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American Artifacts: The Imaginative Inventor
Just for fun. A website with a list of strange inventions by would-be entrepreneurs. Click on any to see a picture and description of the device.
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The Aria Database
The searchable Aria Database features over 1,200 arias from 170 operas by 60 composers. It includes lyrics, translations, synopses of operas, and MIDI files.
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Uwm Libraries: James Fenimore Cooper
Pages of information about Cooper are available from this site, along with pictures and information about his work, "The Last of the Mohicans".
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Wake Up, America: Women's Suffrage [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines the political and educational limitations women faced in early America. Young scholars will describe early developments in the...
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Ite About 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?'
Discover this painting by William Frederick Yeames. It has a unique narrative about the English Civil War. Also included is a special feature that allows you to get a zoomed in look at the painting. There is also a lesson plan in which...
Arizona State University
Arizona State University: Natural Horn & Its Technique
Arizona State's descriptions of the horn are broken up by illustrations of the horn, players, and music. There is a big discussion of crooks (not the kind that go to jail), but the kind that are made when you bend metal! The author notes...
Arizona State University
Arizona State University Horn Studio: Henri Kling and the Valved Horn
This ASU biographical sketch depicts a man in the 1800's who was consumed by French horn music. As a composer and conductor, he viewed music from many angles. His beliefs about the playing of the French horn are interesting and...
Danuta Bois
Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Margaret Fuller
Providing an article on Margaret Fuller (1810-1850 CE), "the first female foreign correspondent," this website includes resources for further reading and research.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810 1850)
Here are some ideas for discussing the writing of Margaret Fuller. This website provides questions, writing topics, and ideas for making connections with other authors.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook
A rich Fordham University site of primary source material that include full-text, and multimedia sites. There are additional study and research guides such as Modern History in the Movies.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Philosophy and Literature: Two Philosophies
Explains what the 'Scottish philosophy' was and how well it fitted with American sensibilities in the 1800s. Over time it evolved into the American philosophy of Pragmatism. The other philosophy that took hold in some groups of society...
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The Industrial Revolution: Changes in Society
A guided website which covers the major aspects of the Industrial Revolution from about 1750 until 1830. Areas such as industry, agriculture are explored.
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Encyclopedia of Alabama: Know Nothing Party
The Know-Nothing Party, a semi-secret political party from the mid-1800's, is explained in this report. The party lasted only a brief time, for its main purpose was to curb immigration and naturalization led by fear that the German and...
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Gas Light: "The Shot" by Alexander Pushkin
Full text of Pushkin's short story, "The Shot," translated into English. Includes a link to Gaslight etext page.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Election of 1800
This Khan Academy resource provides and overview of the issues surrounding the Election of 1800.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Western Concepts of God
This site from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides an overview of how people viewed God from the time of the Roman Empire until today.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: German Idealism
An excellent breakdown of the development of German Idealism. Refers to each of the important thinkers, and their inter-relationships.
Chicago History Museum
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Tenements
An encyclopedia entry about tenements that focuses on the housing situation of poor immigrants in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Chicago. Includes information about early efforts to improve public housing in the city.
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A Classification of American Wealth: America in the Gilded Age
This site's section, which is part of a larger article on the Gilded Age, focuses on the railroad which began to grow in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Mother Earth Travel
Mother Earth Travel: History of Germany: Bismarck and Unification
Prussian King Wilhelm I selected Bismarck as his minister president and, through a course of short term wars, managed to unify and create the German Empire through the latter half of the nineteenth century. Discover details of what went...
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes: La Parodia Teatral en Espana
Enjoy the history of the Spanish theatre of the nineteenth-century from a comic perspective.
Ibis Communications
Eyewitness to History: Encounter With the Texas Rangers, 1876
This firsthand account of an encounter with some of the men from the Texas Rangers, a group of law enforcement officers in nineteenth century Texas.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: The Rise of Big Business & the Labor Movement: Quiz (5)
Choose the correct word from the drop down menu for each of the thirteen questions to evaluate your knowledge of people and events relating to big business and the labor movement in the late nineteenth century.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Convention of 1835
The constitutional convention of 1835 was convened to modify the North Carolina Constitution of 1776. Some provisions of the 1776 document were rooted in the colonial experience, and a growing segment of the population came to consider...
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