Wednesday January 15: Perspectives on the Gilded Age
Child Labour Legislation, 1867 – 1889
Black Market Birth Control(pdf)
“Balls and Dinner Dances…” (1893)
Monday January 27: Gender: Image and Reality
“The Bicycle and Health” (1894)
“Why Women Do Not Wish the Suffrage”(1903)
“Why Women Should Vote”(1915)
“Status of Married Women” (1898)
“Woman Suffrage” (1906)
InTheShadowOfBillyTheKid (pdf)
Wednesday February 12: Labour and the Red Scare
“We Do Not Understand the Foreigners…”
“It is Entirely the Bolshevik Spirit…”
Wednesday March 18: Down and Out in America
Report to Mr. Hopkins, November 11, 1934
“Please Help Us Mr. President…”
“Migratory Farm Labor…”
Anne Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary
“The Depression has Changed Peoples’ Outlooks”
Monday April 6: The ’50’s and ’60’s in America
Allen, “Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges”
Eisenhower Explains the Domino Theory
King, I Have A Dream (1963)
A Purpose for Modern Woman (1955)
Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
A Soldier Remembers his Idealism (1965)
William Shatner, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”…really…!