by Gabriel Hoffman | Dec 4, 2023
Duck and cover was a film created by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) in 1952 to provide children throughout the 1950s and 1960s the proper actions to take in the event of a nuclear attack. As a result of the Soviet Union’s...
by Tamara Wijesinghe | Dec 4, 2022
This image pictures Louis Armstrong playing a trumpet in from of a large group of people in Mascot, Sydney((Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Plays for Fans on Arrival at Mascot, Sydney, 27 October 1954. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_%22Satchmo)). Louis...
by Michelle Hunter | Nov 4, 2020
This historical source was an advertisement for the Alcoa Aluminum twist off ketchup bottle in 1953. This advertisement was just one of many advertisements throughout the 1950s that showed the traits that women were associated with at the time as a motive for...