Professor Manning Marable of Columbia University tells a famous anecdote about W.E.B. Du Bois, when he was accused by federal law enforcement agents of being subversive.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the emergence of a new, gritty realism in 19th-century writing and painting.
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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.
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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.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, after the Civil War, a group of influential southerners promoted a vision and some said a myth about a "New South" that would be competitive with the north.
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This four-week institute will use Winslow Homer's paintings as the point of departure for a voyage of discovery about maritime history in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The goal is not only to understand the period historically and culturally, but also to explore multiple source materials for discovering the past, including works of art and literature, objects, landscapes, the built environment, descendant communities and a range of historical documents in order to synthesize these various perspectives. Participants will develop cross-disciplinary lessons and teaching materials for classrooms.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the corruption that was commonplace in the late 19th century—scandal became the topic of many political cartoons of the day.
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The November 6, 1869 issue of Harper's Weekly included this double-page cartoon that mocks the platform of the New York Democratic Party, including its opposition to the 15th Amendment. Josh Brown of the American Social History Project examines the details.
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