Introduction:
This project will demonstrate numerous obstacles African Americans faced in American history as well as how they were able to overcome them, specifically the economic adversity that plagued blacks for… Read more »
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The Effects of The Great Depression
Isaac Soyer Painting, 1937 This painting by Isaac Soyer in 1937 portrayed the hopelessness in the faces of men and women at an employment agency. Despite the accomplishments that the… Read more »
Post Reconstruction:
Lynching of Laura and L. D. Nelson This historical photograph portrays a crowd at the aftermath of the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son L.D. Nelson in… Read more »
Introduction
Between the 1870s and 1945, the US economy has undergone ups and downs. Several events have impacted on the US economy both positively and negatively. The period witnessed several significant… Read more »
Second Industrial Revolution
Ford Assembly Line, 1902 Companies in the second industrial revolution started to build assembly lines to maximize production. Ford Motor Company, which was one… Read more »
The Great Depression
A photograph of the 1931 “unemployed march” in St. Louis. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California 2 In October 1929, the crash of… Read more »
The World War 2
The Transformative Power of WW2 World War 2 took place during the Great Depression. The first Photo shows one of the abandoned navy yard facility in 1928. The U.S…. Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Source: 1, Photo Taker Unknown. Ford Assembly line, https://corporate.ford.com/articles/history/100-years-moving-assembly-line.html 2, Photo from the collections of The Henry Ford. July 4,1917 3, Jacob Riis, Ludlow Street tenement apartment circa, 1905. Cited on https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/the-cloth-cutters-of-ludlow-street/ 4,… 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 »
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 »
Introduction
This museum exhibition will look at the use of propaganda in the media as a persuasion technique to either encourage or discourage the war effort throughout the 20th century. In… Read more »
The Cold War
“Is This Tomorrow?” was a comic book cover that was published by Catechetical Guild Educational Society. The comic was published in 1947 and released in St. Paul, Minnesota. The intended… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Unfair Arrests, Unjust Trials, and the Black Criminality Myth
A photograph of Ossian Sweet, an African American physician in Detroit, Michigan, who was charged for murder in 1925, after defending his home from… Read more »