The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the " gay nineties " (" gay " …

By the 1890s women were becoming increasingly concerned with practical dress, and they gave up the uncomfortable, awkward styles that characterized high fashion immediately after the Civil War. With the increased availability of ready-made, machine-manufactured clothing, people began to dress with more similarity than before the Civil War, when ...

From roughly 1870 -1900, though some historians date the beginning and end of the Gilded Age more loosely, American class divides deepened. The wealthy, with no income tax to hinder them, built vast estates while the urban working class struggled to eke out a meager living.

American History and the United States History Timeline, 1890-1899, from America's Best History: The Age of Immigration, includes the top events of each year of the decade from the Oklahoma Land Rush to the Klondike Gold Rush to the Spanish American War.

Between 1880 and 1890, almost 40 percent of the townships in the United States lost population because of migration. Industrial expansion and population growth radically changed the face of the nation’s cities. Noise, traffic jams, slums, air pollution, and sanitation and health problems became commonplace.

2024年7月24日 · 1890 . July 2, 1890: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act became law in the United States. July 13, 1890: John C. Frémont, American explorer and political figure, died in New York City at the age of 77. July 29, 1890: Artist Vincent Van Gogh died in France at the age of 37 after shooting himself two days earlier.

2024年3月7日 · The 1890's saw a huge surge in volunteerism in women's rights groups. Charity groups, suffragettes, alcohol temperance organizations, and the women's movement had existed for decades. Though the 1890's was not the birth of the women's movement, it did see a significant increase in participation and success of these groups.

Bringing together a carefully chosen selection of primary sources, The American 1890s presents a remarkable variety of views-nostalgic, protective, imperialist, progressive, egalitarian, and democratic-held by American citizens a century ago. America at the last fin de siècle was in a period of profound societal transition.

In a decade that saw the first modern Olympic Games, the invention of moving pictures, and the birth of basketball, nothing was more evident in the Western world than the development of modern culture.

Events from the year 1890 in the United States. January–June period – George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record phonograph cylinders, in New York. January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House. [1] January 22 – The United Mine Workers is founded.