Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries: The Art of African Exploration
The Art of African Exploration is a catalog of primary sources that documents the impressions of Europeans who traveled to Africa in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century to explore and conquer. View the work of expedition artists...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Spirit of Nationalism: Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley, an African-American slave, is featured for her neoclassical poetry of pre-nineteenth century America. Click on "Phillis Wheatley Activities" for more resources.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents: Herman Melville
Prompted to write so as to raise his family out of debt, Herman Melville, acclaimed American author of the nineteenth century is portrayed in this brief biography. See "Herman Melville Activities" for related materials.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents: Edgar Allan Poe
This biography features Edgar Allan Poe who introduced the genre of horror and mystery to literature in the nineteenth century with stories such as "The Raven."
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Regional Realism: Charles W. Chesnutt
This resource focuses on realist author Charles W. Chesnutt and his manner of portraying African American characters in the South during the late nineteenth century. See "Charles W. Chesnutt Activities" for related resources.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Regional Realism: Kate Chopin
The realistic writings depicting the cultures of Louisiana in the late nineteenth century are featured in this brief biography of fictional author Kate Chopin. See "Kate Chopin Activities" for related materials.
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: Edith Turner: Nottoway Cheroenhaka Chief
How did Edith Turner, Chief of the Nottoway, navigate nineteenth-century Nottoway and Anglo-American societies while keeping the tribe's children on the reservation? This lesson looks at her life and her strong stance to maintain the...
US National Archives
Essays, Speeches, and Memoirs of Field Marshall Count Helmuth Von Moltke
Published in 1893, this as a collection of English translations of writings and speeches by Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, one of the foremost military strategists of the nineteenth century. Many of the documents in this collection are...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
In this section, students will learn about the major discoveries and developments in western gold, silver, and copper mining in the mid-nineteenth century. They will be able to explain why the cattle industry was paramount to the...
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
Read this section from a chapter on "Westward Expansion" to learn about the methods that the U.S. government used to address the "Indian threat" during the settlement of the West and explain the process of "Americanization" as it applied...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Gilded Age
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding historical questions. The Gilded Age unit highlights the turbulent changes that characterized the end of the nineteenth century.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Fur Trade Employees, Etc.
This paper looks at the various working roles played by Metis in the nineteenth century - as fur traders, free traders, guides and scouts. It includes discussion questions and a bibliography.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Republic by Plato
A digital version of The Republic, Plato's famous political dialogue. Includes a lengthy introduction by the translator, Benjamin Jowett, a nineteenth-century Oxford University scholar.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Within These Walls
Two hundred years' worth of American history all in one house. Learn what a close examination of a single-family dwelling can tell us about what life was like during five different periods of American history: the colonial era, the...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Manifest Destiny
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students use nineteenth-century maps and art, and consider the roots of American exceptionalism.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Exploration Through the Ages
A history of the world from the perspective of those who sailed the seas in great waves of exploration, from ancient times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the explorers, their ships, the tools they navigated by, and their...
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Birth of the u.s. Navy
A history of the United States Navy, from pre-Revolutionary times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the maritime commerce, wartime influence, and Congressional actions relating to the development of the Navy.
University of Richmond
American Panorama: Canals
Excellent resource maps the growth of canals and economic development in the nineteenth-century by presenting data about the commodities and products that moved across the canals and shows the spaces that canals connected.
Brown University
Brown University Library: Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
A digital archive of media portraying Giuseppe Garibaldi, a nineteenth-century Italian military and political leader and hero. Collection includes interactive and animated panoramic lecture, newspaper illustrations, and prints from the...
Other
New World Encyclopedia: Mexican War of Independence
Find out about the early nineteenth century armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish rule.
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State of Alaska: Department of Education: Alaska's Gold
Information, stories, historical images, and documents about the discovery of gold in Alaska in the late nineteenth century.
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Godmother of Thanksgiving: The Story of Sarah Josepha Hale [Pdf]
You may not have heard of Sarah Josepha Hale, but you are very familiar with her work. Learn about the remarkable nineteenth century New Hampshire woman who convinced a president to proclaim a national holiday - Thanksgiving. And that's...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Catharine Beecher
Catharine Esther Beecher was a nineteenth century teacher and writer who promoted equal access to education for women.
Library of Congress
Loc: Home Sweet Home Life in 19th Century Ohio
This site uses historically significant documents to paint a picture of family life in 19th century Ohio. Music plays a large role in this picture.
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