Women and the alphabet a Series of Essays
Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in which he argues for equal rights for women.
11: Populism and Progressivism
Eugene V. Debs Foundation
Biography, articles and links from Debs Foundation
Ida Tarbell Home Page
Information and links from Allegheny College, from which Ida Tarbell graduated in 1880
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.
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
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
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
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
Documenting "The Other Half": The Social Reform Photography of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
Collection of Jacob Riis photographs. Excellent insight into early 20th century urban living in the United States
YouTube - Triangle Returns
10 minutes - viewer discretion. - Shows how workplace safety hasn't made it to the third world
On the Social Construction of Childhood: Making Space for Babies | Inequality by (Interior) Design
More from the "History We Don't Teach file", differeing attitudes toward children over time. By comparing colonial "baby tenders" in which children were housed like firewood, to "portable baby cages" in the 1900s, we can see how people regarded children
Rinse and Repeat - BackStory with the American History Guys
Begging forgiveness for this merciless metaphor, but this Backstory podcast episode exposes the "Dark Underbelly" if the Progressive Era. We teach students about political, economic and social reform though touch the latter only very lightly. Did progressives really want to help the underprivileged and improve their living conditions, or - just want them to take a shower and clean up?
Hey you folks looking for an alternative project. Look at this set up - they have recorded podcast, links to resources, transcript and discussion thread. That sorts beats your 'ol colonial pamphet and spray-painted cotton ball projects doesn't it?
Why Did Henry Ford Double His Minimum Wage? | The Saturday Evening Post
It is in the raising of wages that Ford deserves more attention than his use of the assembly line in that increasing wages was truly revolutionary.
eTalks - The Secrets of Food Marketing - YouTube
Brilliant idea - put a talented actress in front of an audience expecting a TED-like talk about food marketing. Have her present information about factory farming with enthusiasm despite it's awful reality and leave the audience in stunned silence. This is 21st Century muckraking of Upton Sinclair on YouTube. Every Social Studies student should understand to "never underestimate the power of willful ignorance.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires,
Comprehensive book review of powerful history of communication and information industries. If you can't read the book, at least read this review
14 Famous People Who Survived the 1918 Flu Pandemic | Mental Floss
Contingency's role in historical change is often underplayed because it contradicts our power of understanding. Despite our best efforts to understand historical change, the power of plain 'ol luck may be more influential than anything we can come up with.
Riis Redux: Seeing the Light
Jacob A. Riis' photographs of New York's lower east side at the turn of the twentieth century have become iconic images of immigrant poverty. Historian Vincent DiGirolamo uses them to teach students to look and think harder about photography as a tool of social reform.
Imaging Americans
Shawn Michelle Smith discusses Frances Benjamin Johnston's photograph of Whittier primary school students as a historical inquiry into African-American education, citizenship, "uplift" campaigns, and visual propaganda.
The Triangle Fire: From Industrialism to Progressivism
This lesson starts with a quick poll to gauge students' views of the role of government in protecting workers before diving deep into the record of the fire itself
From Abolition to Progressivism: Women in Public Life
This assignment introduces students to the history of women's suffrage in the context of other nineteenth and twentieth century reform movements using a combination of photographs and written documents. The goal is to teach "form" along with "content," so that students will look at both the images and the written documents for their uses of gendered rhetoric in addition to their more obvious content. The project starts with a "slideshow" that students can either do at home or that the teacher can show in class (or both) and finishes with group discussions and an individual writing assignment.
"Hurt That Bitch": What Undercover Investigators Saw Inside a Factory Farm | Mother Jones
This can be considered a harrowing sequel to "The Jungle" and show students how little has changed. Special attention and viewer discretion is advised if considering showing the video included in this article; even the text needs the expletives shaved out of it before using it for instruction.
eTalks - The Secrets of Food Marketing - YouTube
This seven minute video works in two ways - first, it gives you a modern twist on "the Jungle", secondly it shows students how the food industry still operates. Watch their faces while you show them this video.
vintage everyday: 30 Fascinating Vintage Photographs of New York City in the 1910s
12 Cruel Anti-Suffragette Cartoons
These "meme's of the 19-teens" could be used to spark conversation about the resistance to women's suffrage movement. Better yet, see if students can find commonalities to the arguments against the ERA. How do the elements and arguments in these cartoons echo throughout history? Where else do we see them?
Oldest footage of New York City ever
This eight and a half minute collection of film footage of New York taken between 1896 and 1905 provides fascinating insight into street life of the early progressive era. See NYC before skyscrapers and have a better understanding of what street life looked like. Easy to play during class changing time (with the sound off to hide cheesy music) and use as a Do Now response - what can we learn from this?
New York City - 1900 (Hi-Res Image)
Just something to throw on the screen before that Progressive's lesson. Do you and your student's accept it's authenticity? Is this really a colorized picture of NYC in 1900, or a movie set?
The Photos That Helped End Child Labor in the United States | Mother Jones
Although the claim announced in this article's headline could be the subject of a lesson that looks for causal evidence that proves a claim, the photos alone are worth a US History teacher's attention. Don't forget to remind the students who see these pictures that they are looking at their peers across time - theses children are the same age, or younger than our students
“It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose”: The Wounding of Theodore Roosevelt : We're History
This site as an x-ray picture of Roosevelt's wound. It's just this sort of unbelievable ephemera that makes any history class lively. Yet, it can also be extended for an NCIS-Detective lesson. Have students build conspiracy theories behind the failed assassin. Schrank was locked up in a mental hospital for the rest of his life - why? Students could immerse themselves in the politics, culture and economy of the early 1900s by compiling evidence against a person or persons who could have been behind this failed assassination.
Jacob Riss and Immigrants
Reading Like a Historian's take on the Progressive Era used quotes from Jacob Riis along with his photographs which is far more useful than just using the pictures. In this lesson students try to balance prejudice and philanthropy
Warren Harding Civil Rights speech in Birmingham AL 1921
As more evidence of the way in which the History Education Canon pigeon-holes presidents into neat little boxes without any regard for reality or the record, this NY Times article reports a speech Harding gave in the heart of the south in 1921. It may be better to mine the speech itself to share with students https://archive.org/details/addressofpreside00hard