1. Read: The Emergence of Urban America - Document Overview
2. Read: Our Country (1885) by Josiah Strong
3. Read: The Growth of Cities in Nineteenth Century America (1899), Adna Ferrin Weber
4. Read: On the Origin of Species (1860), Louis Agassiz
5. Read: Darwiniana (1876), Asa Gray
6. Read: The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over (1883), William Graham Sumner
7. Read: The Athletic Craze (1893)

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1. View: Mulberry Street, Little Italy
2. View: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
3. View: Steeplechase Park, Coney Island
4. View: Professional Baseball Game, 1887
5. View: Herbert Spencer, the first major prophet of social Darwinism
6. View: George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute
7. View: Immigrants waiting in the Registry Room for further inspections
8. View: Henry James
9. View: John Dewey
10. View: "Contentment" in Alabama
11. View: Virginia, 1901
12. View: Nast tiger cartoon
13. View: Trial of a horse thief, 1900
14. View: Irish clam diggers, Boston
15. View: Fashionable couple on bicycle
16. View: Philadelphia, 1897
17. View: Styling hair of unmarried Indian girl
18. View: Tlingit women with children
19. View: Cowboy using mailbox
20. View: Cowboy/Indian trade
21. View: The White Man's Burden
22. View: Evening entertainment
23. View: William Dean Howells
24. View: Courtroom murder, 1883
25. View: Women's holy war, prohibition
26. View: Johnstown fire and flood
27. View: Men's fashion, 1886
28. View: Concert in Tompkins Square, New York City, 1891
29. View: Cold Reception of Prohibition
30. View: Hill's Manual of Social Forms, 1880
31. View: George Washington Carver, botanist

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1. View: The Emergence of Cities, 1880
2. View: The Emergence of Cities, 1920
3. View: Women's Suffrage, 1896–1914

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1.  The Arkansas Traveler 1894
2.  I Want to Go Back to Michigan performed by Billy Murray, written by Irving Berlin

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1.  Fred Ott's Sneeze 1894
2.  Arrest in Chinatown 1897
3.  Admiral Cigarette Advertisement 1897
4.  Slapstick: The Lone Fisherman 1898
5.  Delivering Newspapers American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., April 24, 1903
6.  Emigrants [i.e., Immigrants] Landing at Ellis Island Edison film, July 24, 1903

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