10: Industrializing Society

10: Industrializing Society

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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes Op-Ed Warren Buffett
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes Op-Ed Warren Buffett
Warren Buffet supplies strong support for changes to the tax code to bring equity to taxation. This short, well written essay can be used with students in a Progressive Era or Gilded Age lesson that examines how factual support can be organized and presented to support a thesis.
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes Op-Ed Warren Buffett
American Panorama - Foreign Born
American Panorama - Foreign Born

The culture and politics of the US have always been profoundly shaped by the material and emotional ties many of its residents have had to the places where they were born. This map will allow you to begin to explore those connections at the basic level of demographic statistics.

Move the timeline cursor along the timeline at the bottom of the page and see changes not only in the map but in the chart alongside the right hand side of the screen

American Panorama - Foreign Born
Magazine of Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
Magazine of Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
Teachers should return to this site often - every time they're crafting a lesson that involves Native Americans in any way. Using articles or quotes from this magazine will not only provide balance to lessons, it will show students that the voices of the descendents of the people they are learning about need attention as well
Magazine of Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
A Day in the Future | Raptitude.com
A Day in the Future | Raptitude.com
Short essay that might help students realize how much they have and how much they take for granted. This could be a prep for an industrial revolution lesson by giving students a sense of what that turning point in the history of the human race led to - all their stuff. On the other hand, this could be used at the start of any history course, by teaching students to take nothing for granted - all of the material culture that surrounds us today, from nylon toothbrushes, to air conditioning and shoes, all of it can be seen through the lens of history. Not just the presidents, but how the common person washed their hair.
A Day in the Future | Raptitude.com
Apocalypse Now & Then - BackStory with the American History Guys
Apocalypse Now & Then - BackStory with the American History Guys

The "Bury my Heart" segment could be used for a Native American lesson related to the Ghost Dance movement and the massacre at Wounded Knee. The "Paradise Lost" section could be used in connection with a Second Great Awakening lesson.

Apocalypse Now & Then - BackStory with the American History Guys
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
The association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times. It is the source of our industrial, social and political difficulties. Our statesmen, philanthropists, and educators grapple with it in vain. This riddle, if not answered, will eventually topple our entire civilization. To solve the riddle, we must research the immutable laws governing the science of economics
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
This act, passed on July 1, 1862, provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States.
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Approved on February 4, 1887, the Interstate Commerce Act created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry. With this act, the railroads became the first industry subject to Federal regulation.
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to this site in the near future. In addition, histories are given of Edison's involvement with motion pictures and sound recordings, as well as a special page focusing on the life of the great inventor
Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
The Telephone
The Telephone
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
The Telephone
The Thomas A. Edison Papers
The Thomas A. Edison Papers
175,000 document images and a searchable database of 143,500 documents and 23,300 names. The digital edition includes documents from the Edison National Historic Site archives scanned from Parts I-III of the microfilm edition along with items from other repositories and private collections.
The Thomas A. Edison Papers
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (National Park Service)
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (National Park Service)
Vanderbilt Mansion NHS, in terms of architecture, interiors, mechanical systems, road systems and landscape, is a remarkably complete example of a gilded-age country place, illustrating the political, economic, social, cultural, and demographic changes that occurred as America industrialized in the years after the Civil War.
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (National Park Service)
The Rockefellers - American Experience
The Rockefellers - American Experience
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
The Rockefellers - American Experience
The National Grange
The National Grange
Official site of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. Links to current activities and programs.
The National Grange
THE WEST - Ken Burns
THE WEST - Ken Burns
This multimedia guided tour proceeds chapter-by-chapter through each episode in the series, offering selected documentary materials, archival images and commentary, as well as links to background information and other resources of the web site
THE WEST - Ken Burns