Stuff. And it wasnt just americans who were in the situation but so too were our trading partners around the world. They didnt have enough income to buy all the commodities we were producing in our fields and all the wonderful things our factories were making. So by the end of the 1920s the American Economy went bust. You all know the stock market crashed in 1929 and the World Economy went bust as well, a worldwide economic depression set in that lasted between 1929 and wasnt officially over until 1942. What was called the Great Depression could be considered a crisis of abundance. It brought attention to purchasing power and in doing so it ended up politicizing consumption. We talked a lot about how consumer culture rose to be at the very center of american culture. And i keep telling you we need to consider politics, and today is the day we will think about how consumption became plit politicized. So heres a graphic that typifies the usual story that historians tell about the Great D
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Next on lectures in history, Iowa State University professor carmen bain teaches a class on womens work on family farms during the 20th century. She argues societal expectations for what roles were appropriate for men and women did not reflect the realities of shared farm labor. We are going to do is take a historical view of womens role in u. S. Agriculture. The title for the lecture today on invisible woman comes from a 1983 book, so ancient in your mind, but a book that is over 30 years old by caroline sacks. Carolyn sachsbook was groundbreaking. She was one of the first to examine the contributions of women to u. S. Agriculture, and it was this book that helped launch sociologists and other social scientists and rural historians and so forth, to look at the contributions of women who had largely been invisible up to this time. This is a nod to that groundbreaking book. Why study women in in agriculture . What i have been arguing and what other scholars are arguing is that why we wa
A lecture in history now from Iowa State University professor carmen bain, who taught a class on womens work on family farms during the 20th century and the difference between societal expectations and the realities of shared farm labor. Well, good morning, everyone. Todays lecture is on invisible farmers. And what were going to do today is take a historical overview to look at women and womens role in u. S. Agriculture. And the title for the lecture today on invisible women actually comes from a 1983 book, so ancient in your mind, but a book thats over 30 years old, by carolyn sex. And her book was really groundbreaking in that she was one of the first to examine the contributions of women to u. S. Agriculture, and it was this book that actually helped launch work by sociologists and other social scientists, rural historians and so forth, to look at the contribution of women that had largely been invisible up to this time. So this is a nod to that groundbreaking book. So, one of the q
Finally frame for this data. I refer this over the utility in. Comments when the movie Hidden Figures came out it showed everyone who Catherine Johnson was what she did and how profound she was in the pages of american history. Catherine was hired as what they call then a computer. Where she simply came in and did mathematical type of equations for nasa. What they didnt realize, she was more than just a computer she was a mathematical genius. Thats what she was. In fact jon glenn, who said this computer thing, not catherine, this actual computer that was built, calculated his actual trajectory into space, and he wanted that verified by Catherine Johnson. Heres the important part, he didnt ask the mathematicians from mit, he didnt ask the mathematicians from stanford or harvard, he asked the brilliant mathematician from West Virginia university, to calculate my trajectory and make sure i get home safe. That says a lot about what catherine was not only to nasa, but what she meant to the