The 1890's: Part I : Mauve Decade

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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How did things get modern in America? The popularity of a color derived from coal tar is just one of the ways. A look at the 1890's, a decade where America developed in many ways. A look at the 1890's, a decade where America developed in many ways. This is part of a FOUR PART series of podcasts on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics. X-rays, flying machines, oyster pirates and basketball. Also strikes, war, populism and long-forgotten literature. How did things get modern in America? The popularity of a color derived from coal tar is just one of the ways. Of course Modern doesn't mean all upside, necessarily, and we get into the conflicts during the time. This is part of a FOUR PART series of podcasts on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp Music by the excellent Lee Rosevere -https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-podcasts-6 We are part of Airwave Media Network. Interested in advertising on the podcast? Contact [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello all, Eric Rivenus with the most notorious podcast here. Each week I
0:05.4	interview an author or historian about a historical true crime tragedy or
0:10.2	disaster. Subject matter ranges from gunslingers to
0:14.3	gilded-age murder to gangsters to fires to pirates to wild prison breaks. My
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0:29.8	Walt Whitman, the great American poet, was dying and everybody knew it. In
0:37.3	Sconston is Camden, New Jersey home, the national treasure was so famous by
0:42.5	1891 that his every living moment was reported. In 1890 it was reported that he
0:48.8	had a bad cold, but by December 1891 it was sounding like a serious
0:53.6	situation. Whitman, the New York Times said, had taken a chill, and was quite
1:00.0	feeble, and apparently restricted in his diet to milk punch and toast. Milk
1:06.4	punch popular in the 80s and 1890s. Certainly when one was in an ill condition the
1:12.1	milk was good for the system, nutrition and the like and tolerated by the
1:15.9	stomach. The liquor it was thought helped to boost the immune system. The
1:21.2	days of the good gray poet were numbered. In one article the New York Times said
1:27.4	he may die in 48 hours, so the paper wrote, 48 hours passed, but the news was still
1:34.6	gloomy. Not even his brother who called on the house was allowed to see him in.
1:38.7	His presence at the house was announced to Walt, who sent his love down.
1:44.7	Christmas 1891, a gift for America. Whitman was feeling a little better, so doctors say he would be
1:52.2	good to last at least a few more days, and he even ate a few oysters. The poet who it confounded
2:00.2	America with his modern style when he started was by now in the 1890s. The poetry that was the
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