by Ethan Shonk | Dec 18, 2023
Ethan Shonk Prof. Fieldston American History 2 14 December 2023 We Shall Overcome Speech The speech, referred to as “We Shall Overcome,” was given to a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965. In the speech, President Johnson urged the...
by Gabriel Hoffman | Dec 4, 2023
Duck and cover was a film created by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) in 1952 to provide children throughout the 1950s and 1960s the proper actions to take in the event of a nuclear attack. As a result of the Soviet Union’s...
by Daniela Gencarelli | Dec 4, 2023
https://www.loc.gov/resource/20001931/1919-03-21/ed-1/?dl=all&sp=1&st=gallery The Stars and Stripes newsletter was founded during the period around World War I by American General John J. Pershing, and it functioned to “[document] the experience of...
by Marianna Iliadis | Dec 4, 2023
The fight for women’s suffrage was an ongoing struggle throughout American history and came after many years of effort by many different people. The right to vote did not come easy for American women, and this picture illustrates the continual opposition that women...
by Debbie Paredes-Coyago | Dec 3, 2023
There were many photos that grasped significant moments in American history. One of these photos was captured by Arthur Rothstein where he emphasized an event that contributed to one of the worst time periods known as the Great Depression leaving many Americans...