The Harper's Weekly web site hosting the new "The Chinese American Experience, 1857-1892" exhibit, also lists a number of other useful sites on late nineteenth century American culture and history. (Look for the list in the bottom left-hand corner of your web browser's window.)

With the end of the Civil War, the U. S. became increasingly industrialized, urbanized, ethnically and culturally diverse as immigration increased. It also grew more successfully imperial in its foreign relations. We will be taking a look at Walt Whitman's poetry and the painting of Thomas Eakins in our class of May 21, building a bridge from the mid-nineteenth century toward the turn-of-the century America, as New York and Chicago became the dominant urban centers, and the United States became more recognizably the mass, consumer culture that it is today.
Posted by Hugh Nicoll on 5/1/04; 1:32:24 PM from the dept.