Social History

Online exhibit at Cornell University which explores the question: "What was home economics?"

Humorous articles about cinema, people, trends and fads that shape our modern world.

Online community celebrating pop-culture phenomena. Topics are organized by decade and include TV, lunch boxes, and toys.

Multi-media tours of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Includes views of music, lifestyles, fashion, and fads of the three decades.

Provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture in the US.

Information about this prison reformer and minister of the Religious Society of Friends.

Resources including slave narratives, biographies of abolitionists, images, poetry, links, and further readings.

An overview that includes the impact of Hammurabi, the cult of Anu, the triads, and a chronology.

Extensive article on the revolution and counter-revolution in France.

Statement in court prior to being sentenced to hang for his role in the alleged Haymarket Conspiracy.

Jenny B. Wahl of Carleton College describes the spread of slaveholding, its legal, social, and economic underpinnings, with graphs and tables of statistics.

Article describing her life (ca. 2300 BC) and work (hymns to Inanna).

A church history study guide on ancient Greek Religion.

Complete text of the Ani Papyrus translated by Neil Parker.