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Montana Mosaic

Montana Mosaic: 20th-Century People and Events includes twelve fifteen-to-twenty-minute episodes that use historical photographs, original footage, and interviews to explore important episodes of Montana's twentieth-century history. The unique stories told in Montana Mosaic reveal Montana's connections to both national and international trends. Each episode touches on one or more of the following broad themes: industrialization and deindustrialization, relocation and dislocation, ethnic migration, federalization, environmentalism, and progressivism. A user guide has been created for each episode.

The videos are available on YouTube. 

 

Chapter 1: When Copper Was King

Chapter 2: Homesteading

Chapter 3: The Great Depression

Chapter 4: Dislocation/Relocation

Chapter 5: Ethnic Migration

Chapter 6: Federal Indian Policy

Chapter 7: Montana's Resource Driven Economy, 1940s-1960s

Chapter 8: Montana's Quiet Revolution 1965-1975

Chapter 9: A Clean and Healthful Environment

Chapter 10: The Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Chapter 11: The Arts and Humanities in Montana

Chapter 12: Montana's Response to Global Conflict

This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.