by James Tierney | Apr 29, 2024
American Progress, the 1872 painting by John Gast, is perhaps the most iconic portrayal of Manifest Destiny in the United States of America. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the young nation began to turn its eyesight towards westward...
by Vincent Nappi | Dec 2, 2023
Mulberry Street, New York City is a photo taken from the Library of Congress website. The photo was taken in the early 1900’s and although it appears to be staged as all the people in the picture are looking in the direction of the camera, it gives a glimpse...
by Dennis Ching | Mar 17, 2020
There is a long and brutal history of discrimination against Chinese immigrants as a race in the United States. This 1886 poster was an advertisement by a company to promote its laundry product, the Magic Washer. It was a typical depiction of how the Chinese were...
by Liam Cassidy | Mar 17, 2020
The 1918, Great War Era Propaganda Poster, “Don’t talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it–spies are listening” is an immaculate display depicting how widespread the effects of World War I was within the...
by Ethan Ruiz | Mar 17, 2020
The Irish American[1], piano sheet music is a 1905 composition by George M. Cohan, a famous Irish Catholic American entertainer who became a pinnacle for Catholic Irish Americans during an era of oppression. In many ways, Cohan’s contributions embraced widespread...