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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore visual art during the Harlem Renaissance.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Women and the Blues

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the impact of women blues performers.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Woman ideal.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: American Indian Boarding Schools

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore American Indian boarding schools.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Negro League Baseball

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore Negro League Baseball.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: African American Soldiers in World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the experiences of African American Soldiers in World War I.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Panama Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection uses primary sources to explore the construction of the Panama Canal.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore blackface minstrelsy in modern America.
Graphic
US National Archives

Nara: Picturing the Century: A New Century

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a series of photographs of different areas in the United States during the beginning of the 20th century.
Website
Vassar College

Vassar College: 1896: Socialism

For Students 9th - 10th
This website from Vassar College for Political Cartoons offers a look at Socialism in 1896 with special attention to the thoughts of Eugene V. Debs.
Article
US Department of State

American Life: Discontent and Reform

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the US Department of State, "USA History in Brief," reviews the reasons for and results of Progressivism in the early 20th century.
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Chronology of the American Conservation Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Documentary chronology/timeline of selected events in the development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The West, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four nineteenth-century landscape paintings that suggest the meaning of the West in American life.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Memory, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twelve primary sources - historical documents, literary texts, and visual images - that explore ways in which the memory of the Civil War affected American life in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Activity
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Memory: Civil War Memory and American Nostalgia: Influence of Lincoln

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An excerpt from Jane Addams' autobiography "Twenty Years at Hull House" that describes how Abraham Lincoln inspired her urban reform efforts.
Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Railroad, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A speech and an engraving that illustrate how the railroad helped to unite the country after the Civil War.
Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Power: Taming the Octopus: The Image of the Octopus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Six versions of the octopus, a pervasive image in late-nineteenth-century America, that illustrate the extensive and corrosive power held by corporations over American political and economic life. Reading guide with discussion questions.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Big City Politics, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ash Can School artist John Sloan's painting Election Night captures the exuberance of urban politics in the early-twentieth century, and artist Henry Glitkencamp's illustration Voting Machines suggests its corrupting power. Both pieces...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Power: Taming the Octopus: Theodore Roosevelt, the New Nationalism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Theodore Roosevelt's speech in 1910 arguing for the vigorous involvement of government in American life.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Women, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Students 9th - 10th
Arguments by women for and against the extension of the vote to women. This resource primarily focuses on, "If Men Were Seeking the Franchise," by Jane Addams, used to project domestic values upon government and the state.
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Child Labor and the Building of America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars are immersed in primary source materials that relate to child labor in America from 1880-1920 to gain a personal perspective of how work affected the American child within a rapidly growing industrial society. This project...
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The College Board

College Board: Ap u.s History Ubranization [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
By 1900, America had become an urban nation in its dominant tone, in its economy and work, and in its culture and aspiration as well as its demography. Gradually-and then seemingly suddenly-cities emerged as the focal points of the...

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