MASS CULTURE

WHAT WAS NEW

• Art galleries
• Libraries
• Novels
• Museums
• Motion pictures
• Mass printing

MASS CIRCULATION NEWS PAPERS

• Joseph Pulitzer: owner of "New York World" in 1883, pioneered large Sunday Edition, comics, sports coverage, and women's news
• William Randolph: owner of New York's "Morning Journal"
• News papers attempted to outdo each other by using sensational headlines, etc to attract readers
• By 1898, news papers circulations reached one million copies every day

ART GALERIES

• By 1900, there was one in almost every large city
• Ashcan School: taught realism

PUBLIC LIBRARIES

• By 1900, libraries in America numbered in the thousands

POPULAR FICTION

• Some glorified adventure tales
• Others portrayed realistic American life
• Mark Twain: inspired young authors by writing classics of American Literature

CHANGE IN LIFE

• Literacy rates rose
• Attempted to raise literacy rates
• Some were still excluded from excluded such as African Americans