Historian Josh Brown of the American Social History Project analyzes a typical cartoon from the late 19th century that shows a country bumpkin overwhelmed by the cosmopolitan and confusing city.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the discovery of gold in California in 1848 led to an unprecedented migration, as thousands of people traveled west in the hopes of making it big.
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Professors Kenneth Jackson and Karen Markoe explore one of the most exciting and important periods in American history: the quarter century between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. Lectures focus on the rise of machine politics, the transportation revolution, the development of new social elites, the changing role of women, the literary figures who helped define the age, housing for the rich and poor, and an examination of the city at the center of the Gilded Age, New York.
This workshop provides in-depth training about the Winston Churchill Memorial's education curriculum specific to the 45 classroom. This workshop will assist teachers in preparing students for participating in the Memorial's various on-site and outreach school programs.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes American sugar planters' control of the plantations of Hawaii. They eventually exercised their power by forcing the queen to abdicate.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the American public's great interest in tabloid accounts of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, which helped lead to the Spanish-American War.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the decades after Reconstruction. These years were a difficult time for African Americans, but new black leaders began to emerge in the 1800s who gave a voice to black suffering.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how farmers, miners, and other working-class members banded together to push silver as the new currency of the United States.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Farmers' Alliance, which formed a base of the early Populist Party.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a reaction against the spoils system, which rewarded political support with jobs.
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