The Awakening Tea Towel Sports in WWI By focusing on a single

By focusing on a single event in history

with some unable to cope and refusing to go over the top

the epic struggles transformed both of them from isolated Immigrants

where it remained docked for nearly three years—until the United States officially entered the fight to turn the tide of the war

The Awakening Tea Towel Sports in WWI By focusing on a singleDescription This tea towel is based on a cartoon by the artist Henry Mayer published in the humor magazine Puck in 1915 in support of efforts to amend the New York State constitution to allow equal voting rights for women. In Western states, women already had the right to vote. The cartoon portrays the Eastern states desire for suffrage as an awakening. A referendum was held on an amendment to the New York constitution, but it failed.