Week Three - Maps and Pictures

Maps and Slides for Week Three

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Duck and Cover video from 1952	Senator Joseph McCarthy	Army-McCarthy Hearings
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - convicted of treason and executed in 1953	United States Interstate Highway system as imagined in 1955	Levittown, New York in 1948. Link goes to New York Times slide show.
1957 Ford Thunderbird - Automobiles, status, and consumption	Downeyville, CA McDonalds Consumer culture meets car culture.	Billy Graham
Postcard of Cypress Gardens - leisure, tourism, and the American road	The open road was often for whites only, however.	Televising consumption to the masses. Television, brand names, advertising and gender.

All photos unless otherwise noted are from wikipedia.org and are considered in the public domain.

All images are considered to be in the public domain qualify for use in a classroom setting under the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law.

The photos of the Army-McCarthy Hearings and the woman with the washing machine are copyright of Life.

The photo of Levittown is copyright of New York Times.

The photo of the tour guide for black people is from a BYU press release announcing the publication of “Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations.”