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:
US History In Context
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
The Gilded Age
Westward Expansion and Immigration
Yellow Journalism
Muckrakers and Progressive Legislation
US History In Context
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