Determined to be Heard: Challenging the Melting Pot Ideal
The determination of minority groups to forge a stronger cultural identity challenges the idea of the "melting pot" and becomes a threat to the idea of America for some citizens. Historian Gary Gerstle compares two very different Italian filmmakers:...
Collapse of Peace, The: Revitalizing Japan
Secretary of State Dean Atchison tells MacArthur that it is time to reverse existing policies and allow Japan to strengthen and centralize its economy. MacArthur resists strategy, bit within three years of the war's end the United States is rehabili...
New Corporate Order, A: Beginnings of the Union Movement
Working men and women attempt to fight back against poor working conditions by adopting some of the same tactics their employers use, repeatedly trying to organize themselves in order to force change. Some early unions like the Knights of Labor enjo...
Meeting Ground, The: Anti-Chinese Sentiments
When the Transcontinental Railroad is completed, Chinese laborers settle in cities like San Francisco to work in such industries as shoe- or cigar-making. This causes such deep resentment among white laborers that Chinese workers are relegated to se...
Meeting Ground, The: Violence Against Chinese Grows
In order to survive in an unfriendly atmosphere, Chinese immigrants bond together, often living in enclaves referred to as Chinatowns. This protective gesture creates a new round of stereotypes about who they are and what their intentions are. Their...
Meeting Ground, The: Chinese Migration, The
Like generations of immigrants before them, the Chinese cross the Pacific looking for a better life than they could hope to find in their homeland. Relatively few arrive in California before the Gold Rush, but after 1848 the numbers increase dramati...
America in a World At War: Internment of Japanese Americans, The
The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese has devastating repercussions for Japanese-Americans living in the United States. More than 100,000 Issei and Nisei who live along the West Coast are rounded up and taken to relocation centers in February ...