President William McKinley, Address to a joint-session of Congress to request a declaration of war upon Spain. (11 April, 1898) https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/april-11-1898-message-regarding-cuban-civil-war (direct link to full text of speech, no complete… Read more »
The San Francisco Call, San Francisco, Ca. (25 January, 1898) The first source of this part of the exhibition is in the form of a San Francisco newspaper article. Published… Read more »
Bibliography Secondary Sources: 1) Bricker, Renee A., Proulx, and Michael. “Integrating Peace History in the U.S. History Survey Course: Challenging Identity from the Outside In.” OUP Academic. March 01, 2019…. Read more »
Primary Sources A Crowd of Speculators Gather in Front of the New York Stock Exchange on Black Thursday, 24 October 1929.October 24, 1929. Gamma-Keystone, Getty Images, New York City. APWUcommunications. U.S…. Read more »
Propaganda: 1: capitalized : a congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories and related institutions 2: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause,… Read more »
United States of America This World War I poster, by Stern in 1918, was published by the U.S. Treasury to convince U.S. citizens to buy government bonds to help fund… Read more »
United States of America This U.S. World War II poster that was created by the Douglas Aircraft Company directly attacks the Japanese by representing one of their weaknesses. Showing the… Read more »
United States of America During the Red Scare, the United States took it upon themselves to help with the attempt to stop the spread on communism. This poster that was… Read more »
United States of America During the Vietnam War many protests arose in the United States because it was not a war that directly impacted the U.S. and its people. Along… Read more »
Alenius, Kari. 2012. “The Successes and Failures of German War Propaganda in Estonia, 1941-1944.” Arhivele Totalitarismului 20 (1/2): 41–58. Bauch et al. Nazi German Propaganda – Adolf Hitler – Rare Confiscated Film… Read more »
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) The Chinese Exclusion Act was a law signed by president Chester Arthur in 1882 that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers into the country. This was… Read more »
Immigration’s Effect upon Women (1900) This magazine article from a 1900 edition of Harper’s Bazaar talks about the effects that immigration will have on the women in the country, and… Read more »
Immigration Act of 1924 The Immigration Act of 1924 was introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 7995 at the 68th United States Congress on May 26, 1924. It… Read more »
Primary Sources: H.R. 5804, 47th Cong. (1882) (enacted). H.R. H.R. 7995, 68th Cong. (1924) (enacted). “Immigration’s Effect upon Women.” Harper’s Bazaar, September 22, 1900, 1347. Levick, Edwin. Immigrants on an Atlantic Liner…. Read more »
This project will examine the United States propensity in renouncing the civil rights and civil liberties of minorities. Additionally, it will exemplify recurring instances when minorities were forced to give… Read more »
Propaganda My digital exhibit is on wartime propaganda, its effect on the American people, and how its changed over time order to stay relevant. In a post-9/11 world where fear… Read more »
This project will highlight the legal rise of racially charged laws and conversely its legal demise in the United States, with a focus on the impact these decisions have on… Read more »
We Can Do It! Poster (1942) The “We can do it” propaganda poster was created by J. Howard Miller in 1942. The poster was originally created for the Westinghouse Electric… Read more »
The 13th Amendment (1865) Within the Library of Congress is the bill that would become the 13thamendment, when it was ratified on December 6, 1865. The 13thamendment surrounds the question… Read more »
Voter Restriction Laws After the Great Compromise in 1877 states across the country, the focused more in the South established voter restriction laws which subverted the 15thamendment as it did… Read more »