1. Life at the Turn of the Century

2. Vaudeville

6. “blackface” Minstrel Shows

8. “Motion Pictures”
Nosferatu

10. Charlie Chaplin

11. Amusement Parks

15. Sports as a National Obsession
BASEBALL is BY FAR the most popular pastime

20. Horse Racing

21. Boxing

23. Basketball

24. Dr. James Naismith

25. Newspapers
In a time before radio, television, and internet, the newspaper was the key mode of mass communication. Newspaper magnates such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst amassed great fortunes by building up their news empires.

26. Joseph Pulitzer New York World St. Louis Dispatch

28. William Randolph Hearst New York Journal

29. yellow journalism
Sensationalized reporting intended to sway public opinion. Got its name from the cheap yellowish paper used by some more low-budget news operations who needed sensational stories to sell papers.

31. A Music Revolution
Ragtime: Ragtime was a relatively brief-lived musical form, its popularity lasting for about twenty years, but it was an essential link between earlier forms of “Negro music,” European (“classical”) music, and jazz. It was defined at the time by its then-revolutionary use of syncopation.
Jazz: