About the AuthorIntroductionAcknowledgementChapter One: The Second Ku Klux KlanChapter Two: The Declension of Evangelical Protestantism: The Scopes Trial, Fundamentalism, and PentecostalismChapter Three: What Sadie Knew: The Immigrant Working Girl and the Rise of a Demotic CultureChapter Four: The "Seven Lively Arts" Revisited: The Demotic Impulse in Popular CultureChapter Five: Passing From Light Into DarkChapter Six: Revues and Other Vanities: The Commodification of Fantasy in the 1920sChapter Seven: The Great Depression and the New DealChapter Eight: WWIIEpilogue
John McClymer, PhD, is a retired Professor of History at Assumption College (now Assumption University). He is the author of seven books, including The AHA Guide to Teaching and Learning with New Media and Mississippi Freedom Summer. He served as an editor for online projects for The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, as a co-editor of H-ETHNIC, and as a member of H-NET's Teaching Committee. Professor McClymer is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including an NEH Curriculum Development grant and two Teaching American History grants in partnership with Worcester Public Schools, the American Antiquarian Society, and Old Sturbridge Village.