Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Although Wisconsin residents gloried in the past, they paid even greater attention to the future. Journalists, scholars, religious leaders, and even schoolteachers offered predictions. Some predictions proved quite accurate, such as increased life expectancy through better medicine, central air conditioning, and air travel, while others, such as free university education for all and communication with Martians, did not.
The nearly one hundred items that appear here are taken from newspapers, magazines, and other materials that were published in Wisconsin at the turn of the century. These articles and essays--some wildly funny and engaging, others somber and thoughtful--offer a window on the hopes and fears of our forebears at a moment of great change.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161) and index.
About the Author
Michael E. Stevens is state historian at the Wisconsin Historical Society. He is editor of the series Voices of the Wisconsin Past, which also includes Letters from the Front, Women Voices from Vietnam, and Remembering the Holocaust.