Episodes Nearest to January 1, 1907 to December 31, 1907: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Parents learn their child has died
    date 1907map Hennepin, Minnesotatags Health Care, Cultural Assimilation, Boarding Schools, Native Americans

    In 1907, the parents of a Native American child Lizzie received a heartbreaking letter. The letter was from the superintendent of the Flandreau Boarding School where Lizzie attended. The Superintendent wrote that Lizzie had died from slow tuberculosis days before the letter was written. In the letter he claimed that he had been away at the time of Lizzie’s death, and was unable to write her mother...

  2. Reconstruction Brings Important Social Changes for Former Slaves
    date 1906tags African-Americans, Education, Slavery

    The first great expansion in African American higher education came after the Civil War during the Reconstruction era. A photograph taken by the Jefferson Studios of Richmond, Virginia, captured this period of immense social change. The photograph portrayed the graduating class of an unidentified college for African-Americans in Richmond. The class was composed of approximately 50 students, 33 of...

  3. WilliamHoward Taft Our Foreign Dependencies
    date September 5, 1908map Bath, Virginiatags American Intervention, Foreign Dependencies, William Howard Taft, Political Speech, Foreign Politics

    The whiny dulcets tones belonging to presidential hopeful William Howard Taft argued his stance on American Imperialism from a recorded speech given on September 05, 1908 in Hot Springs, Virginia. The recording known as, “Our Foreign Dependencies: Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines” comes from the Library of Congress National Jukebox. Recorded on a Victor Talking Machine the recording lasted...

  4. The Ruinous Earthquake
    date April 21, 1906map Alameda, Californiatags Earthquake, Urban Life/Boosterism, Fremont

    The great 1906 earthquake turned the thriving city of San Francisco, California, into a sea of flames on the morning of April 18, 1906. However, the earthquake’s effects were more far-reaching than just the city of San Francisco itself. While Oakland was rather fortunate and did not sustain a large amount of damage, in San Jose “few buildings…escaped injury, and the death toll [was] not small.”...

  5. Narrative of Caroline Woodhams during the 1906 Earthquake
    date April 18, 1906 to April 20, 1906map San Francisco, California, San Mateo, Californiatags San Francisco, Earthquake, Natural Disaster

    The Impact and Memories of the

    1906 Earthquake

     

    The great earthquake of April 18, 1906, made the San Francisco Bay Area internationally famous in the geological world. It was also the greatest ever observed by man. The San Andreas Fault and Hayward fault were the main sources for the catastrophe (Howard). Many people lost their lives, homes, and loved ones. Victims of the...

  6. The Effects of a Natural Disaster.
    date April 18, 1906map San Francisco, Californiatags Earthquake, San Francisco

    “I was certainly sleeping soundly, when, at 5:13 A.M. I was suddenly and rudely awakened by something falling on me, and the most awful pitching, and rocking, and swaying, and jarring of the whole bed and building” recounted in a letter from, presumably, Mary E. Pease, a nurse who was to live through the catastrophe of the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco.

    She was at the time staying...

  7. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
    date December 6, 1904map Washington City, District Of Columbiatags Theodore Roosevelt, Monroe Doctrine, Corollary, Roosevelt Corollary, Venezuela Crisis

    The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 written to achieve a separation from Europe became a way for the U.S. to refrain from interfering in European matters and to keep Europe from colonizing the Americas any further. In 1895, Secretary of State Richard Olney took the Monroe Doctrine a step further and claimed that the U.S. could in fact interfere in Latin American affairs when necessary. President Theodore...

  8. Changes to School Regulations in North Carolina
    date September 8, 1904map Robeson, North Carolinatags Education Legislation, Education Law, Public Schools, Education

    In September of 1904 The Robesonian published a list of suggested rules and regulations from the State Education Department.  In the article was a reminder to county superintendents that State Statutes gave them the authority to adopt all or some of the suggested rules at their discretion.  The rules and regulations published in The Robesonian in 1904 bear little resemblance...

  9. Tenement Homework and the Exploitation of Child Labor
    date 1910map New York, New Yorktags Child Labor, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The image of a mother, father, and their three young children huddled around a small table in a dimly lit, overcrowded tenement tediously sewing garments into the early hours of the morning is not unique to the photographs captured by Lewis Hine. Hine's work often demonstrated the dignity of the worker, but reflected the purposes of those who hired him. Hines was surrounded by and influenced...

  10. Seminole Indian churches
    date 1910map Brevard, Floridatags Church

    Edward P. Hooker is the chairman of the State Congregational Association in Florida. He organises the churches help towards the Seminoles. He helps provide for the Seminole Indians educationally and religiously. Edward P. Hooker is a Christian but unlike many white southerners he is open to many other religions and does not force Christianity upon the Indians who get help from his missionaries....

  11. Advertising Cookbook - Sunkist
    date 1910map Santa Barbara, Californiatags Cookbooks, Advertising

    During the turn of the 20th century, a curious artifact began to emerge on the publication scene, a document known as an advertising cookbook.   These were published by any number of manufactures and were meant to highlight the specific uses of their product in everyday cooking.  “Recipes for Dainty Dishes: Culinary, Toilet and Medicinal Hints”, published in 1910 by the California...

  12. Jane Addams takes a look back at Hull-House, twenty years later.
    date 1910map Cook, Illinoistags Immigrants, Women, Jane Addams, Hull House, Social Movement, Social Settlement

    In Twenty Years at Hull-House, Jane Addams reflected that after twenty years, Hull-House held true to its charter: “To provide a center for the higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.” However, she realized some changes had taken place at Hull-House. ...

