This document provides an overview of an American art history project presented through a slideshow. It includes 10 slides covering different historical periods from Colonialism and Puritanism to the Gilded Age. Each slide contains an excerpt of literature or a description of a work of art that relates to the corresponding historical period. The slides advance automatically and include narration in the notes section to provide context for the excerpt or artwork shown.

1. By YeonJae Iris Lim and Monica NguyenDUE: Monday, January 10th, 2010* After this slide, presentation will play and advance automatically (No need to click! )* To hear the narration, elevation of volume may be required.* All narration is written in the “Notes” of each respected slide.American Art History ProjectClick when ready~!!

2. Colonialism and Puritanism(1500 – 1775)In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth - Anotherby Anne BradstreetHere lies the pride of Queens, pattern of Kings: So blaze it fame, here's feathers for thy wings. Here lies the envy'd, yet unparallel'd Prince, Whose living virtues speak (though dead long since). If many worlds, as that fantastic framed, In every one, be her great glory famed.“Mrs. George Watson”1765 John Singleton Copley

3. Early Nationalism and Romanticism(c. 1801 – 1860)To A SkylarkBy William WordsworthUP with me! up with me into the clouds!For thy song, Lark, is strong;Up with me, up with me into the clouds!Singing, singing,With clouds and sky about thee ringing,Lift me, guide me till I findThat spot which seems so to thy mind! The Great Horseshoe Fall, Niagara 1820 Alvan Fisher

4. Revolution and Federalism(1775~1800)A Nation’s PrideBy Ralph Waldo EmersonNot gold but only men can make A people great and strong; Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly... They build a nation's pillars deep And lift them to the sky.Mrs. James Smith and Grandson1776 Charles Willson Peale

5. c. 1835 - 1850ManifestDestiny"Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study, U.S. Capitol),“ Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1861BUT two miles more, and then we rest! Well, there is still an hour of day,And long the brightness of the West Will light us on our devious way;Sit then, a while, here in this wood—So total is the solitude, We safely may delay.—"The Wood,” Charolette Bronte, 1846

6. “Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son. “…“Cool and sweeten Ohio's villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind, “…“Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,) While they stand at home at the door he is dead already, The only son is dead.”…“O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape and withdraw, To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.” —from Come Up From the Fields Father, by Walt Whitman (1900)The Civil WarLittle Soldier, Eastman Johnson(1864)1861-1865

7. ReconstructionAh! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West,From North and from South comes the pilgrim and guest;When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his boardThe old broken links of affection restored;When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before;What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye,What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?—Stanza 3 from “The Pumpkin”by John Greenleaf Whittier"October" by John WhettenEhninger, 1867c. 1865 - 1877

8. Gilded Agec. 1875 - 1900In wet wood and miry lane, Still we pant and pound in vain;Still with leaden foot we chaceWaning pinion, fainting face;Still with grey hair we stumble on, Till, behold, the vision gone! Where hath fleeting beauty led? To the doorway of the dead. Life is over, life was gay: We have come the primrose way. -Stanza 3 from To Will .H. Low. by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887"Colonial Graveyard At Lexington” by Childe Hassam, 1891

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