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Latest Entry from Now and Then:Teaching Braceros in History and Song (posted Mon, 08 Feb 2010)Mexicans and Mexican Americans contributed in many ways to the United States’ war effort during World War II. About 19% of all Mexican Americans signed up for the armed forces; nearly 17,000 Mexican Americans in Los Angeles worked in the area’s shipyards, airfields, and armaments factories. So many Mexican American women helped build ships that people coined the local nickname “Rosita the Riveter.” The bracero program arranged for thousands of agricultural workers to come to the United States. To encourage participation and cooperation, the Office of War Information issued this. . . [More] |
The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is
dedicated to renewing interest in history by challenging traditional ways
that people learn about the past. Founded in 1981 and based at the City
University of New York Graduate Center, ASHP/CML produces print, visual,
and multimedia materials that explore the richly diverse social and cultural
history of the United States. We also lead professional development
seminars that help teachers to use the latest scholarship, technology,
and active learning methods in their classrooms.
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Youth on the RoadContinuing our theme of responses to the Great Depression of the 1930s, this month’s highlighted items focus on the responses of young men and women to the economic pressures they... [More] |
