Unsinkable Titanic
http://www.sanjuan.edu/
schools/mesaverde/
schdept/eng/titanic/
titanic.html
Description: On the night of April 14, 1912, during its first trip from England to New York City, the Titanic struck an iceburg and sank. The tragedy occurred off the coast of Grand Banks, Newfoundland. To learn more, explore this site developed by staff at Mesa Verde High School.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Around the World in 1890: Photographs from the Transportation Commission
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
ammem/wtc/
wtchome.html
Description: This is a searchable library of all methods of transportation from the late 19th century.
Resource Type: Photos or Pictures
Graphics Content: High
 

Great Chicago Fire and Web of Memory
http://www.chicagohs.org/
fire/index.html
Description: Describes with text, maps, paintings, and photographs the before and after of the Great Chicago Fire.
Comments: Read the navigation instructions for best results.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

How We Made the First Flight
http://www.aero-web.org/
history/wright/wright.html
Description: Read these fascinating pages from Orville Wright's own notebooks about the early days of the airplane and flight in America.
Comments: Reading Wright's original words and seeing photos from the National Archives is awesome.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Inside an American Factory at the Turn of the Century
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
ammem/papr/west/
westhome.html
Description: See pictures and read primary and secondary material about Westlinghouse in the early 1900s.
Comments: This is part of the fabulous American Memory Collection.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Labor-Management Conflict in American History
http://www.cohums.ohio-
state.edu/history/projects/
HomesteadStrike1892/
PennMilitiaInField/
pennmilitiainfield.htm
Description: The late 19th century marked major changes in the relationship between business and labor in America. Here are primary source pictures and news articles from the Homestead Strike and the Haymarket Riot. There are also essays on the Molly Mcquires and the Coke Region troubles. 
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: History of American Sweat Shops 1820-Present
http://www.si.edu/
nmah/ve/sweatshops/
start.htm
Description: This set of pictures of sweat shops from the Smithsonian shows the underside of the American garment industry.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow
http://www.un.org/
Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
special/habitat/
Description: This site has units describing the growth, expansion, and consequences of urbanization in history, with possible solutions. Text include city profiles, pictures, and activities for students. Meets Standard 10.3.3.
Comments: Part of U.N. Cyberschoolbus site.
Resource Type: True
Graphics Content: True
 

Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies Page
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
shuttle/minority.html#general
Description: Here is a wide spectrum and in-depth look at links to minority contributions to American life.
Comments: An excellent access to high quality web sites.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: Low
 

Welcome to It's Us
http://pathfinder.com/
@@isqJswYAn*72H5*v/
Corp/itsus/
Description: Time/Life publications has put together an interactive exhibit that describes the American Experience and the American Dream and requests our participation.
Comments: Good with special needs students and has excellent photos.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Chinese Historical and Cultural Project
http://www.dnai.com/
~rutledge/
ChineseResource.html
Description: This site contains historical links for studying the culture, architecture, and history of both China and the Chinese American immigrant experience.
Comments: This is a user friendly site with carefully chosen links. Reading levels and graphic interest varies between sites, but most are good for the 7th grade level.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
 

Ellis Island 
http://www.historychannel.com
/cgi-bin/framed.cgi
Description: The History Channel devotes these images, text, and sound files to a celebration of the immigrant experience, from the ordeal of Ellis Island to the vast changes they faced in New York, gateway to the American Dream.
Comments: To find this information, input Ellis Island in the search box when you get to the homepage of the site.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Immigration at the Turn of the 20th century
http://www.cohums.
ohio-state.edu/history/
projects/immigration/
Description: 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.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Immigration Photos 
http://cmp1.ucr.edu/
exhibitions/
immigration_id.html
Description: This site contains a wonderful collection of historic photographs of Ellis Island from the California Museum of Photography.
Resource Type: Photos or Pictures
Graphics Content: High
 

