by Tijana Minic | Dec 7, 2024
After gaining the right to vote in 1920, white women were excited about the newly gained responsibilities within the Democratic and Republican party. [1] The New York Tribune article Women Who Are Playing a Part in the Political Game depicts the enthusiasm...
by Angela Noyes | Dec 5, 2022
https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-war-americanism-transcription.pdf This speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on August 9 of 1920, presented in Hyde Park, New York, and detailed the end of World War I and America’s fallen soldiers....
by Camila Mora | Dec 5, 2022
The 1918 print, “Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat” by Edward Penfield was created as war-effort propaganda for the United Stated Food Administration during World War I((Penfield, Edward. “Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat / Edward Penfield.”...
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 Julia Moreira | Dec 2, 2022
The “Spanish Influenza” was a virus that “quickly spread around the globe and altered the course of world history” as it took more lives than the Great War.((Gordon H. Hirshberg, “Medical Science’s Newest Discoveries about the ‘Spanish Influenza’.” The Washington...