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Benjamin Rush
Jennifer Lindbeck, Class of ’98, Dickinson College As one of the leading American physicians of the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, and an influential social and political thinker, Benjamin Rush was full of curiosity about nature and the workings … Continue reading
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau’s Walden is the ur-text of American nature writing. Many earlier American explorers, naturalists, and authors had described the natural wonders of the new continent, but until Thoreau, no author had located “nature” at the center of one vision of … Continue reading
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Tagged America, natural history, nature writing, prose
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Charles Willson Peale
Jennifer Lindbeck, Class of ’98, Dickinson College Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, and was the first of a long line of natural historians and artists. He also became one of the most important painters in … Continue reading
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Tagged America, art, painting
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