Bread and Roses Heritage Committee chairman Jim Beauchesne describes the 1912 strike of textile workers in Lawrence, MA, called the Bread and Roses Strike. He examines the demographics of the workers, largely immigrants and women, and their roles in organizing the strike. His presentation includes slides.
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From the Lyndon B. Johnson Museum and Library newsletter:
"The LBJ Library and Museum and Education Service Center, Region XIII will co-sponsor a symposium for high school teachers at the LBJ Library on July 13 and 14, 2009.
Twentieth Century Conflicts in U.S. History will feature
* Dr. Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Lawrence is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam which won two awards from the American Historical Association: the Paul Birdsall Prize for European military and strategic history and the George Louis Beer Prize for European international history. He has also written several chapters and articles on the Vietnam War and other topics in U.S. diplomatic history. He is currently at work on a study of U.S. policymaking regarding Third World nationalism in the 1960s and a short history of the Vietnam War. He is also co-editor (with Fredrik Logevall of Cornell University) of The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, a volume of essays about the French war in Indochina.
* Additional speakers from the Fort Worth Regional Archives (World War I), Roosevelt Library (World War II), the Truman Library (World War II), the Eisenhower Library (Korea), the Kennedy Library (Cold War), the LBJ Library (Vietnam), the Ford Library (fall of Saigon), and the George H.W. Bush Library (the Gulf War).
Primary source materials will be featured in related topics.
Cost of the symposium is $50 and includes all materials, a CD/DVD of all primary sources, and breakfast and lunch for both days. Space is limited so register early.
Use the Workshop ID SU0915826 to register online."
From the National Humanities Center website:
"One of the most familiar truisms about the United States is that we are a 'nation of immigrants.' Indeed, immigration and immigrants inform nearly every narrative of progress and possibility that Americans have told about themselves for more than a century, from individual stories of rags to riches to generational accounts of upward mobility and becoming American. And yet, immigration today remains one of the most controversial political topics, generating intense conflicts over who or what is an American and who should have the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. In this seminar, we examine and compare two waves of immigration to the United States: the 'new' immigration between 1890 and 1920, composed mainly of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Japan; and contemporary immigration, post 1964, involving undocumented and legal migration from Southeast Asia, Mexico, Central America, and Africa. By exploring changes and continuities in immigration to the United States, we seek to historicize contemporary controversies and fears."
Participants in this workshop will spend two days in the historic village of Plymouth Notch, Vermont, boyhood community of President Calvin Coolidge, exploring civic life and responsibilities through primary sources.
Director of the Nichols House Museum Flavia Cigiliano discusses Progressive-era women on Boston's Beacon Hill and their social and political impact. Beginning in the late 19th century, modern women such as Beacon Hill resident Rose Nichols, ventured outside of the domestic realm and into the world of employment and politics.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Philippine soldiers' beginning to fight against the U.S. soldiers who occupied the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War, tipping off a debate in the United States about whether America should be imperialist.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Danish immigrant Jacob Riis, who recorded the underbelly of urban life in his photography.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, at the turn of the 20th century, progressive reformers turned their attention to the nearly two million children working, often in unhealthy or dangerous work environments.
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Professor Gerald L. Early discusses cultural observations on Jackie Robinson, a staunch civil rights activist, successful businessman, and the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. Early focuses on the significance of sports as a public arena and form of performance and on African-American perception of baseball.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the wave of reform movements in U.S. in the 1830s and 1840s. Some campaigned for better conditions in prisons and asylums, while others formed utopian communities or discovered fad diets.