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 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...
by Deloris Hynes | Nov 30, 2021
This historical source is a photograph of a 14-year-old newsie taken by sociologist and muckraker photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in February 1910. Hine produced over a hundred photographs documenting child labor in the United States which was instrumental to the...
by Kya Amaro | Nov 30, 2021
When the Great War, also referred to as World War I, first erupted in Europe, America “remained neutral” on paper, yet provided supplies and financial assistance to the Allied Powers – France, Great Britain, and Russia.((D.E. Shi (2019). America: A Narrative History...
by Kaitlyn Spitzer | Nov 4, 2020
This poster was created as American propaganda during the first World War in 1918. In the early 20th-century traditional gender roles were still very prominent in America. It was the woman’s job to watch the children, take care of the house, and for men, it was their...