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American Literature 3: The Poe Must Go On (Part 1)
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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...

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

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

American Literature: No Paine, No Gaine
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So the revolution was pushed along by… pamphlets? Sure, what the heck, let’s go with it.

American Literature: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, But I'd Prefer Liberty
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We’ll take one order of liberty, but hold the death.

American Literature: Whit and Wisdom
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Introducing the father of free verse, the poet of patriotism, the world’s wittiest Walt… Mr. Whitman.

American Literature: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin analysis
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Benjamin Franklin revolutionized American civil rights, libraries, universities, hospitals, fire departments, armies, and newspapers, to name a few...

American Literature: A Quilt of a Country
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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...

American Literature: A Model of Christian Charity
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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...

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

American Literature: What Rhymes with "Puritan"?
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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...

American Literature: Isn't it Gothic-Romantic?
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Check out this video to learn more about Gothic Romanticism

American Literature: Suffrage
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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...

American Literature: Dust Bowl
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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...

American Literature: Activism
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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...

American Literature: Bend It Like Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck wrote the stories of the outcasts––Dustbowl refugees, unemployed paisanos, cannery workers, André 3000 and Big Boi...uh, actual...

American Literature: The Grapes of Wrath
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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...

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

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