The 1960s was a complex time period, with its movements and culture extending beyond the end of the decade. The pages that follow provide an exploration into some of the social issues that dominated the time period, such as racism, the Vietnam War, and police brutality, as well as the feminist, drug…

Welcome to this local German-American perspective on World War I, published shortly after the United States entered the war. These texts from the Rochester Abendpost (May 5, 1917) have never been translated. During Spring Semester 2018, a team of advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the…

This exhibit on the "Francophone Mediterranean" will introduce you to several facets of the French-speaking, Western part of the Mediterranean world, connecting France and the Maghreb, in particular, Algeria. The first "wing" of this virtual museum represents Mediterranean and southern French…

Officially, American women began an organized fight for the right to vote in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention convened by abolitionists Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. While the movement experienced ebbs and flows, fractious in-fighting, and splintered competing organizations,…

The purpose of the Digital Gallery project is to examine how certain artifacts can reflect particular viewpoints on the African American experience. In examining these artifacts, undergraduate students were asked to consider the point of the view of the people who created them and of the intended…

Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, massive social, economic, and political shifts forced a radical reorientation of American identity. Mass immigration, rapid industrialization, and the rise of American imperialism occasioned new debates about the definition of American identity. In…