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General
Resources Writing
a
Newspaper
Article
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/newspro.htm
This
site
developed
for
grades
6-9
by
a
teacher
in
South
Carolina
gives
a
very
brief
and
clear
outline
on
writing
a
newspaper
article.
There
are
two
handouts:
Creating
a
Newspaper
Article
and
Formula
for
a
Well-written
News
Article.
The
Era
of
Expansion
and
Reform
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/chap6.htm
This
site
is
part
of
the
hypertext
history
of
the
United
States
from
a
number
of
US
Information
Agency
publications.
The
information
is
divided
into
eight
chapters,
one
of
which
is
The
Era
of
Expansion
and
Reform.
What
makes
this
a
great
resource
is
that
the
facts
have
been
enriched
with
hypertext-links
to
relevant
documents,
original
essays,
other
Internet
sites,
and
to
other
Outlines.
Sections
included
in
this
chapter
include:
The
era
of
expansion
and
reform;
Introduction;
Industry
grows
bigger;
Cities
and
problems
grow;
Machines
and
science
help
farmers;
and
Social
criticism
becomes
widespread.
Gilded
Age
---
Two
General
References
Sites
The
general
references
on
the
gilded
age
include
political
leaders,
the
transformation
of
the
West,
the
rise
of
Bid
Business
and
American
Workers,
Literary
and
Cultural
Resources,
New
Immigration
and
more.
These
are
both
an
excellent
teacher's
resource
site.
What,
Then,
Is
This
American?
1865-1900
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec4/Unit_7/Unit_VIIQ6R2.html
This
site
is
part
of
ERIC,
Crossroads:
Middle
School
Curriculum.
There
are
14
question
here
with
hypertext
resources.
Questions
include:
What
was
the
West
like
for
miners,
cattlemen
and
homesteaders?;
Were
industrial
leaders
"captains
of
industry"
or
"robber
barons?";
What
pushed
immigrants
from
their
homelands
and
pulled
them
to
the
United
States?;
and
Describe
the
working
conditions
in
factories
in
the
late
19th
century.
Post
Civil
War
to
1900
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/
p-1900.html#POST
CIVIL
WAR
TO
1900
This
site
is
part
of
the
History/Social
Studies
Web
Site
for
K-12
Teachers.
There
are
36
links
to
information
on
the
history
of
the
United
States
after
the
Civil
War
and
before
the
turn
of
the
century. Industrial
Revolution
[top] Between
a
Rock
and
a
Hard
Place
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/index.htm
This
site,
a
show
produced
by
the
Smithsonian,
shows
the
underside
of
the
American
garment
industry
and
the
history
of
American
sweatshops
from
1820
to
present.
Touring
Turn-of-the-Century
America:
Photographs
from
the
Detroit
Publishing
Co.,
1880-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html
Touring
Turn-of-the-Century
America
is
an
American
Memory
project
produced
by
the
Library
of
Congress.
The
site
can
be
searched
by
keyword
or
browsed
by
subject.
The
Life
of
a
City:
Early
Films
of
New
York,
1898-1906
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html
This
collection
contains
forty-five
films
of
New
York
dating
from
1898
to
1906
from
the
Paper
Print
Collection
of
the
Library
of
Congress.
Child
Labor
in
America
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Thumbnail
pictures
of
children,
with
links
to
larger
pictures,
and
text
on
their
working
conditions
can
be
found
here.
The
site
is
part
of
the
History
Place,
a
private,
independent,
Internet-only
publication
based
in
Boston.
Great
Chicago
Fire
and
Web
of
Memory
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html
This
site
describes
with
text,
maps,
paintings,
and
photographs
the
before
and
after
of
the
Great
Chicago
Fire.
Read
the
navigation
instructions
for
the
best
results.
This
site
is
a
commemorative
exhibition
created
by
the
Chicago
Historical
society
and
Northwestern
University.
