1. The Dawn of Mass Culture
As Americans had more time for leisure activities a modern mass culture emerged.

2. Americans started to enjoy time off
The growth of Amusement parks and new recreation such as bicycling and tennis provided an outlet from the doldrums of factory work and work in general.
Spectator sports especially baseball took off and had masses of people watching a game.
Newspapers were now using sensational headlines in order to draw people in to buy their copy.

3. Joseph Pulitzer
A Hungarian immigrant who had bought the New York World newspaper in pioneered popular innovations:
A Large Sunday Edition
Comics
Sports coverage
And Women’s news
His papers emphasized “sin, sex, and sensation.”

4. William Randolph Hearst
Was Pulitzer’s main competition.
He owned the New York Morning Journal.
He wanted to outdo Pulitzer by adding more exaggerated tales of personal scandals, cruelty, hypnotism, etc.
Soon both papers were reaching more than one million people a day.

5. Thomas Eakins Began to embrace Realism.
He created an artistic school that would attempt to portray life as it is.
He also used photography to make realistic studies of people and animals.

6. The Agnew Clinic

7. Ashcan School School of American Art.
A group of early 20th century American artists who often painted pictures of city life, mainly homeless people and tenements. They were Realists.

11. Popular Fiction
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Jack London

15. Rural Free Delivery (RFD)
A system that brought packages directly to every home.
Introduced by the Post Office.
By million Americans shopped by mail.
Sears Catalog were very popular at this time.