To Enjoy American Opportunities Become an American Citizen

To Enjoy American Opportunities Become an American Citizen

Individuals have migrated to different countries for many centuries and are usually searching for a new start. This new beginning is supposed to be filled with opportunities and a future life full of joy and peace, but typically that is not the case. Looking at the...
Civarro Family

Civarro Family

Lewis Hine’s 1917 photograph of the Civarro family powerfully captures the everyday struggles of working-class family life in early twentieth-century urban America. Taken inside a cramped New York tenement apartment, the photograph shows Mrs. Civarro holding her...
For the Benefit of the Girl About to Graduate

For the Benefit of the Girl About to Graduate

The source I chose consists of a black-and-white image by Charles Howard Johnson titled For the benefit of the girl about to graduate, created in the 1890s. Johnson’s image is published in American Women: A Library of Congress guide for the study of...