane for
plantation owners.
Byrd is a renowned contemporary choreographer whose troupe, the
Group, has received critical acclaim for works including "Jazz Train"
and "The Minstrel Show." He was in the Virgin Islands earlier this
year to film footage for Wolf Trap's Face of America series, an
annual multidisciplinary event that celebrates ...
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A whole lot of talk but no free speech
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...administration, helped James Madison bring Philip Freneau, a Whig opponent of Hamilton...Philadelphia. Jefferson offered Freneau a part-time government job to...set up, the National Gazette. Freneau published such harsh things against...
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The face of the public.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature
; ...period by situating two texts--Philip Freneau's "The Picture Gallery" (1788...described as a political liability by Freneau in "The Picture Gallery" and...Brackenridge in Modern Chivalry. Freneau's "The Picture Gallery" identifies...
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The Library of America has pu ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...plainness. In a later generation, Philip Freneau (1752-1832) of New Jersey...The mere idea of a flower. Freneau, a contemporary and colleague...vivid. (Anne Bradstreet's and Philip Freneau's poems can be found in "American...
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Interview: Robert Hedin discusses American war poetry from the Revolutionary War period to the present
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
; ...different, and has any of it endured? Mr. HEDIN: Well, Philip Freneau, who is often called the poet laureate of the American...emotional and otherwise, is very apparent when you read Freneau's work. LUDDEN: Would you like to read a bit of...
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The Hemingses: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography
; ...attacks by the anti-Federalist National Gazette editor Philip Freneau on John Adams, once his fast friend, and was flummoxed rather than ashamed at being caught out paying Freneau to be his mouthpiece. Such actions gave rise in Jefferson...
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...Preservation, 1988 ``The Battles of Saratoga,'' John R. Elting, Philip Freneau Press, Monmouth Beach, N.J., 1977 ``Belonging to the...Press, Westport, Conn., 1995 ``War Over Walloomscoick,'' Philip L. Lord Jr., state
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The Oxford Book of English Verse
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ...Americanists, especially, will be puzzled to discover the appearance here of Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Philip Freneau, and Phillis Wheatley, not to mention the truncation of Eliot's The Waste Land to less than half a page. Still...
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Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature
Magazine article from: Ethnic Studies Review
; ...public concept, individuals determine the real meaning in private spheres. He examines five Anglo, male authors (Philip Freneau, Joel Barlow, William Prescott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman) to ascertain what they thought of as American...
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In the mIdst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...organizations federated into the first national party system by 1800. Throughout, editors such as John Fenno and Philip Freneau thought in terms of a national public sphere that included growing numbers of politically conscious Americans. Waldstreicher...
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A Thousand Friends
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...included the poet and journalist Joel Barlow, the artist Charles Willson Peale, the author Thomas Paine, the poet Philip Freneau, and other writers, scientists, and travelers." Bill Clinton's "Arts and Letters" guest list features Candice...
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