Tag: American history
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WPA poster promoting public hygiene: “Keep Clean” by Erik Hans Krause, ca. 1936–39.
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Political cartoon from Puck about nativism in Congress in 1916. The cartoonist employs the metaphor of a fortress wall to make his point about a proposed literacy test for immigrants.
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Poster featuring a young woman in a dark blue (?) uniform at a switchboard, a mass of soldiers about to go into battle outside her window. Caption: “Back our girls over there / United War Work Campaign / Y.W.C.A.”
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I find this 1917 poster interesting because it seems to target urban, working-class immigrants. Besides the dress of the people waiting in line to lend Uncle Sam some money, there is the American flag held by the child, whose enthusiasm attracts the attention of the adults around her. Children, whether…
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Jeet Heer’s provocative commentary in the New Republic is worth a read: “America Has Always Been Angry and Violent.” The historical rhetoric he offers is startling. I definitely need to read more U.S. history.
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Video from the Prelinger Archives, hosted on the Internet Archive.
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Quotation by Frederick Douglas regarding the ban on Chinese immigration.
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YouTube Video: U.S. War Department film showing a young man nearly sucked in by racism and xenophobia until a Hungarian American narrator uses recent history to talk him out of it.
