Library of Congress
Loc: Progressive Era to New Era, 1900 1929
This website defines and explores the Progressive Era and various aspects of American society during that period of history. It contains fairly simple text and several images.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Era of Expansion and Reform
Information about the period in United States history between the Civil War and World War I. The United States was transformed from a rural republic to an urban state.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Era of Expansion and Reform
Outlines the period of United States history between the Civil War and World War I known as the Era of Expansion and Reform.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1980 Present: Continuity and Change in the Postwar Era
How much did the events of the tumultuous postwar era reshape American national identity? Kim discusses the extent to which developments like the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and student protests of the 1960s changed...
Other
Ukrainian History
This site features articles from Ukrainian history from different periods including the Cossack and Soviet eras.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Villainizing Japanese Americans During the Wwii Era
Analyze primary sources in the media gallery and create an illustrated poem to learn how Japanese Americans were impacted by anti-Chinese exclusion policies of the 1800s, and why it escalated during World War II. As a result, Americans...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: The United States in World War I
World War I was the "war to end all wars." It had major consequences on Americans both at home and abroad.
BBC
Bbc History: History Trails: Victorian Britain: Britain as Workshop of the World
Articles about the era of industrialization, new products and new transportation are coupled with cartoons and an explanation on how to use this primary source. An activity and quiz are also available from the sidebar.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Bulgaria: History
A good look at the history of Bulgaria from its beginnings in the 7th century up to the current times. Find out about its place in the Ottoman Empire, collaboration with the Nazis in World War II, and its overthrow of Communism....
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: World War I & 1920s
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate historical events. In this lesson students analyze historical evidence as they consider eight document-based questions about the post-war era of the...
A&E Television
History.com: How Portugal's Seafaring Expertise Launched the Age of Exploration
In the 15th century, a small kingdom with a population of approximately 1 million launched the era of maritime exploration that would transform the world. Portugal turned to the boundless Atlantic Ocean as its only outlet to the wider...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The League of Nations
Overivew of the end of World War I, the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gallery: The Modern World
Innovations in transportation, communication, and weapons transformed the world in the 20th century. The modern era is the most complex yet, and the most fragile. This photo gallery highlights some of these innovations.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Art History Learning Stools [Pdf]
Fourth graders will learn about the art that documents our world via art history, genres, and master artists. They will select an era or artist that inspires them, research it, and create an artwork using collage, painting and drawing...
Raleigh Charter High School
Mrs. Newmark's Page: World War I
Quiz yourself on the United States involvement in World War I.
Digital History
Digital History: Postwar America: 1945 1960
Chapter focus on the political, social, and economic events following World War II. Examines both foreign and domestic issues, including the origins of the Cold War and Civil Rights movements.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
The study resource from Khan Academy provides a video lesson for Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. This lesson discusses President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
Read Works
Read Works: Eyewitness to History: Children of War
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares an interview of a World War II-era native German whose family fled Berlin. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Odyssey: The Booker T. Washington Era
One section of this "Booker T. Washington Era" page of the LOC's African American Odyssey site is devoted to a very brief biography of Booker T. Washington. Other sections of the page summarize the history of African Americans between...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weapons of World War I
The middle schoolers will use the Internet and the school's media center to discover the weapons of World War I. They will compare and contrast the weapons used during that time period with the weapons that are used in warfare today. At...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Eugene v. Debs and American Socialism
Read about the growth of the Socialist Party in America under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs. Find out about the strikes he led, his political activities, and his arrest for sedition in 1918. Read also about the radical union,...
Digital History
Digital History: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss [Pdf]
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at the case of Alger Hiss who was accused in 1948 of belonging to the Communist Party, imprisoned, and who denied the association his...
US Senate
Historical Minutes: An Era of Investigations: 1921 1940
Read these series of essays written by U.S. Senate historians that detail important events and people during the era of investigations in the Senate just before the Great Depression and continuing up to the entrance to World War II. The...
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: William Strayhorn
Examine the historical contributions made to the jazz world by this noted composer and arranger from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.