Activity
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Charles Guiteau Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
From Douglas O. Linder's extensive website covering famous trials primarily in U.S. History, this famous trial is the Garfield Assassination Trial of Charles Guiteau. Find the chronology of events, a diagram of the train station where...
Website
University of Alberta

Atlas of Alberta Railways: Land Grant System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the land grant system in the Alberta region. Information on how the Canadian government used land grants in the late 19th century to spur population growth in...
Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience: Chinese Exclusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is from a larger unit examining the Chinese immigrant experience in America in the 19th century. Young scholars will examine actions that were taken to discriminate against the Chinese and exclude them from American...
Primary
University of Nebraska

U of Nebraska: Railroads and Making of Modern America: Representing the Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
A primary source collection of artworks, photographs, and illustrations of the railroads in the 19th century that represent different perspectives.
Handout
Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Online Stuff: Big Clocks

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the development of early clocks from the 14th through to the 19th centuries.
Primary
Calisphere: University of California Libraries

University of California: Calisphere: Everyday Life, 1850s 1890s

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source images and informational text highlight the diverse population found in mid 19th century California.
Primary
Calisphere: University of California Libraries

University of California: Calisphere: Gold Rush Era: Everyday Life and People

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source photos from 19th-century California which portray what everyday life was like during the California Gold Rush.
Handout
Victorian Web

Brown University: Victorian Web: Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Victorian Web provides a summary of Edwin Chadwick's report on the sanitary conditions of the working class in 19th century England. Links are also provided for additional information on this subject.
Website
Victorian Web

Brown University: Victorian Web: Religion in Victorian Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
The links provided show the different aspects of religion in 18th and 19th century England. The site also offers a timeline of religion and philosophy.
Website
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Manet and the Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a preview to a live exhibit in Chicago, these pages explore the theme of seascape as perceived in the late 19th century. Includes a great deal about Manet and other artists of the period plus plenty of images of famous works.
Handout
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)

La Historia De Matematicas a Traves De Los Siglos

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. Offers brief mathematical histories beginning with Egypt and Babylon up through the 19th century.
Activity
University of New Brunswick (Canada)

Henry George Clopper Ketchum the Railway to Glory or Despair

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a fascinating, largely forgotten piece of Canadian history. In the late 19th century, Henry Ketchum, an engineer from Fredericton, New Brunswick, envisioned the building of a railway to transport ships from the Bay or Fundy to...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Africans in America: Forten Letter to Cuffe

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about James Forten's opposition to Paul Cuffe's American Colonization Society, which sought to recruit African-Americans to emigrate to Africa in the early 19th century. In addition, this site provides a link to the text of Forten's...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
American Experience offers a comprehensive look at George Eastman and his development of photography. Included are a timeline, biographies of important people in Eastman's personal and professional life, discussions in the history of...
Article
US Department of Labor

U.s. Department of Labor: Labor in the Industrial Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This interesting essay traces the growth of the Knights of Labor from a group that represented those in the shoe industry in Philadelphia to a nationwide union fighting for workers' rights. It also traces other union developments over...
Unit Plan
Other

Paul Yee: 'Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching guide provided by Paul Yee for his book of short stories, "Tales from Gold Mountain", provides a summary of the book, discussion questions and classroom activities. The book explores the experiences of Chinese immigrants to...
Graphic
Other

Musee D'orsay: Jean Francois Millet , the Angelus

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, this is an image, description and explanation with an accompanying link to other facts about the late 19th century Romanticist painting "The Angelus" by Jean-Francois Millet.
Website
Other

Expansion in the Pacific: Footholds in the Pacific

For Students 9th - 10th
Good description of 19th century Hawaiian history and its annexation by the U.S., with links to related maps, pictures, and treaties.
Lesson Plan
Other

Bringing History Home: Industrialization History

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This 3rd grade unit introduces the history of industrialization in the United States in the late 19th century. The development of mechanization and assembly line processes, reliance on unskilled labor, and geographic concentration of...
Primary
Other

Jean Ingelow's "Songs of Seven"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read Jean Ingelow's collection of poems entitled "Songs of Seven" that had a significant impact on England's 19th century culture.
Website
Other

National Association of Japan America Societies: Edo Japan: A Virtual Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
Edo is the ancient name for Tokyo and this site provides a virtual experience for students to learn about the government, economy, and social life of Tokyo prior to the 19th century.
Website
Other

The Corner: National Rivalries

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses two kinds of nationalism which arose in Europe in the 19th century, nationalism in Germany, nationalism in Italy, nationalism in Austria-Hungary, nationalism in Russia, the Treaty of Paris and Russia, nationalism in France, and...
Handout
Other

Chicago L: The Original L Companies

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of a larger site, this article gives the history of the famous Chicago "L" and its development in the last part of the 19th century. Hyperlinks to photos, many of which are period photos.
Activity
Other

The Thomas Love Peacock Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The T. L. Peacock Society serves to popularize the virtues of Peacock's novels and poetry as well as other writings. This index page links to full-text novels and poems by the 19th century Romantic-era writer.

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