Thomas Hart Benton Research Paper

The St. Louis Art Museum has many intriguing pieces of artwork, but my eyes seemed to navigate towards Thomas Cole’s pieces. Research has shown that Thomas Cole was best known for his landscape art, but through the portal of America’s wilderness and it’s association of God. Nature, human life, and mortality were the key viewpoints

William Tecumseh Sherman was a great Union general fighting in the Civil War. His major feat during the war was his campaign through the South. He started in Chattanooga, Tennessee and ended in Savannah, Georgia. His March used psychological warfare to make southerners lose support for the Southern cause by bringing the war to their front-doors. This showing of how cruel the war really was is said to have ended the war more quickly.

Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27,1822 to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant (Williams). His first name was decided upon by his maternal grandmother while his middle name was an alternate form of his father’s favorite literary character, whose name was Odysseus (Schlesinger Jr.). His parents had three daughters and two sons after Ulysses. During his childhood, he was shy but had a large passion for horses (Grant, 8). He worked on his family’s farm and attended local schools where he was not a very good student. In 1839, his father decided to send him to West Point, an idea that Grant was not to fond of (Lincoln, 422).

•8th President •Of Dutch descent, Van Buren was the first president actually born in the U.S. He is the only president who spoke English as a second language, his first being Dutch •Born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York to Abraham (1737-1817) and Maria Hose Van Alen Van Buren (1747-1818) •By his mothers first marriage, he had 1 half sister and 2 half brothers. •He had 4 full siblings. •Van Burens father owned a tavern that was frequented by many politicians traveling between Albany and New York City, including Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

Jefferson was born on june 3, 1808-december 6, 1889. Jefferson davis died at age 81. He was one of ten children born to his parents,Jane and Samuel davis. He was born in kentucky. He went to the wilkinson academy and he also went to a catholic school. He continued his studies at jefferson college at washington, mississippi and at transylvania university at lexington, kentucky. In june 1828 he graduated from west point.

Sherman’s March was in 1864 and lasted from November 15 until December 21. General William T. Sherman led around 60,000 soldiers on a march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia which lasted for 285 miles. The purpose was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population in abandoning the Confederate cause. It demonstrates the problems that were left after the end of the Civil War such as the role of the federal government in protecting its citizen’s rights. Economic and racial justice is still unsolved after the war, with land ownership still not being available to everybody

Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born on April, 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. His father was called Jesse Root Grant, and his mother, Hannah Simpson Grant. When Ulysses was one year old, he and his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. Ulysses was not very outgoing during his youth, he was shy and quiet. When Ulysses turned 17, his dad arranged for him to go to the United States Military Academy at West Point. There was an error and he was listed as Ulysses S. Grant. He did not want to be rejected so he changed his name from Hiram, to Ulysses. Ulysses was not very advanced at West Point, he got average grades and got in trouble a few times because he was poorly dressed and constantly late to class. He eventually decided that

Explanatory Essay: Like many people, Thomas Ponce and Denee Benton both had dreams. Unlike many people, they were able to follow their dreams despite the challenges and obstacles along the way. In Tomas Ponce’s story, “The Day I Saved a Life” he goes to the beach for his eleventh birthday with his family, where he saves a baby shark from a fisherman who was going to eat it. Later in life, he became an advocate for animal rights. In the biography “Denee Benton: Broadway Princess” Benton adored Broadway and performers as a little girl.

Our human experiences are shown in many different ways, including through art. Kerry James Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, 1955. The civil rights movement was in his hometown. He was a witness to Watts rebellion in 1965. His father was a postal worker who liked to buy fancy broken watches. Kerry’s father, after the bombing of the four girls, moved the family to Los Angeles. When Kerry went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, he saw that there were no African-American artist, nor African-American paintings. Kerry thought that the story of these people should be told too.

In April 1861, war broke out across the United States, and it would become known as the Civil War. During the Civil War many individuals stepped up to the plate, one of these individuals was Hiram Ulysses Grant. Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on April 27, 1822 in Pleasant Point, Ohio. His parents, Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Grant, quickly moved his family to Georgetown, Ohio ("Ulysses S. Grant," n.d.). Jesse Root Grant, his father, worked as a tanner and businessman. During his childhood, Grant was very timid, but he managed to keep average grades in school ("Ulysses S. Grant," n.d.). After his primary years of school, Ulysses’ father sent him off to military school at West Point. Upon his arrival at West Point Grant’s name was put down as

I'm researching William t .Sherman you will be learning about his hole in tier life. During the civil war there was transportation and the civil war had big marches and horses.The horse Pooled equipment and there supplies like there cooking, gear and they were and he got pooled by there horses and wagon's also there was slavery.Another thing is what you are going to learn about William t. Sherman life and impertinent stuff. Also his place of birth is Lancaster Ohio.

Friends and allies: James Madison, John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Marquis de Lafayette, and others.

William Cullen Bryant was born November 3, 1794 in Cummington, MA. He died on June 12, 1878 in New York. He was a poet and editor. His style and character of writing, might give a clue to his ancestry and environment. They often reflect the best and noblest in the New England early impression. The first Bryant of whom there is any account in the annals of the New World, Stephen, came over from England, and was at Plymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1632, of which town he was chosen constable in 1663. Stephen’s widowed mother, Ann married an attorney named John Doane and along with Ann and her three sons, Thomas, Stephen, and John came to America on “The Handmaid”. Thomas Bryant was bound out to Samuel Eddy and Stephen Bryant to a man named

Thomas Hart Benton was born in on April 15, 1889 in Neosho, Missouri. He was named after his great-great-uncle. He was the oldest child of four children. His parents’ names were Elizabeth Wise Benton and Maecenas Eason Benton. Maecenas Benton gained fame as a painter of the American Scene. His father was a very successful lawyer and congressmen. Maecenas Eason Benton was born on January 29, 1848 in Dyersburg, Tennessee. He was a U.S. representative from Missouri. Elizabeth Wise Benton was born on July 1866 in Texas. They were very supportive of their son. Although his mother encouraged his artistic endeavors, but his father did not.

I was drawn to the painting, Letter from Overseas, because of the artistic elements and painting techniques Thomas Hart Benton used to illustrate the overall impact of the war on domestic culture. This painting depicts a woman sitting on the fence reading a letter she received in the mail from a loved one in the war. The mailbox left ajar suggests the urgency with which the letter was received. During World War II, letter writing was a prominent source of communication between American families and soldiers.