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In 1900, Ashcan artist George Luks portrayed corporate monopolies and franchises as a monster preyin
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 Children in Baltimore (1909) pull the stringy parts from beans in preparation for canning. Photograp
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 L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and a fan of William Jennings Bryan, perh
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 Bryan versus McKinley, 1896
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A William Jennings Bryan poster alludes to religion: “no crown of thorns” and no “cross of gold.” Br
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 A farm family in Custer, Nebraska, in 1888, a region where Populist sentiment was strong.
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 Wheat and Cotton Prices and Consumer Price Indexes, 1865–1896
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 Sharecropping and Tenancy, 1880–1900
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Booker T. Washington in his office at Tuskegee Institute, 1900. Washington chose a policy of accommo
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 A parade for Grover Cleveland in Chicago in 1892, by John Klir. Music, mirth, real drama—a president
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 James A. Garfield lies mortally wounded. After failing to locate the bullet, surgeons called in Alex
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 The first commercially successful typewriter, manufactured in quantity beginning in 1874, surely fue
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In The Gross Clinic (1875), by Thomas Eakins, Professor Samuel Gross’s team of surgeons cuts through
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 Prisoners from the front (1866) established Winslow Homer's reputation for spare truthfulness.
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 In 1891 William Dean Howells championed the poetry of Emily Dickinson: “This poetry is as characteri
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 A sidewheeler on the Mississippi. In 1856 Samuel Clemens became an apprentice to a steamboat pilot a
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Mark Twain supplemented his income as a writer by giving humorous lectures.
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 W. A. Rogers’s engraving, “Out of the Game,” showed one injured boy tending to another. It appeared
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 Dewey and the reformers attacked classes, such as this one, circa 1900, where students sat up straig
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 A mother dies, a father loses his leg—such calamities shattered poor urban families. Orphaned street
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