Vietnam War
“Fuck The Draft” was created by famous anti-war activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya. Kuromiya created this poster in 1968 under the pseudonym Dirty Linen Corp and distributed it by mail. The intended… Read more »
Category: Fall 2019
Bibliography
Primary Sources Producer: Disney Walt, Director: Geronimi Clyde, Writer: Ziemer Gregor. Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi. RKO Radio Production. January 15, 1943. Catechetical Guild Educational Society. “Is… Read more »
World War II and the Vietnam War
President Roosevelt with King Ibn Saud, unknown photographer (1945) This photograph was taken by an unknown American serviceman aboard the USS Quincy on February 14, 1945, and pictures President Roosevelt… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources: Bringing It Home. Cartoon. London: Punch/The London Charivari, Oct. 18, 1916. From Wisconsin Historical Society. “Interview with President William McKinley” by General James Rusling, The Christian Advocate, Jan. 22, 1903…. Read more »
The Disappearance of Native American Culture (1900 – 1950)
United States Office Of Indian Affairs. Indian Reservations west of the Mississippi River. This document is a map of the United States of America. More specifically, it shows the location… Read more »
Introduction
This exhibition examines the role of the news media in shaping political opinion from the late 1800s through the 1970s. It explores the growth, maturing, and impact of news media… Read more »
Political Opinion and Newspapers
San Francisco Chronicle. 1898. “Battle Ship Maine Blown Up In The Harbor of Havana.” February 16. In this article, O’Rourke reports on the sinking of the US Maine in Havana,… Read more »
Introduction
This project will trace the development of “American exceptionalism” in contemporary and modern us history from the end of the American reconstruction era (1877) to the end of the Cold… Read more »
The Start to the End of an Unfair Labor System (1875-1910)
Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions Founded in Pittsburgh 1881 , the Federation of Organizational Trades and Labor Unions of the United States (FOTLU) was “the predecessor organization to… Read more »
Laws and Lawsuits Between 1915 and 1920
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act is also referred to as “Wick’s Bill”. After lobbying it for quite some time, the following year on… Read more »
America’s Labor Laws and Acts (1925-1940)
Questioning the Constitutionality of the Wagner Act This news article in the Los Angeles Times was published on a Thursday morning, July 2nd, 1936. This newspaper is published… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources “1892 Democratic Party Platform.” 1892 Democratic Party Platform | The American Presidency Project, June 21, 1892. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/1892-democratic-party-platform. “Act of June 25, 1938 (Fair Labor Standards Act), Public Law… Read more »
Political Opinion and Radio
“The London Blitz Described by Edward R. Murrow.” YouTube Video, 2:42. Posted by “KD,” April 28, 2014. In this CBS News radio broadcast, Edward R. Murrow describes to the American… Read more »
Political Opinion and Television
“Edward R. Murrow – See It Now (March 9, 1954).” YouTube video, 2:02. Posted by “Justin Hillyard,” August 22, 2009. On this episode of See It Now, aired in March… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources: An Act for Preventing the Manufacture, Sale, or Transportation of Adulterated or Misbranded or Poisonous or Deleterious Foods, Drugs, Medicines, and Liquors, and for Regulating Traffic Therein, and… Read more »
Bibliography
Bibliography: Primary Sources Act of June 2, 1924, Public Law 68-175, 43 STAT 253, which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to issue certificates of citizenship to Indians., 06/02/1924; Enrolled… Read more »
Bibliography
Bibliography Primary Sources Beveridge J., Albert. “The Young Men in America,” address of Oct. 18, 1900, folder, 1900, box 297, Albert J. Beveridge Papers, LC; Roosevelt cited in Curtis, The… Read more »
World War II (1939-1945)
Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information, Domestic Operations Branch, and Bureau of Special Services, “Men of 18-19. Now you can choose,” Digitized Photograph, 1943 The artist of this… Read more »
World War I (1914-1918)
Howard Chandler Christy, “Gee!! I wish I were a man, I’d Join the Navy. Be a man and do it. -United States Navy Recruiting Station,” Lithograph, 1917 Howard C. Christy… Read more »
The Philippine-American War (1899-1902)
Leonard Wood, William Howard Taft, Charles Herbert Allen, Perfecto Lacoste, and Marion E. Beall. Opportunities in the Colonies and Cuba. 1902 In an effort to describe the economic and industrial opportunities… Read more »