Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: Little Steel Strike of 1937
An interesting article about the strike against the Little Steel companies in Ohio in 1937. It describes the use of the sit-down strike by the unionized steel workers.
Great Idea Finder
The Great Idea Finder: Inventor Andrew Carnegie
A brief biography on Andrew Carnegie focuses on his development of the steel industry. Includes information about his philanthropy.
NSTATE
People of Pennsylvania: Henry Clay Frick
A brief biography of Henry Clay Frick, partner with Andrew Carnegie in the steel industry in Pennsylvania.
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: Indispensable Ally: Black Workers, Formation of the Cio
This article relates the history of African Americans in the union movement during the Great Depression. Read about the importance of black membership in the CIO, the ILA, and the steel industry.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Physical Properties of Steel
Looks at the physical properties of steel and its important uses in day-to-day life and in industry.
Curated OER
Bureau of Land Management: Steel Rails and Iron Horses
Read about the building of the first transcontinental railroad and other railroads that came after. Find out how the checkerboard land ownership system affected the railroads. Includes lots of detailed lesson activities as well as a poster.
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...
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.
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...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The Industrial Age in America
In this lesson plan from EDSITEment, students will discuss the significance of the labor movement, the industrialists involved and the attitude of the American people toward working conditions in the United States. Contains links to many...
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: David Hoffman: The Russian Economy's Big Black Hole
An article about one of Russia's steel mills that has, like many other industries in Russia, fallen on hard times in the new free-market economy.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Bessemer Process
Provides a summary and detailed facts about Henry Bessemer who invents a process in 1855 to create steel from iron.
Other
Gilded Age: From Frontier to Factory Timeline 1845 1916
A timeline that lists major events in culture, military, industry, and politics across three-quarters of a century.
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.
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
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Iron and Steel Manufacture, 1900
A map from 1900 of the United States showing the States where iron and steel manufacture is a principal industry. The map is keyed to show the mean annual production of manufactured goods given in dollars and the census of 1900.
Other
California State University: Beck Spring Iron Deposit
California State University at Pomona provides a scientific look at the Beck Spring iron deposit.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: The Nation: It's War in Youngstown
A contemporary article from the magazine, The Nation, which describes the steel strike in Youngstown, Ohio, in June 1937. Read about the background of the strike, and follow the author's ordeal as she was arrested, despite her press...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The World at Our Doorstep
This Virtual Museum of Canada pictorial exhibition highlights the perseverance of a working class that is dealing with big changes that have taken place in Cape Breton over the last decade (closure of the steel plant in 1999; closure of...
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Founding Convention of the Cio Historical Marker
Read about the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, a union that represented steel workers, among many other factoy workers. Find out about their tactics used in strikes during the Great Depression.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Inventors and Inventions
The industrial revolution in America spawned the inventions of many inventors, who improved technology in many different areas. See how transportation, agriculture, and communications were transformed because of these inventions.
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.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The Struggles of Labor
This site discusses how for much of the latter half of the 1800s, the life of the common laborer was horrendous. Working in a unsanitary factory, for at least 10 hours a day, making far less than needed to survive, the struggles of the...
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