by Andrea Petronio | Dec 4, 2023
While browsing the Library of Congress’ website, I found several interesting historical sources. However, one thing that stood out to me in specifically was a picture book titled “The children’s object book.” As an education major, I found this particularly...
by Umme Rabab | Dec 4, 2023
From the mid-eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century, the United States had seen a lot of socioeconomic changes. One of the biggest changes was seen in racial hierarchy, which eventually shaped the America we know today. My chosen source is a picture of Ida...
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...
by Maria Levandoski | Dec 5, 2022
The Vitascope is an early motion-picture projector that was developed from Thomas Jefferson’s Kinetoscope and patented by Thomas Armat in 1895. The creation of this projector caused a revolution around the world. By creating a device that could display images...
by Natalie Heim | May 2, 2022
Drafted in New York in 1848, this “Declaration of Sentiments” provided by the Library of Congress highlights the growing interests during the nineteenth century in the women’s movement for suffrage as well as the reformation of society’s denial of women having rights...