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1900 Presidential Election Statistics 1904 Presidential Election Statistics 1908 Presidential Election Statistics 1912- Competing Visions for America (Ohio State University) "The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living?" (28 documents; 11 images) 1912 Presidential Election--Issues 1912 Presidential Election Statistics 1916 Presidential Election Statistics 1900 versus Now - Time 100 statistics comparison 20c Chicago (Chicago Sun-Times) "A Blood Red Record: the 1890s and American Apartheid" - Michael O'Malley Accident at Kitty Hawk, 1908 African American Perspectives  - Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection (1818-1907) The American 1890s--A Chronology" America-1900 (PBS series) America at Leisure, 1894-1915 (LOC) American Art Noveau American Coal Mining and Miners in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era American Cultural History:  1900-1909 American Federation of Teachers Web Site The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 The Anti-Saloon League The Armory Show of 1913 - A Great Display of American Art Ashcan School Atlanta 1906- A Race Riot A Biography of America:  TR and Wilson (1901-1919) - Annenberg/CPB A Biography of America:  A Vital Progressivism (1899-1926) - Annenberg/CPB Birth of a Nation--D. W. Griffith's Greatest Film (silent film clips included) The Campaign to End Child Labor "Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America- The Formative Era, 1890's-1916" - Martin J. Sklar Carrie Chapman Catt and Women's Suffrage Cartoons of the Early 1900s The Chautauqua Movement Children at Work, 1908-1912 Child Labor in America:  1908-1912 Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment:  1923-1996 Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism:  1830-end Civil Rights Movement (Spartacus) Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s (Ohio State University) Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras Conservation Timeline:  1900-1960 Conservation vs. Urban Growth- San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir controversy (1913) Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls Documents on Eugenics in Vermont Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement D. W. Griffith Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt Edward Bellamy:  A 19c Vissionary - Texts & Commentary Ellen Louise Axson Wilson The Emma Goldman Papers The Estate of Hans Jenson v. The White Star Line (The Titanic Trial) The Evolution of the Conservation Movement:  1850-1920 (LOC) Federal Trade Commission Official Web Site Florence Kelley -- A Woman of Fierce Fidelity Frances Willard & the WCTU Frank Lloyd Wright (The American Experience) Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress From Slavery to Freedom:  The African-American Pamphlet Collection (1824-1909) - LOC A Gateway to African-American History:  1900-1940 Greatest Films Before 1920:  The Birth of Cinema Helen Herron Taft Historians talk about TR (PBS-The American Experience) A History of the Socialist Party of America (University of North Carolina) "How Did Gender and Class Shape the Age of Consent Campaign Within the Social Purity Movement, 1886-1914? " (24 documents) "How Did the Debate Between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett Shape the Movement to Legalize Birth Control?" (27 documents) "How Did International Women's Day Begin?" (22 documents) "How Did the Reform Agenda of the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union Change, 1878-1917?" (4 documents) "How Did the Views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois toward Woman Suffrage Change between 1900 and 1915?" (18 documents; 9 images) "How Was the Relationship Between Workers and Allies Shaped by the Perceived Threat of Socialism in the New York City Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910?" (23 documents; 9 images) "How We Made the First Flight" by Orville Wright Hull House Incorporated:  The Professionalization of Social Work The Jazz Age Page Image Archives on the American Eugenics Movement Images Related to Women's Suffrage The Industrial Revolution & Progressive Era Katharine Bement Davis- New York City's Suffragist Commissioner (New York City Dept. of Correction) The Lower East Side Tenement Museum Major Events of:  1900    1901    1902    