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Topic 22: The Progressive Era

Web Destinations

Web Destinations

• NAACP Online
  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People official Web site explains its mission and includes a primary document explaining the start of the NAACP.
  
  
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
  This American Memory site brings together scores of primary sources and photographs about the "historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage."
  
  
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
  The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University put together this excellent site composed of oral histories, cartoons, images, and essays.
  
  
• Labor-Management Conflict in American History
  This site at Ohio State University includes primary accounts of some of the major events in the history of labor-management conflict in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  
  
• Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904
  Part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress, this site provides a glimpse inside a turn-of-the-century factory.
  
  
• African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
  The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture maintains this site that contains a large number of digital texts by African-American women of the nineteenth century.
  
  
• Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
  This Library of Congress collection has thousands of photographs from turn-of-the-century America.
  
  
• Bill Haywood Trial (1907)
  This site contains images, chronology, court reports, and official documents maintained by Dr. Doug Linder at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School.
  
  
• Margaret Sanger Papers Project
  This site at New York University contains information about Margaret Sanger and digital versions of several of her works.
  
  
• National Arts and Crafts Archives
  This site serves as a guide to materials on the Arts and Crafts movement, which lasted roughly from 1890 to 1929.
  
  
• I Hear America Sing
  American music came into its own in the early 20th century, as this fascinating site demonstrates.
  
  
• Liz Szabo "My Heart Bleeds To Tell It All": Women, Domesticity, and the American Ideal in Mary Anne Sadlier's Romance of Irish Immigration
  A paper about a novel about an Irish woman immigrant. The novel was written in 1861 and can be used to compare the lives of later immigrants.
  
  
• Ellis Island
  This History Channel site details the Ellis Island experience.
  
  
• Orphan Trains
  First-hand accounts, newspaper accounts and several secondary sources on this reform effort to improve the lives of children in the eastern cities and to end poverty.
  
  
• American Identities
  Find resources for studying America's multiple ethnic identities on this site.
  
  

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