This is the official website of GOO, a non-governmental organization devoted to protecting the environment from the oil industry.

Discussion of the programs and reforms launched in the period of the Second New Deal that provided for social and economic legislation to benefit the mass of working people.

Mary Harris, better known as "Mother Jones," was an activist for the reform of laber laws. Read about her long life, which she dedicated to the working class and labor movement.

This site from Victorian Context is an article that talks about the politics of reform in England. It gives information about how these politics effected the influence on the Victorian Literature. It is an informative article that goes...

A brief account of British history where learners examine the causes and effects of filth and fever during the Victorian era in England.

This extensive learning module examines the role of large-scale industrialization, urbanization, and mass migrations in creating new demands on government and social organizations to design reforms, and looks at the global and domestic...

This wonderful website, Freedom, a History of US, based on the series by Joy Hakim, presents the tenth webisode, Yearning to be Breathe Free. Through text, photographs, and audio segments you can get a good picture of the state of...

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration.

In question and answer format, NPR takes a look at Medicare's new drug program and its effect on senior citizens. Links to numerous other NPR reports on this subject. 1/27/2006

This collection uses primary sources to environmental preservation in the Progressive Era.

This unit practice test from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Western expansion, the Gilded Age, and the "New South" are components of this unit test. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...

Review America's history with over 700 individual maps that address a broad range of issues with this atlas. This atlas maps a variety of historical topics: "exploration and settlement of the continent, the location of colleges and...

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.

This companion to the PBS series surveys the career of the longest-serving president in U.S. history and leader through the Great Depression and World War II.

The economy of Cameroon has encountered many bumps along the road, but you can read about the government's attempt to get it back on track by meeting its financial obligations. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.

Interesting notes on Jane Addams' life, philosophy on Hull House, and social work.

The rebirth of Japan after WWII is explained. There was land reform, political reform, democratization, and the establishment of trade unions, all introduced by the Supreme Command of Allied Power. The phenomenal growth of business was...

This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features Booker T. Washington, a educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and...

A brief biographical sketch of Booker T. Washington, an educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for black...

Learn details about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) that was passed on March 23, 2010.

A map of England & Wales, subtitled "Parliamentary Representation in 1832 Before The Reform Bill." The Reform Act made wide-ranging changes in the electoral system in the United Kingdom due, in part, to the growth of large and...