How a statue representing well-functioning government ended up in a cemetery
Seeing America – Periods: 1898-1945
What will technology bring us? A more egalitarian society, a world where everyone can be educated? Or will it bring greater inequality? We still debate these issues...
Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe
The Port of Havana, cigar shops, and Cuban independence
Cuban cigars, Cuban independence
A modernism emerges from tourism, boarding schools & indigenous traditions
The pueblo modernism of Ma Pe Wi
The awesome beauty of a large hole in the earth, dug to bring railroads to Manhattan.
Before Penn Station, Bellows & old NYC
Kuniyoshi came to the US as a teen and loved his adopted country, but was considered a possible enemy during WWII.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Little Joe with Cow
The awesome steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1920s made an impression on the young Elsie Driggs.
Elsie Driggs, Blast Furnaces
Beyond the street of New York, Bellows grapples with the horrors of the First World War
Beyond New York, Bellows & World War ...
Was this the first modern photograph? Alfred Stieglitz's The Steerage
The first modern photograph?
Meet the two women behind this iconic 1936 photograph.
Migrant Mother, behind the Icon
Cats, gossip, and laundry — a view of Los Angeles during the Great Depression.
Resilience during the Great Depression
The sensations of the streets of New York City
Celebrating the modern city
When movies were new and lights transformed the darkened city streets.
Going to the movies in 1913
This dazzling, prismatic, brilliant cut glass creates a universe of pattern and reflection.
American brilliance
One of two panels to survive the Texas Centennial, pointing to a future free of racism.
A beacon of hope
Aaron Douglas's paintings at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition focused on how the rich African past inspired a bright future for African Americans, even in the midst of Jim Crow and the Great Depression.
APUSH: KC-7.2.I.B
TEKS: 113.41.(24)(B)
APUSH: KC-7.2.I.B
TEKS: 113.41.(24)(B)
Teaching guide
Aaron Douglas, Aspiration
African Americans' ongoing fight against racism in the U.S. undermined the sense of victory in both world wars.
Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice
Pippin fought bravely in World War I, but he and other African American soldiers did not receive a hero's welcome when they returned to the United States. Incorporating this history into his 1943 painting, Pippin places racism and segregation among the forces aligned against Allied victory in World War II.
APUSH: KC-7.2.II.C, KC-7.3.III.C.i
TEKS: 113.41.(7)(F)
APUSH: KC-7.2.II.C, KC-7.3.III.C.i
TEKS: 113.41.(7)(F)
Teaching guide
Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice
Rockwell's painting of Rosie the Riveter captured the power felt by the unprecedented number of women in the workforce during World War II. But how accurately did it depict the experiences of the diverse women who contributed to the war effort?
APUSH: KC-7.3.III.C.i
TEKS: 113.41.(17)(A)
APUSH: KC-7.3.III.C.i
TEKS: 113.41.(17)(A)
Teaching guide
Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter
The brutal history of Mexico told through fresco in Depression era New York.
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