Statue of Liberty Facts, News and Information 
http://www.endex.com/
gf/buildings/liberty/
liberty.html
Description: This site contains facts, news and information about the Statue of Liberty.
Comments: Don't miss the virtual tour done by Queensbury Middle School and their page devoted to the idea that we may not know what we THINK we know about Ellis Island "
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Chinese Migration in California
http://www.sfmuseum.org/
hist1/1874.html
Description: This is a website of primary and secondary source text and photographs pertaining to the history of San Francisco. 
Comments: Excellent source for California history.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

History of Immigrants: Two Sides to the Story
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/
~marvand
Description: Immigration in the U.S. has always been a topic of great controversy. This site offers historic and contemporary views on immigration with pros and cons about it.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Dolen Letter
http://members.aol.com/
timgore/dolen.htm
Description: This letter was written in 1840 Ohio Valley by O. W. Dolen. Of interest to genealogists and ante-bellum historians, it mentions Abolitionism, Methodism and personal conditions.
Comments: A letter of social history that gives glimpses into to pre-Civil War times.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Essay by William Graham Sumner
http://www.blupete.com/
Literature/Essays/Best/
SumnerForgotten.htm
Description: This essay is based on the reasoning of Social Darwinism of which William Graham Sumner was one of the strongest proponents.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Thomas Robert Malthus
http://www.stg.brown.edu/
projects/hypertext/landow/
victorian/economics/
malthus.html
Description: This is a brief essay by economist Thomas Malthus, famous for his Theory On Population.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Quotes from Mark Twain
http://www.tarleton.edu/
~schmidt/Mark_
Twain.html
Description: Here are quotes from Mark Twain categorized by key word and alphabetically accessed. Some are quite funny.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Public Education in the Progressive Era
http://sun1.iusb.edu/
eduweb01/progress.html
Description: This site gives information about how public schools changed to meet the changes in society during the period of rapid immigration at the turn of the 20th c. It gives insight in the the beliefs and values of the Progessive Era political parties.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

The Nation's Forum
http://rs6.loc.gov./
ammem/nfhome.html
Description: The Nation's Forum Collection consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century. An excellent source for primary material. 
Comments: Need storage space. Not for low tech.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

A Strenuous Life - Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.ushistory.net/
strenuous.html
Description: In this speech given by Roosevelt in Chicago in 1899 he outlines his philosophy of life and attitude toward U.S. expansionism.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low

Turn of the Century
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/turncent/index.html
Students will play the role of a historical figure in turn of the century America. They will research important figures on-line to assume the role of that person in order to give a brief speech and participate in a table topic discussion with other important historical figures of the turn of the century. 
Author: Dede Bartels
 

Americans and the Automobile
http://memory.loc.gov/
ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/
oralhist/autoset.html
Learn about the meaning of the automobile in American society through the voices of ordinary people drawn from primary sources from the American Memory Collection, American Life Histories, 1936-1940. Using excerpts from the collection, study the role of the auto through interviews that recount the lives of ordinary Americans. Based on these excerpts and further research in the collections, develop your own research questions. Then plan and conduct oral history interviews with members of your community. 
Author: American Memory Collection
 

Chicago's Black Metropolis
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/
53black/53black.htm
Visit South Chicago today through the Internet. There is a Victory Monument here, celebrating African American contributions to the Allied victory in World War I. Other nearby structures, such as a newspaper building, an office and manufacturing building, and a YMCA, also testify to the presence of thousands of African Americans who came to Chicago's South Side in the early 20th century to fashion a better life for themselves and their families. The search for the history in these places leads to questions about the essence of history itself: What happened here? Why did the place change? What has transformed the site into a historically important place? 
Author: Gerald A. Danzer
 

Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy 
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
ammem/ndlpedu/
lesson97/conser1/
xroads.html 
The debate over damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park marked a crossroads in the American conservation movement. Until this debate, conservationists seemed fairly united in their aims. San Francisco's need for a reliable water supply, along with a new political dynamic at the federal level, created a division between those committed to preserving the wilderness and those more interested in efficient management of its use. While this confrontation happened nearly one hundred years ago, it contains many of the same arguments which are used today whenever preservationists and conservationists mobilize. 
Author: Michael Federspiel and Timothy Hall
 

