Introduction
This project examines the history of the National Park Service since the creation of the first national park in 1872 until 1959 (Library of Congress n.d.). It emphasizes the national… Read more »
Category: Fall 2019
Family life and the Standard of Living in Industrial American cities
“When not tending the furnace or occupied with other duties for others and her own family, she makes flowers, assisted by her niece Josephine, 12 years old.” Lewis Hine, Photograph,… Read more »
Family Housing in Industrial Cities
The Housing Problem The construction of Tenements was utilized for housing working immigrants, domestic citizens and their families. With millions of new immigrants flocking to major cities across the United… Read more »
Creating the National Parks
Yellowstone National Park Protection Act, 1872 “AN ACT to set apart a certain tract of land lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River as a public park. Be it… Read more »
Promoting the Parks
“See America First,” advertisement for Great Northern Railway, circa 1910 Railroads companies used the national parks as a way to promote rail travel. More visitors to the national parks meant… Read more »
Using the Parks
Visitors to Individual National Parks, 1931-1940 This report, released by the Department of Interior in 1941, is a summary of visitors to the national parks from 1931 to 1940. By… Read more »
The Importance of the Parks
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.” – John Muir Environmentalist… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources Chase, John A. (ca. 1910). See America First: The Great Northwest Annotated Time Table. Advertisement. Public Broadcasting Service, http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/history/ep3/3/. Accessed December 4, 2019. Historic Sites Act (1935). 16… Read more »
Greek Immigration in the 1890s to 1924
This document was submitted by the American Consul to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization in 1907 in order to inform the relevant personnel in the US government that… Read more »
Greek Immigration from 1924 to 1950
This 444 page document was compiled by the Office of Strategic Services in 1943-1945 in order to illustrate Greek political tendencies and membership during the war as the US government… Read more »
Greek Immigration from 1950 to 1970
This folder of documents contains 257 pages of press, first person accounts and governmental dispatches concerning the Cypriot conflict. It is in a folder concerning US… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources Office of Strategic Services. “Greek communities in the U.S.: report from an uncompleted series on U.S. ethnic groups” Washington D.C.:USA, 1945 https://congressional.proquest.com/histvault?q=001717-001-0210&accountid=10506 Cyrus Vance. “Cyrus Vance’s mission to… Read more »
Introduction
This Museum Exhibition will cover topics on life in industrial America spanning from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century and how industrialization changed… Read more »
Introduction
An Introduction to American Imperialism Although the United States was founded based on the ideals of liberty and democracy, much of American foreign policy throughout history has been heavily influenced… Read more »
Early Century
Nina Allender Political Cartoon, 1915 This source is a political cartoon that was drawn by Nina Allender in January of 1915. Allender was a political cartoonist for the National Women’s… Read more »
Mid-Century
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm song, “Jump Children!” 1949 This is a YouTube video from the NPR website of a recording of a song by The Interntional Sweethearts of Rhythm,… Read more »
Later Century
Buffy Sainte-Marie song “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone,” 1964 This source is a YouTube video from the Daily Motion website of a song by Buffy Sainte Marie, a native American… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary sources Allender, Nina. The Spirit of ‘76 On to the Senate! 1915. 17 in 12.25 in. National Women’s Party Archives. Accessed December 2, 2019. https://nationalwomansparty.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E7392D1D-DE62-40A9-8180-903714719855 California Commission on the Status of Women. 1979. Women… Read more »
Hawaii and the Spanish-American War
“Ready to Annex Hawaii”, New York Times (1897) A New York Times article published in 1897 discusses the imminent annexation of Hawaii, one of the first indications of the rise… Read more »
Latin America and U.S. Interventionism
“Theodore Roosevelt and his Big Stick in the Caribbean”, Harper’s Weekly (1904) This political cartoon was drawn by William Allen Rogers and published in Harper’s Weekly in 1904. The cartoon depicts… Read more »