| Links to Selected Websites |
| Fourth Grade: Progressive Era |
| - Topic: Timelines |
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Flow of History: Reading the Progressive Era Timeline
http://www.flowofhistory.org/themes/technology_transportation/progress_timeline.php |
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Progressive Era Timelines: 1869-1921
http://pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline8.html |
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The Labor Movement
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/TIMELI.HTM |
| - Topic: Background Resources |
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Introductions to Progressivism
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture11.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=20
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Indexed Links to Progressive Era Sites
http://www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm#imperialism
http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/gildedage/
http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/View_Issue_earthorder.asp?IssueNumber=9
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The Campaign to end Child Labor
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/index.html
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Indexed links to Progressive legislation and biographies
http://pw1.netcom.com/~wandaron/prog.html
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The Learning Page: 1900-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/progress.html
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San Francisco State University ’s Website for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era – this site provides links to many sources:
http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm |
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Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
http://www.historycooperative.org/jgaindex.html
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Small town USA – period photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nyplhtml/dennhome.html
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Theodore Roosevelt film collection
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/roosevelt/index.html
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Photo tour of turn-of-the-century U.S.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html
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Conservation Movement origins
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/conserv/index.html
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Inside an American Factory
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/wes/index.html
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Definition for Muckraker
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0834319.html
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Design: interior of a civil war or turn of the century home, activity, click on "Design a period home interior", from Scholastic
http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/activities/our_america/great_depression/
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Alice Paul’s Attic
On this site built by the New Jersey History Partnership, students explore the virtual contents of a historic suffragist’s attic and seek to answer questions about her life and work from the available sources.
http://njhistorypartnership.org/home_page.html
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Child Labor Photographs
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/207-b.html
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| - Topic: Concepts in Economics |
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Have you ever wondered what the value of a dollar was in 1895? Or what the GDP was in 1929? Here is a place where you can ask questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today.
http://eh.net/hmit
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Consumer Price Index: 1913 - Present, Bureau of Labor Statistics
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt
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Frequently Asked Questions: about CPI, from Bureau and Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm
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Inflation Calculator: you choose initial year and cost and future year, BLS
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
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Inflation Rates: in U.S. 1666 to 2002, in Britain 1601-2002, from Economic History Services
http://eh.net/hmit/inflation/
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Purchasing Power: British Pound, 1264 to 2002, from Economic History Services
http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/
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Purchasing Power: U.S. dollar, from 1665 to 2002, from Economic History Services
http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerusd/
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Relative Cost: of one unit of unskilled labor, from 1774 to 2002, from EHS
http://eh.net/hmit/unskilledlabor/ |
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What is its Relative Value?: from 1789 to 2002, five ways to make comparisons, from EHS
http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/compare/ |
