University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: American Panorama: Renewing Inequality
For a quarter-century, the federal government provided funding for cities large and small to raze "blighted" or "slum" neighborhoods. Through these programs, cities displaced hundreds of thousands of families from their homes and...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Jane Addams of Hull House
Biography of Jane Addams from childhood to death. Includes information on Hull house, the juvenile courts and her campaign against sweatshops.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 1979
At this site read about Mother Teresa (1910-1997 CE), the 1979 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the charitable works through which she helped the poor of Calcutta. This website includes texts of original documents and speeches, a...
Other
Esri: Ready or Not, Let the Games Begin
Excellent coverage of the preparation for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, the venues, and the very real economic, social, political, and public health problems it faced leading up to the Games.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour: Clean Toilets for the World's Poor: Lesson Plan
NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya, where private capital is being used to help install toilets in the country's slums.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Jane Addams
See a portrait of activist Jane Addams painted by American painter, George deForest Brush, and read a brief discussion of Addams' important role as a reformer.
Digital History
Digital History: The Growth of Cities
Industrial growth brought the growth of where the industries were located. Read about some nothern cities that had a huge growth in population along with a growth of problems in sanitation, spread of disease, and crime.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Joab: The Class Prefect
This video from Wide Angle profiles Joab, a boy from Kibera, Kenya, who has returned to school after dropping out following his mother's death. Joab is chosen class prefect by the other students.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: New York: Tenement Museum
Site offers information and photos about tenements on New York's Lower East Side in the late 1800's. Be sure to click on the photos for information.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Irish Immigrants in 19th Century America
Here, you will find lesson plans through which students research, study, and discuss the problems faced by Irish immigrants during the 19th century. Provides bibliographies, as well as effective strategies for studying Irish culture and...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Underside of Urban Life
Read about the plight of the urban poor in the rapidly growing cities. In addition to the modern skyscrapers, the cities also had tenement housing where the poor lived. Find a description of that housing and the problems this housing bred.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Ellis Island
Tells the story of Ellis Island, the first stop for immigrants arriving in New York City beginning in 1890. Describes the process would-be immigrants to America had to go through before being allowed to board a trans-Atlantic ship, the...
Curated OER
Boy With Broken Bicycle in Nairobi's Kibera Slum
Outlines the problems of the urban populations in Subsaharan African countries. Examines why the people move into these communities and why they get stuck there.
Curated OER
Bbc: Report Reveals Global Slum Crisis
Outlines the problems of the urban populations in Subsaharan African countries. Examines why the people move into these communities and why they get stuck there.
Chicago History Museum
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Tenements
An encyclopedia entry about tenements that focuses on the housing situation of poor immigrants in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Chicago. Includes information about early efforts to improve public housing in the city.
Curated OER
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Tenements
An encyclopedia entry about tenements that focuses on the housing situation of poor immigrants in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Chicago. Includes information about early efforts to improve public housing in the city.