The “Platinum Age” was coined to group comics or proto-comics published before the mid-1930s, but I’ve not seen a start year earlier than 1882. I’ve also seen the “Victorian Age” refer to works published from 1840 to 1897, due mostly to the existence of Rodolphe Töpffer and ...
As theU.S. economyexpanded beyond farming and basic manufacturing in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it became important forbusinessesto find consumers interested in buying the products and services being produced in ever greater amounts. Shortening the work week was one way of turning the wor...
In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s a number of electoral reforms were carried out: poll taxes were abolished, the legal minimum voting age was lowered to 18, and the literacy requirement was dropped. However, there are still numerous means of preventing citizens, especially Negroes, from ...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Russia witnessed a significant transformation in animal breeding thanks to the innovative ideas of Ivanow. His contributions to artificial insemination (AI) were far-reaching, as he developed new animal breeding methods that propelled Russia to the forefront of ...
The basic idea was to use money collected from the federal tax on gasoline and diesel fuel to pay for construction and maintenance of federal highways. When the interstate highway system was completed back in the early 1990s, this obviously meant that less funding was needed. But the ...
In the early 20th century, T-shirts started to gain popularity among the military. Soldiers found them convenient and practical during training and combat. Their simple design allowed for easy movement. It was not until the 1950s that T-shirts really entered the mainstream fashion scene. Hollywoo...
KIERNAN: Charles Irons, the University of Elon professor we heard from just a little while back, shared what he knew about the early Black pastors and their journey in trying to disentangle white supremacy from Christianity. IRONS: One of the characteristics of this whole first generation of Bl...
stored in icehouses until summer when it was needed to keep food cool. In earlier years horse drawn plows used to score the ice for cutting, by the early 1940’s they used gasoline powered equipment to create a grid and the first cuts in the ice. Listen to learn about this bygone era...
Such a movement managed to make health “public” and as such, a critical state concern. Thus, the early twentieth century was a time of transformation and investment for the care of the mentally ill in the context of public hygiene actions that were developed under President Rodrigues Alves’...
Related Were New Immigrants Discriminated Against in Late 1800s & Early 1900s?German immigrants were an important subset of American culture from before the Revolution, but they made their greatest impact beginning in the 1840s and 1850s, when over a million migrated to the U.S., primarily ...