Lecture: Cultural and Intellectual Changes

Week of 5, Wednesday Lecture

Cultural and Intellectual Changes
for a New Century

I. Activism:

A. "The Strenuous Life"

IMAGE: Roosevelt Dressed as a Frontiersman

B. Physical Fitness & Hygiene

IMAGE: Morning Exercises
IMAGE: Toothbrushing
IMAGE: Physical Education Class

C. Nature

IMAGE: Yosemite Tourists
IMAGE: Alone With Nature
IMAGE: John Muir

D. Music

IMAGE: John Philip Sousa

MUSIC: "The stars and stripes forever march," by J.P. Sousa; [performed by] Imperial Marimba Band. (Library of Congress, American Memory Project)
IMAGE: Scott Joplin

II. Cultural Change:

Reaction to the Standardization of Life

IMAGE: Women and Bicycles

What We See Then Is Increased Leisure Time
C. The Movies Were a Major Part of this

FILM: Edison's The Great Train Robbery, 1904

International Movement
Rebellion and Adaption

III.. Intellectual Changes

The New University

IMAGE: First Intercollegiate Football Game, 1869
IMAGE: Frank Merriwell Book Cover

Youth Culture
Intellectual Revolution Away from Formal Systems of Thought

Pessimism: (Henry Addams, Herbert Spencer)

IMAGE: Henry Adams
IMAGE: Herbert Spencer

Pragmatism and Scientific Thought (William James)

IMAGE: William James

Legal Realism (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)

IMAGE: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Modern Economics (Richard Ely)

IMAGE: Richard Ely

Political Science (Woodrow Wilson)

IMAGE: Woodrow Wilson

History (Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles Beard)

IMAGE: Frederick Jackson Turner

Arts and Literature

IV. The Spirit of Progressivism

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