Suffragists Change Tactics in Fight for Equal Suffrage
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the women's suffragist movement's evolution from idealistic to pragmatic.
This feature is no longer available.
Wilson's Domestic Party and "New Freedom"
Description
Professor Christopher Capozzola of MIT discusses the productive first years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency, when Congress was able to pass a series of reform measures whose effects are still felt today.
This feature is no longer available.
Winston Churchill Memorial Breakout Session
Description
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.
Contact name
Crump, Mandy
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Winston Churchill Memorial and Library
Phone number
573-592-6242
Target Audience
4-5
Start Date
Contact Title
Education Coordinator
Duration
Four hours
Disillusionment after World War I
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes American questions about U.S. involvement in World War I, following the war, in which nine million people died.
This feature is no longer available.
Jim Crow Laws in the South
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks filled local and national offices, but white southerners were determined to pass new state laws to curtail this progress.
This feature is no longer available.
Immigration and the Rise of Nativism
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes "Nativism," or the resentment of foreigners, which revived in the late 19th century as greater numbers of new immigrant groups arrived in America.
This feature is no longer available.
The Progressive Era in Global Context
Description
The Progressive Era marked the modernization of the American state, the expansion of citizenship, the ascendancy of "big business," the transformation of American liberalism, and the development of a social politics. It was also the moment when the United States assumed the role of a world power, culminating in its participation in World War I and its role in negotiating the ambitious but flawed treaty that ended it. Taking exception to interpretations of the era that see "American exceptionalism," this seminar will explore the era and its reforms (and their limits) in the context of the larger global response to industrialization and urbanization under conditions of unregulated capitalism.
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
High school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date
The Platt Amendment
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Platt Amendment, which allowed the U.S. to interfere in the affairs of Cuba.
This feature is no longer available.
Judge 1891 Immigrant Cartoon
Description
Anti-immigration feelings are captured in an 1891 cartoon that highlights Jewish and Italian immigration. Cartoon historian Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains.
This feature is no longer available.
Country to City Transition
Description
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.
This feature is no longer available.