The American 1890s a cultural reader

List of Figures Acknowledgments A Timeline of America at Century’s End Introduction 1. Becoming Cultured and Culture as Commodity “The Ideal of Culture” (Chautauquan) / F. W. Gunsaulus, D.D. “Wealth” (North American Review) / Andrew Carnegie 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) / George Clarke, Ph.D. “The Pelican” (Scribner’s) / Edith Wharton “The Economic Theory of Women’s Dress” (Popular Science Monthly) / Dr. Thorstein Veblen 2. The Idea of Types “The Modern American Mood” (Harper’s) / William Dean Howells “The Provincials,” from a series, “Sketches of American Types” (Scribner’s) / Octave Thanet ”The Conduct of Life,” from a series, “The Art of Living” (Scribner’s) / Robert Grant “Talma Gordon” (Colored American Magazine) / Pauline E. Hopkins “The Ecollege Graduate and Public Life” (Atlantic Monthly) / Theodore Roosevelt “The Awakening of the Negro” (Atlantic Monthly) / Booker T. Washington “The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future” (Arena) / Susan B. Anthony 3. Labor “The Workers—The West: Among the Revolutionaries” (Scribner’s) / Walter A. Wyckoff “In the Depths of a Coal Mine” (McClure’s) / Stephen Crane “A Paying Concern: A True Story of American Factory Life” (McClure’s) / Gertrude Roscoe “The Night Run of the ‘Overland’: A Story of Domestic Life Among the Railroad People” (McClure’s) / Elmore Elliott Peake “Women and Girls in Sweat-Shops” (Chautauquan) / Florence Kelley “Working-Girls Clubs,” (Scribner’s) / Clara Sidney Davidge 4. Social, Ethnic, and Racial Strife “Club Life Among Outcasts” (Harper’s) / Josiah Flynt “The Future of the Red Man” (Forum) / Simon Pokagon “Lynch Law in the South” (North American Review) / Frederick Douglass “A Ghetto Wedding” (Atlantic Monthly) / Abraham Cahan “The Genesis of the Gang” (Atlantic Monthly) / Jacob A. Riis “Step-Brothers to Dives” (Harper’s) / Louise Betts Edwards 5. Mental Health & Physical Training “ The Gospel of Relaxation” (Scribner’s) / William James “Fashion’s Slaves” (Arena) / B. O. Flower “ Woman and the Bicycle” (Scribner’s) / Marguerite Merington “A Fin de Cycle Incident” (Outing) / Edna C. Jackson “Physical Education vs. Degeneracy” (Independent) / H. W. Foster “On Being Civilized Too Much” (Atlantic Monthly) / Henry Charles Merwin 6. The Promises of Formal Education “A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South” (Atlantic Monthly) / W. E. Burghardt Du Bois “Modern College Education” (Cosmopolitan) / John Brisben Walker “The Greatest Need of College Girls” (Atlantic Monthly) / Annie Payson Call “The School Days of an Indian Girl” (Atlantic Monthly) / Zitkala-Sa “The March of Progress” (Century) / Charles W. Chesnutt “The Ingrate” (New England Magazine) / Paul Laurence Dunbar “The Genius of Bowlder Bluff” (Scribner’s) / Abbe Carter Goodloe 7. The Future and Cultural Change “What a Great City Might Be—A Lesson from the White City” (New England Magazine) / John Coleman Adams “The Problem of the West” (Atlantic Monthly) / Frederick J. Turner “The Divorce of Man from Nature” (Arena) / Anna R. Weeks “Susan’s Escort” (Harper’s) / Edward Everett Hale “Twenty-Four: Four” (Harper’s) / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps “Within an Ace of the End of the World” (McClure’s) / Robert Barr Bibliography Index