The Great American Fraud, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
11: Populism and Progressivism
Wealth Inequality in America video
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actuality is
Nature and the Environment - Themed Resources - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Study man-made and natural disasters, the origins of the American conservation movement, and view Landsat photographs, valued for aesthetics more than their contributions to geography. Use maps to trace the growth and unique features of the National Parks. Learn about nature writers and visual artists. from the Library of Congress
Progressive | Environmental history timeline
Muckarakers , The Pure Food and Drug Act, tenement law and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire take the lion's share of progressive era attention, but this site provides an overview of the progressive's view of the environment. Students could be asked how this reflects significant progressive themes or not. This could provide an application question
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
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
1906 Earthquake and Fire
Excellent resource on turn of the century cities and disaster recovery. Many primary documents from police reports and eyewitness accounts to scientific journals and railway records. Be sure to look through the photographs. From the Virtual Museum of the city of San Fransisco
The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. - Google Books
U.S. Senate: "Treason of the Senate"
The 17th amendment doesn't get nearly enough attention. If students were made aware of the switch to popular election of Senators, they might be better equipped to think about the face that six Senators represent the 2 million people in Wyoming, Vermont and Alaska AND six Senators represent 90 million people in California, Florida and Texas
History of woman suffrage; : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
860+ pages written by the people who fought for the right to vote. This is just one of six volumes that included primary source record of the fight that went on for decades. This is ripe for a "Free-range" primary document exercise - what could student learn by searching different words and phrases through this book?
Special Report: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News
Teachers might not be able to explain this to students,. In fact, it might be difficult for them to understand themselves. Yet as they teach students through the Progressive Era it is just these sort of relationships between corporations that they need to think about to keep their teaching relevant
The Awakening of the Negro: Booker T. Washington
Article from the Atlantic Monthly, 1896
The Philadelphia Negro | W.E.B. Du Bois
Students can skim this article for contextual basis for understanding the African-American experience in a northern city at the turn of the 20th century. DuBois pioneered the social survey, and this article can be read or even just skimmed for evidence
What Are the Comstock Laws? Here’s How They’ve Influenced Sex Ed Debates | Teen Vogue
Wizard of Oz synopsis
Need perspective example? This is a perfect way to show students how a statement can be factually true, but shape a reader's reaction
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African American in American society. Hypertext version of book from the University of Virginia
I have just been shot - Wikisource
Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 speech made in Milwaukee just minutes after being shot. Best speech, ever
12 Cruel Anti-Suffragette Cartoons | Mental Floss
Students who get to see the resistance to women's suffrage will have a more complete understanding of the Progressive Era and the reaction to it among some segments of the American public. They may also recognize similar opinions from today (Rush Limbaugh's feminazis comments for example)
Comstock Act Still On The Books – Sept. 24, 1996 | Archives of Women's Political Communication
Pat Schroder's speech in Congress
The Committee on Appropriations then set aside several thousand dollars for a special agent to carry out the Comstock Act, and on March 6, 1873, 1 day before his 29th birthday, Anthony Comstock was commissioned as a special agent of the post office, vested with powers of arrest and the privilege of free transportation on all mail lines so that he could roam the country arresting and prosecuting those who dared to send through the mails any information about contraception or abortion, or anything that Comstock deemed to be lewd or indecent.
Two years before this death in 1915, Comstock bragged that he had been responsible for the criminal conviction of enough people to fill a 61-coach passenger train.
In 1971, Congress deleted the prohibition on birth control; but the prohibition on information about abortion remains, and the maximum fine was increased in 1994 from $5,000 to $250,000 for a first offense.
Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Many resources, articles and links. Be sure to check the "Documents online"
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers provides a full, objective account of the movement and its leader, as it chronicles how the movement achieved a global dimension by awakening the political consciousness of African and Caribbean peoples to the goals of racial self-determination and national independence.
Tulsa race massacre: Possible mass grave linked to 1921 race riot discovered - CBS News
What every girl should know by Margaret Sanger, 1913 (Book)
Teachers should look at the table of contents of this books before sharing it with students - but then absolutely sharing it with students. Students who know one or two factoids about Margaret Sanger have no idea what she actually did - looking at this book will shatter that ignorance in a matter of minutes. They should also know that the book was seized by the post office as a violation of the Comstock Law - https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/what-every-girl-should-know-1916-margaret-sanger
NFL Stadium Funding Information Stadiums Opened Since 1997
This report details private funding of NFL stadiums and in the process invalidates the labels we have to describe economic systems. Teachers need to open this link and look at the charts - just look at the charts and you'll know you have to share them with students
The coal smoke in Pittsburgh used to block out the sun
This series of photographs will help students better understand the pollution of the industrial age. Though today's students still face the challenge of climate change, they know little of the raw effects of America's industrial age
The Color of Law: Creating Racially Segregated Communities | Teaching Tolerance
This lesson uses Richard Rothstein's research to drive a lesson into the reality of structural racism in the United States, showing how local, state and federal policies promoted the segregation that we think of today as "De Facto",
Industrial Workers of the World | One Big Union!
Official site of the IWW
Independent Lens . KING CORN | PBS
This bookmark is not so much to recognize the value of this source, but rather the subject of the film itself. There is room for a Progressive Era lesson that traces the policies of the Progressive Era (Pure Food and Durg Act, Meat Inspection Act) in which students wrestle with the interest and role of the government in the health of citizens and the Agricultural Act of 1973, in which corn subsidies can be linked to a change in American diets that emphasize corn syrup sweeteners and obesity. Is there a link here?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." from Our Documents project
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
Can a private college in Kentucky accept both white and black students? The state of Kentucky said "No", and the Supreme Court upheld that law. In this decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky law entitled "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School". Although Plessy v Ferguson gets most of the attention, this case also serves well to give students a better appreciation of the nature of discrimination before the modern Civil Rights movement.
Kentucky New Era 3 13 03 - Niggers in the White House - (Newspaper Advertisement)
This poem was printed in a number of newspapers across the country after Booker T Washington's visit to the White House. It resurfaced in later years in subsequent visits by African-Americans to the White House. Confronting 21stC students with this must be done with care.