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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Anti-alcoholism cartoons like this one, which depicts the nine steps of the "drunkard's progress," were widespread in the 19th century. Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains why.
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The seminar will explore the lived experience of ordinary Americans during the colonial period of history. Topics will include family and household, community organization, making a living, religious belief and practice, witchcraft and magic, and shared patterns of human psychology. Material culture will also receive considerable emphasis: domestic architecture, furnishings, and the natural environment. Mornings will be devoted to lectures and discussion; afternoons to field trips and library work.
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces food rationing during World War I, a measure taken to help support the troops.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes one of the horrors of slavery: the separation of families. After Emancipation, slaves wandered hundreds of miles across the south to try to find their spouses and children.
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Movements for women's equality and gender justice have transformed American society over the past few generations. Nancy Cott will focus this seminar on the varied branches of feminism. After reviewing the suffrage campaign and opportunities for women during World War II, the seminar will explore convergences and conflicts among women's groups, both feminist and conservative, emerging after 1960. Topics include the formation of the National Organization for Women, radical feminism, African American and Chicana feminism, reproductive rights advocacy, the women's health movement, Roe v. Wade and its opponents, the women's rights revolution in law, and the campaigns for and against the Equal Rights Amendment.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes an arrangement at Jamestown settlement in Virginia, in which both the English and Indians exchanged young children, including Pocahontas, in order to learn more about each other's culture and language. This arrangement fathered a cultural exchange between the two groups.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, beginning in the 19th century, middle-class American children were offered more education. However, the majority of children were still working on farms and in factories.
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The Elk Grove Heritage Park is operated by the Elk Grove Historical Society. The park is notable for the impressive variety of restored buildings it holds, each chronicling a different part of Elk Grove's history. Highlights of the park include the San Joaquin Justice Court, the Rhoads School, and a reconstructed Elk Grove House. The reconstructed house now serves as a living house museum and gift shop.
The site offers detailed historical and visitor information regarding the park. In addition, the webpage is part of the greater Elk Grove Historical Society and thus contains remarkably detailed information about many aspects of Elk Grove's history along with a museum store and limited online access to the society's research library.
The park is described in entry 13899 alongside the Elk Grove Historical Society and Rhoads Schoolhouse.
This A&E clip chronicles First Ladies' various relationships with the press and media, looking at how these relationships have evolved over the 19th and 20th centuries.
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