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A young spinner in Yazoo City

boy at Turkey Knob Mine

How the Progressive era changed child labour in the U.S.

Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.

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Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

What If the President Is Impeached?

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.

9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) (ad 50-54) the fifth Roman emperor (ad 54-68), stepson and heir of the emperor Claudius.

Did Nero Really Fiddle as Rome Burned?

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A young spinner in Yazoo City

boy at Turkey Knob Mine

Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.

How the Progressive era changed child labour in the U.S.

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Key People

Abbott, Grace

Grace Abbott

American social worker

Florence Kelley.

Florence Kelley

American social reformer

Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge

American social reformer

Helen Marot

American author, librarian, and labor organizer

Textile mill worker

Lewis Hine

American photographer