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Reconstruction | |
Interpretive Essay | |
Promised Land | |
Sources | |
Voices: The Meaning of Freedom Letter from Jourdon Anderson to His Former Master, from The Freedmen’s Book | |
Child, 1865 The Cartoonist’s View of Reconstruction IMAGES Ten Political Cartoons | |
1865–1876 The South Redeemed Map: The Barrow Plantation, 1860 and 1880 | |
The Big Picture | |
The Gilded Age | |
Interpretive Essay | |
Gunfire and Brickbats: The Great Railway Strikes of 1877 | |
Images | |
The Sixth Maryland Regiment, Fighting Its Way through Baltimore During the Great Strike of 1877 | |
Railroad Strike, at His Post; The Great Strike—Blockade of Engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia | |
The Great Strike—Burning of the Lebanon Valley Railroad Bridge by the Rioters | |
Great Railroad Strike, Pittsburgh, 1877 | |
On The Web | |
The 1877 strike in Baltimore | |
Sources | |
The Working Class, A Widespread Rising . . . | |
Voices: Almost Part of the Machinery Testimony of | |
Before the U.S. Senate, 1883 Photo Essay: Alice Austen/Images of Work | |
Images | |
Two bootblacks, City Hall Park; Sweeper in Rubber Boots; Rag Pickers with Billboard | |
Immigrant and Pretzel Vendor | |
The Big Picture | |
The West | |
Interpretive Essay | |
America’s | |
Images | |
Advertising Circular for a Production Based on the Life of | |
The Mythic Home of | |
cover of An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (1882) | |
Sources | |
Voices: Growing Up Indian, in a White Man’s World Zitkala-S¿a | |
On The Web | |
The Life and Works of Zitkala-S¿AVisualizing Assimilation: Photographs from the Hampton Normal and Agriculture Institute, Hampton, Virginia (1880s) | |
The Worlds of Quanah Parker: A Photo Essay IMAGES: Quanah Parker, Seated Next to a Portrait of His Mother; Comanche Chief Quanah Parker on Horseback Near His Home, Cache, Oklahoma Territory, (ca. 1910) | |
Quanah Parker on the Porch of His Home (ca. 1895); Quanah Parker, with One of His Seven Wives; Quanah Parker’s Home (1912) | |
The Significance of the Frontier in American History | |
The Big Picture | |
Cities and Immigrants, Cities and Migrants | |
Interpretive Essay | |
Women and Migration: Autonomous Female Migrants to Chicago, 1880–1930 | |
Sources | |
Interior Space: The Dumbbell Tenement IMAGE: A Typical | |
On The Web | |
Virtual Tour of Manhattan’s TenementsUrban ImagesThe Refined City: A Photo Essay | |
Images | |
“Central Park, the Drive,” | |
World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, (1893) | |
House, Chicago, Designed | |
Delmonico’s, New York City (1930) | |
The Threatening City: A Photo Essay | |
Images | |
Bandit’s Roost, New York City (ca. 1887) | |
(2 versions); A Thompson Street Black and Tan Dive on the Lower East Side; “Purdy’s Court,” near the Capitol, Washington, D.C. (1980) | |
On The Web | |
Photographs of | |
Voices | |
The Perils of Unrestricted Migration (1894) | |
The Big Picture | |
Empire | |
Interpretive Essay | |
Black Soldiers and the White Man’s Burden | |
Sources | |
Voices: Combat: An Officer’s Account | |
Picturing Empire: A Photo Essay | |
Images | |
Admiral Dewey on the deck of the Olympia with his dog, Bob (1899); Dancing Sailors (1899) | |
Frances Benjamin Johnston in the crew’s mess of the Olympia (1899) | |
Debates | |
Debating Empire“March of the Flag” and “Our Philippine Policy” | |
“America’s Mission” and “Imperialism” | |
On The Web | |
Music of John Philip SousaImagining the African “Other” Voices: Touring “Darkest Africa” | |
Image | |
“Tickets Here for Darkest Africa” The Search for the Primitive: Tarzan of the Apes | |
Image | |
Cover of the September 1, 1912, Issue of the All-Story Magazine | |
The Big Picture | |
Progressivism: The Age of Reform | |
Interpretive Essay | |
Cleaning Up the Dance Halls, Elisabeth Perry | |
On The Web | |
The Triangle Fire | |
Sources | |
Hull-House: The Softer Side of Progressive Reform? | |
The Progressive Vision of Lewis Hine: A Photo Essay | |
Images | |
Child Workers in Shrimp and Oyster Canneries, Pass Christian, Mississippi (ca. 1912) | |
Alfred, 13, Who Lost Part of a Finger in a Spinning Machine (1915) | |
City Children Pressed into Service to Pick Cotton (1914) | |
Children at a Fall River, Massachusetts, Mill (1914) | |
Cotton Pickers and a Cotton-Picking Machine (1914) Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty | |
Images | |
Poster, “Join the Army” (ca. 1918) | |
Riding a Tram (ca. 1918) | |
On The Web | |
Exhibition on Emma Goldman | |
The Big Picture | |
From War to “Normalcy” | |
Interpretive Essay | |
Political Fundamentalism | |
Sources | |
The Scopes Trial: Testimony of | |
Images | |
Crowded Courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee; “Evolution in Tennessee” (1925) | |
On The Web | |
The Scopes Trial The New Woman: A Photo Essay | |
Images | |
Miss Suzette Dewey, Beside Her Roadster (1927) | |
Miss America (1921) | |
Tybee Beach No. 6, Savannah, Georgia; Girls Dancing During Noon Hour (1927) | |
“The Gay Northeasterners” Strolling on 7th Avenue (ca. 1927) | |
Voices | |
Singing the Blues Lyrics from Blues Songs by Gertrude Rainey, Porter Grainger, Bessie Smith, and Thomas Dorsey | |
Image | |
Portrait of Bessie Smith | |
The Big Picture | |
The Great Depression and the New Deal | |
Interpretive Essay | |
Mean Streets: Black Harlem in the Great Depression | |
Images | |
“Midsummer Night in Harlem,” | |
Black Children Playing Leapfrog in a Harlem Street (ca. 1930) | |
On The Web | |
Greenbelt, Maryland | |
Sources | |
Voices: Letters from the “Forgotten Man” | |
Images from the 1930s: A Visual Essay | |
Images | |
“Extending the Frontier in Northwest Territory”; | |
“Steel Industry”, Migrant Mother | |
Images | |
“Migrant Mother” (no. 2), “Migrant Mother” (no. 6) | |
The Big Picture | |
World War II: Optimism and Anxiety | |
Interpretive Essay Strang | |
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