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Femininity, mathematics, and science, 1880-1914
\"Through the prism of gender, this volume explores the contrasting cultures and material and social practices of mathematics and science in the decades surrounding 1900. It is demonstrated that gender, far from being a peripheral issue, is central to understanding the development of both pure and practical disciplines at this time\"--Provided by publisher.
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This is Who We Were
This is Who We Were: 1880-1899 -- Table of Contents -- Essay: America, 1880-1899 -- Introduction -- Section One: Profiles -- Farmer and Community Leader in 1880 -- Telephone Company Executive in 1880 -- Educational Reformer and Teacher in Rural Wisconsin in 1881 -- Thirteen-Year-Old Orphan in 1882 -- Lawn Tennis Player in 1883 -- Railroad Construction Engineer in 1883 -- Chinese Immigrant Photographer's Assistant in 1884 -- Traveling Salesman and Entrepreneur in 1885 -- Shoe Lasting Machine Inventor in 1886 -- Cattle Rancher in 1888 -- Professional Baseball Player in 1888 -- New Teacher for the Dakota Sioux in 1888 -- Textile Mill Worker in 1890 -- Barbershop Quartet Member in 1891 -- West Point Graduate on the Frontier in 1891 -- Mining Company Owner in 1892 -- Sweet-Potato Farmer in 1892 -- Yale University Oarsman in 1893 -- Children's Aid Society Agent in 1894 -- Cash Register Inventor and Company Founder in 1895 -- Anti-Corset Campaigner in 1896 -- Salmon Cannery Cooperative Manager in 1896 -- Socially Prominent Bon Vivant in 1897 -- Housemaid in 1898 -- African American Wood Turner in 1898 -- Businessman in 1898 -- College Professor in 1898 -- Teenage Garment Industry Labor Organizer in 1898 -- Clarinetist in John Philip Sousa's Band in 1899 -- Section Two: Historical Snapshots -- Early 1880s -- Late 1880s/Early 1890s -- Late 1890s -- Section Three: Economy of the Times -- Annual Income, Standard Jobs -- Selected Prices -- The Value of a Dollar, 1860-2014 -- Section Four: All Around Us -- Section Five: Census Data -- State-by-State Comparative Tables: 1880,1900, and 2010 -- Total Population -- White Population -- Black Population -- American Indian/Alaska Native Population -- Asian Population -- Homeownership -- Eleventh Census of the United States: 1890. Population of the United States: Part I -- Progress of the Nation 1790-1890.
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1895
'Kill the bugger!' _x000B_So read one telegram to the Marquess of Queensberry before his legal battle with Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1895. Today's readers often see the Wilde case as dramatising the intolerance and cruelty of late-Victorian life, but what was its contemporary significance? What was it like to live in Britain in 1895? Which stories, personalities and events really captured the headlines?
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Fighting for Manhood: Rocky and Turn-of-the-Century Antimodernism
Sylvester Stallone's Rocky, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1976, not only began one of Hollywood's most lucrative and recognizable film \"franchises,\" it began a battle of interpretation over the film's meaning. Regardless of individual interpretations, critics of the film then and now agree that Rocky, for better or worse, somehow caught the zeitgeist--was a film for and of a precarious moment in American society that spoke passionately to a large segment of the population.
Journal Article
Fashion: 1890s
Learn about the clothing people wore during the 1890s. The clothes worn by women and children during this time are described. Find out how Native Americans living in Kansas were forced to change how they dressed.
Magazine Article
QUIZ
9. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana law that required black passengers to travel separately from whites. The case established the famous \"separate but equal\" doctrine that dominated the civil rights arena for the following half-century. What was the 1954 Supreme Court case that finally overturned this doctrine? 2. \"When the Saints Go Marching In,\" music by James M. Black and lyrics by Katherine E. Purvis; \"The Stars and Stripes Forever,\" by John Philip Sousa. 16. Harriet Beecher Stowe; \"Uncle Tom's Cabin.\"
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