Category Archives: HIS304-S2006

Reading for Wednesday

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For Wednesday, 3/22, read David Goldberg, "Nordics to the Front." This is available in Electronic Course Reserve, but it is in the course folder for HIS400 not HIS304 (as it should be.)

For Friday, 3/24, please read as follows:
Group 1    Alison Isenberg, Downtown America, Chapter 2
Group 2   Alison Isenberg, Downtown America, Chapter 3
Group 3    Liz Cohen, Encountering Mass Culture
Group 4    Michael Johns, Moments of Grace, Chapter 1
Group 5    Kenneth Kolson, Cleveland as a City Beautiful

See the Great Migration Image on this Blog, and comment.

Great Migration & Cleveland

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To the right is an image
commissioned by the Future Outlook League by Charles in 1952. The image
was found on the wall of a barbershop in Cleveland. It now resides in
the Western Reserve Historical Society.

Read this image in the
context of the Great Migration. What do you see? What symbols are
prominent? How does it tell the story of the Great Migration? CLICK HERE TO LINK TO A LARGER VERSION.

Be prepared to discuss in class on Monday, March 20, 2006.

Click the image at right for a larger copy, in FLICKR; the photo at right is by Charles for the Future Outlook League, from the collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society.