Inside
an
American
Factory
at
the
Turn
of
the
Century
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html
This
site
is
another
Library
of
Congress
American
Memory
production.
Inside
an
American
Factory
contains
films
of
the
Westinghouse
works
in
1904.
There
are
pictures
and
primary
and
secondary
materials
about
the
company.
The
site
is
searchable,
and
it
also
contains
a
subject
index
and
a
list
of
the
films.
Labor-Management
Conflicts
in
American
History
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/laborconflict/
Ohio
State
University's
History
Department
has
put
together
a
web
project
on
labor-management
conflicts
in
American
history
including:
The
Conflict
in
the
Pennsylvania
Coke
Regions
with
Frick
Coke
(text
only);
A
lurid
account
of
the
Molly
Maguire
movement
in
the
Pennsylvania
anthracite
coal
field
(text
only);
The
Homestead
Steel
Strike
of
1892;
Strikes
in
the
Anthracite
Coal
fields
of
Pennsylvania;
The
Chicago
Strike
of
1905(text
only);
and
Haymarket
Square
in
Chicago,
the
scene
of
violence
in
1886(image
only).
Triangle
Shirtwaist
Factory
http://www.csun.edu/~ghy7463/mw2.html
This
site
has
pictures
and
a
support
essay
about
the
Triangle
Shirtwaist
Factory
Fire
of
1911
that
drew
public
attention
to
the
plight
of
workers
in
the
garment
industry.
This
is
a
student's
personal
web
page.
WARNING--graphic
pictures.
Working
Hours
of
Women
in
Factories
http://140.190.128.190/history/hours10.html
This
site
includes
an
early
1900-work
schedule
and
describes
the
conditions
of
women
working
long
hours
in
various
factories.
It
also
includes
a
bell
schedule
for
women
in
factories
(early
1900's)
(text
only).
This
site
is
part
of
the
On
the
Lower
East
Side:
Observations
of
Life
in
Lower
Manhattan
at
the
turn
of
the
Century
site,
(http://acad.smumn.edu/history/contents.html)
The
links
from
this
main
site
are
primarily
text
only.
Child
labor
and
Child
Labor
Reform
in
American
History
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/childlabor/
This
site,
from
Ohio
State
University's
History
Department,
provides
two
excellent
articles
about
child
labor.
The
first
article
is
Mr.
Coal's
Story,
an
appeal
to
end
child
labor
in
coal
mining,
told
by
the
National
Child
Labor
Committee
to
persuade
Americans
to
support
the
regulation
and
elimination
of
child
labor.
The
second
article
is
The
Story
of
My
Cotton
Dress,
from
The
Child
Labor
Bulletin,
August
1914.
Coal
Mining
in
the
Gilded
Age
and
Progressive
Era
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/Lessons_US/Gilded_Age/Coal_Mining/default.htm
This
site,
from
Ohio
State
University's
History
Department,
provides
picture
and
text
about
coal
mining
in
the
United
States.
There
are
seventeen
links
to
information
on
the
work
of
coal
miners,
strikes,
life
and
aims
of
a
mineworker,
and
a
link
to
Stephen
Crane's
"In
the
Depths
of
A
Coal
Mine."
Robber
Barons [top] "Robber
Barons"
or
"Captains
of
Industry"
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_44_Notes.htm
American
Inventors
and
Inventions
[top]
National
Inventors
Hall
of
Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp
This
site
comes
from
the
National
Inventors
Hall
of
Fame
Foundation
in
Akron,
Ohio.
The
site
is
indexed
alphabetically
by invention, inventor,
and date
of
induction.
It
includes
pictures
and
biographies
of
American
inventors
and
inventions
and
links
to
other
web
sites
(when
available)
with
more
information.
This
is
a
good
place
to
begin
research
on
American
inventors.
American
Inventors
and
Inventions
http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm
Spotlight
Biography:
Inventors
http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/inventors1.html
What
were
the
major
inventions
and
new
technologies
of
the
late
1800's?
