American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. —James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers” (1963)
Black protest and black representation have always existed in a complex relationship with whiteness and racism. Within that…
Founded in 1910 by the State of Ohio as a normal school to educate teachers, Bowling Green State University has reflected and shaped educational practices and changes throughout its history. Across the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, literacy education has both shaped and been shaped by a…
This digital gallery contains selections from the music fanzine, ROCKRGRL. Images, quotations, complete and partial interviews and articles are intermingled throughout. These items have been curated in order to highlight the feminist aspects of the zine; the gallery is by no means all-encompassing.
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…
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…
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…