Capella University
HIS_FPX 1150
Professor Name
November 2024
Living History
Living history enables us to get closer to the past by including citizens who become involved with historical stories and can directly feel the events and movements (Nguyen et al., 2020). Such an attitude encourages collective observation and analysis of history in the context of current civilization, addressing the role of history in today’s world. This active approach focuses on the role of critical events in today’s society and explains how past events changed the present and the future.
Description of Historical Movement
The social and economic change early in the 20th century was one of the biggest movements that society has achieved, including the women’s right to vote and the stand that society took during the great depression (Purvis, 2019). We, humans, need to give credit to the suffrage movement as the movement for gender equality that saw women from different nations campaign for voting rights and citizenship (Betrán, 2020). Parallel to it, the Great Depression in the 1930s was an intense type of economic crisis that predetermined the economic policies and the systems of social protection of many countries and formed the collective orientation to preservation, cooperation, and change.
Historical Movement and Personal Impacts
These movements have not only left their mark on the world for the better, in general, and the better understanding of equity and personal experience with resilience in particular. The personal courage demonstrated by persons who fought for voting rights and others who struggled through economically challenging times are ideas of today’s modern values (Das et al., 2021). The sacrifices and commitments of people in these historic scenes promote awareness of the present-day courtesy privileges together with confirmation of the importance of vote and acting collectively for basic humane rights.
Suffrage and the Great Depression
The events in the suffrage movement were one of the most energetic struggles in which women insisted on their right to have a say in how their societies were being managed hence gaining several strides for gender equity. It also helped to prepare other attempts at civil rights and the struggle for women’s rights in various spheres of life today (Finneman et al., 2023). The Great Depression on the other hand led to this unprecedented shock which brought about high unemployment, poverty, and shifts in the government intervention in the economy. At both, Gustave Hedi emphasized the members of society need to unite for the common good and the delegates laid the foundation for future policies regarding employment benefits and workers’ rights.
Potential Impact on the Future
The impact of these movements is seen in modern generations. The suffrage movement triggered subsequent discussions of the equality of the sexes, and the ordeal of the Great Depression underlies the contemporary measures and strategies implemented for managing economic difficulties (Lange, 2021). These realizations give people the consciousness that there are movements that should demand action to fight social injustice and build economic muscle. Knowing such past experiences enables one to design a fair and apt environment as well as a stable society.
HIS FPX1150 Assessment 4 Conclusion
Studying living history and the meaning of great historical movements shows that society should take care of history and learn from it. The legacies of suffrage and the Great Depression are lived through in current societies’ social and economic experiences and serve as the catalysts for future movements toward justice, sustainability, and community (Lemay et al., 2019). This way, it is empowering to learn about one’s ancestors andAddressesing to strive for the betterment of the present and future society based on the knowledge of the past.
HIS FPX1150 Assessment 4 References
Betrán, C. (2020). 1936. Frustrated Hopes: The Great Depression, the Second Republic and the Civil War. In: Betrán, C., Pons, M. (eds) Historical Turning Points in Spanish Economic Growth and Development, 1808–2008. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40910-4_4
Das, G., Jain, S.P., Maheswaran, D. et al. Pandemics and marketing: insights, impacts, and research opportunities. J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci. 49, 835–854 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-021-00786-y
Finneman, T., Diwanji, V. S., Greene-Blye, M., & Martens, C. (2023). “Is It Smart to Be Thrifty?”: How Advertisers Navigated Message Strategies During the Great Depression. Journalism History, 50(1), 42–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/00947679.2023.2270890
Lange, A. K. (2021). Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. University of Chicago Press.
Lemay, K. C., Goodier, S., Jones, M., & Tetrault, L. (2019). Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence.Princeton University Press.
Nguyen, T. T., Darnell, A., Weissman, A., Frongillo, E. A., Mathisen, R., Lapping, K., Mastro, T. D., & Withers, M. (2020). Social, economic, and political events affect gender equity in China, Nepal, and Nicaragua: a matched, interrupted time-series study. Global health action, 13(1), 1712147. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2020.1712147
Purvis, J. (2019). Did militancy help or hinder the granting of women’s suffrage in Britain?. Women’s History Review, 28(7), 1200-1234.
