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The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections

These two collections from the Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University contain 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod homes and the people who built them; images of farms and the machinery that made them prosper; and images of one-room schools and the children that were educated in them

The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections

A Biography of America: The New City

Companion site to documentary, be sure to check out maps, transcripts and "Webography" links to primary documents

A Biography of America: The New City

The City Beautiful Movement

The first organized expression of the City Beautiful movement as a means of beautification and social control was the 1901 Plan for Washington D.C

The City Beautiful Movement

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire; Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916. Seventeen of the films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906 disaster. Seven films describe the great earthquake and fire. The two later films include a 1915 travelogue that shows scenes of the rebuilt city and a tour of the Panama Pacific Exposition and a 1916 propaganda film. From the Library of Congress

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire; Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

Welcome to The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory, an online exhibition produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Academic Technologies of Northwestern University to mark the 125th anniversary of one of the most famous events in American history, as well as the most formative event in the history of Chicago

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

Forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906

Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

Sporting Scenes in New York City

Illustrations from Harpers Weekly showing life and leisure activities in the 19th century

Sporting Scenes in New York City

Detroit Publishing Co. Touring Turn of the Century America

This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes more than 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. The collection includes the work of a number of photographers, one of whom was the well known photographer William Henry Jackson.

Detroit Publishing Co. Touring Turn of the Century America

The Official Site of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders

Articles, images and information on the earliest recording technology. The oldest known recording is here - recorded just 13 years after the Civil War

Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders

Timeline of Inventions 1868-1894

Interactive timeline of inventions from 1868-1894

Timeline of Inventions 1868-1894

Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. Text of the book from University of Virginia

Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie

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)

Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894

Excerpt from muckraker's attack on monopolies, based especially on an analysis of the Standard Oil Company

Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894

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)

The Social Gospel--Part II

Student project essay from Wake Forest University

The Social Gospel--Part II

The Social Gospel--Lecture Part I

Student project essay from Wake Forest University

The Social Gospel--Lecture Part I

Immigrant and Ethnic America at HarpWeek.com

Within our first feature on immigrant Americans you will find material from Harper's Weekly organized using the seven categories, Culture, Labor, Anti-Chinese Movement, Politics, China and the World, Ethnic Comparisons, Geographic Regions

Immigrant and Ethnic America at HarpWeek.com

Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920

Images collected by the Library of Congress

Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920

The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912, Toolbox Library

Primary resources-historical documents, literary texts, and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions from National Humanities Center.

The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912, Toolbox Library

Wall of Honor :: American Immigrant Wall of Honor :: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. ::

individual or family names featured at Ellis Island in New York Harbor. It is the only place in the United States where an individual can honor his or her family heritage at a National Monumen

Wall of Honor :: American Immigrant Wall of Honor :: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. ::

Space of Desire : Department Stores in the Gilded Age

Student project from University of Virginia explores design of early department stores

Space of Desire : Department Stores in the Gilded Age

Exploring U.S. History | a bad rap - lesson plan

This exercise asks you to compare two sets of resources. First, The African American Sheet Music collection at the Library of Congress's American Memory site. Second, the rap lyrics, memorabilia and other material collected on the web by rap fans

Exploring U.S. History | a bad rap - lesson plan

Commodifying Leisure

American culture at the end of the 19th century. The decades follwing the Civil War witnessed remarkable and widespread changes in the United States. It is a period in which the corporate culture of today found its proliferation in all aspects of culture -- politics, education, family, and the arts.

Commodifying Leisure