Dancers from Old Lore Theater performed the poem "Annabel Lee" by the nineteenth century American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Every major African-American poet and writer and artist from frankly the mid-nineteenth century on has always been reflecting on this nexus of North and South.

大约十九世纪中期以后的,每一位主流的非裔美籍诗人,作家或艺术家,都一直在探讨南北关系的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Maybe they didn't write down the binomial distribution, but they explained the idea of insurance and it didn't sound right to the typical nineteenth century American woman.

也许他们并不会给客户写二项分布函数,但会向他们灌输保险的理念,但这看起来对19世纪的美国女性,并不奏效

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Historians say she was the strongest influence on the education of American young people during the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.

说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Most American girls at the beginning of the twentieth century were taught to sit quietly and speak softly.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Every major African-American writer of the twentieth century, at least until your lifetime, when black writers in this country are now born and raised in cities, in California or Minneapolis or New York or and in modern Atlanta and they come from all the same places other Americas do.

二十世纪的每一个主流的非裔美籍作家,至少到你们这一辈子所能接触到的,这个国家的黑人作家,现在,都生于城市长于城市,在加州,明尼阿波利斯市或者纽约市,或者现代亚特兰大,他们从和其他美国人来自同一个地方

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Today we tell about Winslow Homer, considered to be the greatest American artist of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Many theater critics believe he was one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

It shows how Chinese communities developed all over the American West more than a century ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

He is considered one of the most important American building designers of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

American inventor Thomas Edison began making short motion pictures at the turn of the century.

VOA: special.2010.12.02

The results of the Boxer Rebellion and the Spanish-American War made clear that the new century would have a new world power: the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

They learn how a wealthy American family lived at the start of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

By the end of the century, Congress had made Hawaii an American territory.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Norman Rockwell is one of the best-known American artists of the 20th century.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09