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This subcategory contains 134 links Subtitle: Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930. Book by Sarah A. Gordon Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Dam Project "Although ready to retire, famed attorney Clarence Darrow rose to the challenge when asked to defend a black physician against a murder charge." The Pan-American Exposition was a concentrated snapshot of 1901 people, their attitudes about everything and everyone, their social classes, their conflict between religious observances and commercial opportunities, and their happy surrender to the not-so-cheap thrills of the Midway. Background of the Pete Seeger song and the song itself For selected states but included the highest and lowest. Podcast: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. “A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950? November, 2001, at the Morgan Library Running Time: 57:09 The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. "The Post Office called on Army Air Service pilots to carry the first airmail. Despite numerous hardships, the first flying postmen usually made their appointed rounds." From Chicago History Mass murderer # Michael Kazin, professor of History at Georgetown University, explores the turbulent two decades between World War I and World War II. He describes the radical shifts in American political power and social institutions during that time. This lecture is part 1 of 2. "The black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are a landmark in the history of documentary photography. The images show Americans at home, at work, and at play, with an emphasis on rural and small-town life and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and increasing farm mechanization. " Very good site from the Uinversity of a "The purpose of this web / library guide is to help the user gain a broad understanding and appreciation for the culture and history of the 1940-1949 period in American history. In a very small way, this is a bibliographic essay. To see the whole picture, we encourage users to browse all the way through this page (and the other decades as they come online) and then visit the suggested links for more information on the decade." Recordings from World War One and the 1920 election the life story of an immigrant by M.E. Ravage. Published 1917 by Harper & Brothers in New York, London . The Anti-Saloon League from 1893 to 1933 was a major force in American politics. Influencing the United States through the printed word and lobbying, they turned a moral crusade into a Constitutional amendment. Thursday, October 24, 1929, or Black Thursday, was the stock market crash heralding the start of the Great Depression. This site seeks to present a contemporay view. Hoover orders army attack on US citizens By Dagvin R.M. Anderson Formatiuon of the Federal Reserve System From the June 2, 1996 edition of the Detroit News. Article from the San Francisco Chronicle. A brief biography of the man who shaped the Federal Reserve Act. By David Page Subtitle: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood. book by Jennifer E. Langdon, Associate Director of the Davis Humanities Institute. The famous aviator Featuring the Original Photo Captions by Lewis W. Hine Scholarly book by Stephen R.MacKinnon and Oris Friesen Library of Congress. 1900-1910 newspapers Prohibition; Immigration Restriction and The Ku Klux Klan; The New Woman; The Scopes Trial The 1912 presidential election was a significant and substantive discussion about the future of the United States. US National Archives Number of divorces, by state, in 1916 and 1922. Percent increase and dvoorces per 100,000 maried. "The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs. This release provides access to over 112,000 of these images; future additions will expand the black-and-white offering. The FSA-OWI photographers also produced about 1600 color photographs during the latter days of the project." He did it on purpose. "Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry is a selection of more than 400 items from the Emile Berliner Papers and 108 Berliner sound recordings from the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Berliner (1851-1929), an immigrant and a largely self-educated man, was responsible for the development of the microphone and the flat recording disc and gramophone player. " Radical during WWI Emma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. "Seventy-five years ago, science teacher John Scopes agreed to challenge Tennessee's new anti-evolution law in court. The resulting legal battle pitted two of the country's premier orators against each other and treated newspaper readers worldwide to what Baltimore Sun columnist H.L. Mencken called a "genuinely fabulous" show." by J. Kingston Pierce New York to San Diego in 1923 Wright State University postcard exhibition. What was Home Economics? By Ernest Crosby. Chicago: The Public Publishing Company, 1906. Enlarged BoondocksNet Edition, 2001. Jones was the Progressive mayor of Toledo, Ohio. March, 2009 edition of History Now. The Great Depression: An Overview, by David M. Kennedy; The WPA: Antidote to the Great Depression? by Nick Taylor; The Hundred Days and Beyond: What did the New Deal Accomplish? by Anthony Badger; Women in the Great Depression, by Susan Ware; The New Deal, Then and Now, by Alan Brinkley; Are Artists "Workers"? by Elizabeth Broun By Samuel Crowther in World's Work, October 1926 pp. 613-616. "The PBS site on Influenza 1918 is tied to the one-volume video from PBS’s series, “The American Experience." "Japan-in-America" is, therefore, a complicated and multifaceted phenomena, very much connected to historical events, public opinion campaigns, war scares, Japanophilia, and Japanophobia, and not limited to only a few positive or negative stereotypes. This exhibit displays a wide array of images and artifacts from the popular culture of the period - paintings, poetry, and travel literature, but also postcards, illustrated books, sheet music, magic lantern slides, editorial cartoons, motion pictures, missionary tracts, children's literature, advertisements, circus acts, magic shows, and a range of other forms. Good site on the imprisonment of Americans and resident aliens of Japanese descent. The Flapper Era. The Harlem Renaissance Prepared from historical records of the Jewish Labor Committee, a vast collection totalling more than three million pages of documentation and ten thousand photographs, posters, and graphics. The website records the work of the Committee from its founding in New York in 1934 through the early post-WWII years. History." Past & Future The League of Women Voters is an outgrowth of the suffragist movement. Carrie Chapman Catt founded the organization in 1920 during the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The convention was held only six months before the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote after