AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peabody Museum Of Natural History, William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer
14 Mar 2018
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Give some examples (4) of the kinds of entertainment during the gilded age: vaudeville (theater, ragtime (music, natural history museums, yellow journalism (newspapers) Edward drinker cope (academy of natural science of phi) vs. othneil charles marsh (yale. There was a huge market for museum-going and both of these guys/paleontologists wanted the best museum. Sensationalist reprinting of stories intended to draw readership. An exploding ship that killed 250+ us navymen. Yellow journalism led to dubious speculation about the the cause of the explosion. Today we know that there was no attack. Who did we believe was behind the uss maine "attack. " Give a brief description of the spanish-american war. There was speculation of spain"s involvement in the uss maine explosion. Us fights spain in cuba and the philippines (spanish colonies) Us promises cuba its independence (it had revolted against spain) Us gets guam and puerto rico from spain and pays for the philippines (though the.
