The American 1890s

, by Smith, Susan Harris; Dawson, Melanie

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ISBN: 9780822324768 | 0822324768
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/1/2000

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"This excellent sourcebook covers a range of topics, from education to mental health, from labor and the city to reading and culture. A thorough and well-conceived collection."--Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
A Timeline of America at Century's End
Introduction
Becoming Cultured and Culture as Commodity
"The Ideal of Culture" (Chautauquan)
"Wealth" (North American Review)
Brief Observations on the Habit of Reading (Critic)
"The Reading Habit"
"Courses of Reading"
"What Chicago People Read"
"A Note on Servants'
Libraries"
"The Novel-Reading Habit" (Arena)
"The Pelican" (Scribner's)
"The Economic Theory of Women's Dress" (Popular Science Monthly)
The Idea of Types
"The Modern American Mood" (Harper's)
"The Provincials,"
from a series, "Sketches of American Types" (Scribner's)
"The Conduct of Life,"
from a series, "The Art of Living" (Scribner's)
"Talma Gordon" (Colored American Magazine)
"The Ecollege Graduate and Public Life" (Atlantic Monthly)
"The Awakening of the Negro" (Atlantic Monthly)
"The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future" (Arena)
Labor
"The Workers—The West: Among the Revolutionaries" (Scribner's)
"In the Depths of a Coal Mine" (McClure's)
"A Paying Concern: A True Story of American Factory Life" (McClure's)
"The Night Run of the 'Overland': A Story of Domestic Life Among the Railroad People" (McClure's)
"Women and Girls in Sweat-Shops" (Chautauquan)
"Working-Girls Clubs," (Scribner's)
Social, Ethnic, and Racial Strife
"Club Life Among Outcasts" (Harper's)
"The Future of the Red Man" (Forum)
"Lynch Law in the South" (North American Review)
"A Ghetto Wedding" (Atlantic Monthly)
"The Genesis of the Gang" (Atlantic Monthly)
"Step-Brothers to Dives" (Harper's)
Mental Health & Physical Training
The Gospel of Relaxation" (Scribner's)
"Fashion's Slaves" (Arena)
Woman and the Bicycle" (Scribner's)
"A Fin de Cycle Incident" (Outing)
"Physical Education vs. Degeneracy" (Independent)
"On Being Civilized Too Much" (Atlantic Monthly)
The Promises of Formal Education
"A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South" (Atlantic Monthly)
"Modern College Education" (Cosmopolitan)
"The Greatest Need of College Girls" (Atlantic Monthly)
"The School Days of an Indian Girl" (Atlantic Monthly)
"The March of Progress" (Century)
"The Ingrate" (New England Magazine)
"The Genius of Bowlder Bluff" (Scribner's)
The Future and Cultural Change
"What a Great City Might Be—A Lesson from the White City" (New England Magazine)
"The Problem of the West" (Atlantic Monthly)
"The Divorce of Man from Nature" (Arena)
"Susan's Escort" (Harper's)
"Twenty-Four: Four" (Harper's)
"Within an Ace of the End of the World" (McClure's)
Bibliography
Index
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