First Essay assignment: due end of second week: review the documents on child labor and urban reform below and answer and reflect on the following problem:
Why was there a movement for reform in the early 1900s? Why was child labor in particular a subject of concern for reformers? What was the form and presentation for documenting these conditions that were chosen by Lewis Hine and others?
For example, go through the archive of photographs of Lewis Hine's photographic documentary project in the early 1900s at the New York Public Library
I've chosen a representative photograph from this collection and posted it here: We'll need to review both the typed caption card above and the photograph below to understand the shocking reality of conditions Hine is documenting.
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| Fig. 1 Lewis Hine, B&W photograph of a 7 year old child shucking oysters Read the typed caption card above typed 1913 Source: New York Public Library Digital Archive |
Primary Sources on the decade of 1900 http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/index.html#1900
- Child Labor and Reform
National Child Labor
Organization http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/
Lewis Hines -
photographer of child labor conditions
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=100163&word=
Jane Addams and social reform: The Hull House in Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House.
Jane Addams and social reform: The Hull House in Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House.
- The Panic of 1907 and Financial Reform
Economic History Encyclopedia entry, “The Panic of 1907”
A link to the Pujo Commision report, otherwise known as "Money
Trust Investigation: Investigation of Financial and Monetary Conditions in the
United States Under House Resolutions Nos. 429 and 504 : 1912-1913." http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/montru/
In 1912, a special subcommittee was convened by the Chairman of the
House Banking and Currency Committee, Arsene P. Pujo. Its purpose was to
investigate the "money trust," a small group of Wall Street bankers
that exerted powerful control over the nation's finances. The committee's
majority report concluded that a group of financial leaders had abused the
public trust to consolidate control over many industries. The Pujo Committee
report created a climate of public opinion that lead to the passage of the
Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.
This report provided the evidence for Louis Brandeis, Other
People's Money (1914)
- Labor on the West Coast and in Astoria:
On Reserve: Paul George Hummasti, Finnish radicals in Astoria, Oregon, 1904-1940 : a study in immigrant socialism (1979)
On reserve: Remembering union town [videorecording] : Finnish-Americans in Astoria, 1918-1942
Labor and the Finns of Astoria, Oregon: The Effects of the War on an Immigrant Community Author(s): P. George Hummasti Source: International Migration Review, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 334-349
The Seattle General Strike (February 1919): http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/
Lumber workers on the West Coast
The Centralia Massacre (1919) http://content.lib.washington.edu/iwwweb/readIWW.html
Darius Kinsey Photographs from University of Washington http://content.lib.washington.edu/kinseyweb/index.html
The Farm Labor Strikes and their Suppresion 1933-1936 in Salinas http://www.farmworkers.org/strugcal.html
History of the Farm Worker Movement as told by Fred Ross, Sr. in 1974http://clnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/themes/ufw/history1.html
San Francisco General Strike of 1934 as reported by Paul Taylor http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/34405.htm
Recommended on Reserve: Victoria Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican women, unionization, and the California food processing industry 1930-1950.
- The League of Nations
Those students interested in how citizens outside the major powers
viewed the League may benefit from looking at J.C. Coyajee, India and
the League of Nations (1932), available from the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/indiaandtheleagu020279mbp .
Coyajee presents a rational discussion of the merits of League membership for
Asian states that have been under colonialism or are independent.
Selective League of Nations research websites: http://www.indiana.edu/~league/
Link to documents of the League of Nations: http://www.indiana.edu/~league/sites_documents.htm
WHO Historical Collection Documents: Includes documents on
malaria and other public health efforts by the League of Nations http://www.who.int/library/collections/historical/en/index4.html
The archived collection of documents of the League of Nations is
maintained by the UN Office at Geneva (UNOG):http://www.unog.ch/library/archives/faq.htm
- The Great Depression 1929-1941
Main page and index (you can search this by location to find photographs of Pacific Northwest, including Clatsop County and the North Coast.
UCLA's Lee Ohanian: Hoover, Roosevelt and the Great Depression (Causes of the Great Depression - market failures of supply and demand. These market failures were a result of well intended but badly designed policies by Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_YMR1Gk2JU
Conversations with History - Interview with David Kennedy, author of Freedom From Fear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2epzw9AWcrM
- Kennedy Assasination and the Deep Politics of Crisis
National
Achives database of documents http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/
Peter Dale Scott
website, articles and book on Deep Politics and the Death of JFK http://www.peterdalescott.net/B-IV.html
See book by Robert
Dallek in CCC library
The
US and Vietnam
A
good historical archive of documents, including the Kennedy NSAM No. 263
directive on 10/11/1963 to withdraw advisors is at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm
Internet Modern
Sourcebook - Asia in the 20th Century - go to Vietnam Sectionhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook52.html
Vassar University
research site on Vietnam http://vietnam.vassar.edu/abstracts/index.html
Texas Tech research site http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/
Vietnam Virtual Archive http://www.virtualarchive.vietnam.ttu.edu/starweb/virtual/vva/servlet.starweb?path=virtual/vva/virtual.web
Comparing US troop
levels with Iraq and Afghanistan (Congressional Research Service Report)http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R40682.pdf
Supplemental
and Suggested Readings:
John
Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of
1929 (1955). (On reserve)
Robert
D. Johnston, The Radical Middle
Class: Populist Democracy and the
Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. (2003)
(On Reserve)
Philip
Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, (1941)
John
Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the film of the same title by
John Ford, (1940).
Ardis
Cameron, Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005) (On reserve)
Jeremy
Suri Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente
(Harvard University Press, 2003).
Internet
Sources and Public Open Library Archives:
Writings of Jane Addams: founder of the Hull House for homeless in
Chicago
New Deal Network: The Great Depression,
the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration
Primary documents and images from the 1930s.
Primary documents and images from the 1930s.
America from the Great Depression
to WWII: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
Affiliated with the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song.
"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
Affiliated with the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song.
The New Deal Stage: Selections
from the Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939
The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Voices
from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker
Collection
Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).
Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).
Woody Guthrie and the Archive of
American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz, 1938-1948
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
FDR Cartoon Archive
Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
"Suffering Under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photos of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz, 1938-1948
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
FDR Cartoon Archive
Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
"Suffering Under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photos of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Atomic Bomb Decision: Documents
on the Decision to Use Atomic Bombs on the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Letter from John Maynard Keynes to Franklin Roosevelt.
Letter from John Maynard Keynes to Franklin Roosevelt.
A History of Jazz
before the 1930s
Index to the National
Civic Foundation Records at the New York Public Library
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