The Great American Fraud, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Nature and the Environment - Themed Resources - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Study man-made and natural disasters, the origins of the American conservation movement, and view Landsat photographs, valued for aesthetics more than their contributions to geography. Use maps to trace the growth and unique features of the National Parks. Learn about nature writers and visual artists. from the Library of Congress
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes more than 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States
History of woman suffrage; : Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
860+ pages written by the people who fought for the right to vote. This is just one of six volumes that included primary source record of the fight that went on for decades. This is ripe for a "Free-range" primary document exercise - what could student learn by searching different words and phrases through this book?
The Awakening of the Negro: Booker T. Washington
Article from the Atlantic Monthly, 1896
The Philadelphia Negro | W.E.B. Du Bois
Students can skim this article for contextual basis for understanding the African-American experience in a northern city at the turn of the 20th century. DuBois pioneered the social survey, and this article can be read or even just skimmed for evidence
I have just been shot - Wikisource
Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 speech made in Milwaukee just minutes after being shot. Best speech, ever
Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Many resources, articles and links. Be sure to check the "Documents online"
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers provides a full, objective account of the movement and its leader, as it chronicles how the movement achieved a global dimension by awakening the political consciousness of African and Caribbean peoples to the goals of racial self-determination and national independence.
What every girl should know by Margaret Sanger, 1913 (Book)
Teachers should look at the table of contents of this books before sharing it with students - but then absolutely sharing it with students. Students who know one or two factoids about Margaret Sanger have no idea what she actually did - looking at this book will shatter that ignorance in a matter of minutes. They should also know that the book was seized by the post office as a violation of the Comstock Law - https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/what-every-girl-should-know-1916-margaret-sanger
The coal smoke in Pittsburgh used to block out the sun
This series of photographs will help students better understand the pollution of the industrial age. Though today's students still face the challenge of climate change, they know little of the raw effects of America's industrial age
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." from Our Documents project
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
Can a private college in Kentucky accept both white and black students? The state of Kentucky said "No", and the Supreme Court upheld that law. In this decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky law entitled "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School". Although Plessy v Ferguson gets most of the attention, this case also serves well to give students a better appreciation of the nature of discrimination before the modern Civil Rights movement.
Kentucky New Era 3 13 03 - Niggers in the White House - (Newspaper Advertisement)
This poem was printed in a number of newspapers across the country after Booker T Washington's visit to the White House. It resurfaced in later years in subsequent visits by African-Americans to the White House. Confronting 21stC students with this must be done with care.
Richmond Times newspaper's Reaction to Booker T Washington in the White House - October 1901
This Virginia newspaper recorded that they were shocked that Teddy Roosevelt would lower the dignity of the White House by dining with a Negro
Plessy v. Ferguson :: 163 U.S. 537 (1896) :Opinion of the Court
Text of the opinion itself. Students would be better served by a quote from the opinion than a teacher's bullet point description on a lecture slide
The argument also assumes that social prejudices may be overcome by legislation, and that equal rights cannot be secured to the negro except by an enforced commingling of the two races. We cannot accept this proposition. If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits, and a voluntary consent of individuals.
<p>If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civilly </p>
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<p> or politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.</p>
Democracy and Education: Booker T. Washington Speech
How the Other Half Lives - Hypertext Version (Book)
an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes.
Booker T. Washington. Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
When Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, was published in 1901, it became a bestseller and had a major impact on the African American community, its friends and allies. One of the results was a dinner invitation in 1901 by Theodore Roosevelt.
Twenty Years at Hull House: Jane Addams (Book)
Memoir of the founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The Emma Goldman Papers
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Conservation of Natural Resources (1907)
From Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress\nDec. 3, 1907
17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)
This act limited the working hours of children and forbade the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
Triangle Factory Fire
Excellent resource site with links to newspaper articles, personal accounts, etc.
"Autumn" - poem written by 13-year old Helen Keller
Women and the alphabet a Series of Essays
Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in which he argues for equal rights for women.
How the Other Half Lives - 1890 (Book)
Full text of Jacob Riis book with illustrations. An early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes.