| 1873 |
Congress
passes the Comstock Law. |
| 1875 |
The
Gross Clinic (Thomas Eakins) |
|
1877
|
Chief
Joseph leads a band of Nez Perce Indians into Canada and surrenders. |
| 1880 |
Colonial
Revival |
| 1885 |
Beaux
Arts |
|
1887
|
The
“Victor”, or woman’s bicycle, was invented |
|
1889
|
Jane
Addams starts of Hull House in Chicago, IL. |
| 1890 |
Tudor
Italian
Renaissance
|
| 1893 |
Vogue,
a popular fashion magazine, was launched.
Stephen
Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is published
|
| 1895 |
Neoclassical |
| 1897 |
Beginning
of Ashcan School |
| 1899 |
Scott
Joplin publishes the ‘Maple Leaf Rag’ |
| 1901 |
Frank
Norris writes The Octopus |
| 1905 |
Craftsman |
| 1906 |
The
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Bobbsey Twins
were introduced.
A
single button closure became the appropriate method of fastening
a morning coat
Upton
Sinclair's muckraking novel The Jungle is released
|
| 1907 |
Hats
reached a width of 60 cm. |
| 1910 |
Prairie |
| 1912 |
Pueblo
Revival |
| 1913 |
NYC
Armory Show
O
Pioneers!, by Willa Cather, is published
|
|
1915
|
Jelly
Roll Morton publishes the ‘Jelly Roll Blues’
Baseball
becomes more popular than boxing
Spanish
Eclectic
|
| 1916 |
Duke
Ellington makes his professional debut |
| 1919 |
Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Supreme Court Justice, rules that free speech
could be limited when it was a “clear and present danger”
to public safety. |
| 1920s |
Harlem
Renaissance |
| 1920 |
Art
Deco
Art
Moderne
“Talkies”,
or movies with dialogue, were introduced into the film industry
|
| 1921 |
The
first Miss America Pageant is held
"The
Negro Speaks of Rivers", one of Langston Hughes' most famous
poems, is first published
|
|
1922
|
Benito
Mussolini, leader of the Fascist party, takes over Italy.
F.
Scott Fitzgerald coins the term “The Jazz Age”
|
|
1924
|
George
Gershwin publishes ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ |
| 1925 |
International
F.
Scott Fitzgerald gains fame with The Great Gatsby
|
| 1929 |
First
Academy Awards |
| 1934 |
Shoulder
pads first began to be seen in women’s clothes |
| 1936 |
New
York Public Library murals (Aaron Douglas) |
| 1939 |
John
Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath
is published |
| 1940 |
American
designers have more extensive collections than the French for the
first time. |
| 1943 |
Duke
Ellington composes ‘Black, Brown, and Beige’ |
| 1944 |
Dwight
Eisenhower wins D-day attack. |
