This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, at the outbreak of World War I, industries in the north opened employment to African Americans. They left the south in record numbers for jobs in the north.
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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website:
"The Progressive Era marked the modernization of the American state, the expansion of citizenship, the ascendancy of 'big business,' the transformation of American liberalism, and the development of a social politics. It was also the moment when the United States assumed the role of a world power, culminating in its participation in World War I and its role in negotiating the ambitious but flawed treaty that ended it. Taking exception to interpretations of the era that see 'American exceptionalism,' this seminar will explore the era and its reforms (and their limits) in the context of the larger global response to industrialization and urbanization under conditions of unregulated capitalism."
This iCue Mini-Documentary repeats U.S. Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane's speech, in which he said that Germany had "no respect for international law" and had to be punished for sinking the ships of neutral nations.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Woodrow Wilson's efforts to promote the idea of World War I to a skeptical American public. In order to do so, he turned to one of the leading figures in the advertising industry.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes American questions about U.S. involvement in World War I, following the war, in which nine million people died.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Espionage Act, which regulated anti-war speech during World War I and made it a federal offense to say, do, or publish things that interfered with the war effort.
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Professor Christopher Capozzola of MIT explains why Herbert Hoover is the real hero of World War I.
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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 how the production demands of World War I draw blacks and whites from rural areas to factory jobs in the cities. However, along with that migration came racial tension.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces food rationing during World War I, a measure taken to help support the troops.
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