This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in the 1880s, black farmers suffered the most in the economic downturn and organized themselves into the Colored Farmers' Alliance.
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Corporate power is often depicted in the image of a monster in late 19th-century cartoons. Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains one cartoon about Standard Oil.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the term, "carpetbagger," used frequently after the Civil War but often misunderstood.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, as a young nation, the U.S. desperately needed a national system of trade and transportation. But the "American System," proposed by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, became a source of heated debate in the Senate.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary covers the period between 1812 and 1850, which marked the transition from an economy based on local farms and communities to a market economy, largely like what exists today.
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In this iCue Mini-Documentary describes George Washington's decision to make Alexander Hamilton the Secretary of the Treasury.
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In this iCue Mini-Documentary describes Alexander Hamilton's desire, as Secretary of the Treasury, to establish America as a world power capable of paying off its debt.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the growing enslavement of Africans in America and the writing of slave codes to govern the practice.
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Unable to locate an official site to verify the continued existence of the house. Moreover, other sites which discuss the House of Voodoo paint it, first and foremost, as a commercial destination. Exhibits on voodoo and the history thereof are located within the back of an occult store.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes South Carolina's founding by aristocratic settlers from England who establish the city of Charleston as a major center for the African slave trade as well as the trade of Native American slaves. Those who shunned slavery moved north to establish North Carolina.
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