Unit 2 US History Resources
- Check out the following NYPL database for lots of great American History information. Use your library card to gain access:
Use the Humanities Campus Library GO Groiler Database for additional helpful articles and encyclopedia entries. Access it on the Humanities Campus Library Database Page
Helpful Weblinks
Industrialization/Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution: http://www.britannica.com/event/Industrial-Revolution
- Industrial Revolution: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/gilded-age/essays/history-times-industrial-revolution (create a free student account for access to this article)
- Era of Great Inventions: http://www.shmoop.com/great-inventions/
- Industrial Revolution: http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution
- Robber Barons: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/gilded-age/essays/robber-barons-or-captains-industry (create a free student account for access to this article)
- Rise of Industrial America: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/riseind/city/
The Gilded Age
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html
- http://www.shmoop.com/gilded-age/
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/rise-industrial-america-1877-1900/gilded-age (create free student account for access to this article)
- http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/gildedage/context.html
- http://www.britannica.com/event/Gilded-Age
Westward Expansion and Immigration
- Westward Expansion: http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/westwardexpansion/context.html
- Development of the West: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/rise-industrial-america-1877-1900/development-west
- Westward Expansion: http://www.scholastic.com/teachdearamerica/westward.htm
- The Great Migration: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_migration.html
- The Great Migration: http://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Migration
- The Great Migration: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129827444
- The Great Migration: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration
- Ellis Island: http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island
- Ellis Island: http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ellis-island-history
- Ellis Island: http://www.nps.gov/elis/learn/historyculture/index.htm
- Thirteen.org visits the Tenement Museum: http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/index.html
- History.com: Tenements: http://www.history.com/topics/tenements
- Chinese Exclusion Act: http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=506
- Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/chinese-immigration
Yellow Journalism
- U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journalism
- PBS: Yellow Journalism: http://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_journalism.html
- Britannica: Yellow Journalism: http://www.britannica.com/topic/yellow-journalism
Muckrakers and Progressive Legislation
- Encyclopedia Britannica: Muckrakers http://www.britannica.com/topic/muckraker
- Shmoop Society in Muckrakers and Reformers: http://www.shmoop.com/muckrakers-reformers/society.html
- Gilder Lehrman Muckrakers: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/politics-reform/timeline-terms/muckrakers
- Gilder Lehrman The Progressive Era to the New Era (create a free student account to access this article): https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/essays/progressive-era-new-era-1900-1929
- Shmoop: Progressive Era Politics http://www.shmoop.com/progressive-era-politics/
- Gilder Lehrman: The Jungle and the Progressive Era: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/politics-reform/essays/jungle-and-progressive-era
- Shmoop - The Jungle: http://www.shmoop.com/the-jungle/
- Smithsonian article on How The Other Half Lives: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pioneering-social-reformer-jacob-riis-revealed-how-other-half-lives-america-180951546/?no-ist
- History.com: The Roaring Twenties http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties
- Gilder Lehrman: The Roaring Twenties: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/progressive-era-new-era-1900-1929/roaring-twenties
- PBS: The Roaring Twenties: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
- Spark Notes Roaring Twenties: http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/depression/section2.rhtml
- Shmoop.com: The 1920's: http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/
- PBS Jazz: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/
- PBS Harlem Renaissance: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_harlem.html
- History.com Harlem Renaissance: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harlem-renaissance
- Library of Congress - Harlem Renaissance Resources: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html
- Encyclopedia Britannica - Prohibition: http://www.britannica.com/event/Prohibition-United-States-history-1920-1933
- PBS Prohibition: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences/
- PBS Organized Crime http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dillinger/peopleevents/p_gangsters.html
- PBS - The Harlem Renaissance http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_harlem.html
- Britannica.com The Harlem Renaissance https://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art
- Shmoop.com Harlem Renaissance Literature: http://www.shmoop.com/harlem-renaissance-literature/
- Brain Pop Harlem Renaissance: https://www.brainpop.com/artsandmusic/musicalgenres/harlemrenaissance/
- Scholastic Magazine: The Harlem Renaissance : http://magazines.scholastic.com/news/2014/02/The-Harlem-Renaissance
World War I
- Britannica.com: World War I: www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I
- Shmoop.com: http://www.shmoop.com/wwi/www.shmoop.com/wwi/
- Smithsonian The National Museum of American History: World War I http://americanhistory.si.edu/topics/world-war-i
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/progressive-era-new-era-1900-1929/world-war-i
- The National WWI Museum and Memorial: www.theworldwar.org/
- BBC Schools: World War I http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25826265
- British Library World War One: https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one
Women's Suffrage
- Scholastic History of Women's Suffrage http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/history.htm
- United States House of Representatives: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1920 http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/
- PBS The Battle for Suffrage http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/eleanor-suffrage/
- National Women's History Museum - Crusade for the Vote http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/
- National Park Service: Women's Rights Timeline https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/womens-suffrage-history-timeline.htm