PHOTOGRAPHY
Mathew Brady 1822-1896
George Eastman 1854-1932
PAINTING
Hudson River School
George Catlin 1796-1872
Winslow Homer 1836-1910
Thomas Eakins 1844-1916
ARCHITECTURE
Louis Sullivan 1856-1924
Arts and Crafts Movement
LITERATURE
Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
Samuel Clemmens ("Mark Twain") 1835-1910
THEATER AND MOVIES
Burlesque
Vaudeville
Birth of a Nation 1915
MUSIC
Spiritual
John Philip Sousa 1854-1932
Ragtime
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931
- phonograph 1877
- carbon microphone 1878
- commercial light bulb 1879
- electric company 1882
- motion picture camera 1891
Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948)
- first flight of heavier than air machine 1903
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
- William James 1842-1910
- pragmatism
- Varieties of Religious Experience 1902
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