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Are Artists “Workers”? Art and the New Deal
As I write this essay in February 2009, the...
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Essay
The WPA: Antidote to the Great Depression?
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, estimates of the number of jobless workers in the United...
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Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock ’n’ Roll
Marc Dolan, an English and American Studies scholar at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY), discusses his new book, Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock ’n’ Roll (W.W. Norton, 2012).
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WWII Posters from the National Museum of American History
World War II posters helped to mobilize a nation. Inexpensive, accessible and ever-present, the poster was an ideal agent for making war aims the personal mission of every citizen. Click here to launch this online exhibition.
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Excerpts from American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation
Excerpts from American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to EmancipationEdited by James G. Basker
These excerpts were chosen from more than 215 selections by 158 authors in the anthology.
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Views of the West
After the Civil War, the United States government commissioned several surveys of the American West. Photography was widely used to document the region's unusual geography, and it was this visual evidence that spurred Congress to create the national park system.
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All images are from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
