In nineteen thirty-five, Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.'

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Simon and Schuster publicist Anna McKean says the girl detective stays true to her roots but is "ultra-modern."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

This modern festival of African-American culture includes lighting candles each night from December twenty-sixth through New Year's Day.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

An eighteen ninety-three guidebook called "Modern Etiquette in Public and Private" had this to say: "Long fingers are a sign of refinement.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Tea Party activists see themselves as modern-day versions of the anti-tax protesters from before the American Revolution.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Anything in art,music or literature which is very modern or ahead of its time is called avant-garde.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Rockwell's nineteen sixty-two painting "The Connoisseur" seems to express the artist's questions about traditional and modern art.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

It shows how genetic material has re-organized itself to create the genomes of modern creatures.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

That name could also describe a dessert served at Buddakan, a modern-Asian restaurant in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Lacrosse is a fast-moving sport, the modern version of a game played by American Indians.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

In nineteen fifty-two, the group became the Modern Jazz Quartet and established its own identity.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

In nineteen forty-seven, Jackie Robinson became the first black to play modern major league baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

These have included a month-long celebration of the traditional and modern arts of China.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

He says it is a re-imagining of the first show with a modern touch.

VOA: special.2009.11.20