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Women’s clothing loosened their physical constraints: corsets relaxed and hemlines rose
I remember learning about another thing that women started doing was applying their lipstick in public in order to bring attention to their cause
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Addams decided to start her own in Chicago. She returned home and opened Hull House in 1889
A few thing about this were fascinating to me: 1. Perhaps it is simply my mind having a hard time to believe that something like this run by a white woman at the time was completely ethical, but I can't help but question what the house was like for everyone and whether or not those staying at the house were treated ethically. I suppose my question is whether or not the history of the hull house was white washed or not. 2. My second thought was (I've heard of hull house but only under historical references) how the house changed or stayed the same after the passing of Jane Addams; and when did the house meet its end? I was shocked to find that Hull House did not close until 2012
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Ironically, Sinclair’s description of the dangerously unsanitary and inhumane practices of the stockyards and packing plants was even more upsetting to American readers than his exposé of the working conditions
While I know it's not that safe to generalize, I often find that some of the richest people lack the most empathy and when surveying a problem, only think about the parts that affect themselves or just choose not to care because its easier that way.
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article described a fictional “biggest invention of the age”, a new Edison machine that could create forty different kinds of food and drink out of only air, water, and dirt. “Meat will no longer be killed and vegetables no longer grown, except by savag
I mean you gotta giggle at this.
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The growing invisibility of livestock production, slaughterhouses, and industrial food production for urban consumers had enabled unsanitary and unsafe conditions
This particular part of the chapter reminded me of how it is easier to eat foods when we don't know where they came from or pretend not to. Ignorance is bliss. This also reminded me of a video I watched about that begs the question: what will happen to all our farmland when this next generation of farmers retire and big corporations buy up the land?
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- Sep 2024
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Emilio Aguinaldo was inaugurated as president of the First Philippine Republic in late January 1899; fighting between American and Philippine forces began in early February; and in April 1899, Congress ratified the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which gave Spain $20 million in exchange for the Philippine Islands. The United States rethought its promise to hand over the Philippines to the revolutionaries, and Aguinaldo began leading his guerrillas against their new adversary.
I see this as a common pattern throughout history: the U.S. making promises to peoples in exchange for their help and then turning their backs on them. We see this in this case; and we've seen it in how the U.S. treated Hmong people after the Vietnam War
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Roosevelt had been the assistant secretary of the navy but had resigned his position in order to fight in the war. His well-publicized adventures in Cuba made him a national celebrity.
To be completely honest, I has never heard about Teddy Roosevelt's lore so learning this was interesting. People constantly talk about how he was loved by American people (particularly white Americans) but not necessarily how he got to that point. It kinda opened my eyes a little but didn't surprise me seeing as most prominent white figures in history didn't get there ethically. It was also interesting to see him make promises of diplomacy and then start wars behind the guise of "manly protestant duty".
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When Americans intervened in the Middle East, they did it with a conviction in their own superiority.
I hate how the news we're given and the history books we read are all whitewashed to make us somehow believe that America is somehow superior to the rest of the world when we are one of the least safe places to visit and have a deep history of genocide and slavery.
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The word empire typically conjures images of ancient Rome, Genghis Khan, or the British Empire: powers that depended on military conquest, colonization, occupation, or direct resource exploitation. But empires can take many forms and imperial processes occur in many contexts.
this piqued my interest as I have heard numerous Native Americans refer to our part of Turtle Island as the US Empire or American Empire
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The Dakota people were declared outlaws in Minnesota and a $25 bounty was offered per scalp collected
it's crazy how history is constantly rewritten to make brown and indigenous people look like the bad guy when atrocities like this were being committed
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brothels catering to the large population of single miners
I hope we can talk more about the roles women played in history and the jobs they took to get by, especially sex workers
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The Colored Farmers’ Alliance fell into rapid decline after the white Farmer’s Alliance actually attacked the group for sponsoring strikes of cotton pickers.
Time and time again we watch while people function on the beliefs of racism and believing that they are in some way superior. Meanwhile these are the very beliefs that tear us apart and make us weaker, leading to failure of movements for change and loss of our humanity.
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Helen Keller
I really liked learning about Helen Keller's involvement in politics and hope to talk more about disability through history and the development of the ADA. Growing up with epilepsy I liked reading books about Helen Keller but they never discussed her involvement in politics (likely to remain neutral and get a variety of readers) but I think it's important to acknowledge that disabled people are often at the head of movements for change.
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Their dissatisfaction with an erratic and impersonal system put many of them at the forefront of what would become perhaps the most serious challenge to the established political economy of Gilded Age America. Farmers organized and launched their challenge first through cooperatives and the Farmers’ Alliance and later through the politics of the People’s (or Populist) Party
It's fascinating to me that many people who now live in rural areas are conservative, considering that many members of those areas are farmers and farming has such a long history of protest and demand for equality.
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But not everyone was equally excited. The Cleveland Gazette, a black newspaper, argued the statue’s torch should not be lit “until the ‘liberty’ of this country is such to make it possible for an inoffensive and industrious colored man to earn a respectable living for himself and family, without being ku-kluxed, perhaps murdered, his daughter and wife outraged, and his property destroyed.
This reminds me of what Dan said in class about equal opportunity vs equal outcome. When those at the bottom rise to the top who are't white able bodied cis men, more often than not their success is stripped from them in the most volatile of ways (ex: the destruction of black wallstreet)
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State welfare and private charity that prevented the “unfit” from failing would lead to social degeneration by encouraging the survival of the weak.
This "survival of the fittest" idea in relation to capitalism and the way Dan was talking about the thought process in class reminded me of how one has to think about things in order to come to that conclusion. The system is set up to fail for marginalized people so of course straight, cis, able-bodied, white men are the ones who end up majority at the top - not because they're better but because the system is set up for them.
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How did the consolidation of credit and financial markets aid the growth of big business?
It's really fascinating to me how Lincoln and other members of government utilized a federal banking system as a tool to keep the country togther
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Strikers set fire to the Pittsburgh rail yards, destroying dozens of buildings, over a hundred locomotives, and over a thousand cars
this is so fascinating to me because it reminds me of how we are no allowed to effectively protest. The way that policing works, effective protest can't really happen in the U.S. anymore. When people go to extremes (like those climate scientists who set themselves on fire) no one really cares and change doesn't happen. I'd lie to hear any other takes on this
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- Aug 2024
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Image and floor plan of Sears Magnolia kit house from the 1921 Sears Modern Homes catalog
This was interesting to me because my partner lives in one of the bungalow style houses that came in a catalog. This was a fun connection to make.
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