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SoundSite's brief history of Audio, Video, and Film Technologies.
Michael Selig's "History and Subjectivity, Part I: What We Won't Learn from the Hollywood-Style Vietnam War Film," from The Viet Nam Generation Big Book, Volume 5 Number 1-4, March 1994.
IMITATION OF LIFE
Learn more about the study of film at the American Film Institute site.
Further Readings: Lucy Fischer, ed., Imitation of Life (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Oress, 1991). GENERAL 1914-1939 THE CASE OF THE "SCOTTSBORO BOYS" http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/scottsboro.html Jane Addams, "Why Women Should Vote," 1915 http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/adda_a03.htm Alice Stone Blackwell, "Objections Answered," 1915 http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/blac_a05.htm Carrie Chapman Catt, "Do You Know?" 1915 http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/catt_a07.htm Woodrow Wilson, "Fourteen Points," 8 January 1918 http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/wils_a23.htm Franklin D. Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address," 4 March 1933 http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/roos_a76.htm African American History http://www.kaiwan.com/%7Emcivr/history.html Flapper Culture and Style Page http://www.pandorasbox.com/flapper.html Tim Dirks's appreciation for The Birth of a Nation http://www.filmsite.org/birt.html Modernism Timeline, 1890-1940 http://weber.u.washington.edu/~eckman/frames/ftimeline.html Learn more about the study of film at the American Film Institute site.
Women's History African-American Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html National Museum of Women in the Arts http://www.nmwa.org/ Women Artists Archive http://libweb.sonoma.edu/special/waa/ Women Writers Archive http://libweb.sonoma.edu/special/women.html Women Composers http://205.164.146.241/Tango/Tango.acgi$/Hildegard/composer.qry?function=search Civil War Women's archival collections http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium/civil-war-women.html Civil War Women Site http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html The Ladies Union Aid Society (LUAS) of St. Louis (civil war) http://fv.stlcc.cc.mo.us/mfuller/luas/ Women Come to the Front (wwII) http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html Women's Land Army (farm emergency labor, WWII) http://159.121.28.251/osuwla.html Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter http://orchard.cortland.edu/gilmannews/gilmannews95.html Educational reformer Mary Lyon, founder of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary http://www.mtholyoke.edu/marylyon/ Architect Julia Morgan http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/spec_coll/morgan/index.html Brief overview of American Women's History http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm Danuta Bois's Distinguished Women of Past and Present Site http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/ Brief biography of Women's Historian Mary Beard http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/beard.html Jewish Women's History http://shamash.org/jwa/ Women's History Magazine on Women and work http://www.thehistorynet.com/WomensHistory/ Foreign travelers to the US in the 19th century comment on the status of women http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/detoc/fem/home.htm Papers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1848-1921 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshom.html The Declaration of Sentiments http://guinan.cc.rochester.edu/SBA/convent.html History of the Suffrage Movement http://guinan.cc.rochester.edu/SBA/hisindx.html Women's Rights National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/wori/ Brief biography of Margaret Sanger http://www.thomson.com/gale/sangerm.html Anarchist and birth control activist Emma Goldman Papers http://sunsite/berkeley.edu/Goldman/ Birth control activist Margaret Sanger Papers http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/ Flapper Culture and Style Page http://www.pandorasbox.com/flapper.html "Ahead of their Time," a brief history of woman suffrage in Illinois http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/%7Esorensen/suff.html Scary Women: Female Monsters and Fiends in American Film