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec4/Unit_7/Unit_VIIQ6.html
This
list
of
inventors
is
part
of
the
ERIC
Crossroads
unit
on
America
from
1865
to
1900.
There
are
no
hyperlinks
here,
but
this
is
a
great
list
to
use
to
start
searching
for
information.
Invention
Dimension
http://web.mit.edu/invent/
This
MIT
site
features
biographies
of
American
inventors
spanning
a
wide
range
of
topics
and
time
periods.
A
new
description
is
added
every
week
and
all
of
the
inventors
can
be
found
in
the
Inventor
of
the
Week
archives.
The
archives
may
be
searched
by
invention
or
browsed
by
the
inventor's
name. Urbanization
[top] At
Home
with
Alexander
Curtis
1880's
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1850/voices/
curtis/index.html
This
is
an
interactive
story
based
on
a
primary
source
from
1881
that
brings
alive
the
life
of
the
people
in
the
1880's.
The
Illinois
State
Museum
has
designed
a
site
where
one
may
try
to
help
Alexander
Curtis
decide
where
to
live
in
Chicago
while
he
worked
for
the
Pullman
Company.
Tenement
Museum
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/index.html
Over
ten
thousand
people
lived
at
97
Orchard
Street
between
the
years
1870
and
1915.
"Walk"
through
two
of
the
"apartments"
as
they
appeared
at
97
Orchard
St.
in
the
1870's
and
1930's.
WENT
13
of
NYC,
producers
of
this
site,
also
have
included
articles
about
the
history
of
the
time
and
the
families
who
lived
in
these
apartments.
Cities
of
Today,
Cities
of
Tomorrow
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/habitat/
This
site
is
a
special
project
of
the
United
Nations
Cyerschoolbus.
There
is
a
historical
overview
of
urban
development
and
6
units
that
cover
major
aspects
of
cities
and
their
global
and
local
importance
including
the
growth,
expansion,
and
consequences
of
urbanization
in
history,
with
possible
solutions. Immigration
[top] Ellis
Island
http://www.ellisisland.org/
Ellis
Island
served
as
the
port
of
entry
for
the
vast
majority
of
new
immigrants
to
the
U.S.
This
site
presents
a
look
at
the
island,
the
Statue
of
Liberty,
and
the
American
Immigrant
Wall
of
Honor.
There
are
also
Hot
Links
for
more
information
and
a
link
to
the
History
Center.
American
Family
Immigration
History
Center
www.ellisislandrecords.org
This
site
allows
one
to
search
through
old
passenger
manifests
from
the
ships
that
ferried
17
million
immigrants
into
New
York
Harbor,
and
the
New
World,
in
the
late
19th
and
early
20th
centuries.
The
database
extracted
from
microfilms
of
the
original
paper
manifests,
covers
arrivals
at
Ellis
Island
from
1892
through
1924.
Those
were
the
peak
years
of
immigration,
when
as
many
as
5,000
people
a
day
shuffled
through
the
inspection
process.
The
information
recorded
on
the
manifests
hints
at
their
individual
tales
of
grit,
adventure
and
hope.
Immigration
at
the
Turn
of
the
20th
century
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/immigration/
This
site
provides
two
excellent
articles
written
about
immigration.
One
deals
with
the
changing
character
of
immigration
and
the
other
gives
a
colorful
and
descriptive
account
of
what
life
was
like
for
the
immigrants,
who
made
their
way
to
the
United
States.
It
has
a
chart
of
what
each
immigrant
earned
on
the
average,
broken
down
by
national
origin.
American
Immigration
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/
Ellis
Island,
Unit
1
Teacher
Resource
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/ss/b1u1.html
Example
of
a
unit
on
Ellis
Island
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the
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is
a
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medium
and
sites
are
constantly
being
added,
moved
and
deleted.
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you
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a
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