Power at Home & Abroad

Gallery QuestionHow did Americans respond to the pressures of modernity?

Progressivism, empire, world wars, migration, culture, prosperity, depression, and the growth of federal power.

How to use this gallery

Follow a question. Work the evidence.

Exhibits are independent experiences connected by this period's larger historical problems. You do not need to complete them in order. APUSH period labels provide chronology; the exhibits themselves are organized around interpretation, evidence, and argument.

Collection Status

Gallery in development

No exhibits are open here yet.

This is intentional: the museum architecture is ready, but exhibit titles will only appear when their historical question, evidence, and experience have been deliberately designed.