Artwork

"Self-Made Man": the idea that any person could become successful through hard work, luck, and determination

//The Man Nobody Knows// (1925) by Bruce Barton: encouraged people to make friends and please others in order to live a fulfilling life

//The New Negro// (1925) by Alain Locke: collection of black writings which gained the attention of white publishers

The Flapper: mid-1920s image of a modern women who lived a liberated lifestyle but the new sense of independence was mostly a myth because women still relied on men

"Debunkers": American writers in the 1920s who criticized aspects of modern American society through literature

"Rosie the Riveter": image during WWII which symbolized the importance of women in the industries

//The Grapes of Wrath// (1939) by John Steinbeck: portrayed the harsh agrarian lifestyle in the west during the Dust Bowl

Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson: described how pollution/endangering animals and nature would lead to “silent spring” and eventually harm people; raised environmentalist support

I Love Lucy Uncle Tom's Cabin Hippies How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis p.499 Hudson River School Ashcan School p.514 Simon Patten p.507 The Birth of a Nation p.511 Little Women p.513 (?) Mark Twain p.513 The Jungle p.514, p.596 Cross of Gold Speech p.538 Coin's Financial School p.537 Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis p.546 Political Science and Comparative Law p.547 The Influence of Sea Power upon History p.547 White Man's Burden p.546 America in the World Yellow Journalism p.550, 552 Ida Tarbell p.566 Lincoln Steffens p.566 In His Steps p.567 Feminine Mystique Women and Economics p.574 The Souls of Black Folk p.583 Passing of the Great Race p.586 Other People's Money p.588 The Promise of American Life (?) p.589 Drift and Mastery p.589