America at the Turn of the Century

In an another chapter of "Antibellum America", part of the "History by Era" series published by Greenhaven Press, Raymond H. Robinson wrote about some of the changes in the last decade of the 18th century that America experienced. Population expanded by more than 26 percent, the four major cities, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore continued to grow, and the arts began to flourish. Men and women like Charles Bulfinch, Charles Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Charles Brown, Susanna Rowson, Hugh Brackenridge, Benjamin Trumbull, and Robert Proud filled the new nation with archetecture, paintings, literature, newspapers and magazines. Robinson expounded on the progress America made in that decade, going into detail about the most influential artisans and printers and their work. The work that generations of people had put into the country was finally beginning to bear fruit.