Research Category

The history, anthropology, and sociology interests me the most because i have never thought about how truly climate has played a role in history. Now that i think about it a few examples come to mind, but i know there are much larger scenarios in which the climate had a large role in events that have changed the way we live today and in the future.

Climate

Hot- One of the basic factors in determining the climate of a area
Cold-One of the basic factors in determining the climate of a area
Global Warming-This came to mind because it is a big area of debate today and is used frequently.
Change- I thought of this because the climate is always changing and that is talked about a lot.
Human- Us humans can affect the climate in various ways.

Are the humans affecting the climate or is it just natural?Or a combination of both?

1930s reading

Read about the Great Depression (Links to an external site.).  According to this article, what was wrong with President Hoover's response?  Why did people blame themselves when things went wrong, and how valid or invalid was this response?

   According to this article Hoover underestimated the seriousness of the crisis and people didnt think it was the governments job to help the citizens in that situation. People blamed themselves when things went wrong due to men being expected to hold up the family, and it was humiliating to have to ask for assistance. It was invalid because while people some people did go out of control to cause it, not all did.

Read about Black Sunday (Links to an external site.). How would you have felt if you'd been there on that day? What kinds of fears, concerns, or questions would be going through your mind during, and after, the event described?

    Had i been there i would be very afraid of the storm. I would have feared people being suffocated or buried to death by the dust and if i would be making it out alive. After i would wonder who lived and didnt. 

Read about The Drought (Links to an external site.).  What areas were affected by it?  What caused it.  The author ends this article with a pithy quote.  Do you agree or disagree with this historian's perspective? Why or why not?

The western part of kansas, northern two thirds of texas panhandle, southeastern colorado, the Oklahoma pan handle, and northeastern new mexico were affected by the drought. It was caused by a combination of drought and misuse. I agree with the quote because America wasnt thinking about the side effects of what they were doing, causing the issues. 

Read about Mass Exodus from the Plains (Links to an external site.).  Were does the migration of people out of the Dust Bowl rank in terms of other migrations in US History?  What made life hard for people once they arrived in California?

The dust bowl exodus is ranked as the largest migration in U.S. history. Life was hard in california because many farms there were corporate owned and the farming techniques and products were different than what the people from the dust bowl knew. They had to eventually give up farming and move into shacks in the city.

Radio Research

First licensed radio was the KDKA in 1920 in Pittsburg which broadcasted a 18 hours marathon about the election results between presidential candidates Harding and Cox. Harding ended up becoming the first president to broadcast over radio with a international address heard by people in europe, japan, south and central america. in 1922 political conventions were broadcasted over the radio during the nomination season. By 1924 the number of licensed stations was 500, from the previous 5 in 1921. By 1930 more than 40 percent of American households owned a radio, by 1940 it doubled. Some saw radio as a good thing, as a national town meeting, while others saw it as a threat, saying it would go under control of things such as fascism, communism, and corrupt capitalism. While the radio became popular during the great depression, many worked to get one due to it being a form of endless entertainment. In the 1930s the average listeners spent more than 4 hours a day listening to the radio. Some of the first politicians to adopt radio were Huey Long and Floyd B Olson. The radios eventually became the newspapers source for stories due to its quick delivery.

1920s education

The 1920s was a great time of change for the United States. There were many advances in the time in areas such as religion, recreation and more, but today i will be focusing on the category of education. One of the most notable successes of the 20s was America’s economic prosperity, with more jobs, more money, and the new middle class. The middle class was made up of Americans working mainly white collar jobs, that was due to the rise in education at the time. Over the decade of the 1920s the number of high school students doubled from 2.2 million to more than 5 million, along with the college and universities attendance which tripled from 600000 in 1918 to 1.2 million in 1930. Due to the large change at the time, education provided the modern economy the skills it demanded in fields such as management, engineering, and economics. The rise in middle income jobs provided the government with more tax money, which in turn helped improve the already growing education system.  Due to students of the same age being grouped together at schools and colleges, a new social group was formed, distinct to the period of adolescence. The new period not only provided students with a time and place to prepare for the workplace but also as a area to develop themselves in ways such as social groups, hobbies, and interests. A large increase in activities such as fraternities, sororities, and organized sports helped shape the view of college that many of us have today. The 20s was the time of some of the most famous authors in existence such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. And while many of the authors might not have been young enough to receive an education from the new system, it provided them with a much larger customer base due to more people being able to read. With the popularity of learning growing, scientist were given a greater opportunity to share their learnings, one in particular being the english naturalist, Charles Darwin. With more people understanding science, Darwin’s theories of evolution gained support, causing issues with those defending traditional faith, also known as fundamentalist. The fundamentalist followed the bible literally, meaning science clearly went against their beliefs such as Adam and Eve. The issue caused numerous debates such as the famous Scopes trial, which helped put an end to the fundamentalists theories, but in the end was also connected to learning. Without the new education system of the 1920s, the decade would not have been the time of prosperity and change it is seen as today, in turn changing the economically prosperous country we know today.

Book Review

"Professional Women and the flapper: image and reality" by Kaisey Showers easily captures the change taking place in the 1920s with a story of a young woman adapting to the new norms of the time. It greatly describes the beginning of a new time in America, particularly for young middle to working class women.

"Love in the Renaissance" by Alexa Nunn Portrays the jazz age of the 1920s with a romantic story about a african american singer, one of the many facing the racial struggle at the time. While displaying the history of the harlem renaissance, it also shows the true origin of jazz music.

Book

My book tells the story of the rise and fall of the KKK.