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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Gilded Age"”.
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Stephen Crane, Journalist: A Prismatic Career in the Gilded Age
The object of this study has been to discover Crane's indebtedness to his newspaper apprenticeship. The investigation has been concerned with all phases of Crane's life and art, but special emphasis has been placed on his newspaper experience.
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Propheteering : a cultural history of prediction in the Gilded Age
This study of the changing practices and perceptions of prediction in the late nineteenth century reveals the process by which Americans came to rationalize economic and cultural uncertainty into modern life. Forecasts of all kinds were ubiquitous in the late nineteenth century; as the United …
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Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in the Gilded-Age United States
This dissertation examines a group of late nineteenth-century scientists, surveyors, foresters, and settlers interested in human-induced climate change and its implications. Uncertainty, science, and nature had many different meanings for these climate theorists. Some viewed climate and nature as …
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Brothers professionally and socially: the rise of local engineering clubs during the Gilded Age
Scholars in the history and sociology of engineering in the United States have commented critically on the unwillingness of twentieth century engineers to participate actively in politics. Alfred Chandler, for example, has noted the absence of engineers in Progressive Era reform movements, while …
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A Court of Public Opinion: American Sex Work in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
… exist in the public sphere of society, Gilded Age women relied on being perceived as good, moral, and pure. From the dawn of the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, from approximately 1870 through 1920, the American public perceived a lack of goodness and morality within sex workers, …
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Natural science and the American government: fur seal management from gilded age to progressive era
This thesis examines the study and management of Alaskan fur seals from 1867 to 1914. Government involvement in resource conservation expanded during this period, as did the role of experts. Federal officials charged with managing fur seals often sought advice from scientists, and over the years …
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Outside the Lines of Gilded Age Baseball: Profits, Beer, and the Origins of the Brotherhood War
… various Social and economic aspects of life in Gilded Age America as well. Finally, it helps explain the importance of a little-understood era in the baseball’s history that lasted from 1885-1889 and contributed to confirming baseball’s status as America’s national sport.</p>
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The Utilization Of Local History In Teaching American Religious History: A Gilded Age And Progressive Era North Dakota Case Study
… prairie viewed their religious experience in a Gilded Age and Progressive Era context. By emphasizing the records of the North Dakota Baptist State Convention at the North Dakota State Archives in Bismarck and the First Baptist Church of Grand Forks at the Orin G. Libby Department of Special …
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The gilded closet : media, privacy, and power in unequal times
… century. This includes photography in the First Gilded Age, cable television in the 1970s and the beginnings of the neoliberal economy, and networked media in the 2010s with the rise of surveillance capitalism and what some refer to as a Second Gilded Age. Drawing on Marxist and Queer theorists …
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Gendered and Racialized Experiences at Central State Hospital, Indianapolis, 1877 - 1910
… in Indianapolis, Indiana, throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, from the late 1870s through the 1900s. This thesis examines the impact of scientific racism and institutionalized sexism on female African American patients’ diagnoses, medical treatment, and the outcome of …
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Scribner's Monthly 1870-1881: Illustrating a New American Art World
… the development of the nation's art world in the Gilded Age, transforming the reception, perception and consumption of images by the American public.
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The cultural and social milieu of Westmoreland Davis
… whose exterior and furnishings epitomized Gilded Age America. He married wealthy, New York socialite Marguerite Inman and, with her, attended the Tuxedo Club’s fashionable Autumn Balls along with Pierre Lorillard, J. Pierpont Morgan and E. H. Harriman. In 1903, Davis purchased Morven Park, …
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Injurious Distances: Mobility, Space, Realism
… how white middle-class authors of the American Gilded Age and Progressive Era struggled to interpret the fluidity of new American spaces. I argue that for Mark Twain, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, physical motion and the continual remaking of the built environment enabled new kinds of …
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Reflections on Cultural Origins: The Visual Landscape of The Red Badge of Courage
… just prior to the Civil War and throughout the Gilded Age, had on the public perception of war as evidenced in the pages of Stephen Crane’s seminal war novel. By juxtaposing passages from The Red Badge of Courage with specific illustrations and photographs from the Gilded Age, this study seeks …
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The moment of William Ralph Emerson's Art Club in Boston's art culture
… there has been considerable research on the Gilded Age in general and certain art clubs specifically, this club remains a neglected element in art's social history. During the rising development of art culture, a small group of artists founded the Boston Art Club (1854-1950) as a vehicle for …
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Ambrose Bierce: Between politics and philosophy
… of Ambrose Bierce. Because of his aversion to Gilded Age politics, Bierce did not participate in the political process. As a result, his political thought must be considered from an ideological or philosophical perspective; Examination of his views suggests Bierce was a philosophical …
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Reading disability in the law and in Presidential rhetoric : the cases of Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush.
… of disability in three historical moments: the Gilded Age, leading to the Progressive Era; the Reform Era of the 1950s through the 1970s; and the Bush Era of the late 1980s to the 1990s. First, the legal status of people with disabilities in each era is explored by discussing the relevant …
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Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900
For over three decades, during the height of Gilded Age economic extravagance, the women of New York High Society maintained an elite social identity by possessing, displaying, and cultivating cultural capital. Particularly, High Society women sought to exclude the Nouveaux Riches who, after …
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Lincoln's Conservatives: Conservative Unionism and Political Tradition in the Civil War Era
… by these politicians--exemplified in their management of issues during the Civil War--had receded to a minority opinion among lawmakers by 1865, they were ultimately resurrected during the later years of Reconstruction, and helped to shape future political discourses surrounding public policy …
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Mourning at Mount Vernon: Memory, Commemoration, and Thanatourism in the Creation of Nineteenth-Century American Identity
… during the Sectional Crisis, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age which resulted in building national identity focused on sacrifice to the nation. As the plantation is also the site of George Washington’s Tomb, I contend that travel to this location falls within the definitions of thanatourism developed …
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