by Steven Geiger | Dec 7, 2024
Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison was among Claude Debussy’s last works and was written as Christmas was around the corner. The song was created both as a lament of the poor children’s situation as well as a vessel with which to criticize the war. At...
by Joshua Vargas | Dec 7, 2024
The image before you was taken on May 4th, 1912, at a women’s suffrage parade in New York City. The photo depicts a parade of women marching up 5th Avenue from Washington Square to Carnegie Hall. The parade is one of the two that took place in New York in 1912;...
by Madison Jones | Dec 2, 2024
The historical source displayed above is a propaganda poster created in 1918 during World War I by the artist Ernest Hamlin Baker. The poster shows a parade of women dressed in masculine uniforms, holding traditional men’s tools such as an axe, with the title,...
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 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...