Curated OER
Learning Strategies
Students develop critical thinking skills using questions exploring the Canadian Parliamentary system. The duties of a modern democracy are investigated.
Curated OER
The Senate : Retention, Abolition, Reform
Students examine the strengths and weaknesses of the Senate in the Canadian Parliament. The role of the Senate is probed as its usefulness is scrutinized.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Charles Guiteau Trial
From Douglas O. Linder's extensive website covering famous trials primarily in U.S. History, this famous trial is the Garfield Assassination Trial of Charles Guiteau. Find the chronology of events, a diagram of the train station where...
Northern Illinois University
Teaching Future Historians: Civil Service Reform: Senate Debates
Here is a terrific lesson plan that involves all students in examining the reasons Senators had for and against civil service reform following the assassination President Garfield. All the source materials are available for the lesson...
Ibis Communications
History Matters: The Death of President Garfield, 1881
Presidednt James Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and lingered until September 19, 1881. Read about how the medical community failed him, and follow his chief physician's recounting of how Garfield dealt with his pain.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Lost World of Gilded Age Politics
This extensive look at politics between 1876 and 1896 describes how the Republican Party functioned during this time and how the excesses in politics resulted in reform and the next era in politics, the Progressive Era. A very...
Other
The Garfield Observer: Stalwarts, Half Breeds, and Political Assassination
This is a concise description of the turmoil in the Republican Party leading up to the campaign and election of 1880. How or whether to reform the patronage system was at the heart of the selection of a candidate. Find out about the...
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant: Domestic Affairs
A very good look at the many parts of domestic affairs in the Grant administration. Grant dealt with Reconstruction, the Panic of 1873, a revamping of the government's relationship with Native Americans, and several scandals that did not...
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: James Abram Garfield: Domestic Affairs
President James Garfield didn't serve long enough to put much of a stamp on domestic affairs, but reading about the selection of his cabinet gives a good window into what his tenure might have been like, and what the rifts in the...
Digital History
Digital History: Democracy and President Jackson [Pdf]
Andrew Jackson was a larger than life individual. Read about his successes before his election to the presidency and find out about his policies once he became president. [pdf]
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Life and Death in the White House: James A. Garfield
Read a brief account of the assassination of President James Garfield by Charles Guiteau in July, 1881. Included are photographs and information about Alexander Graham Bell's attempts to find the bullet lodged in Garfield's body.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Grover Cleveland: Domestic Affairs
Grover Cleveland served as president from 1884-1888 and from 1892-1896. Read about his domestic policies in both terms of office and find out about the problems he encountered in his second term.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Grover Cleveland: Domestic Affairs
Read a good account of the domestic policies of Grover Cleveland's first administration. His ineffective leadership and attitudes towards race, women's rights, and immigration is somewhat surprising.
Harp Week
Harp Week: John Kelly
A very interesting biography of John Kelly, a man groomed by Boss Tweed, but one who worked to make New York government respectable after Tweed's death.
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Wayne State College: Baroque Early [Based on Grout/palisca, 5th Ed., Ch 9]
These appear to be notes taken from a college lecture and contain considerable information on the Baroque period of music.