Special collection of materials and photographs about W. O. Mitchell.

This is a brief biography of Nellie Letitia McClung.

Text of the short story "The Ninth Vibration" by L. Adams Beck, a Canadian author with British roots. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

This site contains the most significant artistic output of the most important composers within each historical period.

A timeline of major events in China, in the first eight decades of the twentieth century, including the rise and fall of Yuan.

This site explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the long journey...

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.

An essay that discusses the musical talents and innovations of legendary jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Part of a collection of profiles published by Time magazine of the 100 most-influential people of the twentieth century.

Site features a detailed biography of the Polish-born poet who lived a life of wild partyingand even wilder poetry in early twentieth-century Paris.

The Library of Congress surveys the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities during the early twentieth century. Features include statistics, maps, and reasons for the migration.

The Library of Congress surveys the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities during the early twentieth century. Features include statistics, maps, and reasons for the migration.

The Nevada Northern is one of the best-preserved early twentieth-century railroad shop complexes remaining in the United States.

Time magazine's profile of the Beatles, written for its special issue on the 100 most important people of the twentieth century.

Time magazine's profile of the Beatles, written for its special issue on the 100 most important people of the twentieth century.

Read about Oprah and why she is declared one of the 100 most influential people of the twentieth century.

Read about Oprah and why she is declared one of the 100 most influential people of the twentieth century.

A photograph of State Street in Chicago and George Bellows' painting of Lower Manhattan, both depicting the vigorous, gritty, energetic urban life in the early-twentieth century.

Two short stories from Anzia Yerzierska about the challenges of Americanization that immigrants faced in the early-twentieth century.

A photograph and an autobiographical excerpt about the changes experienced and challenges faced by Native Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.

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...

A speech by Mary Church Terrell, a letter by Booker T. Washington, a letter by W.E.B. DuBois, and the Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles describe African American civil rights strategies in the early-twentieth century.

A speech by Mary Church Terrell, a letter by Booker T. Washington, a letter by W.E.B. DuBois, and the Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles describe African American civil rights strategies in the early-twentieth century.

A speech by Mary Church Terrell, a letter by Booker T. Washington, a letter by W.E.B. DuBois, and the Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles describe African American civil rights strategies in the early-twentieth century.

Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the problems and opportunity of domestic and international expansion around the turn of the twentieth century.