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Digital History: The Birth of American Popular Culture

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American popular culture was many-faceted prior to the Civil War. Find out about the explosion of the number of newspapers and magazines, the many kinds of popular entertainment, and even phrenology as entertainment.

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magazines, newspapers, popular culture, american culture
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dime novel, domestic novel, minstrel shows, oratory, phrenology, popular culture in the early 19th century', pseudoscience, racial sterotypes, sensational newspapers, urban crime novels, p.t. barnum, pre-civil war popular culture, stephen foster, american culture (1800-1840)
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