Portrait of a City - Lincoln, Nebraska, At the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Bruce F. Pauley highlights his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to study larger trends that affected daily life during a period of rapid social and technological change between the 1890s and 1920s.

Sommario

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
1. Revisiting the Past

Everyday Life on the Eve of Modernity
Pioneer Lincoln, 1867–89
Progressive Reforms

2. Electronic and Transportation Revolutions

A Decade of Inventions
World Fairs: “No Greater Sensation Than . . . Electricity”
From the Omnibus to Electric Streetcars: “The Welcome Stranger”
Interlude: The Brief but Spectacular Popularity of Bicycles
Here Comes the “Devil Wagon”!

3. The Athens of the West

Public School Education in Nebraska: Compulsory in Theory
Beyond the Struggle to Survive: The University of Nebraska
The Denominational Schools: Nebraska Wesleyan, Union College, Cotner College

4. The New Woman

New Jobs for the New Woman: “An Unwomanly Desire”?
Turn-of-the-Century Fashions and Sports for Women
Downsizing and Modernizing: New Houses, Kitchens, and Bathrooms

5. Feminine Reformers

The Revolt against the “Two Spheres” Ideal
Cigarettes: “A Plain Case of Self-Destruction”
Saloons and Prohibition: “The Vanguard of Progress”?
Women For and Against Suffrage: “Masculine Womanhood”?

6. Amusements for All

The Increase in Leisure Time
Highbrow Entertainment: Opera, Opera Houses, and Theaters
Respectable Entertainment: The Chautauqua Movement
Risqué Entertainment: Vaudeville and Silent Movies
Dancing: “A Moral Graveyard”?
Vacations by Rail, Amusement Parks, and Circuses
The State Fair and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

7. College Football: Birth Pains and Reforms

School Spirit and a Controversial New Sport
A Game “Fit for Savages”?
Changing the Rules: “An Outdoor Game of Basketball”?
From “Bugeaters” to “Cornhuskers”
From Obscurity to Fame: Bummy Booth and the Stiehm Rollers
The “Secrets” of Success

8. Minorities and Immigrants

Lincoln’s Black People: “Ambitious Improvement, Not Yet Realized”
Volga Germans: “Thrifty and Independent”

9. World War, “Aggressive Patriotism,” and the Spanish Flu

The “Great War” and “Scientific” Propaganda
Profiles in Courage: Bryan and Norris
Ethnically Cleansing German Culture: “America Does Not Want You”
The Campaign against Foreign Languages
“A Strong Aggressive War Spirit”
The Spanish Flu: “Not an Unusual Epidemic”?

10. Reaction, Prosperity, and Depression

Ending War and Making Peace
The League of Nations “Menace” and the Conservative Reaction
The Roaring Twenties
The Declining Interest in Reforms
Postwar Nebraska

11. Enduring Gains and Disappointing Setbacks
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

BRUCE F. PAULEY is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Florida. Among his books are Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century;From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism; and Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism.

Riassunto

Bruce F. Pauley highlights his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to study larger trends that affected daily life during a period of rapid social and technological change between the 1890s and 1920s.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bruce F Pauley, Bruce F. Pauley
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781496234124
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3412-4
• Pagine: 334
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro