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 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...