- 1898 Wilmington Race Riot (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/1898_Wilmington_Race_Riot
- Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Seneca_Falls_Women_s_Rights_Convention
- Stand Up And Sing: Music And Our Reform History
Helps students analyze issues related to American industrialization and reform using sheet music.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/sing/intro.html
- Private Letters of James S. Griffing & J. Augusta Goodrich
Correspondence exchanged between the two during the period 1841-1871.
www.griffingweb.com
- Wikipedia: American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954)
Focuses on the early years of the American Civil Rights movement to end discrimination against African Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281896-1954%29
- Aaron Burr - Alexander Hamilton Duel (6)
Find sites dedicated to the deadly 1804 duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, which left Hamilton dead after one shot from Burr.
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Aaron_Burr___Alexander_Hamilton_Duel
- E Pluribus Unum: America in the 1770s, 1850s, and 1920s
Collection of essays, primary texts, artifacts, and other resources that examine the attempt to make "one from many" in three critical decades of American life.
www.assumption.edu/ahc
- Whitman Massacre@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Whitman_Massacre
- America at Work, America at Leisure
This Library of Congress American Memory features motion pictures from 1894 to 1915 of a broad range of work, school, and leisure activities in the U.S. at the turn of the century.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml
- Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection
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Exhibit about the first major World's Fair held in the U.S. Features the Free Library of Philadelphia's collection of photographs and material.
libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol
- American Experience: America 1900
Images, information, and documents about American life at the turn of the century, including a timeline, people and events database, and teacher's guide.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900
- American Tourists: The Grand Tour Comes Home
Considers the history of Americans and tourism in the United States.
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/tourist/main.html
- United States Exploring Expedition (10)
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/United_States_Exploring_Expedition
- Plough Boy Journals of Lewis Monto, 1827-1834
Documents aspects of early 19th century American whaling by linking original and third-party documents on topics noted in the two journals kept by Lewis Monto between 1827 and 1834.
www.du.edu/~ttyler/ploughboy/pbjournals.htm
- 1898 Trans Mississippi and International Exposition
Showcased the developed West from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Held concurrently with the Indian Congress in Omaha, Nebraska.
www.omaha.lib.ne.us/transmiss
- City Transformed: Railroads and Their Influence on the Growth of Chicago in the 1850s
Finalist entry in the 1995 Chicago Metro History Fair.
hcs.harvard.edu/~dreyfus/history.html
- Great Republic by the Master Historians, Volume II
Covers the Cherokee wars to the Embargo Act of 1807.
www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Histor...
- Great Republic by the Master Historians, Volume III
Covers the War of 1812 to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Histor...
- Road through the Wilderness: The Making of the National Road
Describes the development of the road extending from Cumberland, MD, to St. Louis, MO, and its importance as the highway of Western migration in the early 19th Century.
www.connerprairie.org/Learn-And-Do/Indiana-History/America-1800-1860/The-Na...
- American Experience: The Telephone
Companion web site to the PBS/WGBH series program on the history of the telephone.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/technology/telephone/index.html
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