Jacob Riis, Reformer
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Danish immigrant Jacob Riis, who recorded the underbelly of urban life in his photography.
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Women and the New Deal
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Mon, 10/20/2008 - 17:06
Description
Professor Esther Katz of New York University says that the New Deal presented new opportunities for women to organize grassroots movements, but their achievements did not last long beyond the New Deal.
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Realism in Art and Literature in the 19th Century
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the emergence of a new, gritty realism in 19th-century writing and painting.
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Property of War: A Path to Freedom
Description
As runaway slaves crossed into the North, they demanded their freedom from the Union government. But the Lincoln administration wasn't prepared to deal with them, says Columbia University Professor Eric Foner.
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Everyday Life in Early America
Description
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.
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Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and 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
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Muckraking Journalism
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces "muckrakers," the investigative journalists of the early 20th century so-called because they unearthed corruption in corporate America.
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Farmers' Issues in Black and White
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary looks at the different goals of the Colored Farmers' Alliance and the white Farmers' Alliance.
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The Pullman Strike
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Pullman Strike. Many railroad workers nationwide joined the Pullman railroad workers in protest, but the strike soon turned violent.
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Thorstein Veblen and the Leisure Class
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the phrase "conspicuous consumption," a phrase coined by a Norwegian American sociologist to describe the lifestyles of the newly wealthy in early 20th-century America.
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The Drunkard's Progress
Description
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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