Geffrye Museum
Geffrye Museum: Life in the Living Room 1600 2000: 19th Century
An exhibition of the material belongings that were typical in a well-kept 19th-century living room. Covers furniture and furnishings, lighting, heating, ornamentation, domestic life, and the types of townhouses that were common in that...
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Touring Turn of the Century America
This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: George Eliot Middlemarch
At this website, read the full text of George Eliot's novel, "Middlemarch." Included is a brief paragraph intoducing the book, its context, and its plot.
University of Oxford (UK)
Bodleian Library: Internet Library of Early Journals
This site provides an extensive library of British journals from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Elisha Otis
A biography of the man who invented the elevator.
Other
George Mason University: Papers of the War Department
In 1800, a fire destroyed the War Department office causing the loss of many important papers. Recently, copies of the files have been located in archives around the country and are available here as a searchable digital database.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Ellis Island
The official website for Ellis Island provides information and photos on the history and culture as well as news about the Island. Site includes information for teachers, especially in regard to planning a class trip. Also included are...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Ellis Island: Immigrant Stories
Read about the stories of eight different families who passed through the Ellis Island immigration processing station.
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company: Donald A. Smith
Donald Smith is best known as the white-haired man, in the tall hat, driving "The Last Spike" in the 1885 Canadian Pacific Railway photograph. His other accomplishments include being the only person, rising through the ranks of the Hbc,...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Bicycle
Take a virtual field trip to the Smithsonian and see its historical collection of bicycles and various bicycle memorabilia. Access to 449 archived items are provided, beginning with the Victory Bicycle from 1886 to present-day bicycles...
California Digital Library
Loc: The Chinese in California 1850 1925
Excellent overview of the Chinese experience in California complete with historical photos and primary documents. Site provides information on San Francisco's Chinatown, the anti-Chinese Movement, and Chinese laborers.
Other
Modern World History: Responses to the Industrial Revolution
This section of the text looks at how workers, owners, and the government responded differently to the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. The Luddites rebelled against industrialization. Robert Owen, a wealthy socialist,...
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Historical Geography of Transportation: Map 10: United States, 1835
Lessons K-12 examining the role of transportation systems in the development and settlement of the lands between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Art and Exploration in the American West and Mexico
Lesson on the 19th Century representation through art and maps of indigenous population and territory of the American West and Mexico. Primary source documents and questions for discussion are included.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This late 1800s work, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, is the first book of the "Bastable" series (late 1800s through the early 1900s) , written by Edith Nesbit.
California Institute of Technology
Cool Cosmos: The Herschel Experiment
This website provides a background on the discoverer of infared light--Sir Frederick William Herschel. A version of the experiment Herschel conducted in the 1800s is provided as well.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: Brooklyn Bridge
An essay and a poem about the Brooklyn Bridge that celebrate its power and majesty as emblems of industrial America during the late 1800's.
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...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Buffalo Tales: The Near Extermination of the American Bison
This site from the National Humanties Center provides pictures and and offers discussion questions in considering the near-extermination of the American Bison in the late 1800s. Very interesting and informative.
Library of Congress
Loc: Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph Lesson Plan
Journals, letters, and narratives reveal a part of America's history not revealed in textbooks, the story of women, namely the women of the 1800s. With this lesson, young scholars gain understanding of women and history through various...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The Struggles of Labor
This site discusses how for much of the latter half of the 1800s, the life of the common laborer was horrendous. Working in a unsanitary factory, for at least 10 hours a day, making far less than needed to survive, the struggles of the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Moses Austin (In Spanish)
Learn about the life and business adventures of the man who dominated the U.S. lead industry in the early 1800s, then made arrangements for American Settlers to move to Spanish Texas. (In Spanish)
Florida State University
Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Shadowbox Theatre
Have you ever thought about your shadow? One way to learn about them is to make your own shadow box theater--once a very popular form of entertainment in Europe during the 1800s and early 1900s.
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