Cotton Bales Grown by Free Negroes

This photograph was taken by Harry Hamilton Johnston in Tuskeegee, Alabama. It shows what is probably hundreds of cotton bales that were grown and collected by freed Blacks and are being prepared for transport to England. This image was taken in 1910, which was...

Christopher Columbus

  Christopher Columbus is a well-known Italian explorer who worked for the Spanish crown to find a path from the west to Asia. On August 3, 1492, he sailed away from Spain on three ships that were named, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. In the years that...

F.D.R. Americanism

https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-war-americanism-transcription.pdf This speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on August 9 of 1920, presented in Hyde Park, New York, and detailed the end of World War I and America’s fallen soldiers....

FDR’s State of the Union Address: 1943

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_the_Union_Address_for_1943_by_Franklin_Roosevelt.ogg January 7th, 1943, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt made history with his State of the Union Address. In the heat of World War II, FDR was one of the only morale...

Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat

The 1918 print, “Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat” by Edward Penfield was created as war-effort propaganda for the United Stated Food Administration during World War I((Penfield, Edward. “Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat / Edward Penfield.”...