Andrew
Carnegie
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/
Homepage for the
PBS production The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie. Students can take
a tour of a Newport, Rhode Island mansion and view images of the mansions built
by Carnegie and his contemporaries along Fifth Avenue in New York City. Other
features include a timeline, profiles of Carnegie and his mother, a look at the
Homestead Strike, information on Carnegie's philanthropic efforts, and on the
steel industry and railroad businesses.
Chicago World's
Fair
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/wce/title.html
Tour of the 1893
World's Columbian Exhibition, held in Chicago. The tour guides the student
through the exhibition halls with images and textual explanation of the
different buildings and areas of the enormous exhibition. The Reactions and
Legacy areas of the site provide historical background for the exhibition and
explain the impact of the event on contemporary viewers and for the future
course of the nation. The Exhibition addressed many important issues of modern
life, including race, wealth, class, and industrialization. In its portrayal of
America and the world, the fair attempted to create a unified vision of the
present state and future course of the country, but, especially in retrospect,
it also revealed the many tensions lying under the surface of American society.
Edison Antique
Electric Museum
http://www.edisonian.com/
An online gallery
about the inventions of Thomas Edison. The Edison Antique Electric Museum
presents the inventions by type, and allows users to view light bulbs, dynamo
motors, and voltaic cell batteries in their various stages of development. The
site also includes explanatory text.
First-Person
Narratives of the American South
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/fpn/fpn.html
A collection of
narratives on the South by southerners. Part of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's "Documenting the American South" collection, the
reminiscences span from the antebellum period to 1920. With the full texts
online along with thumbnail images of the book's illustrations, covers, and
spines, the sources consist of autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries by a
variety of southerners from former slaves to Confederate soldiers to women at
home.
Index of
American Design
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iad.htm
From the
collections of the National Gallery of Art, selections of the gallery's
watercolors of American decorative arts objects. These objects, from the
colonial period through the nineteenth century, were created during the
Roosevelt presidency to celebrate American arts and crafts. Images of the
watercolors can be viewed by selecting a medium or style of art from the
extensive list of offerings.
Mark Twain in
His Times
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/
An archive and
online exhibit about Mark Twain and his times. The site is maintained by Stephen
Railton and hosted by the University of Virginia Library. It contains documents,
illustrations, commentary, and photographs on topics such as Sam Clemens as Mark
Twain, Marketing Twain, and Twain on Stage, as well as on Twain's various
writings.
Marriage, Women,
and the Law, 1815-1914
http://www.rlg.org/scarlet/index.html
A site dedicated to
the state of women, marriage, and the law in the nineteenth century. Compiled as
a resource for scholars and researchers, the site is part of the “Studies in
Scarlet” project and combines the resources of seven major collections of the
Research Libraries Group. The site offers access based on a keyword search to
over 200,000 pages of primary and secondary documents, including case reports,
statutes, novels, newspapers, diaries, and letters.
Native American
Documents Project
http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/
From California
State University, San Marcos, this site continually adds documents that reveal
the effects of federal policy on Native peoples. There are three sets of data:
(1) published reports of the Commission of Indian Affairs and the Board of
Indian Commissioners for 1871; (2) Allotment Data Collection (10 tables of
annotated quantitative data); and (3) 111 indexed documents in the Rogue River
War and Siletz Reservation Collection. A very straightforward, text-only site.
On the Lower
East Side
http://acad.smumn.edu/history/contents.html
A collection of
documents about life at the turn of the century in the Lower East Side of
Manhattan, an area known for its large immigrant population and high
concentration of tenement houses. The page was created by William L. Crozier to
accompany a class at St. Mary's University of Minnesota. The site includes
articles from Jacob Riis, Mary Van Kleek, the Mayor's Pushcart Commission, and
the Tenement Exhibit of 1900.
Pioneering the
American Midwest
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html
Documents from the
Library of Congress's collection on the Midwest, 1820-1910. Michigan, Minnesota,
and Wisconsin are the focus of the electronic library. Texts, including
journals, biographies, letters, literature, and local histories, are searchable
by subject, author, and title. The site also features links to other Web sites
in the Library of Congress's "American Memory" series and a list of
related Web sites.
The Evolution of
the Conservation Movement
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
A searchable
database of sources related to the conservation movement from 1850 to 1920. Part
of the Library of Congress American Memory collection, the site contains a
timeline of major events and developments, as well as a searchable archive of
books, pamphlets, state papers, illustrations, and photographs.
The Gilded Page
http://www.wm.edu/~srnels/gilded.html
A collection of
widely read Gilded Age documents. This site, which was compiled by professor of
history Scott Nelson at the College of William and Mary, includes the inaugural
addresses of Presidents Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley; Andrew Carnegie’s
Wealth; a number of Horatio Alger stories; and Thorstein Veblen’s critiques of
industrial society.
The Great
Chicago Fire
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/gcf-index.html
A collection of
essays, documents, photographs, and illustrations about the Great Chicago Fire
and its transformation of the city of Chicago. The site was created by the
Chicago Historical Society in cooperation with Northwestern University. The site
is divided into five chronological periods, beginning with a section about
Chicago before the fire and ending with one on the reconstructed city. Each
section contains a narrative essay, image gallery, and library of online
documents.
The Temperance
Movement
http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/Contents.htm
Created by the
history department at Ohio State University, this site is full of information on
the Temperance Movement and Prohibition. The site includes segments on the
growth of the brewing industry, Frances Willard and the Women's Crusade of
1873-1874, the Anti-Saloon League, and cartoons from the Prohibition Party.
Vaudeville and
Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
A multimedia
collection about popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived at
the turn of the century. An American Memory Collection from the Library of
Congress, the site includes Yiddish and English play scripts, theater playbills
and programs, motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs, and memorabilia
items from the life and career of Harry Houdini.
Votes for Women:
NAWSA, 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
An archive of
books, pamphlets, and papers from the National American Women Suffrage
Association from 1848 to 1921. This exhibit from the American Memory Collection
at the Library of Congress contains 167 documents from the NAWSA collection. It
can be searched by subject or author and also contains a detailed timeline.
Votes for Women:
Photographs
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
A collection of 38
pictures and portraits from the women's suffrage movement. An American Memory
exhibit from the Library of Congress, the collection can be accessed through a
keyword search or the name and subject index. The collection includes
photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, an anti-suffrage
display, cartoons commenting on the movement, and portraits of women active in
the movement.