Books
Leon Fink, Ed., Major Problems in the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era: Documents and Essays.
Films
Molly Maguires
This historical film tells the story of late nineteenth
century Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania who are accused
of using terrorist tactics to win better working conditions
and higher wages.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066090/
Web Sites
Recommended Web Sites:
History Now: Nineteenth-Century
Technology
http://www.historynow.org/12_2006/
The quarterly online journal History Now looks
at the technology of the late 1800s including advances
in photography, travel, medicine and communications.
1896: The Presidential Campaign
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html
Extensive resources on the pivotal presidential election
of 1896.
Related Web Sites:
The Great Chicago Fire
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/gcf-index.html
Essays, documents, photographs and illustrations about
the Great Chicago Fire and the way it transformed the
city of Chicago created by the Chicago Historical Society.
Mark Twain in His Times
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/
An interpretive archive, drawn largely from the collections
of the University of Virginia Library, focusing on how
"Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed
and performed, reviewed and appreciated. It contains texts,
manuscripts, contemporary reviews and articles, images,
and interactive exhibits.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/projectmap.htm
Collections of documents and other instructional materials
on: The Appeal of Female Moral Reform, 1835-1841; Lucretia
Mott's Reform Networks, 1840-1860; Bible Communism and
Women of the Oneida Community, 1848-1879; Women and the
Freedmen's Aid Movement, 1863-1870; Minnesota Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, 1878-1917; African-American
Women and the Chicago World's Fair, 1893; Illinois Factory
Inspection, 1893-1897; Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du
Bois, and Woman Suffrage, 1900-1915; Local Branches of
the American Association of University Women, 1900-1940;
Workers and Allies in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike,
1909-1910; Women and the Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912;
Women's Peace Mission to European Capitals, 1915; Impact
of Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett on the Birth
Control Movement, 1915-1924; Lobbying for Passage of the
National Suffrage Amendment, 1917-1920; Middle-Class Women
Provide Maternity Health Services for Immigrant Women,
1917-1920; National Woman's Party and the Enfranchisement
of Black Women, 1919-1924; Women Suffragists and Partisan
Politics, New York, 1920; Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women's
Organizations in the 1920s; Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom and Right-Wing Attacks, 1923-1931.
Late 19th Century Labor: The Dramas of Haymarket
http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/index.htm
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