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Episodes tagged "literature": 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Do You Hate Me?
    date 1802 to 1825map Norfolk, Massachusettstags Writing, literature, Civil Rights, Native American issues, Historiography

    A four-year-old boy cries aloud as his grandmother continuously beats him with a club, repeatedly demanding of him, “do you hate me?”  Young William Apess, ignorant of his grandmother’s meaning, knows only to answer in the affirmative, hoping to appease her every wish.  The life of this little boy would have ended at that very moment had his uncle not intervened to rescue him from the brutal...

  2. Melville creates a literary Pickett's charge
    date July 3, 1863map ADAMS, Pennsylvaniatags Civil War, literature

    In his poem "Gettysburg" written in 1866, Herman Melville, renowned writer and poet of the 19th century, who did not fight the war, gave a romanticized account of Pickett's charge. At Gettysburg, on the third of July 1863, the issue of the battle was still uncertain. General Lee decided to launch a decisive attack against the army of the Union with the Major General Pickett in command of the troops,...