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What do you get when the guy who wrote “The Raven” makes a serious effort to write in verse? Poe-try… Now, when you’ve detached your eyes f...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, abridged. Ready? Go.

Emily Dickinson: Along with Van Gogh, proof that you’re never really famous until you’re dead.

So the revolution was pushed along by… pamphlets? Sure, what the heck, let’s go with it.

We’ll take one order of liberty, but hold the death.

Introducing the father of free verse, the poet of patriotism, the world’s wittiest Walt… Mr. Whitman.

Benjamin Franklin revolutionized American civil rights, libraries, universities, hospitals, fire departments, armies, and newspapers, to name a few...

Time to discuss Annay Quindlen's "A Quilt of a Country." We're going to wrap ourselves up in a cozy quilt to do so, and we highly suggest you do th...

What is American Exceptionalism? Who was John Winthrop? Why are we asking you so many questions? Do you feel uncomfortable? Good. Our work here is...

Buckle up, Shmoopers. Today, we're talking about the wildest, most sinful topic we've ever covered: Puritan poetry. What, you thought we were serio...

Check out this video to learn more about Gothic Romanticism

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were pioneers of women's suffrage. Shmoop is a pioneer of making weird puns and eating a lot of pudding...

How did Jacob Riis and Stephen Crane contribute to the Crusade for Activism? Easy: they opened a lemonade stand in their front yard and contributed...

The Civil Rights Movement's main goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans, and to secure legal recognition...

The Dust Bowl isn't just a thing that happens when you forget to clean the kitchen. It was a period of severe dust storms during the 1930s which da...

John Steinbeck wrote the stories of the outcasts––Dustbowl refugees, unemployed paisanos, cannery workers, André 3000 and Big Boi...uh, actual...

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath has been called the great American novel, but we're pretty sure the grapes bullied their way to that title. Th...

Frederick Douglass, author of Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself, is an example of somebody who's done an amazi...