a 57-year struggle." Full text. Aid to Great Britain. Two letters from a 16 year old boy to his parents written just after he arrived at college in South Carolina. Plus edior's note. "On July 1, 1913, a group of automobile enthusiasts and industry officials established the Lincoln Highway Association (LHA) "to procure the establishment of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, open to lawful traffic of all description without toll charges." In its time, the Lincoln Highway would become the Nation's premier highway, as well known as U.S. 66 was to be in its day and as well known as I-80 and I-95 are today." Subtitled THE POLITICAL LEADERS WHO ARE SELLING OUT THE STATE OF MISSOURI, AND THE LEADING BUSINESS MEN WHO ARE BUYING IT - BUSINESS AS TREASON-CORRUPTION AS REVOLUTION Written by Paul Alexander Gusmorino 3rd : May 13, 1996. asserts, incorrectly, that it was the worst economic slump in US history. Documents from the Gilder Lerhman Institute. "he following documents demonstrate the tremendous concern of the Association of Manhattan Project Scientists toward nuclear power in peacetime." McKinley Assassination Ink (MAI) is not a resource designed to further any particular agenda with respect to the legacy of William McKinley. It is, however, a means for examining America’s first president of the twentieth century—a man who, at the height of his political powers and popularity, was unexpectedly removed from office by a quietly determined American-born anarchist, Leon Czolgosz (pronounced CHOL-gosh). The assassination of William McKinley, adjudged something of a non sequitur even by the assassin’s fellow anarchists, represents America’s first crisis of the twentieth century, an event that occasioned nationwide grief and catapulted Theodore Roosevelt (“that damned cowboy”) to the forefront of American politics. Film about the building of the Model T. Sears, Roebuck. 1936 PBS Award-winning historian Jean Strouse discusses her research into the life of J.P. Morgan, America’s most influential banker. She looks at the reasons for his success and delves into his inscrutable personal life. Strouse’s extensive scholarship offers many insights into her subject, whose name is in the financial news headlines once again. The stories begin the Monday before the Thursday crash and are prophetic. "War of the Worlds" Orson Welles broadcast considered. Classic book by Frederick /Lewis Allen Audio Paul Warburg was an advocate for a central bank in the United States and was chosen by President Woodrow Wilson to serve as one of the first members of the Federal Reserve Board. Article by Michael A. Whitehouse, May 1989 The topics illustrated in Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 show great variety. Photos from the 1930s. Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History by April Schultz (Volume 33: Page 267). Reprinted with permission from The Journal of American History, March, 1991, 1265-1295. By B. O. Flower. Boston: The New Arena, 1914. BoondocksNet Edition, 2001. Calvin Coolidge and the Consumer Era, 1921-29 Average food prices nationwide plus prices in Chicago Famous 1925 trial about teaching evolution New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut : The Tri-State Region and more in Stereoscopic Views Book by Christopher D. O'Sullivan PBS video The great social experiment The Jazz Age and such. Boom times. By Edward A. Steiner A Lecture delivered under the Auspices of The League for Political Education, New York City. New York: Fleming H. Revel Company, 1916 BoondocksNet Edition, 2001 "A musical production Orson Welles directed in 1937 demonstrated why there's no business like government-sponsored show business." by Joseph Gustaitis "When a plane piloted by Orville Wright in 1908 crashed during a test flight, the result proved disastrous, especially for Wright's passenger, Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge." by Wyatt Kingseed The Museum of the City of New York provides biographical data on Jacob Riis, urban reformer, and some of his photographs. Library of Congress site The child of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and killed. Who did it? "Air conditioning came of age in America in 1925, when engineer Willis Haviland Carrier installed humidity-controlled refrigeration in New York City's Rivoli Theater." by Joseph Gustaitis "Mina Crandon's followers believed she had genuine paranormal powers. Harry Houdini was equally certain she was a fraud." By Daniel Stashower This 1936 Congressional report blamed the munitions industry for wars in the early 20th century. by Mark Goodman. Congress passed the Radio Act of 1927 to bring order to the chaos of radio broadcasting. In the process, Congressional representatives had to deal with several free speech issues, which were resolved in favor of the Progressive concepts of public interest, thereby limiting free speech. This study examines how Congress intended radio licensees to interpret and practice free speech. In conclusion, it was found Congressmen feared radio's potential power to prompt radical political or social reform, spread indecent language, and to monopolize opinions. Therefore, the FRC was empowered to protect listeners from those who would not operate radio for "public interest, convenience, and necessity." RED SCARE is an image database about the period in the history of the United States immediately following World War I. The dates are approximately from the Armistice in November of 1918 to the collapse of hyper-inflation in mid-1920. by THOMAS H. REED and DORIS D. REED in : Survey Graphic, May 1, 1940, Vol. 29, No. 5, p. 286 Presidential election by Jamie McNab. PRIMA Volume 3, Issue 1 March 25, 1911. Presented by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees Looks at flight and Wilbur and Orville Wright. History Now The US, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s confronted the dilemma of whether or not to go to war. "This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. The collection includes the work of a number of photographers, one of whom was the well known photographer William Henry Jackson. " "When the submarine Squalus sank during a test dive in 1939, 33 survivors were trapped in a dead craft on the ocean floor. They had one realistic hope of rescue, but it depended on a new device that had not yet advanced beyond the testing stage." Images Popular entertsinment since 1875. Songs of Depression-era migrants "Theodore Roosevelt was only fifty years old when he left the White House in 1909, but his boundless energy kept him very much in the public eye until his death in 1919. In this lecture, historian Patricia O’Toole recounts the last decade of T.R.’s fascinating life, which included an unsuccessful run for the presidency as a third party candidate, an attempt to raise and then command a battalion of American soldiers in World War I, and the tragic death of his son Quentin.: podcast Perspective |
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