Open this page for links to the full text of Henry George's "Progress and Poverty", which became popular during the American Progressive Era.

This resource provides information about important issues, relating towards female voters.

This site has a description of the economy and development of the Kyrgyz Republic from the perspective of the World Bank. Read about economic policy, human development, and World Bank programs.

This collection uses primary sources to explore leaders of Latin American revolutions.

Activity-based resource in which students research, write about, and participate in a panel discussion on Marxism, comparing his vision and historical reality to that of other critical thinkers in world history.

Read about some of the grassroots movements at the heart of Progressivism, and the changes they were pushing for and what they accomplished. Discusses labor issues, including the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Also discusses...

This collection of primary sources explores the introduction of electric power to the United States.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration.

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

A collection of primary sources that explore the War of 1812.

A collection that uses primary sources to explore Jacksonian democracy.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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...

An essay that looks at issues affecting Americans leading up to the Civil War. These included economic changes that led to new ideological, social, cultural, and political issues that further divided the nation along moral and regional...

Discusses the investigation that Andrew Jackson launched into the Second Bank of the United States after suggestions that it was meddling in politics, and Nicholas Biddle's response. Jackson took the issue to Congress, asking them to...

Economic trends will provide a very important part of the context in which President Obama's policies play out in the remainder of his term until January 2017. The Middle East's economic recovery from the 2008-2010 global economic crisis...

This Digital History site provides an informative overview of the Mexican American civil rights movement in America.

A good look at the domestic policies of President Chester A. Arthur, who demonstrated an independence from the Republican Party line.

This site features photos and artifacts from the life of one of the most dynamic and controversial First Ladies in U.S. history, as well as a virtual tour of her home.

Official homepage of the League of Women Voters.

This section gives a brief explanation of how the brothers influenced Roman society.

Students work with two document collections, "Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures: 1850-1920" and "Votes for Women: 1848-1921", to understand how the suffragists changed the requirements for voting in America.

An explanation of the role of third parties, their history, and some notable third party candidates can be found in this Wikipedia article.

This article reports as Egyptians vote in their country's first contested presidential election. The current leader has ruled for 24 years and now, for the first time, faces nine other candidates. (September 7, 2005)