by Pearl Puri | Dec 4, 2023
The Industrial Revolution was a transformative period spanning the late 18th to the 19th century. It brought about profound economic, technological, and social changes. Mechanized production, urbanization, and the emergence of factories characterized this era, driven...
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 Kya Amaro | Apr 26, 2021
From the moment that America was founded as a nation, slavery has played a critical role in its economy – especially during the 1800s. During this time, the southern states’ most profitable crop was cotton and plantation owners had slaves to harvest this cotton for...
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...