by Steven Geiger | Dec 7, 2024
Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison was among Claude Debussy’s last works and was written as Christmas was around the corner. The song was created both as a lament of the poor children’s situation as well as a vessel with which to criticize the war. At...
by Ji Ho Lee | Dec 4, 2022
After five years of devastating conflict between the Central and Allied powers, World War I came to an end with the Treaty of Versailles. The peace treaty required Germany to disassemble its military, pay war reparations, and give up its colonies overseas. [1]...
by Deloris Hynes | Nov 30, 2021
This historical source is a photograph of a 14-year-old newsie taken by sociologist and muckraker photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in February 1910. Hine produced over a hundred photographs documenting child labor in the United States which was instrumental to the...
by Kaitlyn Spitzer | Nov 4, 2020
This poster was created as American propaganda during the first World War in 1918. In the early 20th-century traditional gender roles were still very prominent in America. It was the woman’s job to watch the children, take care of the house, and for men, it was their...
by Rebekah Santana | Nov 4, 2020
For every fighter a woman worker Y.W.C.A : Back our second line of defense –a poster created by Ernest Hamlin Baker in 1918; intending to showcase and encourage women workers, during World War I. In 1914 former president Woodrow Wilson was faced with a great...