Talk:Edwin Markham

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The forgotten work of Edwin Markham has to be his 'The Real America in Romance', a history of the United States from 1435 to the first decade of the 20th century. It was published by Funk and Wagnells in 1910 just before the First World War and comprises approx. 15 volumes illustrated. In it Markham takes fictional caricatures of peoples at each time frame and has them interact with real historical(caricatures) characters in fictional settings. For it being a romantic literary work it comes disturbingly close to the main stream tellings of U.S. history in the text books used by public schools. This is probably why you can come across it at any decent sized Catholic bookshop. One store said something like this about it, 'Profusely illustrated with portraits of historical characters and views of the sacred places of our native land.'

Any idea when The Right Kind of People was published?[edit]

I would like to add the poem "The Right Kind of People" to wikisource, if it is out of copyright. However, I don't know when it was published. It was published in "The Best Loved Poems of the American People" in 1936, but in that case it might still be in copyright. Any idea when and where it was first published? Thanks. Jrincayc 04:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Historical Landmark[edit]

The California Historical Landmarks in Santa Clara County points to this article for the landmark: Edwin Markham House. Please use the Template:Infobox historic site to update the article with the following citation #1 and citation #2. Greg Henderson (talk) 21:59, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That template is for articles about historical sites. This is an article about a person, it does not belong here. Melcous (talk) 11:55, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]