Teachers Discovering History As

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Gilded Age 1865-1900:
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The following links from a United States Advanced Placement Course includes an exceptional list of recommended web sites and primary source documents related to this topic:

The Rise of Big Business and Labor: Web Links (Click for 100+ topic specific primary sources and websites)

The Gilded Age: Web Links (Click for 100+ topic specific primary sources and websites)

The original list of resources for this historical time period were compiled by educators at from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York at http://www.historyteacher.net/index.htm Visit this site for exceptional materials and additional historical links.
We wish to fully credit their enormous and highly beneficial effort. However, due to a number of dead or forwarding links, we have created a parallel listing on our Teachers Discovering History as Historians website which we will attempt to update
every sixty days.

National Archives: 100 Milestone Documents

One hundred select documents that chronicle the history of the United states from 1776-1965

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone



United States History 102 1865-Present

          Exceptional Lecture Series by Professor Stanley Schultz. Use "Student Web Notes" to access Lectures 4,5,6,7 and 8.

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102

Two exceptional electronic textbooks the Title will take you to the entire text. The specific chapters/resource guides related to this topic are noted below the description:

Digital American History Textbook

A new and exceptional digital history text Includes a full textbook, guided readings, documents, timelines, exhibits, reference materials, study guides, and other materials for teaching American History.

Chapter: Industrialization and the Working Class

          Chapter: The Huddled Masses

          Resource Guide: Immigration

          Chapter: The Making of Modern America

          Chapter: The Rise of Big Business

          Chapter: The Rise of the City

          Chapter: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage

          Chapter: Along the Color Line

          Resource Guide: The Color Line

          Chapter: The Gilded Age

          Chapter: The Political Crisis of the 1890's

          Resource Guide: The Gilded Age

We recommend you combine the digital text with THE ANNENBERG VIDEO SERIES-- Biography of America at http://learner.org/resources/series123.html# an exceptional FREE video instructional series for high school and college students produced by WGBH Boston in cooperation with the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration. These 26 thirty minute lectures incorporate first person narratives, photographs, film footage and documents related to various historical time periods—from New World Encounters through Contemporary History.

National History Education Clearinghouse

Welcome to the National History Education Clearinghouse, the central online location for accessing high-quality resources in K-12 U.S. history education. This site began in 2008 and is rapidly becoming one of the best sources for United State History Educators including access to History Content, Teaching Materials, Best Practices, Issues and Research, Professional Development, and TAH Grants.

http://teachinghistory.org/

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

Excellent source for photographs, tickets, posters and other items

http://cprr.org/Museum/index.html

Best of History Web Sites

The Best of History Web Site is an incredible portal created for teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. After accessing your historical subject or topic of choice, sites are listed by historical topic with a description of what you will find and an evaluation. A keyword search function is also available. Scroll beyond the sites provided and you will find time period specific lesson plans, activities and teacher guides.

          http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml

An Outline of American History

This hypertext provides textbook information, documents, biographies, timelines and links for each chronological topic.

Growth and Transformation

Academic Info: Modern America Gilded Age and Progressive Era

An excellent selection of web sites for each period of United States history.

          http://www.academicinfo.net/usmodgilded.html

Eyewitness to History

100 Eyewitness accounts, most from United States History (1608-1971). View the index or search by time period or event. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

     Check the index here: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/eyindx.htm

A Biography of America: America at the Centennial

An expansive view of the American Centennial through the contents of a philosophical discussion, a timeline of the year, as well as a detailed Flash timeline dating back to the days of Columbus, and webography.

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog13/index.html

A Biography of America: Industrial Supremacy

An extensive view of the inventions and innovations that brought America out of the problems caused by the Civil War, enhanced with information concerning: industry's growth, the meat packing industry, the impact of the refrigeration car, the steel industry, the advent of the skyscraper, as well as a map, timeline of key events, a Flash feature showing the increase of inventions, as well as a webography.

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog14/index.html

A Biography of America: The New City

An in-depth site using Chicago as an example of the growth of cities and there characteristics, such as: the new designs in architecture, rising numbers of "department stores," transportation, the growth of the suburban areas, slums, a meaning to the term "white city," as well as a map of the city, a Flash feature of the growing city, and a timeline.

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog15/index.html

A Biography of America: The West

A site showing another aspect of the Gilded Age, this deals with issues such as: the transcontinental railroad, Native Americans, women's suffrage, insurrection among farmers, the differences in comparison to rural life, as well as an exceptional interactive map of western growth, and key events of the period.

