The process of industrialization changed the nature of work, working conditions, and the composition of America’s workforce. We analyze labor’s struggle to organize, management’s fierce resistance to their efforts, and the status of the American worker by the end of the nineteenth century. – Watch the video about “Labor ‘struggle” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1M4LHDNkk&t=136s Questions: Why this specific […]

For this assignment you are going to look at the art and architecture created by the people we are studying this semester. Art is not just fun to look at, it tells us something significant about the people that created it. This is a chance for you to look at the objects people created in […]

Watch   Film: Zombieland (2009), and write short-answer for 4 questions below.   (Consider how survivors consume during the zombie apocalypse across time.) 1) What are the different ways that the survivors “consume” while in the Keno Sabe store in Arizona? 2) How would the survivors from Dawn of the Dead have acted differently? (Fleischer uses an amusement park rather […]

 Who or what was the “New Scare” or menace in America during the early Cold War era? Who or what was the “New Scare” or menace in America during the early Cold War era? How did images and popular culture shape Americans’ ideas about the Soviet Union and the atomic bomb? 1. Define communism. 2. […]

Prompt: You work as a volunteer intern in a museum that is about to host an exhibition on the body in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The exhibition will include all the relevant visual material from the Iron Age (not material from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age). The director of the department for […]