Wealth Inequality in America
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actuality is
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
Abstract | Alexander Street Documents
Birth control history lesson that shows a very effective format for document lessons - the drop down menu of documents
Comstock Act Still On The Books – Sept. 24, 1996 | Archives of Women's Political Communication
Pat Schroder's speech in Congress
What Are the Comstock Laws? Here’s How They’ve Influenced Sex Ed Debates | Teen Vogue
Rise of the Populists and William Jennings Bryan | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire influencer
TikTok video showing what early 20 century misinformation would look like using 21 century tools. Worth the less than minute it will take to watch to decide whether it can fit in a Progressive Era lesson - perhaps a discussion prompt or lesson starter
The Irrelevance of That “3 Billionaires Have More Wealth Than Half of America” Factoid - Foundation for Economic Education
This should be easy for students to tear apart - provide it to them along with the proof of the statistic and have them dissect the argument offered by this writer for the Foundation for EconomiC Education. Spoiler alert - the argument is that children, prisoners, people just starting their careers and retired are included in the statatisic.
Wealth Inequality in America: Key Facts & Figures | St. Louis Fed
Excellent resource to communicate income and wealth disparity in the United States. Teachers coupling this with Progressive Era lessons can help students see connections across time but more importantly shatter pervasive and almost unmovable assumptions about the economy
Social hygiene : American Social Hygiene Association :1920 Volume VI
There's a lot to discover about the Progressive Era in the 650 pages of this book, all of which completely ignored by the taught narrative canon
The Rise and Fall of Sex Education in the Progressive Era – Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present
Although the Pure Food and Drug Act gets all the attention in high school history courses, there's so much more in the Progressive Era than most teachers realize
Damaged goods : the great play "Les avar : Sinclair, Upton, 1913
Although the taught narrative canon only recognizes Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", his adapted play about the syphillis and sexual immorality might deserve attention also
How Woodrow Wilson’s racist policies eroded the Black civil service | Haas News | Berkeley Haas
Any argument referencing "systematic" racism would be well-served by research into the segregation of the federal workforce during the Wilson administration. Census data shows a significant wage gap and suppression of black home-ownership resulting from federally sanctioned segregation and discrimination
Finding Women in the Archives: The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and Anthony Comstock’s War on Contraception | New-York Historical Society
Ould censorship laws like the Comstock Act count as part of the Progressive Era? Not according to the taught narrative canon
The Octopus: A Story of California -by Frank Norris
The Strange Case of Booker T. Washington's Birthday
Students should read this article. The searches it details are exactly the research skills and habits of mind they'll need to navigate their world. Its also a great way for teachers to change their teaching from just one story to teaching how stories are told
Sanborn Maps Navigator
The map digitization tool will take you to fire insurance maps made at the turn of the 20th century, allowing you to see what cities, towns looked like at that time
Propaganda from the campaign against women's suffrage, 1900-1913 - Rare Historical Photos
Why only show students the protests for suffrage without showing them the other side?
The child miners’ photos of Lewis Hine that appalled America, 1908-1911 - Rare Historical Photos
(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro
Heirs of Plessy v. Ferguson team up for change -
This five minute video is a local news broadcast featuring the great granddaughter New Orleans judge Ferguson and the great grandson of a cousin of Homer Plessy. Their meeting is hard to believe, but what they did after they met is even more important. Students should see this
Plessy v. Ferguson :: 163 U.S. 537 (1896) :Opinion of the Court
Text of the opinion itself. Students would be better served by a quote from the opinion than a teacher's bullet point description on a lecture slide
1901: "Sexual inversion" book by Havelock Ellis
Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. This is considered the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality.
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro : Hoffman, Frederick L. (Frederick Ludwig), 1865-1946
Using data from the 1890s census, Frederick Hoffman argues that African-Americans are a race that is going extinct, justifying higher insurance rates for them or the denial of coverage. he was an executive for the Prudential Insurance Company. He was also the PResident of the American Statistical Association and his papers are not housed at the National Library of Medicine
(1901) Congressman George H. White’s Farewell Address To Congress
George White was the las of the Reconstruction-era African-Americans to serve in Congress. This is his last speech. The next African-American was elected to Congress in 1928
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Immigrants - PBS Newshour Extra
There are many lessons on the Fire - this one takes the approach of focusing on immigrant labor, linking it to immigrant labor today
Investigative Journalists - Lesson Plan from PBS Newshour Extra
Well-designed and presented lesson with explanation and primary source documents of Ira Tarbell, Sinclair Lewis and Jacob Riis
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",