To think about what i think its core dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important. And they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. So again, throughout class today be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressism, which i think aptly summed up the way that the historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressive his. Who counted, when it started. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others define it much more broadly. So for me in this class this is how im going to define progressivism. In the broadest sense,
Right during the 1920s. Republican president s, fairly conservative ones, were elected by landslides, 1920, 1924, and 1928. Congress was in control of the republicans throughout the 1920s. With support of congress, republican president s signed bills which rolled back the income tax increases that were passed during world war i. And the leading social movements on the left, labor unions and the socialist party, both lost members during the war. In fact, the socialist party was never really a factor in american politics, again, after the 1920 election. And people on the left generally, whether people we now consider to be liberals, former progressives or radicals all on the defensive during the 1920s. The most popular president in the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge, took office in 1923 when harden died of a heart attack and was reelected in 1924. Famously said in the mid1920s, the business of america is business. It was a prosperous time for a lot of americans, though, certainly not all. Stock
Unequal distribution of wealth led to the Great Depression. Her class is about 75 minutes. Weve spent the last few weeks considering how americans adapted to abundance between the 1890s and 1920s. Despite the efforts of producers, advertisers, of retailers and of others, the supply of goods continue to outstrip demand. This wasnt because all everyone, all 106 million americans, had everything they needed. It was because they didnt have adequate purchasing power. They didnt have adequate wages or income to buy all of that stuff. And it wasnt just americans who were in this situation, but so too were our trading partners around the world. They didnt have enough income to buy all of the commodities we were producing in our fields and all of the wonderful things that we are our factories were making. So by the end of the 1920s, the American Economy went bust. You guys all know this. You all know that the stock get crashed in 1929. The World Economy went bust as well. A worldwide economic d
Traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning everybody. The topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. But gold played a very, very Important Role in American History. Think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. An unquenchable desire for Precious Metals, gold above all, but also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold wa
I wanted to highlight that intimate moment behindthescenes and the friendship that did transpire between a lot of the indian performers and cody. Learn more about the national oneum of American Indians american artifacts. Here on American History tv. Here at the American Museum of history, let me begin with the pandemic and how it has impacted the museum and your division in particular. We are working mostly. Our Museum Closed in march, but we began thinking about the pandemic in january. We are a division of medical historians and we tend to follow the news pretty carefully, especially news about Public Health. So we actually reached out and began speaking with the Public Health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we hav