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» Wow! From Lone Star College - Kingwood Library, American Cultural History: The 19th Century and American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century, with lots and lots of recommendations for books about each decade. Writers (and enthusisasts) start your engines! Here's a tiny sample:

1900-1910

FACTS about this decade.

• 76,000,000 Americans in 46 states (by the end of the decade.)
• Policeman arrests woman for smoking in public
• $46,000,000+ in the U.S. treasury
• 8,000 cars - 10 miles of paved roads
• 1900 - Auto deaths 96; lynchings 115
• San Francisco Earthquake took 700 lives and cost over $4,000,000 in damage
• Average worker made $12.98/week for 59 hours
• Life expectancy: 47.3 female, 46.3 male - 33.0 blacks

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