Introduction – Military Masculinity
The overarching theme of this project explores masculinity in the United States from the 1890s up until the 1940s. To be specific, this project will answer an essential question: How… Read more »
Category: Fall 2019
The expending America and “American exceptionalism” (1877-1914)
Thomas Nest, “Making white men ‘good’.” Harper’s weekly, December 6,1879, p. 964. By September of 1879, a group of around ten American government employees of the White River Indian Agency… Read more »
Post-Reconstruction (1880-1900)
“A red record” Document by Miss Ida B. Wells (1894). An obstacle that African-American people faced during the post-Reconstruction period (and for another 50+ years) was the overwhelming violence and… Read more »
Black Women Suffrage (1900-1920)
The Crisis: Votes for Women, Magazine (August 1915) The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was founded in 1910. Mary… Read more »
Bibliography
Beal, Frances M. “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female.” Meridians 8 (2): 166-176. Duke University Press. Clark, Alexis. “These Black Female Heroes Made Sure U.S. WWII Forces Got Their… Read more »
Introduction – Black Women Organizing
The purpose of this exhibit is to present the ways in which African-American women have been politically active in American history. In common teachings of American history, African-American women are… Read more »
World War II and Political Networks (1940s)
“Somewhere in England, Maj. Charity Adams Earley and Capt. Abbie N. Campbell inspect the first African-American members of the Women’s Army Corps assigned to overseas service” Photograph (February 1945). African-American… Read more »
Introduction
This digital exhibition on African American Music in Modern US History will explore the role of music on African American musicians and what musical styles formed and flourished on account… Read more »
“American exceptionalism” in a turbulent era (1914-1945)
World War I U-Boat Footage This is a video released by the U.S. Army Signal Corps during WWI, it is a German U-Boat’s own recording during its mission, which later… Read more »
Gospel Music (1871-1932)
“The Fisk Jubilee Singers Set Out”, Fisk University, Photograph (1871) Fisk University published a picture of the Jubilee Singers in 1871 onto their website called Fisk University. Fisk University is located in… Read more »
Ragtime (1932-1971)
“Pie, Pie, Blackbird”, Director Roy Mack, YouTube Video, (1932) The short film, Pie, Pie Blackbird, was directed by Roy Mack and released and published by Warner Brothers Entertainment Incorporation in… Read more »
Blues (1920’s-1940’s)
“B.B. King: King of the Blues”, Rita Charleston (1912-2001) News Article of the Philadelphia Tribune The news article, “B.B. King: King of the Blues,” written by Rita Charleston, found on… Read more »
Introduction
This Exhibition will explore Italian Imigration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The primary sources displayed will depict the mass numbers of Italian immigrants who… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources “Arrival of Emigrants [I.e. Immigrants], Ellis Island” American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. May 9, 1906. https://www.loc.gov/item/00694368/ “Demons Loose in New Orleans.” The Pittsburg Dispatch, March 15, 1891. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27490142/pittsburgh_dispatch/. “Don’t Speak… Read more »
Immigrating to the US
“Great Influx of Italians”, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 27, 1905 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s January 27th, 1905 newspaper contained an article informing the people of Brooklyn about the 1,300… Read more »
The life of an Italian Immigrant in America
“309 W. 146th Street. […] and her seven year old daughter, Lorenza, embroidering ladies waists in their dirty kitchen-living room. Lorenza makes the stems of the flowers. Her mother said,… Read more »
Anti-Italianism
“Demons Loose in New Orleans”, The Pittsburg Dispatch, March 15, 1891 This newspaper article was printed with no specified author on March 15, 1891. Its purpose was to inform the people… Read more »
The prevail of “American exceptionalism” during the Cold War era (1947-1991)
“PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN’S ADDRESS BEFORE A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS”, MARCH 12, 1947. On March 12th of the year 1947, President Truman delivered a speech in front of a… Read more »
Jazz (1917-1987)
“Civil Rights March on Washington D.C.”, Warren Leffler, Photograph (1963) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. This photograph was taken by Warren K. Leffler in 1963 in Washington, D.C…. Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources: Charleston, Rita. “B.B. King: King of the Blues.” Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), Mar 31, 1998, p.1. ProQuest.https://envoy.dickinson.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/533245933?accountid=10506. Delano, Jack. 1940. At The Bus Station in Durham, North Carolina. Library of… Read more »