Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 1941

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 1941

To understand the significance of the historical photograph of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 1941 SDASM, it is essential to have a background on the attack and its impact on American history. Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941, when the Imperial Japanese Navy Air...
Youngest Parader in New York City Suffragist Parade

Youngest Parader in New York City Suffragist Parade

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;...
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.

This photograph was taken on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., during a notorious Civil Rights protest called the March on Washington[1]. As depicted in the photograph, thousands of people gathered to march. Many of these people were activists coming from...

For Every Fighter a Woman Worker

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,...

World War I Cartoon by Sava Zlachkin

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...