  13. The Brute vs. the Uncle Tom: Fighting for American Respect
    date July 4, 1910map New York, New York, Washoe, Nevadatags African American, Sports, Boxing

         Two men stand between the ropes among a crowd of blood thirsty white faces. In the United States, a black man physically assaulting a white man would have resulted in a lynching; however, when colorful trunks and padded gloves are added to the skirmish, the event becomes a spectacle. 

         Late Victorian culture identified the powerful, large male body of the heavyweight prizefighter...

  14. African-American Pastors Develop the ‘Black Temperance Movement’
    date August 14, 1910map Jefferson, Alabamatags Church/Religious-Activity, Temperance Movement, Prohibition, african americans, Race Relations

    A flyer stating “Colored Citizens Mass Meeting” describes the movement of African-American pastors to change the view of the “Negro Race.”. The flyer describes the place and time that congregations would meet and the objectives of the meeting. The meeting was called in an attempt to “protest against colored women visiting barrooms and barroom premises [and] also against children visiting...

  15. A Protest Against the Burning and Lynching of Negros by Booker T. Washington
    date February 29, 1904map Jefferson, Alabamatags Booker T. Washington, Lynching

    Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and political activist.  Although born a slave in 1856, he and his family were later emancipated but still lived in poverty.  Determined to get an education, Washington started work at the age of nine to put himself through school.  After his extensive education, Washington would later be chosen to be the first head of what is now Tuskegee...

  16. Induction into Aviation: OrvilleWright’s Telegram Announcement of Successful Air-Flight at Kitty Hawk, NorthCarolina in 1903
    date December 17, 1903map Dare, North Carolinatags Transportation/Migration, Kitty Hawk, Wright Brothers

    A son’s personal triumph announced in a Western Union telegram to his father marked the successful induction of aviation in America. It exemplified the power-driven zest for new machinery in the early 1900s. “Received by Bishop M. Wright on December 17, 1903, from his son Orville Wright”, the document explained briefly the accomplished experiment conducted by the young pilot. The telegram...

  17. The Panama Canal Convention
    date November 18, 1903map Washington City, District Of Columbiatags Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal, Panama Canal Convention, Isthmus of Panama, Philippe BunauVarilla

    The United States of America and President Theodore Roosevelt worked for years to gain access and control of a small isthmus in Panama. The isthmus gave the U.S. a strategic advantage over other countries, not just militarily but commercially as well. After long talks and many treaties the Republic of Panama agreed to meet. The United States agreed upon allowing the Republic of Panama to maintain...

  18. Triangle Factory Fire
    date March 25, 1911map New York, New Yorktags Immigration, historical memory

    The immigrant women working in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory called it a "prison." Its safety and working conditions were abysmally low, but these conditions were not unique: New York was an epicenter for industrialization, containing thousands of unsafe factories filled with recent immigrants. In 1909, many factory workers organized a strike to protest unsafe conditions, and most factories met their...

  19. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911
    date March 25, 1911map New York, New Yorktags Bureau of Fire Prevention, New York City 1900s

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911

    By: Louis Daleandro


    Within fifteen minutes, a massive fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City in 1911.  Dubbed a model of modern efficiency, the Triangle factory was large in scale as were the specially designed bins that held hundreds of pounds of scrap cotton and tissue paper.   The blaze that ensued...

  20. The Catastrophic Triangle Factory Fire: A Catalyst for Progressive Reform
    date March 25, 1911map New York, New Yorktags Catastrophic event, Labor Reform, Progressive Era

    The dreadful sounds of death hit the ground as smoke poured from the ten-story building.  William Shepherd, journalist for Milwaukee Journal, describes moment by moment the horrible events he witnessed on that tragic day in Washington Square, New York when fire engulfed the factory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.  It was Saturday, March 25, 1911 just around 4:30 PM, closing time, when fire...

  21. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
    date March 25, 1911map New York, New Yorktags factory fire, Triangle Fire

    On March 26, 1911, the New York Times reported on a disastrous fire in a Manhattan building.  According to the article, the previous day, a fire had broken out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Asch Building located near Washington Square in Manhattan.  Although the building had been declared fireproof, contents within the buildings 8th, 9th, and 10th...

  22. Banner Mine Tragedy
    date April 8, 1911map Jefferson, Alabamatags banner mine, Convict Labor

     

    On April 8, 1911 the Banner Mine ignited killing 128 convict laborers.  The actual cause of death was attributed to blackdamp asphyxiation.  Blackdamp is a mixture of unbreathable poisonous gases which displaces oxygen.  "Clark McCormick, accompanied by former miner J.R. Baird, went into the mine.  Their first discovery was less than reassuring.  Not far from the mine entrance...

  23. The history of African Americans in film
    date 1903map Los Angeles, Californiatags Black History, Black Theater, Black film

    On July 26, 1971, Time Magazine produced an article stating, “people are running to the theaters to see the new black heroes.” Never before had blacks been seen in this kind of action, however it was not always like that.

    In 1903, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, starred the first black actor to ever appear on screen. During that era African American roles were very limited to playing the...

  24. Middle-Class Blacks on Lynching
    date August 31, 1911map New Hanover, North Carolinatags middle-class, Lynching, african americans

    “The key to success for our race depends not on uprising and quarrels, but on the obedience to law and order.” Doctor W.M. Alexander echoed these words throughout a congregation of 500 prominent African American men at a conference in Wilmington. During the discussions on lynching and the crime rate among African Americans, Alexander argued to his constituents that submission to law was the...

  25. Lumbee Education in Segregated North Carolina
    date September 5, 1911map Robeson, North Carolinatags Normal school, Lumbee, Segregation, Indians

    “The State is in earnest in her effort to educate all of her children” declared H. L. Edens on September 5, 1911. The remark was made in an announcement that declared the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, which would later become the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, had been accepted “as a State institution.”

    In a time in which the South was entrenched deeply in the...