Gilded Age: Documenting Industry in America
http://oswego.org/
staff/tcaswell/wq/
gildedage/
student.htm
You are a member of a film production studio which has recently been hired to produce a documentary about the Gilded Age. The term "Gilded Age" was coined by historians in an effort to illustrate the outwardly showy, but inwardly corrupt nature of American society during the industrialization of the late 1800's. The documentary will need to highlight the many aspects of society that made up the Gilded Age, including: technological innovation, big business, urbanization, immigration, and reactions to the period.
Author: Thomas Caswell and Joshua Delorenzo
 

History of American Industry
http://ericir.syr.edu/
Virtual/Lessons/
crossroads/sec5/
Unit_07/Unit_07L3R1.html
This activity allows you to become an active historian of an industry or business enterprise of your choice. If the community in which you live or a nearby city has such an enterprise that grew substantially in the latter part of the nineteenth century, you may wish to explore its development, using data available locally. 
Author: Crossroads
 

American Immigration Past and Present: A Simulation Activity
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/immigration/
As part of a presentation to the Commission on American Immigration Policy, you must research the issues and develop an argument for one of four policy options ranging from closing the borders to opening them wider. In the process, you will learn about immigration history since the late 1800's as well as recent trends and their consequences. 
Author: Lewis Sitzer
 

Immigrant Experience: Ellis Island
http://catalog.socialstudies.com/
c/@Wmpv2OzYB_jKE/Pages/
article.html?article@ellis
Use information literacy skills to access and analyze information from Internet sites about tEllis Island. Then write a first person narrative from the viewpoint of an immigrant coming to New York in 1910. 
Author: Aaron Willis
 

Immigration Attitudes in American History: They Are Not like Us!!
http://education.educ.
indiana.edu/cas/tt/v2i2/t
hey.html
This exercise helps students understand that xenophobic attitudes have existed throughout United States history and that our culture has survived and been enriched by each new wave of immigrants. Students should be aware that these biases have been expressed in each generation, especially when large numbers of immigrants have come to our country. 
Author: Bob Benoit
 

Port of Entry
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
ammem/ndlpedu/activity/
port/html/disklp2.html
Photographs, films, and other images are visual evidence of people, places, and events in history. They provide valuable clues to what life was like in the past. But like all clues, visual evidence is a piece of a bigger puzzle. To put the pieces together, you need to play detective. You must become a careful observer of details. As you analyze each photographic clue, keep in mind that photographers and artists, like speakers and writers, have points of view and a story to tell. 
Author: American Memory
 

Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit 
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/
sites/letsnet/noframes/
subjects/ss/b6u2.html#plans
Conduct primary and secondary research to learn more about your cultural and ethnic heritage. These explorations will serve as a personal link to the historical importance of immigration in United States history. Use your research to develop web pages about your own cultural and ethnic heritage that will be formed into a virtual museum. Your research will include interviews with family members, investigating your heritage using library and Internet resources, and visiting sites set up by others related to the concepts of immigration and ethnic and cultural heritage. 
Author: John Schick
 

Social Darwinism: Reason or Rationalization?
http://www.smplanet.com/
imperialism/activity.html
This activity asks you to evaluate the theory of Social Darwinism. Read the primary excerpts and think carefully about the questions asked. You may write down your answers or discuss them with your classmates. See the bottom of this page for a chance to publish your answers on the World Wide Web. 
Author: Small Planet Communications

Students should know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclairís The Jungle.

They can describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and
trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.

They can trace the effect of the Americanization movement.
They are able to analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.

They can discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders.

They should be able to trace the economic development of the United States and its emergence as a major
industrial power, including its gains from trade and the advantages of its physical
geography.

They are able to analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel (e.g., using biographies of William Graham Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L. Moody).