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Social Studies in the Spotlight: Inquiry, Primary Sources, and Informational Reading, 7-12
Social Studies in the Spotlight: Inquiry, Primary Sources, and Informational Reading, 7-12

This lesson has students reading letters opposing and in support of the the Keating-Owen Child Labor Acts of 1916 (act). The law was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. This primary doc exercise can be combined with an analysis of Lewis Hines photography 1916 - Letter from Suzanne Heber Supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill (letter) 1916 - Letter from Lyons Township High School Students supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill (letter) 1916 - Letter from Marshall Dilling Opposing Keating-Own Child Labor Bill (letter) 1916 - Letter from Operatives of Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Company Cotton Mill in Opposition to Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill"

Social Studies in the Spotlight: Inquiry, Primary Sources, and Informational Reading, 7-12
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A. Livermore
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Panoramic Photographs (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Panoramic Photographs (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic photo format was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991
Panoramic Photographs (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
A Biography of America: A Vital Progressivism
A Biography of America: A Vital Progressivism
Companion site to documentary, be sure to check out maps, transcripts and "Webography" links to primary documents from Annenberg Media.  Note Washington Du Bois focus
A Biography of America: A Vital Progressivism
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
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
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Progress and Poverty by Henry George (Book)
Progress and Poverty by Henry George (Book)
Full text of book. In Progress and Poverty, George examines various proposed strategies to prevent business depressions, unemployment and poverty, but finds them unsatisfactory. As an alternative he proposes his own solution: a single tax on land values
Progress and Poverty by Henry George (Book)
How the Other Half Lives - 1890 (Book)
How the Other Half Lives - 1890 (Book)
Full text of Jacob Riis book with illustrations. An early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes.
How the Other Half Lives - 1890 (Book)
Nature and the Environment - Themed Resources - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
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
Nature and the Environment - Themed Resources - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Ida Tarbell Home Page
Ida Tarbell Home Page
Information and links from Allegheny College, from which Ida Tarbell graduated in 1880
Ida Tarbell Home Page
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
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.
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
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.
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
Triangle Factory Fire
Triangle Factory Fire
Excellent resource site with links to newspaper articles, personal accounts, etc.
Triangle Factory Fire
Du Bois vs. Washington
Du Bois vs. Washington
Web-Based lesson plan with articles and video organized around the question: "Who had the better vision for improving the lives of African Americans, Du Bois or Washington?
Du Bois vs. Washington
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial
President William Taft: Health & Medical History
President William Taft: Health & Medical History
At 5' 11" and 290 pounds, Taft's health is of popular interest, this site details his medical condition, but not that story about breaking the White House tub.
President William Taft: Health & Medical History
William Howard Taft - American President
William Howard Taft - American President
Summary information and links to more resources from the Miller Center of Public Affairs from the University of Virginia
William Howard Taft - American President
"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures
"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures
This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking the visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out.
"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures