by Sade Parsons | Nov 21, 2025
This photograph is considered to be a very iconic image that is well known to all people. It was taken by photographer Dorothea Lange and named “Migrant Mother”. The visual of this image without any knowledge of the historical background suggests despair and struggle....
by Nicolas Margarit | Nov 21, 2025
World War II brought historic changes when American women started working in large numbers for the first time. The war effort required women to take over manufacturing work at factories and shipyards and aircraft plants because male soldiers fought abroad. We Can Do...
by Allison Olivieri | Nov 21, 2025
The evolution of cinema has come a long way, as it is an art form where films can now be easily created and shared. In the early 1900s, motion pictures were the new talk of the town as it was a new form of entertainment. Traveling shows brought excitement to those who...
by Valentina Restrepo | Nov 21, 2025
“Strange Fruit,” recorded in 1939 by Billie Holiday, is one of the most well-known and powerful protest songs. Originally written as a poem in 1937 by Abel Meeropol (under the name Lewis Allan), it protested the lynching of Black Americans and systemic racism.[1] The...
by Estrella Hernandez | Nov 21, 2025
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...