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Culturally Significant Texts
Featuring works of historical, cultural and religious significance. Check back for updates!
Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself,
Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind,
Sometimes an image that has stood so long
It seems implanted as the polar star
Is moved against an unfathomed force
That suddenly will not have it any more...
-- from John Brown's Body,
Book One
This Pulitzer-Prize winning poem, published in 1928, recounts in epic verse the Civil War -- the "crack in time" that split a nation in two -- and the lives of the historical figures, ordinary soldiers, civilians, and enslaved persons caught up in America's defining conflict.