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog16/index.html

A Biography of America: Capital and Labor

Another face of the Gilded Age told through the use of facts, such as: the rising power of capitalism, Jacob Riis, Corporate growth, coal mining, labor unions, as well as a detailed Flash comparison of the elections of William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan.

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog17/index.html

American Memory Historical Collection for the National Digital Library

From the Library of Congress--thirty-six collections of Maps, Photographs, Documents, Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings.

http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

            To Search all the available collections (recommended)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html

A Listing of Exceptional United States History Programs from PBS

Information, photographs, documents, lesson plans, etc. for various American history topics. EXCEPTIONAL! Works well with the BOCES PBS Collection.

http://www.pbs.org/history/history_united.html

Images of American Political History

A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History.

http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm

Child Labor in America 1908-1912

The original photographs of Lewis Hine with the original photo captions.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html

          National Archives Photograph Analysis Worksheet

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/
analysis_worksheets/photo.html

Excellent Sites for Cartoons

       Thomas Nast

http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/nast_intro.html

http://www.csubak.edu/~gsantos/cat15.html

Harpers Weekly

http://www.harpweek.com/

This in exceptional site providing access and a searchable function of full text, cartoons and links to special internet collections and activities related to issues occurring between 1857 and 1912. Although the database is a subscriber service, there are many exceptional free features including the links below:

          Presidential Elections
          Political Prints and Cartoons, 1766 - 1876
          The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877

          The World of Thomas Nast

          A Sampler of Civil War Literature

          Black America: 1857 - 1874
          Immigrant and Ethnic America
          The American West

Simulation Games: Civil war and Reconstruction

Other Free Features

Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses

An illustrated history of Puck, a popular 19th century American magazine of cartoons and political satire.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/PUCK/home.html

National Archives Cartoon Analysis Worksheet

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/
analysis_worksheets/cartoon.html

On Line Books and Authors

An exceptional collection of hypertext versions of hundreds of literary works!!

         Easy search by author or title.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/authors.html

The Jungle (DL SunSITE)

          Hypertext of the work by Upton Sinclair.
           http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/TheJungle/

How The Other Half Lives

Hypertext of the work by Jacob Riis

          http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

American Women Through Time

This is a new website featuring the best internet based materials related to American Women from pre 1599 to Present. Each section includes two sections: 1. A timeline that links specific events with relevant online sources, such as diaries and letters, photograph collections, and lectures by historians 2. Each section also includes a guide to research sources that simplify access to sources covering specific time periods.       http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html

American Women's History Research Guide

Provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections—covering a wide range of topics from Abolitionist to Writers.

http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-intro.html

WWW-VL History of the United States

The introductory page for the entire U.S. History collection. The World Wide Web: Virtual Library provides a comprehensive collection of internet sources for a variety of topics including United States History.   Links are provided for gateway Sites, Maps, Timelines, Documents, Lecture Notes, Journal Articles, and other related items.

The introductory page for the entire U.S. History collection: http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/

Women's History (general and by time periods): http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/women.html

African-American History (general and by time periods): http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/african-american.html

Urban History in the United States http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/urban.html

Modern History Source Book

Professor Halshall has compiled an incredible collection of history sourcebooks utilizing the wealth of information available on the internet. The Modern History Source Book provides historical material from the Reformation through the new millennium. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

          Other Sourcebooks by Professor Halshall:

         Ancient History Sourcebook

         Medieval Sourcebook

         Women's History Sourcebook

         African History Sourcebook

         East Asian History Sourcebook

         Global History Sourcebook

A Listing of Exceptional United States History Programs from PBS

Information, photographs, documents, lesson plans, etc. for various American history topics. EXCEPTIONAL! Works well with the BOCES PBS Collection.

http://www.pbs.org/history/history_united.html

Enterprising Women Exhibit

Two hundred and fifty years of history related to forty women who impacted American business--Visit stories and games.

http://www.enterprisingwomenexhibit.org/

SOURCES FOR DIGITIZED DOCUMENTS, ARTICLES AND BOOKS

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

Pre 18th century through 21st Century Documents with an Alphabetic Author/Title List of ALL Project Documents. Exceptional!!
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Bartleby: Great Books On Line

Free access to great works of literature, reference and verse. An incredible collection with a simple search process.

http://www.bartleby.com/

The University of Virginia Hypertext Project

Over sixty hypertexts of various great works--with many from the 19th century. This collection is especially helpful to United States History teachers as it features some of the classic works from Cooper, Crane, DuBois, Jefferson, Louis and Clark Journals, Madison, Sinclair, Turner, Twain and others.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html

On Line Books and Authors

A collection of hypertext versions of hundreds of literary works,

         Easy search by author or title.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/authors.html

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