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Horatio Alger, Jr.
Excerpt from Horatio Alger's well-known novel that describes the values and attitudes needed to make it in the capitalistic, urban America of the late-nineteenth century.
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Men Awaiting Deportation, Ellis Island, 1902
This lesson examines government reports that urged restrictions on immigration to America at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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The Curse of California, the Wasp
Thirty-one primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges and opportunities of the industrial changes thrust on America in the late-nineteenth century.
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The Menace of the Hour, 1899
Six versions of the octopus, a pervasive image in late-nineteenth-century America, that illustrate the extensive and corrosive power held by corporations over American political and economic life.
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Martha's Vineyard Museum: Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship: Open Journal
Illustratioin of a girl's journal, from the nineteenth century.
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Bbc History: British History: Empire: Mary Wollstonecraft: The Dissenter
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Bbc History: British History: Empire: Mary Wollstonecraft: The Dissenter
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Bbc History: British History: Empire: Mary Wollstonecraft: The Dissenter
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edwin Hurd Conger
Edwin Hurd Conger (March 7, 1843 - May 18, 1907) was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and banker from Illinois and Iowa.
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen
Nineteenth century British statesman.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Sherman
John Sherman nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" (May 10, 1823 - October 22, 1900) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Tyndall
(1820-1893) A Prominent nineteenth century physicist whose scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Tyndall
(1820-1893) A Prominent nineteenth century physicist whose scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sir Anthony Van Dyck
A portrait of the great nineteenth century artist, Sir Anthony Van Dyck. The painting was done by the artist. It can now be found in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas Macauley
A nineteenth century British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Pitt
The Right Honourable William Pitt, the Younder was a British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He served as Prime minister from 1783 to 1807, and again from 1804 until his death.
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The Anton Chekhov Page
This personal page has everything you want to know about the Russian author Anton Chekhov and more! It includes links to everything imaginable about Chekhov such as online text to some of his stories, articles and essays about Chekhov,...
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Famous Americans: John Greenleaf Whittier
Learn brief information from the National Postal Museum on John Greenleaf Whittier, famous American poet, who was featured on the two cent postage stamp.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Digital Center: Feeding America
Digital database of American cookbooks from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries provides insights into the social history of Americans across three centuries through a consideration of women's labor in the household,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Walt Whitman and Civil War
This site, which is provided for by the Library of Congress, gives information on Whitman's notebooks kept during the Civil War. Image of Whitman available from this site.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: The American Dream
With the help of digitized primary documents -- pictures, photograph, recordings, and written accounts -- students will explore and define what the "American Dream" meant for people over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth...
California Digital Library
Library of Congress: San Francisco's Chinatown: Outsiders Looking In
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...
Library of Congress
Loc: Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw
This instructional activity relates to the westward movement in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students analyze the role that gunfighters played in the settlement of the West and distinguish...
Library of Congress
Loc: German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest
Why did Germans immigrate to the Upper Midwest in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century? What contributions did they make to the region's cultural heritage? Students use American Memory photographs and documents to answer these...
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