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Introduction
This site explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the long journey...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Md: B&o Trans Museum & Mount Clare Station
Collections of 19th- and 20th-century artifacts related to America's railroads; 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock; 15,000 artifacts; four nineteenth-century buildings, including the historic roundhouse; a mile of historic track.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Federal Hall Natl Memorial
First capitol of the United States of America; site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789; place where the United States Bill of Rights passed; original building was demolished in the nineteenth century; replaced by the...
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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Thirty-one primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges and opportunities of the industrial changes thrust on America in the late-nineteenth century.