1903    1904    1905    1906    1907    1908    1909    1910    1911    1912    1913 Map-->"The United States in 1910" Map-->"Women's Suffrage Before 19th Amendment" Marcus Garvey:  Look for Me in the Whirlwind (The American Experience PBS series) Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel The Muckrakers Nannie Helen Burroughs National Association of Manufacturers National Farmers Union The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals Not For Ourselves Alone - The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (PBS) The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918 The Papers of Theodore Roosevelt (Avalon Project) The People's Attorney:  The Life of Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) The People's Century:  Age of Hope (1900-1914) - PBS The Peoples' Century:  On the Line (1908-1945) - PBS Pictorial Americana - Women's Rights, 1859-1913, Selected Images (LOC) Political Speeches of the Progressive Era (audio files) "The Progressive Movement:  1900-1920" - extensive outline The Progressive Populist Publications by the I. W. W. Robert Marion LaFollette The Ram's Horn Magazine - an interdenominational Social Gospel magazine Shadowball--Recalling the Negroe Leagues The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 Settlement Houses "The Social Gospel" (Part I) - lecture by Prof. Terry Matthews (Wake Forest Univ.) "The Social Gospel" (Part II) - lecture by Prof. Terry Matthews (Wake Forest Univ.) Sounds of Progressive Presidents The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 Stars of the Silent Movies The Struggle for the Vote: A Gallery of Suffrage Drawings Suffragists Oral History Project "Teddy Roosevelt--Icon of the American Century" - Smithsonian Institution Theodore Roosevelt:  26th President of the United States of America "Theodore Roosevelt's Broad Powers" - Erin Ruth Leonard (essay) The Theodore Roosevelt Association Theodore Roosevelt (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Theodore Roosevelt (2) - POTUS site Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress Titanic--The Official Archives Touring Turn-of-the-Century America - Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Co. (1880-1920) TR:  The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (The American Experience PBS series) Trade Unions (Spartacus) Traveling Culture:  Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century (LOC) The Triangle Factory Fire:  March 25, 1911 Turn-of-the-Century America:  Detroit Publishing Company / Photographs (1880-1920) Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League Website Upton Sinclair and the Muckrakers U. S. Chamber of Commerce Votes for Women Museum Votes for Women's Suffrage:  1850-1920 (LOC) W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (Harvard Univ.) Western New York Suffragists:  Winning the Vote "What Gender Perspectives Shaped the Emergence of the National Association of Colored Women, 1895-1920?" (21 documents) "What Lobbying Tactics Did Suffragists Use to Obtain Congressional Approval Of a Woman Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1917-1920?" (14 documents) "Who Was Henry George?" - article by Agnes George de Mille "Why Did African-American Women Join the Woman's Christian Temperance Union between 1880 and 1900?" (31 documents) "Why Did Colorado Suffragists Succeed in Winning the Right to Vote in 1893 and Not in 1877?" (30 documents) William Howard Taft (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency William Howard Taft (2) - POTUS site The Wizard of Oz:  An American Fairy Tale Women's Suffrage in the United States (Spartacus - UK) Woodrow Wilson (PBS - The American Experience series) Woodrow Wilson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Woodrow Wilson (2) - POTUS site

