By the turn of the 20th century, four out of ten Americans lived in cities where skyscrapers and electric rail systems were emerging to accommodate rapid urbanization. Racial discrimination was also widespread and legalized through Jim Crow laws and Plessy v. Ferguson, while new technologies like airplanes, movies, and mass media began connecting and entertaining the nation.

1. LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20 TH CENTURY THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA

4. Another view of Burnham’s Flatiron Building

26. MAJOR AREAS OF LYNCHING

34. Characteristics of Yellow Journalism included huge, sensational, exaggerated headlines

35. Some contend that Hearst and Pulitzer’s Yellow Journalism was responsible for the Spanish-American War in 1898

37. Title: Dempsey and Firpo, 1924 Artist: George Wesley Bellows ASHCAN SCHOOL

38. Unsigned work, 1930 ASHCAN SCHOOL