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United States Department of Agriculture collection of about 400 photographs which provides a portrait of rural and small town American life mainly in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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hist-feat Most of the photographs on display in this section were taken between 1937 and 1943 during the Farm Security Administration (FSA) era. The entire FSA collection of almost 300,000 pictures are housed at the Library of Congress and the National...Brief essays on a wide range of topics, including public health, conditions of life and labor, economic history, education, and race, class and gender issues.
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
A collection of documents for teaching and learning about world history from a working class perspective.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/
Organizes international, interdisciplinary conferences aimed at furthering the study of medieval gender and sexuality. Information about next conference: 'Seeing Gender', 4-6 January 2002, King's College, London.
http://www.medievalgender.org.uk/
Brief essays on a wide range of topics, including public health, conditions of life and labor, economic history, education, and race, class and gender issues.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/sochistov.html
Text of a 1954 history of sexuality and relationships by Gordon Rattray Taylor critical of their historical repression.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/taylorgr/sxnhst/
A series of illustrated articles on the history of prohibition in the United States from Ohio State University History Department.
http://prohibition.osu.edu/