John Dewey was a leading spokesman for progressive education. He believed that students should Be involved in real-life learning. For example, math could be learned by cooking or figuring out how long it would take to get from one place to another by mule.

New land-grant schools and colleges admitted women students – including Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr – founded in the mid to late 1800s. By 1910 almost 40% of all American college students were women. Vassar College

Dr. Booker T. Washington was the first teacher at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. George Washington Carver was a scientist who joined the Tuskegee faculty. He is famous for inventing many products, including plastics, peanut butter, and shaving cream.

Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World newspaper William Randolph Hearst’s New York Morning Journal newspaper

Author, Mark Twain, was a realist and a regionalist. His books are realistic fiction and the settings are along the Mississippi River and other regions of the U.S. Jim and Huck on the raft Huckleberry Finn

Paul Lawrence Dunbar was the first African American to become famous as a poet. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, was the son of ex-slaves, and was a classmate of Orville Wright. He wrote in a similar way to Mark Twain – using standard English of classical poets, but also using dialects of black communities in 1900 in America.

Artist, Frederick Remington, portrayed the American West, focusing on cow hands, horses, and Native Americans.

James Whistler’s “Arrangement in Grey and Black”, commonly known as “Whistler’s Mother”, is a famous American painting from the early 1900s.

Scott Joplin was a famous rag-time composer.

John Philip Sousa composed many marches, including “The Stars and Stripes Forever”.