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Historical Context: Post-World War I Labor Tensions

Economics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The years following the end of World War I were a period of deep social tensions, aggrevated by high wartime inflation. Food prices more than doubled between 1915 and 1920; clothing costs more than tripled. A steel strike that began...

History Now Essay

On My Way to War in Iraq

Maurice Decaul

The 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania were followed by the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole , then of course September 11, 2001. Within two years I was on my way to Iraq. I had met my recruiter six years earlier by...

Appears in:

46 | African American Soldiers Fall 2016

57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

Collection Item

Newspaper clipping

17 May 1942

Los Angeles Times (Firm)

Know Your Japanese War Planes

One photo essay entitled, "Know Your Japanese War Planes" dated May 17, 1942. Contains photographs of various Japanese aircraft bombers and fighter planes such as Mitsubishi Type 96 and Tatikawa Type 95-1. Reverse side is a continuation of the...

GLC09619.017

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Civil War–era sketches by David Stauffer

When the Civil War broke out, David McNeely Stauffer (1845–1913) was only sixteen years old. While attending Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania from September 1861 through June 1863, he served brief, emergency enlistments...

Collection Item

Poster

1943

Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991

Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds

WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.

GLC09524

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Historical Context: Post-World War I Labor Tensions

On My Way to War in Iraq

Civil War–era sketches by David Stauffer

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