Bread and Roses Heritage Committee chairman Jim Beauchesne describes the 1912 strike of textile workers in Lawrence, MA, called the Bread and Roses Strike. He examines the demographics of the workers, largely immigrants and women, and their roles in organizing the strike. His presentation includes slides.
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Director of the Nichols House Museum Flavia Cigiliano discusses Progressive-era women on Boston's Beacon Hill and their social and political impact. Beginning in the late 19th century, modern women such as Beacon Hill resident Rose Nichols, ventured outside of the domestic realm and into the world of employment and politics.
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This workshop offers academic content about place-based western history and women's suffrage on the western frontier juxtaposed with myths of the West and contemporary women's issues in the West.
It affords opportunities to engage in study and conversation with leading scholars; an introduction to four forms of primary historical sources—the built environment, artifacts, government records, and private papers—all of which have application in all history classrooms; and networking with other social studies, history, English, and other subject matter teachers, librarians, and media specialists, from grades K12, representing a variety of states.
Just like today, self-help manuals were extremely popular in the early 19th century. Josh Brown of the American Social History Project examines one of these guides, The Skillful Housewife's Book.
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Designed especially for secondary school teachers of U.S. history, law, and civics/government, the institute will deepen participants' knowledge of the federal judiciary and of the role the federal courts have played in key public controversies that have defined constitutional and other legal rights. Participants will work closely throughout the institute with leading historians, federal judges, and curriculum consultants. Confirmed faculty include Michael Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Harvard Law School and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, George Washington University.
To explore the theme of "Seeking Social Change Through the Courts," the institute will focus on these three landmark federal trials: Woman suffrage and the trial of Susan B. Anthony, Chinese Exclusions Acts and Chew Heong v. United States, and the desegregation of New Orleans schools and Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board.
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the wave of reform movements in U.S. in the 1830s and 1840s. Some campaigned for better conditions in prisons and asylums, while others formed utopian communities or discovered fad diets.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, when a group of women were forbidden from speaking at an anti-slavery convention in 1840, they decided to devote themselves to fighting for more freedom for women.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the post-American-Revolution definition of women's role as working to raise sons who are patriotic.
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Kitty Wilson Evans, an award-winning costumed interpreter at Historic Brattonsville, explains how slave children worked on the plantation.
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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.