1. 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. http://wilderdom.com/experiential/JohnDeweyPhilosophyEducation.html

2. 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassar_College

3. 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

4. Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World newspaper William Randolph Hearst’s New York Morning Journal newspaper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst

5. 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn

6. 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. http://www.dunbarsite.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar

7. Artist, Frederick Remington, portrayed the American West, focusing on cow hands, horses, and Native Americans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington

8. James Whistler’s “Arrangement in Grey and Black”, commonly known as “Whistler’s Mother”, is a famous American painting from the early 1900s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler's_Mother

9. Scott Joplin was a famous rag-time composer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin

10. John Philip Sousa composed many marches, including “The Stars and Stripes Forever”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa