About:
This is a small project inspired by Professor Christen Mucher’s course at Smith College, Trade & Theft in Early America, and by A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing, an amazing public history project co-directed by Professors Jennifer Guglielmo and Michelle Joffroy, also at Smith College. Professor Diana Sierra Becerra worked on the domestic workers’ timeline as project coordinator, and introduced me to public history. She now teaches at UMass Amherst. I want to be any of them when I grow up.
My intent for this project was to distill the timeline of a major American historical narrative down to its simplest form, to point out an obvious and undeniable flow.
All of the facts presented here are easily verifiable with a Google search. For many of these things, there are links to primary sources, or digital versions on public record. An index is included on the last slide.
All of the images were generated by me using Midjourney AI, with the exception of the painting American Progress, which is in the public domain and free to use without restriction.
~ Dori Mondon, ‘AC 2023
And now, let’s begin:
Choosing where to begin telling a history is always an interesting thought process, but it’s a really important one to think about. Since religion has been used as the biggest justification for worldwide expansion, it seemed to make the most sense here to start with the papacy.