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Nez Perce Photography
A site that follows the history of the Nez Perce, from the late nineteenth century to the present, using historical photographs of Chief Joseph, battlegrounds, and the Nez Perce people.
University of Maryland
Howard County History Labs: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire [Pdf]
In order to use this source to assess young scholars' historical thinking skills, students should understand the history of industrialization and the working conditions typical of late nineteenth-century factories. Young scholars will...
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Doing History/keeping the Past: Farmers and Ranchers of Colorado
An essay on how farmers and ranchers lived and created communities in Colorado in the late nineteenth century. This was the period following the initial migrations of pioneers and homesteaders into the West.
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Bristol University: Toynbee's Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England
A series of lectures on the Industrial Revolution, written by one of the most famous economic historians of the nineteenth century.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Gilded Age: America Moves to the City
Discusses the urbanization that took place at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Includes questions for students at end.
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National Museum of Australia: Voyaging With a Needle: Embroidered Maps
Hand-embroidered map samplers, the work of women needle workers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, convey what was known of the world at the time and traces the routes of explorers, such as James Cook, who were then active....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Chinese Immigrants and Mexican Americans
Discusses the conflict with Mexican American and Chinese groups as white settlers pushed westward in the nineteenth century. Explains what brought so many Chinese immigrants to America and the roadblocks and discrimination that they had...
Sam Houston State University
Shsu: Late Imperial Period: Russia: A Country Study
This site evaluates the transformation of Russia in the nineteenth century. It discusses the economic developments, the reforms, foreign affairs, and the rise of the revolutionary movement. From the book, Russia: A Country Study, edited...
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Elizabeth and Henry Baird
Elizabeth and Henry Baird played a major role in the settling of Wisoncisn to white settlers in the nineteenth century. Elizabeth had been Henry's pupil and married him at the age of fourteen. With her knowledge of the fur trade and her...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bandolier Bag
Bandolier Bags are based on bags carried by European soldiers armed with rifles, who used the bags to store ammunition cartridges. These bags were especially popular in the late nineteenth century in the Eastern or Woodlands region. View...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mount, Bargaining for a Horse
"Bargaining for a Horse" by William Sidney Mount is one of Mount's great works and a striking example of early nineteenth-century American genre painting at its best. View pictures of this painting and others by Mount and read about his...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: The Knights of Labor
In the late nineteenth century, the Knights of Labor attempted to organize workers of all kinds into a union to improve working hours and conditions for laborers.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: America Moves to the City
The industrial boom of the late nineteenth century led Americans and immigrants from the world over to leave farming life and head to the city.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Indian Wars/ Battle of the Little Big Horn
In the late nineteenth century, the US Army clashed with Native Americans, and General Custer took his last stand.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Franks Casket
Franks Casket features scenes from Roman, Jewish, Christian and Germanic tradition. When it came to light in the nineteenth century, this magnificent rectangular casket was being used as a family workbox at Auzon, France. Some time...
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: The Reservation System
In the nineteenth century, Native Americans were confined to reservations to open up land for white settlers.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Chinese Immigrants and Mexican Americans
Like Native Americans, Mexican Americans and Chinese immigrants suffered harsh consequences due to relentless westward expansion by whites in the nineteenth century.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Westward Expansion: Economic Development
In the late nineteenth century, the West developed into a modern agricultural machine- at the expense of farmers.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Manifest Destiny
In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term 'manifest destiny' to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Life for Enslaved Men and Women
During the nineteenth century, enslaved African Americans worked on large plantations in the US South under brutal conditions.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: The Cotton Kingdom
During the first half of the nineteenth century, demand for cotton led to the expansion of plantation slavery. By 1850, enslaved people were growing cotton from South Carolina to Texas.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1840: Irish and German Immigration
Famine and political revolution in Europe led millions of Irish and German citizens to immigrate to America in the mid-nineteenth century.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Mountain Meadows Massacre (1875 76)
Called "the darkest deed of the nineteenth century," the brutal 1857 murder of 120 men, women, and children at a place in southern Utah called Mountain Meadows remains one of the most controversial events in the history of the American...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Impact of Inventions
A promotional painting by George Inness will introduce students to a new invention from the nineteenth century, the locomotive.
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