It's obvious Bryant didn't make much income from lawyering. There's a notation of “$0.25 due” — his fee. An inflation calculator says that...
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Like much of Coronado's poetry, devoted to impossible infatuations, this poem laments the loss of a mythical-seeming bird, less pet than lover.
16 months ago

There's a hidden park in Massachusetts that many locals don't even know about. William Cullen Bryant Homestead is worth visiting.
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Who isn't related to William Cullen Bryant? What a lineage! This is only part of the extended family.
54 months ago

Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836) - Known as the Father of Texas. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) - Journalist and long-time editor of the New...
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In Antebellum Texas, White ranchers referred to White workers as “cow hands,” with Black people in the same position referred to with the pejorative “cow boy.”
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When John Greenleaf Whittier wrote “To Oliver Wendell Holmes,” his last poem, in July, 1892, it was to celebrate Holmes's upcoming 83rd birthday.
45 months ago

The Fireside Poets were America's 19th-century literary establishment: the poets who resided in the Parnassus of New England and set the...
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As families disperse ever farther in our globalized 21st century, what will become of the markers of generations past and the rituals that...
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According to the website, most of the museum's grounds were originally owed by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), long time editor of the...
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