1890s - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

  • Settlement movement based on Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago.
  • Hale Johnson was a major leader of the temperance movement.
  • Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction, under Mary Hunt, achieved de facto control over all alcohol education in the USA.
  • The Fin de Siècle (primarily in Paris and Brussels).

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