This lesson will explore this theme of social mobility through a reading of extracts from Samuel Smiles's Self-Help (1859), the handbook that many young men in 19th-century Britain turned to in seeking advice as to how to better...

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman is identified as a realistic author who wrote about women coping with poverty and socially hindered by their strict Calvinist beliefs in New England. See "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Activities" for related materials.

A good description of the life of the Woodland Moundbuilding culture in what is now Wisconsin. Learn about the effigy mounds built by these Native Americans, and access primary source manuscripts of writers trying to figure out these...

Few great books like the Decameron have shaped our very notion of storytelling and its crucial role in the negotiation and production of shared social and cultural values. In its hundred stories, shared in ten days by ten young people...

Red Hot Jazz outlines the origins of jazz, taking a look at the blend of cultures that existed in New Orleans at the turn of the century when jazz first emerged as a unique musical form. Includes links to additional information about...

Red Hot Jazz outlines the origins of jazz, taking a look at the blend of cultures that existed in New Orleans at the turn of the century when jazz first emerged as a unique musical form. Includes links to additional information about...

This is an extremely interesting site in that it consists of myths from the Hupa as told at the turn of the century.

Read the full text of "Titee" by Alice Dunbar which is set in New Orleans at the turn of the century.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published at the turn of the 20th Century, one publication is "A Death-Bed Confession." This story was written by Ralph Henry Barbour.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Concerning a Steeplechase Rider, a short story. Published at the turn of the 20th Century, this story was written by Andrew Barton Paterson, who was more...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published at the turn of the 20th Century, one publication is "Dual Control." This story was written by W.W. Jacobs.

This site from NASA provides a selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration presents classical Mars reading material from Percival Lowell and Alfred Russel Wallace from the turn of the last century, Werner von Braun and Willy...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published at the turn of the 20th Century, one publication is Judas Iscariot and Others. This story was written by the Russian novelist, Leonid N. Andreyev

A biography of Progressive Cleveland mayor Tom Johnson, who fought for municipal reforms around the turn of the 19th century.

For 50 years, Elizebeth Friedman's contributions to WWII intelligence were a secret. Only when all of the original intelligence reports were declassified after the turn of the twenty-first century were Friedman's true role in the war...

The resource investigates Eugene V. Debs. Debs was one of the major players in American politics at the turn of the 20th century. Students listen to Debs speak during the presidential campaign of 1904.

This site provides pictures to help you understand the way of life during the turn of the twentieth century. Enter the collection and click on "Browse" for a drop down menu of collections of photographs of "street scenes in cities,...

In this lesson students will examine the lives of key leaders and events in the fight for gender and racial equality at the turn of the 20th century. Through this inquiry study students will choose one of these leaders or events to...

Drawing attention to the role of women in marriages, social differences between Europeans and Americans, old money versus new, near the turn into the twentieth century we read about author Edith Wharton. Click "Edith Wharton Activities"...

Read the full text of "Beechcroft at Rockstone" by Charlotte M. Yonge which gives a glimpse of English aristocracy at the turn of the 20th century.

This site contains a short biography, political cartoon, & photo of Hearst, detailing his rise in turn-of-the-century (1900, that is) journalism.

This site contains a short biography, political cartoon, & photo of Hearst, detailing his rise in turn-of-the-century (1900, that is) journalism.

Robert Fulton played a major role in the social culture at the turn of the century.-E. Benjamin Andrews, 1895

Use this informative site to learn more about Florence Nightingale's life and work. "In 1939, the turn-of-the-century feminist and nursing historian M. Adelaide Nutting was asked to record an introduction to a re-release of Florence...