Colonial America

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The Terrible Transformation: The Narrative of Olaudah Equiano

 

Antebellum America
 
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George Fitzhugh Advocates Slavery
 

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Frederick  Douglass "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro

The Gilded Age:

bullet Documents on Social Darwinism vs. Reform Darwinism - Social Reform
bullet Documents on Social Darwinism vs. Reform Darwinism - Foreign Policy
bullet R. Kipling - White Man's Burden

The Progressive Reform Era

Activity: Lewis Hine Argues for the End of Child Labor

Activity: World War I: Propaganda and Censorship in World War I

Additional Resources - Primary Source Documents

Additional Resources - PowerPoint Presentations

 

The Great Depression and New Deal

The Great Depression in California  - Click here to access the sources listed below

bulletThe Harvest Gypsies:  This is a series of articles written by John Steinbeck.  These reflect his research on migrant agricultural workers in California during the Great Depression, and this research provides the basis of his novel, The Grapes of Wrath.

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The Crisis in Agriculture, John Steinbeck

 

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“Give Me Shelter” and “Seeing Red”, Kevin Starr: The first article discusses the issues of housing for migrant
workers and the second discusses the labor strikes of migrant workers

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The Great Strikes", Carey McWilliams: McWilliams examines the labor strikes of migrant workers and supports their
cause.

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The New Deal Network This website is rich in resources on the decades of the 1930s and 1940s.  The emphasis of these primary sources are the Great Depression and New Deal.

 

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Issues of Migrant Farm Labor Today -  In Our Own Backyard: The Hidden Problem of Child Farm workers in America:  This website has been created by the Child Labor Coalition and the American Federation of Teachers. It offers current information on the exploitation of children as migrant
agricultural workers.

   
   

 

History Lives

Created by: Susan Oliver, soliver@cerritos.edu
Cerritos College
Last Updated: 11/17/2011