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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment
This resource provides the 19th Amendment and a short history of the women's suffrage movement state by state.
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Women in History: Jane Addams
Click here to see a photo of Jane Addams & read her biography. Read about her dedication the Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago.The first female to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Addams was also known for her support of women's...
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Sarah Winnemucca
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers a biography of the extraordinary life of Sarah Winnemucca of the Paiute Indians.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Henry George
At this site from the Museum of San Francisco you can check out this biography of Progressive visionary Henry George, taken from an 1889 encyclopedia (so, according to this article, he's not dead yet!). Includes photo.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: America at the Centennial
A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Students interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.
University of Virginia
Univ. Of Virigina: The New Deal for African Americans
Resource provides an essay describing the African Americans changing of political support from Republican to Democrat in the 1930's. Includes exerpt from archived news article.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles Parkhurst
An American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Although scholarly and reserved, he preached two sermons in 1892 in which he attacked the political corruption of New York City government. Backed by the...
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Full Online Text of "Progress and Poverty"
Open this page for links to the full text of Henry George's "Progress and Poverty", which became popular during the American Progressive Era.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Latin American Revolutionaries
This collection uses primary sources to explore leaders of Latin American revolutions.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Yearning to Breathe Free Webisode 10
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...
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Georgetown College: Introduction to American History: Progressivism (1900 1920)
Check out this page for a good overview of some general goals of Progressives. Material is presented in outline form and identifies major Progressive issues and attitudes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Electrifying America
This collection of primary sources explores the introduction of electric power to the United States.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Great Migration
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Environmental Preservation Progressive Era
This collection uses primary sources to environmental preservation in the Progressive Era.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The War of 1812
A collection of primary sources that explore the War of 1812.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Jacksonian Democracy?
A collection that uses primary sources to explore Jacksonian democracy.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Act 1850
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History History Unit: Period 6: 1865 1898: Unit Test
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...
University of Virginia
Virginia Center for Digital History: United States Expansion, 1800 1860
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...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: China, the Self Strengthening Movement
Country Studies offers an article of the social causes and political outcomes of Chinese self-strengthening reform in the 19th century.
Curated OER
Ataturk
This biography of Ataturk, Father of Modern Turkey lists of political revolutions, social, educational, and cultural reformations, and principles of Ataturk.
Curated OER
Unesco: Germany: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive...