History 346  The Gilded Age
Roger Williams University
GHH 106
M, Th  3:30 - 4:50
Spring Semester, 2010
Michael R. H. Swanson, Ph. D.
Office:  GHH 215
Hours:  MWF, 1:00-2:00 T, 9:00 - 10:00
Phone:  254-3230
E-mail:  hist346gildedage@gmail.com
Index
The Juno and Georgie Stories
For Tuesday, April 20
This will be a kind of catch-all day. 
from the Stanford Collection--click the logo above.
For Friday, April 23

Read, in Schlereth
Chapter 7, Striving

There is always a way to rise, my boy
Always a way to advance
Yet the road that leads to Mount Success
Does not pass by the way of Chance
But goes through the stations of Work and Strive
through the valley of Persevere
And the man that succeeds while others fail,
Must be willing to pay most dear.
Alexander Lewis
Some of you will remember the little poem quoted above. Schlereth's chapter looks at the relationship between religion and education and the effects that religious ideas prevalent in the period acted as a stimulus for self improvement. We'll follow this through formal institutions like schools and colleges and into informal institutions like the Chautauqua Circuit and various schemes of self-education.
Internet Assignment:

Visit http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/essay.htm which is an essay on the Chautauqua Movement. After you've read about the movement and its history, go to the home page of this collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/iauhtml/tccchome.html and browse through the materials there, choosing ONE of the pre 1910 lecturers or performers which stikes your fancy. Record your character's reactions to the event.  Give yourself some time for this, as a goodly portion of the materials are outside of our period.
Click for more on Sumnaer
Click for further information on Ward
Click for further information on Rauschenbusch
Three seminal social philosophers of the late 19th century.  Click on their portraits for further information about them and their work.