Cities, Immigrants and Progressivism (Feb 20 & 22)
by Dr. H - February 15th, 2019
Chapters 18 and 19 explore the period at the end of the 19th century and before World War I through the lens of urban life, immigrant experiences, and reform movements often lumped together as “Progressivism.”
Monday, Feb 18: No Class, University Holiday
Download questions to help structure your textbook note-taking and studying of Chapters 18 and 19.
Wednesday, Feb 20: Reading is Chapter 18. Remember that Constitutions Module #1 is due on Blackboard by 11:59 tonight.
Links for today:
NY Tenement Museum
Emma Lazarus’s poem written in honor of the Statue of Liberty, 1883
Friday, Feb 22: Reading is Chapter 19.
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York City, 1892
Link for today:
The National Memorial to Peace and Justice (anti-lynching), opened 2018 in Montgomery Alabama
