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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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