American Renaissance (literature)
The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. A central term in American studies, the American Renaissance was for a while considered synonymous with American Romanticism and was closely associated with Transcendentalism.
Library history
It wasn't until the Middle Ages that libraries became a part of culture. During the Renaissance era, more people became educated and relied on libraries as a place to study and gain knowledge. During the Renaissance most of the text held in libraries were religious text. Libraries helped enrich the culture of those who were educated by providing this valuable resource otherwise unavailable.In the early 19th and 20th century, representative titles were created reporting library history in the United States and the United Kingdom. American titles include: "Public Libraries in the United States of America, Their History, Condition, and Management" (1876), "Memorial History of Boston" (1881) by Justin Winsor, "Public Libraries in America" (1894) by William I. Fletcher, and "History of the New York Public Library" (1923) by Henry M. Lydenberg. British titles include: "Old English Libraries" (1911) by Earnest A. Savage and T"he Chained Library: A Survey of Four Centuries in the Evolution of the English Library" by Burnett Hillman Streeter.