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The Manchu

One of China's most influential cultures  The Manchu, also known as the Manju, are an ethnic group from Manchuria in northern China. The average American probably hasn't heard of the Manchu, but…

The Harlem Renaissance

Three writers and their contemporary counterparts by Jace Clayton   For many young Black writers and artists who gravitated to New York City's Harlem in the 1920s, the sudden interest…

1996 George Foster Peabody Awards

The Peabody Awards, administered by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, honor excellence in both radio and television broadcasting.Black…

Classical Mythology: The End of Heroes

The End of HeroesClassical MythologyAll's Not Fair in Love and War: The Fall of TroyThe Face That Launched a Thousand ShipsThe Final Battles: The Tenth Year of the WarThe End of Heroes The war cost…

Chaucer, Geoffrey

(Encyclopedia) Chaucer, GeoffreyChaucer, Geoffreyjĕfˈrē chôˈsər [key], c.1340–1400, English poet, one of the most important figures in English literature. To Chaucer's final period, in which he…