Curated OER
Geography- KS4-
Middle schoolers categorise the changes in the iron and steel industry in S Wales. They use literacy or paragraph techniques to strucuture and apply the information. Students given paragraph template to brainstorm and order key points...
Curated OER
Global Geography of Economics: The Indiana Steel Industry
Students are introduced to how steel is made and investigate the importance of the steel industry. They participate in a role-play that explores the concepts of taxes, tariffs and imports vs. domestic production.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bethlehem Steel History
This video provides a glimpse inside what the steel industry has meant to its surrounding areas. Bethlehem Steel, located in Lehigh Valley, provided jobs to people at its height and allowed for the Valley's growth and expansion.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The Richest Man in the World: Meet Andrew Carnegie
PBS provides this five-part, thorough biography of one of the richest men in America, Andrew Carnegie.
Other
Groups Urge Bush to Keep Steel Tariffs
This is an article by the Pittsburgh Times about groups that are trying to persuade the Bush Administration from revoking the controversial steel tariffs. A great article that describes how the tariffs are a way to help the ailing...
Other
National Museum of Industrial History
Explore these exhibitions, previously located in the Smithsonian Institute, which feature the great Americans who contributed to the industrialization of the United States beginning with the nation's centennial celebration. Plan a trip...
Northwestern University
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Second Industrial Revolution [Pdf]
A lengthy essay on the Second Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author looks at seven major aspects of technology that were affected by the revolution and makes...
Other
Steel Tube Institute of North America
Information about this group that joined together to help improve the steel tube industry. You can find out who are members of this group, the history, the structure of this industry, the products they produce, general information, and...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Read about the life of this famous industrialist and philanthropist in his own words in this full-text edition published in 1920.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History Unit: Period 7: 1890 1945: Intro.: Age of Empire
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. The Age of Empire is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
Curated OER
History Matters: I Will Kill Frick
Find information about the Homestead strike and the treatment of the workers inspired some labor activists to plot the murder of Henry Clay Frick. Part of the autobiography of Emma Goldman.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Era of Expansion and Reform
This resource, a speech by Woodrow Wilson to Congress on April 8, 1913, gives a great review of how the United States transformed from from a rural country to an urban one. It includes a review of industrialization, new inventions,...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Gospel of Wealth
This site, which is provided for by the Modern History Sourcebook of the Fordham University provides excerpts from an 1899 article written by Andrew Carnegie to outline his philosophy and responsibilities as a wealthy man.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Carnegie and the Era of Steel
A brief explanation of Andrew Carnegie's role in the advancement of steel production.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Pennsylvania During World War Ii
Examine the contributions of Pennsylvania's major industries and Pennsylvanians to World War II. Included in this detailed, historical account are links to maps and pictorial images of the era.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Making Steel
Examine the historical and economic impact of the Pennsylvania's steel industry. Included in this historical account are video, maps, and pictorial artifacts of this era.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Henry Clay Frick Historical Marker
Henry Clay Frick was a titan of the steel industry because of his coke business, necessary in the making of steel. Read about his early life and his association with Andrew Carnegie.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: The Great Steel Strike of 1919 Historical Marker
A strike by steel workers in Chicago eventually spread across the United States in 1919. Read about the strike, how was involved, and how the employers turned popular opinion against the strikers.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Expore Pa History: Making Steel
A good look at three of the titans of the steel industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read about Andrew Carnegie and his business relationship with Henry Clay Frick, and the development of Bethlehen Steel by Charles Schwab....
Other
Carnegie Magazine: Henry Clay Frick: The Man Was a Businessman
An interesting look at the business life of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick and his relationship with Andrew Carnegie. Using correspondence among the Captains of Industry at the time, the intricate and often manipulative business lives of...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Andrew Carnegie
America's Story identifies the accomplishments of Andrew Carnegie as a businessman and a philanthropist. It highlights his commitment to give back to society. It also highlights the comparisons between his mother's and father's influence...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The New Tycoons: Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a business magnate in the steel industry. See how he used the vertical integration theory of operating his businesses. Read also about his phlanthropy across the United States after he sold his company.
Other
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:1919 Steel Strike
This brief article describes the actions of the local steel unions in Cleveland in support of the national steel strike of 1919. Find out about the effect of the strike on the unions.
Other
The Frick Pittsburgh: Family Bios: The Frick Family
Biographies of members of the Frick family, including Henry Clay Frick and his wife Adelaide Howard Childs, and two of their children, Helen Clay Frick and Childs Frick. The biography of Henry Clay Frick focuses mainly on his...