CLEP U.S. History I 076: Popular Print, Minstrelsy, and Contested Mass Culture
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 14 | Lesson 14.3 The same transportation and production changes that expanded markets for cloth and farm goods expanded markets for information. Faster presses reduced printing costs. Canals, railroads, and postal routes moved newspapers and books farther. Urban literacy and advertising enlarged audiences. Editors sold inexpensive newspapers to mass […]
CLEP U.S. History I 075: Transcendentalism and Individual Conscience
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 14 | Lesson 14.2 Transcendentalism emerged among New England thinkers during the 1830s and 1840s. It did not have a creed shared word for word by every participant, but its leading writers distrusted inherited authority, narrow materialism, and religious institutions that seemed to place truth beyond ordinary people. They […]
