The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940

The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
Author: Matthew Pratt Guterl
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2002-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674038053

With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age: Daniel Cohalan, the Irish-American nationalist, Tammany Hall man, and ruthless politician; Madison Grant, the patrician eugenicist and noisy white supremacist; W. E. B. Du Bois, the African-American social scientist and advocate of social justice; and Jean Toomer, the American pluralist and novelist of the interior life. Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.

America in 1900

America in 1900
Author: Noel J. Kent
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780765605955

The author argues that the problems and issues that have defined America in the 20th century - such as business mergers, trade disputes and racial violence - were first revealed in their modern form in the year 1900. Ten chapters comprise a narrative history of the events of this pivotal year.

1900 America

1900 America
Author: Marc Walter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9783836567916

Produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924, these rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images are the very first color pictures of North America. An unparalleled voyage across peoples, places, and time unfolds in this sweeping panorama that ranges from Native American settlements to New York's Chinatown, from...

Tocqueville's Nightmare

Tocqueville's Nightmare
Author: Daniel R. Ernst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199920869

Between 1900 and 1940, Americans confronted a puzzle: how could administrative agencies address the nation's troubles without violating individual liberty? From the close reasoning of judges, the self-interest of lawyers, and the machinations of politicians, an answer emerged. 'Judicialize' agencies' procedures, and a 'rule of lawyers' would keep America free.

America 1900

America 1900
Author: Judy Crichton
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-10
Genre: Nineteen hundred, A.D.
ISBN: 9780783887647

This sweeping narrative filled with humor and compassion opens New Year's Day 1900 and follows an eclectic group of men and women over the course of one remarkable year.

Air-conditioning America

Air-conditioning America
Author: Gail Cooper
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801871139

Cooper demonstrates how the lure of the open air, from rooftop schoolrooms to open-air theaters to the front porch, challenged air conditioning. Americans were slow to give up the social rituals of hot-weather living - the cold drink, the cool clothes, the summer vacation - for the comforts of either the window air conditioner or the central system.

Age of Betrayal

Age of Betrayal
Author: Jack Beatty
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2008-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400032423

Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” into “a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.” A passionate, gripping, scandalous and sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth.

Letters of the Century

Letters of the Century
Author: Lisa Grunwald
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2008-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0385315937

"Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years. Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einstein's letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare, Mark Rudd's "generation gap" letter to the president of Columbia University during the student riots of the 60s, and a letter from young Bill Gates imploring hobbyists not to share software so that innovators can make some money... In these pages, our century's most celebrated figures become everyday people and everyday people become part of history. Here is a veteran's wrenching letter left at the Vietnam Wall, a poignant correspondence between two women trying to become mothers, a heart-breaking letter from an AIDS sufferer telling his parents how he wants to be buried, an indignant e-mail from a PC user to his on-line server... "Letters," write Grunwald and Adler, "give history a voice." Arranged chronologically by decade, illustrated with over 100 photographs, Letters of the Century creates an extraordinary chronicle of our history, through the voices of the men and women who have lived its greatest moments.

Life

Life
Author: Richard B. Stolley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780821226971

Surveys the evolution of daily life in America in the last century, collecting 650 images from the archives of LIFE magazine that visually record significant changes along such themes as parenting, machines, entertainment, fashion, homes, jobs, and shopping.