by Colin Licciardi-Pena | Dec 7, 2024
The image, “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California,” was taken in 1936 by the American photographer Dorothea Lange. During the Great Depression, Lange and other photographers were assigned to work for...
by Gabriella Dellosa | Apr 27, 2023
Christopher Columbus is a well-known Italian explorer who worked for the Spanish crown to find a path from the west to Asia. On August 3, 1492, he sailed away from Spain on three ships that were named, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. In the years that...
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...
by Craig Smith | May 2, 2022
The American Revolution provided a false hope for those of enslaved men and women. The author of the constitution, Thomas Jefferson, had wrote about the communal agreement of liberty and justice for all. In these words, many implications fell victim to the lack of...
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...