by Alberto Ramos | Nov 23, 2025
One of the most memorable events of the American Labor Movement occurred in 1894—the Pullman Strike—a major confrontation between labor and the Railroad Management that ultimately drew federal intervention [1]. An unknown political cartoonist wrote and illustrated...
by Stephan Naderi | Nov 22, 2025
The photograph reveals British soldiers exhausted but packed into every inch of space on a rescue boat’s decks as they are extracted from the vicinity of Dunkirk. Taken by British Army photographers E. G. Malindine and L. A. Puttnam, the photograph illustrates one of...
by Giovanni Cerese | Nov 21, 2025
During World War I, the US government set up an extensive propaganda campaign to persuade American citizens to buy Liberty Bonds. These bonds were a major source of money for military operations abroad. The poster “Keep These Off the U.S.A.” plays on the...
by Maritza Irizarry | Nov 21, 2025
Joseph Keppler’s “Uncle Sam’s Lodging-House,” published as the centerfold of Puck on June 7, 1882, is a revealing commentary on late-nineteenth-century American anxieties surrounding immigration, urban housing, and political disorder. It was created by Keppler, an...
by Ayenn Pierre Louis | Nov 21, 2025
The American chain gang is a haunting symbol of the nation’s failure to fulfill the promise of freedom after the Civil War. It represents a line between slavery and incarceration, a system that was built to punish crime but to reassert racial hierarchy under the...