The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

Is winning everything? 510 In 2010 the state of California cut funding for the University of California at Berkeley by several h ...

19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Centu ...

Colleges and Universities Industrialization altered the way Americans thought at the same time that it transformed their ways of ...

Colleges and Universities 513 became possible in most sections of the country. The example of Johns Hopkins encouraged other wea ...

514 Chapter 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century such as history and economics often enticed stude ...

American Industrial Society(1910–1911) reveals the institutionalist approach at its best. A similar revolution struck sociology ...

516 Charlotte, her brother, and her mother lacked regular income and lived with relatives, moving frequently. When Charlotte was ...

517 For a time, Charlotte accepted his regimen.“I went home, followed those directions rigidly for months, and came per- ilously ...

518 Chapter 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century Holmes went on to a long and brilliant judicial c ...

Mark Twain 519 Mark Twain While it was easy to romanticize the West, that region lent itself to the realistic approach. Almost o ...

520 Chapter 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century the sentimentality and prudery of his generation ...

Realism in Art 521 was contemptuous of Howells’s writings and consid- ered him hopelessly middle-class in point of view, appreci ...

522 Chapter 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century Thomas Eakins’s interest in science was as great ...

The Pragmatic Approach 523 come to America,” he announced grandly, “when the duty on works of art is abolished!” Whistler made a ...

524 Chapter 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century Evolution did not undermine the faith of any larg ...

The Knowledge Revolution 525 blows shattered the laissez-faire extremism of Herbert Spencer. In “Great Men and Their Environment ...

526 Chapter 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century movement provided opportunities for thousands see ...

Chapter Review 527 Key Terms pragmatism A philosophical system, chiefly associ- ated with William James, that deemphasized abstr ...

Did you vote for an American Idol? 528 On May 20, 2009, twenty-three-year-old guitar-strumming Kris Allen captivated the audienc ...

20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877–1896 CONTENTS ■A par ...