The American 1890s

by Smith, Susan Harris; Dawson, Melanie

• ISBN13: 9780822325123
• ISBN10: 0822325128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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"

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
A Timeline of America at Century's End	xiii
Introduction	1	(14)
Becoming Cultured and Culture as Commodity	15	(60)
``The Ideal of Culture,'' Chautauquan	17	(8)
F. W. Gunsaulus
``Wealth,'' North American Review	25	(10)
Andrew Carnegie
Brief Observations on the Habit of Reading	35	(1)
``The Reading Habit,'' Critic
``Courses of Reading,'' Critic	36	(2)
``What Chicago People Read,'' Critic	38	(4)
``A Note on Servants' Libraries,'' Critic	42	(1)
``The Novel-Reading Habit,'' Arena	43	(8)
George Clarke
``The Pelican,'' Scribner's	51	(15)
Edith Wharton
``The Economic Theory of Women's Dress,'' Popular Science Monthly	66	(9)
Dr. Thorstein Veblen
The Idea of Types	75	(68)
``The Modern American Mood,'' Harper's	77	(9)
William Dean Howells
``The Provincials,'' from a series, ``Sketches of American Types,'' Scribner's	86	(7)
Octave Thanet
``The Conduct of Life,'' from a series, ``The Art of Living,'' Scribner's	93	(12)
Robert Grant
``Talma Gordon,'' Colored American Magazine	105	(12)
Pauline E. Hopkins
``The College Graduate and Public Life,'' Atlantic Monthly	117	(8)
Theodore Roosevelt
``The Awakening of the Negro,'' Atlantic Monthly	125	(9)
Booker T. Washington
``The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future,'' Arena	134	(9)
Susan B. Anthony
Labor	143	(52)
``The Workers---The West: Among the Revolutionaries,'' Scribner's	146	(10)
Walter A. Wyckoff
``In the Depths of a Coal Mine,'' McClure's	156	(7)
Stephen Crane
``A Paying Concern: A True Story of American Factory Life,'' McClure's	163	(8)
Gertrude Roscoe
``The Night Run of the `Overland': A Story of Domestic Life Among the Railroad People,'' McClure's	171	(10)
Elmore Elliott Peake
``Women and Girls in Sweat-Shops,'' Chautauquan	181	(4)
Florence Kelley
``Working-Girl's Clubs,'' Scribner's	185	(10)
Clara Sidney Davidge
Social, Ethnic, and Racial Strife	195	(64)
``Club Life Among Outcasts,'' Harper's	199	(11)
Josiah Flynt
``The Future of the Red Man,'' Forum	210	(10)
Simon Pokagon
``Lynch Law in the South,'' North American Review	220	(6)
Frederick Douglass
``A Ghetto Wedding,'' Atlantic Monthly	226	(12)
Abraham Cahan
``The Genesis of the Gang,'' Atlantic Monthly	238	(11)
Jacob A. Riis
``Step-Brothers to Dives,'' Harper's	249	(10)
Louise Betts Edwards
Mental Health & Physical Training	259	(60)
``The Gospel of Relaxation,'' Scribner's	261	(12)
William James
``Fashion's Slaves,'' Arena	273	(15)
B. O. Flower
``Woman and the Bicycle,'' Scribner's	288	(3)
Marguerite Merington
``A Fin de Cycle Incident,'' Outing	291	(11)
Edna C. Jackson
``Physical Education vs. Degeneracy,'' Independent	302	(4)
H. W. Foster
``On Being Civilized Too Much,'' Atlantic Monthly	306	(13)
Henry Charles Merwin
The Promises of Formal Education	319	(68)
``A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South,'' Atlantic Monthly	321	(8)
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
``Modern College Education,'' Cosmopolitan	329	(10)
John Brisben Walker
``The Greatest Need of College Girls,'' Atlantic Monthly	339	(10)
Annie Payson Call
``The School Days of an Indian Girl,'' Atlantic Monthly	349	(12)
Zitkala-Sa
``The March of Progress,'' Century	361	(9)
Charles W. Chesnutt
``The Ingrate,'' New England Magazine	370	(6)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
``The Genius of Bowlder Bluff,'' Scribner's	376	(11)
Abbe Carter Goodloe
The Future & Cultural Change	387	(72)
``What a Great City Might Be---A Lesson from the White City,'' New England Magazine	389	(7)
John Coleman Adams
``The Problem of the West,'' Atlantic Monthly	396	(11)
Frederick J. Turner
``The Divorce of Man from Nature,'' Arena	407	(5)
Anna R. Weeks
``Susan's Escort,'' Harper's	412	(13)
Edward Everett Hale
``Twenty-Four: Four,'' Harper's	425	(22)
Elizabeth Stuart phelps
``Within an Ace of the End of the World,'' McClure's	447	(12)
Robert Barr
Bibliography	459	(6)
Index	465