Chester Alan Arthur, Twenty-first U.S. President
(1881-1885)
Education: Child Study Movement
"during the first two decades of the 20th century...(the
Child Study Movement) began with G. Stanley Hall... (who)
established a center for applied psychology at John Hopkins University in 1884... (and) brought together the first group of scholars
interested in the scientific study of the child through observation of children at various stages of development."
Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 161 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010
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Literature: Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884.
Native Americans 1881-86:
War between U.S. and Apaches (Great Plains)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996
- Technology:
Washington Monument's Aluminum Cap
William Frishmuth, who was the sole aluminum supplier in the
United States built the Washington Monument's aluminum cap in
1884.
Brooklyn Bridge
After one year of the Brooklyn Bridge being opened P.T.
Barnum had a herd of circus elephants cross the bridge for a
publicity stunt and declared, "it is now safe."
It's magnificent twin towers, breathtaking span, cutting edge
technology, and sheer beauty make Brooklyn Bridge the grandest,
and perhaps the most important structure built in America during
the nineteenth century. It was called "the eighth wonder of the
world."
Curlee, Lynn Brooklyn Bridge New York: Atheneum Books, 2001.