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 * 1776 //Common Sense// by Thomas Paine : pamphlet made to encourage Americans to break away from the English government due to their unjustified constitution
 * 1788 The Federalist Papers by "Publius" (aka Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, + John Jay) : series of essays explaining and defending the Constitution
 * 1783 //American Spelling Book// + 1828 //An American Dictionary of the English Lanuage// by Noah Webster : spelling book (that was best-selling US book besides Bible) + dictionary = national standard of words + usages
 * 1846-1880 //De Bow's Review// by James B. D. De Bow : mag. that emphazised southern economic independence even though it relied on northern facilities to print
 * Hudson River School painted Hudson River Valley landscape, embracing its nature
 * "Leatherstocking Tales" by Fenimore Cooper : embraced nature w/ novels about Indians, pioneers, the law
 * 1851 //Moby DIck// by Herman Melville : emphasized the troublesome human spirit
 * 1836 "Nature" (and other essays/lectures/poems) by Ralph Waldo Emerson : transcendentalist and/or nationalist works
 * 1830s //Phrenology Almanac// by Orson and Lorenzo Fowler : popularized science of phrenology in US
 * 1831 //The Liberator// by William Lloyd Garrison : newspaper that supported immediate abolition rather than gradualism
 * 1847 //North Star// by Frederick Douglass : black antislavery newspaper
 * 1852 //Uncle Tom's Cabin// by Harriet Beecher Stowe : best-selling book exposing slavery, supporting abolition
 * Henry Grady : editor of //Atlanta Constitution// who coined name of "New South" during Reconstruction
 * "Rocky Mountain School" : painters who celebrated Great West, inspiring tourism there
 * Frederic Remington : painter/sculptor who romanticized the west
 * 1901 //The Gospel of Wealth// by Andrew Carnegie : argued that wealthy people had responsibility of giving back to advance social US
 * "Acres of Diamonds" lecture by Russell H. Conwell : supporting gospel of wealth by stating that millionaires usually went from rags to riches while working their way up
 * Horatio Alger : writer of rags-to-riches stories making people believe that anyone can work their was up to the top
 * 1883 //Dynamic Sociology// by Lester Frank Ward : believed gov. should intervene to better society & that people could adjust to serve their needs
 * 1879 //Progress and Poverty// by Henry George : proposed single tax to end monopolies and poverty, + distribute wealth
 * 1888 //Looking Backward// by Edward Bellamy : new idea of "nationalism" where gov. controlled one great trust of businesses w/ "fraternal cooperation" rather than competition
 * Central Park, created in 1850s by Frederick Law Olmstead + Calvert Vaux : one of most popular + admired public parks that served as an escape from urban life
 * 1890 //How the Other Half Lives// by Jacob Riis : described tenement (slum dwelling) life, which was shocking to mid-class
 * Simon Patten : supported leisure spending in his books now that the industries could make enough goods to satisfy the needs + pleasures of the people
 * Ashcan School : painters who emphazised naturalism, showing the social realities of the era -> beginning of modernism
 * 1890 //The Influence of Sea Power upon History// by Alfred Thayer Mahan : explained that US needed sea power to be a great nation b/c of productive domestic economy, foreign commerce, strong merchant marine, navy to defend trade routes, + colonies w/ raw materials/markets
 * Ida Tarbell : muckraker who made an expose of the Standard Oil trust
 * Lincoln Steffens : muckraker exposed "boss rule" + "machine gov.", influencing urban political reform during the Progressive era
 * 1903 //The Souls of Black Folk// by W.E.B. Du Bois : attacked Atlanta Compromise, calling out for blacks to fight for their rights + strive to progress -> inspired creation of NAACP
 * H.L. Mencken : a "debunker" who produced magazines that ridiculed mid-class
 * 1906 //The Jungle// by Upton Sinclair : descibed disgusting conditions in meatpacking industry & inspired the Meat Inspection Act
 * 1925 //The Great Gatsby// by E Scott Fitzgerald : ridiculed American obsession w/ material success
 * //Life// Magazine (started 1936) : photographic journal that especially showed sporting events, theater events, natural landscapes, + public projects -> most successful mag in US history w/ largest readership
 * 1930-1936 //U.S.A.// Trilogy by John Dos Passos : attacked US culture's materialistic madness during Depression
 * 1939 //The Grapes of Wrath// by John Steinbeck : described social conditions of the West in the 1930s, harshly exploiting agrarian life
 * 1946 //Baby and Child Care// by Dr. Benjamin Spock : guide to raising babies -> influenced stay-at-home moms to join work force
 * Echo Park : national park where most people traveled as a sort of vacation -> helped popularize US environmental movement
 * 1962 //The Other America// by Michael Harrington : emphasized US poverty that was hard to escape from (esp. natives)
 * 1963 //The Feminine Mystique// by Betty Friedan : explained how the suburbs kept women in a bubble where they could not progress -> helped feminist movement

=﻿Popular Culture:=
 * Hollywood
 * "flapper"
 * movies
 * theater
 * TV
 * computers
 * dime novels
 * radio
 * Walt Disney
 * saloons
 * 4th of July
 * hippies
 * rock 'n' roll
 * jazz
 * sports
 * counter culture
 * woodstock
 * zoot suits
 * suburbs
 * malls
 * levitowns
 * yellow journalism
 * dance halls
 * I Love Lucy