The best antidote is to not try to understand the past through a single perspective and a single story, but a combination of many, using different starting points.
Bjørn Stærk, March 2008
Historical events in the U.S.
Historical events in the U.S.
- U.S. government agents make raids in 33 cities beginning January 2, rounding up thousands of persons suspected of "subversive" activities. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer claims that there is a Bolshevik "conspiracy" to overthrow the government. The Bolshevik conspiracy was an event that took place in Russia when a group revolutionist tried to over throw the government.
- South American Trade Myth: Manufacturers felt that they could not gain success in strange markets.
- The Myth of Pancho Villa: It is said that Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico in 1916 but in fact some believed it was the Germans that started this war to keep the U.S out of Europe.
Literature in the U.S.
- Winston Churchill wrote his first and only full-length work of fiction, Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania Published in 1900. This story had a political focus while telling a romance tale.
- Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was an American dream novel that told the tale of the experiences of immigrant workers in the middle of Chicago.
- Mark Twain started work on a group of stories that were never finished by him titled Mysterious Stranger, A Romance. The Three writings were titled The Chronicle of Young Satan, Schoolhouse Hill (involves Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and their adventures with Satan), and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger. The stories could be put into the Religious, Good/Evil myth style.
Music & Art
- 1900-1920’s were known as the Jazz Age with this age, came a certain culture & style. That style was known as the Flapper Culture. The flapper was shown in many cartoons by an artist named John Held Jr. A flapper could be described as a female with short hair, a short skirt, turned-down hoes and powdered knees. To most this female was a little fast or brazen, but instead she broke the myth that all females needed to be covered and have long hair.
- Art deco was the style of art that was most popular in this era. The Chrysler building located in New York was an example of this as well as the American dream(First tallest building title). Some saw this as a work of “Jazz Age poetry in steel”. William Van Alen was the architect.
To bring this to an end I have included a link to a site that is filled with useful American History. It is a brief look at the different types of popular culture as well as the American dream of getting rich quick. Music and sound included on the site as well.
Berlin, A. (2004). Discovering America’s cultural history – process. Retrieved April 11, 2008 from http://www.mrberlin.com/Webquest/Cultural_History/process.htm
Evans, M. W. (n.d.). Was Pancho Villa framed? – The legacy of the Mexican Revolution. Culture Change web site. Retrieved April 8, 2008, from http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=33
Gladysz, T. (2001). The jazz age. Flapper culture & style. Retrieved April 8, 2008, from http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/
Jazz age culture: part I. (2007). Pittsburgh State University web site. Retrieved April 10, 2008, from http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html
Ross, R., Athey, S. and Nichols, C. (2005). Transportation through the lens of literature. 1900’s. Retrieved April 9, 2008, from http://english.cla.umn.edu/faculty/ROSS/Transport/1900.htm
South American trade myths. (1915). New York Times online. Retrieved April 11, 2008, from http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9406E3D81038E633A2575AC1A9619C946496D6CF
Stærk, B. (2008). Historical mythologies. Retrieved April 11, 2008, from http://blog.bearstrong.net/2008/historical_mythologies.html
The mysterious stranger. (2008). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved April 9, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doangivadam
World chronology: 1920. (2008). Answers.com web site. Retrieved April 12, 2008, from http://www.answers.com/topic/1920
Zacharek, S. (2002). The Chrysler Building. Retrieved April 12, 2008, from http://p196.ezboard.com/fcafeurbanitefrm7.showMessage?topicID=45.topic
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