This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the change in women's roles following World War II, as the same women who were once encouraged to work in factories to support the war effort were urged to stay home and care for their families.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Woodrow Wilson's efforts to promote the idea of World War I to a skeptical American public. In order to do so, he turned to one of the leading figures in the advertising industry.
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"With a presidential election just around the corner, this workshop will focus on how presidents are packaged according to the most winnable personality, prepared in minute detail for every public appearance, and promoted as viable candidates and chief executive. Educators will look at examples and methods of how presidential image has been portrayed in the public sphere from George W. to George W. The evolution of presidential campaigns will be examined by comparing and contrasting early, short, and inexpensively-run campaigns to the grueling more than year-long marathons and multi-million dollar campaigns of the present. Educators will also examine the art of campaign buttons, banners, and broadsides of the past to the fire-side chats of FDR, the television ads, sound bites, and Internet of today."
"Historians Susan Fernandez and Robert Ingalls highlight the central plots, environmental settings, and characters in movies with Florida themes using film clips, stills, and publicity posters. They show how depictions of Florida have changed in more than 300 films over the last century."
Ballyhoo! presents a concise history of advertising posters and their use of celebrity in the United States, as well as the export of U.S. celebrity to other countries. The website was initially created as an accompaniment to a National Portrait Gallery exhibit which ran in 2008 through 2009.
The site is broken down into an introduction and eight short explanatory sections, each with a two-paragraph essay and four to eight related posters to view.
Using historic posters, this lesson engages students in analyzing primary sources by identifying their author, intended audience, date, and message.
This well-planned lesson, which uses posters on slavery and abolition, teaches students to ask important questions as they read a primary source. First, the teacher models the task by analyzing a representative poster in front of the classroom. In small groups, students then analyze additional posters, locating such information as author, audience, purpose, and message. They use this information to consider the attitudes towards slavery that the posters convey.
One strength of the lesson is that the primary sources are given in two formats: students receive historically evocative reproductions of the original posters along with easy-to-read typed transcriptions. Some teachers may choose to highlight important text, particularly for beginning readers; other teachers will want to leave it up to students to locate and identify this crucial information.
This lesson appears in the December 2004 issue of History Now, a quarterly journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Yes Lesson is accurate and up-to-date.
No The lesson plan's Teacher Resources section includes links to information about historical context. It's up to teachers, however, to decide how much background students will need.
Yes In class, all students read, and one student per group records information on a Poster Inquiry Sheet. In the suggested homework assignment, students each write a news story about their assigned poster.
Yes The Poster Inquiry Sheet provides students with a method for identifying and interpreting historical facts.
Yes During the modeling and the group work, students learn and practice how to read primary sources.
Yes Some language in the posters may be difficult, but teachers can choose to highlight sections of text to reduce the amount or difficulty of necessary reading.
Yes The teacher's modeling step provides a helpful scaffold, as does the Poster Inquiry Sheet.
No Although the lesson plan does not include an assessment rubric, teachers can check in with small groups to assess student learning.
Yes The modeling provided in Steps One, Two, and Three is pedagogically useful. However, reading every single poster before the class may be excessively time-consuming. Teachers may want to discuss just one poster and then go around the classroom to check in with small groups as needed.
Yes The lesson plan helps students to learn about slavery and abolition while providing a method for analyzing primary sources.