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The 1900s in America

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Complete List of Contents


Accessory chromosome


Actuality films


Air conditioning


Algeciras Conference


The Ambassadors


American Antiquities Act


American Automobile Association (AAA)


American food


Susan B. Anthony


Anthracite coal strike


Antitrust


Armstrong Committee


Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906


Automobiles, mass production of


Azusa Street Revival


Bakelite


Richard Achilles Ballinger


L. Frank Baum


Mary McLeod Bethune


“Big stick” diplomacy


Edwin Binney


Charles Joseph Bonaparte


Bowling, National Championships


Boxer Protocol


Boy Scouts


Brandeis Brief


British-American Tobacco Company


William Jennings Bryan


The Call of the Wild


Andrew Carnegie


Carnegie Institution


Willis Carrier


Caruso phonograph recordings


James E. (Jim) Casey


The Catholic Encyclopedia


Carrie Chapman Catt


Champion v. Ames


Cherry v. Des Moines Leader


The Christian Science Monitor


Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance


The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan


Coca-Cola


George M. Cohan


Collinwood school fire


Commerce and Labor, U.S. Department of


Commission on Country Life


Coney Island


Conservation


Copyright Act of 1909


Cronaca Sovversiva


Charles Curtis


Leon Czolgosz


Danbury Hatters decision


Charles Davenport


Dwight Filley Davis


Delaware Corporation Code


Direct blood transfusion


Disposable razor


Dollar diplomacy


Theodore Dreiser


Paul Dresser


W. E. B. Du Bois


Early blues music


Edison Manufacturing Company


Thomas Edison


The Education of Henry Adams


United States Elections, 1900


United States Elections, 1904


United States Elections, 1908


Electric Theatre


Electronics, advances in


Electrostatic precipitation process


Evansville Race Riot of 1903


Charles Warren Fairbanks


Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)


Fire safety laws


Football forward pass


Ford Motor Company


Sigmund Freud


Henry Clay Frick


Galveston hurricane


Gene-Chromosome Theory


General Motors


Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907


Gold Standard Act of 1900


Grand Canyon National Monument


The Great Train Robbery


D. W. Griffith


A Guest of Honor


Volume 2



Hague Peace Conference, second


Harley-Davidson


Moses Harman


Edward H. Harriman


Harvard 47 Workshop


Harvard Business School


Hawaiian Organic Act


Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty


John Hay


Heart of Darkness


Heat wave of 1901


Victor Herbert


Milton S. Hershey


The House of Mirth


Immigration


In Dahomey


Indianapolis Motor Speedway


Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)


Insular Tariff Cases


International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic


International Association for the Prevention of Smoke


International Brotherhood of Teamsters


International Harvester Company


International Sanitary Bureau


Ionosphere, theory of the


Henry James


William James


Japanese Exclusion League


J. C. Penney department store


Jack Johnson


Scott Joplin


The Jungle


Kodak Brownie camera


Carl Laemmle


Las Vegas, Nevada


License plates


Little Johnny Jones


Lochner v. New York


Marcus Loew


Jack London


Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock


Louisiana Purchase Exposition


Magnetism, solar


Magnetism, terrestrial


McClure’s Magazine


McKinley Assassination


William McKinley


Mendel’s Principles of Heredity


Mercury-vapor lamp


Millikan oil-drop experiment


Mining safety


Modern dance


Monongah, West Virginia, coal mine disaster


J. P. Morgan


Jelly Roll Morton


Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC)


Mount Wilson Observatory


Muckraking journalism


Carry Nation


National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)


National Audubon Society


National Wildlife Refuge System


Native American journalism


New York City Subway


The Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902


Niagara Movement


Nickelodeon theaters


North Pole Expedition


Northern Securities Company v. United States


Oil well drilling


Oklahoma Enabling Act


“Open Door” policy


Oxnard strike of 1903


Panama Canal construction


Pan-American Exposition


The Panic of 1907


Passports


Robert Edwin Peary


Pentecostalism


Peter Pan


Philippine-American War (1899-1902)


Phonograph records, mass production of


Photo-Secession


Mary Pickford


Gifford Pinchot


Platt Amendment


Edwin S. Porter


Portland Cement Association


Pragmatism


Prediction of Pluto


Progressive Era


Public relations


Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts


Volume 3



Radio broadcasting


Radiometric dating


Ragtime music


Reclamation, U.S. Bureau of


Republican Congressional Insurgency


Rhodes Scholarships


Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus


Robert Charles riots of 1900


Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine


Theodore Roosevelt


Rose Bowl Game


The Rosicrucian Fellowship


Rotary Club


Salons of the Steins


San Francisco earthquake


Jacob Schiff


Jean Schwartz


William J. Seymour


James S. Sherman


Upton Sinclair


Sister Carrie


Smallpox


Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition


Social Purity movement


The Souls of Black Folk


John Philip Sousa


Spindletop oil field


Springfield race riot of 1908


Gertrude Stein


James Stillman


Nathan Stubblefield


Swift & Company v. United States


William Howard Taft


Ida Tarbell


Tariff Act of 1909


Teletype


Texas Company (Texaco)


The Theory of Advertising


Three Lives


Tiffany Studios


Times Square, New Year’s Eve


Tin Pan Alley


Tissue culture experiments


Treaty of Portsmouth


William Monroe Trotter


Up from Slavery


U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901


Vacuum cleaner patent


The Varieties of Religious Experience


“Votes for Women” speech, by Mark Twain


Maggie L. Walker


Booker T. Washington


Water chlorination


Edith Wharton


White House Conservation Conference


Stanford White murder


Bert Williams


Williamsburg Bridge opens


Wisconsin primary election law


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


World Series


World’s Fairs, 1900–1910


Wright Brothers’ First Flight


Orville and Wilbur Wright


Yellow-dog contracts


Yellow fever, suppression of


Yosemite camping trip


Ziegfeld Follies


Appendixes



Glossary


Bibliography


Major Events in Sports and Leisure


Major Events in Classical and Jazz Music


Federal Legislation


Supreme Court Decisions