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American Colossus narrates United States history in the thirty-five years following the American Civil War. [14] The book highlights the ascent of businessmen like Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie, [5] interpreting the time period through the lens of the "triumph of capitalism". [1]
The American as Anarchist; The American Black Chamber; American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900; American Eclipse (book) American Education; The American Experiment; The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict; American Hardcore: A Tribal History; American History: A Survey; American Lion (book) American National ...
Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920 (1999) pp 129–58 excerpt and text search; Crews, Clyde F. American And Catholic: A Popular History of Catholicism in the United States (2004), 181pp; Dolan, Jay P. In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension (2003) Donovan, Grace.
July 14 – John H. Gear, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (born 1825) August 2 – John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (born 1825) August 5 – Luke Pryor, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1880 (born 1820) August 12 – James Edward Keeler, astronomer (born 1857)
1900 was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the ...
1900 short story collections (6 P) Pages in category "1900 books" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
In this book, Hofstadter set out to trace the social movements that altered the role of intellect in American society. [3] In so doing, he explored questions regarding the purpose of education and whether the democratization of education altered that purpose and reshaped its form. [4]
His last and most ambitious book, The Big Change, was a social history of the United States from 1900 to 1950. (He had originally written a Harper's article [4] about how America had changed between 1850 and 1950, but decided to limit the chronological scope of his book.) Allen also wrote two biographies, the first of which was about Paul ...