American Decades
The Christian Science Monitor
Newspaper
By: Mary Baker Eddy
Date: 1908
Source: The Christian Science Monitor, Issue 1, 1908. Available online at Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, http://lcweb2.loc.gov (accessed May 27, 2003).
About the Author: Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) overcame various personal trials to become the founder of one of the longest enduring American churches. In 1866, a healing event led her to reconsider the nature of God and the relationships among spirituality, the mind, and health. Devoting the rest of her life to her new theology, Christian Science, she wrote Science and Health (1875), which remained in print into the twenty-first century, and formed the Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1879.
Introduction
As Eddy's religious teachings grew in popularity at the beginning of the twentieth century, so too...
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1900's Media Primary Sources
- "Lynch Law in America"
- News Coverage of Natural Disasters
- "'Tabloid Journalism': Its Causes and Effects"
- Political Cartoons Critical of U.S. Imperialism
- Did the New York Journal Kill President McKinley?
- Our National Parks
- "American Progress in Habana"
- The Great Train Robbery
- "The College of Journalism"
- The Shame of the Cities
- "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"
- "The Man with the Muck Rake"
- The Outlook and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Jungle
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
