War . Not a whole lot. But her name does refer to a period in both american and european history that witnessed important and farreaching changes to american and european culture. The timeframe of victorian culture as we call it often coincides with her reign, years of 1837 to 1901, and particularly when someone talks about victorian culture in europe, if someone says victorian culture, they are likely referring to england, not necessarily america. Here in america is sometimes people take the view of victorian culture from the 1830s to about 1900 or so, but you can put that into in early and late. Because this is post civil war, we will state focus on the victorian culture in america that takes place after the civil war, after 1865, and we will run it up through the first years of the 20th century, to the 10 and even a little bit the teens. When we talk about victorian , particularlyrica after the civil war, we are looking at a society that has undergone a lot of changes because of tha
War . Not a whole lot. But her name does refer to a period in both american and european history that witnessed important and farreaching changes to american and european culture. The timeframe of victorian culture as we call it often coincides with her reign, years of 1837 to 1901, and particularly when someone talks about victorian culture in europe, if someone says victorian culture, they are likely referring to england, not necessarily america. Here in america is sometimes people take the view of victorian culture from the 1830s to about 1900 or so, but you can put that into in early and late. Because this is post civil war, we will state focus on the victorian culture in america that takes place after the civil war, after 1865, and we will run it up through the first years of the 20th century, to the 10 and even a little bit the teens. When we talk about victorian , particularlyrica after the civil war, we are looking at a society that has undergone a lot of changes because of tha
So what does all of that have to do with American History after the civil war . Well, to be honest not a whole , lot. But her name does refer to a period in both european and American History that witnessed important and farreaching changes to american and european culture. Now the timeframe of victorian , culture as we call it often coincides with her reign, those years of 1837 to 1901, and particularly when someone talks about victorian culture in europe, and if someone just comes up to you and says victorian culture, they are very likely referring to what went on in england, not necessarily america. It coincides with these dates. Here in america people sometimes take that long view of victorian culture from the 1830s to about 1900 or so, but you can put that into an early and a late. And because this course is post civil war, we will stay focus on the victorian culture in america that takes place after the civil war, after 1865, and we will run it up through the first years of the 2
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Him all throughout. I love his humor. And i mentioned commonsense. Hes delightful. He always makes me laugh, even now, and ive been writing about them for about 25 years. What should occur to journalist take from his career . Well, i think they should have the courage to say what they want to say, not always be waiting to see how it is being received. Also, he gets a lot of shoe leather. I think in this age of the internet, people are rushed to. They dont have the time to do their research. Pages to the interview on to look it up quickly. He was always, as i say, putting the issue to the pavement. Always researching, al always gg out there and doing the interview. What do you think his impression would be of our current state of news in american . I think he would be very depressed. Very depressed. And i think he would be very saddened to see that print journalism is being subjugated by television and by the internet. [inaudible] why . Because as i mentioned earlier, i dont think peopl