Portrait of a City : Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Bruce F. Pauley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pauley, Bruce F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Lincoln (Neb.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Lincoln (Neb.).

Lincoln (Neb.)--Civilization--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

Bruce F. Pauley highlights his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to study larger trends that affected daily life during a period of rapid social and technological change between the 1890s and 1920s.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terminology

1. Revisiting the Past

Everyday Life on the Eve of Modernity

Pioneer Lincoln, 1867-89

Progressive Reforms

2. Electronic and Transportation Revolutions

A Decade of Inventions

World Fairs: "No Greater Sensation Than . . . Electricity"

From the Omnibus to Electric Streetcars: "The Welcome Stranger"

Interlude: The Brief but Spectacular Popularity of Bicycles

Here Comes the "Devil Wagon"!

3. The Athens of the West

Public School Education in Nebraska: Compulsory in Theory

Beyond the Struggle to Survive: The University of Nebraska

The Denominational Schools: Nebraska Wesleyan, Union College, and Cotner College

4. The New Woman

New Jobs for the New Woman: "An Unwomanly Desire"?

Turn-of-the-Century Fashions and Sports for Women

Downsizing and Modernizing: New Houses, Kitchens, and Bathrooms

5. Feminine Reformers

The Revolt against the "Two Spheres" Ideal

Cigarettes: "A Plain Case of Self-Destruction"

Saloons and Prohibition: "The Vanguard of Progress"?

Women For and Against Suffrage: "Masculine Womanhood"?

6. Amusements for All

The Increase in Leisure Time

Highbrow Entertainment: Opera, Opera Houses, and Theaters

Respectable Entertainment: The Chautauqua Movement

Risqué Entertainment: Vaudeville and Silent Movies

Dancing: "A Moral Graveyard"?

Vacations by Rail, Amusement Parks, and Circuses

The State Fair and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

7. College Football: Birth Pains and Reforms

School Spirit and a Controversial New Sport

A Game "Fit for Savages"?

Changing the Rules: "An Outdoor Game of Basketball"?

From "Bugeaters" to "Cornhuskers"

From Obscurity to Fame: Bummy Booth and the Stiehm Rollers.

The "Secrets" of Success

8. Minorities and Immigrants

Lincoln's Black People: "Ambitious Improvement, Not Yet Realized"

Volga Germans: "Thrifty and Independent"

9. World War, "Aggressive Patriotism," and the Spanish Flu

The "Great War" and "Scientific" Propaganda

Profiles in Courage: Bryan and Norris

Ethnically Cleansing German Culture: "America Does Not Want You"

The Campaign against Foreign Languages

"A Strong Aggressive War Spirit"

The Spanish Flu: "Not an Unusual Epidemic"?

10. Reaction, Prosperity, and Depression

Ending War and Making Peace

The League of Nations "Menace" and the Conservative Reaction

The Roaring Twenties

The Declining Interest in Reforms

Postwar Nebraska

11. Enduring Gains and Disappointing Setbacks

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496237125

1496237129

9781496237118

1496237110