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late 19c:  Child Coal Mine Workers - photo late 19c:  Tuskegee Institute - photo 1870-1985:  "Education Levels in the U. S." - chart 1872:  Bradwell v. Illinois 1873:  Speech After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election by Susan B. Anthony 1873:  “We Sang Rock of Ages”- Frances Willard Battles Alcohol in the late 19th century 1874:  Petition from Susan B. Anthony to U.S. Congress (1/24) 1874:  "The Temperance Crusade" - song, lyrics, and sheet music by C. K. Hawes 1875:  Minor vs. Happersett -- issue of women's suffrage 1876:  National Woman Suffrage Association- "Declaration of Rights for Women" 1876-1920:  Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart 1877:  Petition for Woman Suffrage signed by Frederick Douglass 1879:  Progress and Poverty - Henry George (abridged version) 1879-1921:  Woman's Christian Temperance Union statistics - graph and chart 1881:  The Scholar in a Republic - Phi Beta Kappa Centennial Oration by Wendell Philips 1885:  8th Grade Final Exam from Salina, KS 1885:  Test for Admission to High School in Jersey City, NJ 1886:  Addresses Upon the Labor Question - Edward Atkinson 1886:  Applied Christianity:  Moral Aspects of Social Questions - Washington Gladden 1886:  A Christ-like Character - A Catholic Priest Champions Henry George 1886:  Throwing His Hat in the Ring - Henry George Runs for Mayor (10/5) 1887:  More Logic, Less Feeling - Senator Vest Nixes Woman Suffrage 1887:  New Jersey School Suffrage Act - enfranchises rural and small town women in school matters 1890:  Banners of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1891:  Address of Francis E. Willard, president of the Woman's National Council of the U. S. at its first triennial meeting in Washington, DC (2/22-25) 1891:  “A Heritage of Scorn” - Frances Ellen Walkins Harper Urges A Color-Blind Cause 1892:  Elizabeth Cady Stanton- "The Solitude of Self" 1892:  "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements" - speech by Jane Addams 1893:  "Autumn" - poem written by 13-year old Helen Keller 1893:  The Objective Value of a Social Settlements  - Jane Addams 1893:  "State committee Woman suffrage party. Headquarters, New York To the woman suffrage congress World's fair, Chicago, Ill [regarding woman suffrage in Wyoming.] New York, 8/7" - broadside 1893:  The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements  - Jane Addams 1893:  "Women in Politics" - Mrs. J. Ellen Foster 1894:  Class Versus Gender - Carrie Chapman Catt Taps Middle-Class and Nativist Fears to Boost Women’s Causes 1894:  "Copy of preamble and protest ... Brooklyn Auxiliary, New York State association opposed to the extension of suffrage to women" - broadside 1894:  "Do want want the vote? ... Issued by the National state association opposed to woman suffrage" - broadside 1894:  "Some reasons why we oppose votes for women ... National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage" - broadside 1894: "Who Wrote the  Bible?" - Washington Gladden 1895:  "A Piece-Rate System" - Frederick Winslow Taylor 1895:  "The apotheosis of suffrage" - political cartoon on women's suffrage 1895:  Atlanta Compromise 1895:  "The Enemies of the Republic" - political cartoon on prohibition in The Ram's Horn 1895:  "A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894" - Ida B. Wells 1895:  "A Woman's Right to Vote" - Amelia Bloomer 1896:  "Another Lear" - speech by Jane Addams on the Pullman Strike (11/12) 1896:  "The Awakening of the Negro" - Booker T. Washington 1896:  "Building Up His Business" - political cartoon on liquor licensing in The Ram's Horn 1896:  Democracy and Education - Booker T. Washington 1896:  Mary E. Lease's Speech at Cooper Union 1897:  Assorted Newspaper Articles / Editorials on Lynchings in Urbana, OH 1897:  "Dignity of Honest Toil- S.M. Jones Addresses the Good Government Club" The Blade, 3/31 1897:  "Municipal Administration: The New York Police Force" - E. L. Godkin, Atlantic Monthly (Sept. 1897), at MoA-Cornell 1897:  "Municipal Reform (an editorial)" The Blade, 3/29 1897:  "Peculiarities of American Municipal Government" - E. L. Godkin, Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1897), at MoA-Cornell 1897:  "The Strivings of the Negro People" - W. E. B. Du Bois - Atlantic Monthly (Aug.) 1898:  Strength in Numbers - Kelley on Women, Labor, and the Power of the Ballot 1898:  "The Strenuous Life" - Theodore Roosevelt 1899:  Cummings v. Board of Education 1899:  "The Importance of Women's Influence in All Religious and Benevolent Societies" - Rev. J. Frances Robinson 1899:  "Municipal Expansion" published in The Arena June 1899, pp. 766-767 1899:  The School and Society - John Dewey early 20c?:  "A Racial Hierarchy and Empire for Africans; African's Faith Must Be Confidence in Self His Creed: One God, One Aim, One Destiny" - Marcus Garvey early 20c?:  "Why Women Should Vote" - Alice Stone Blackwell 1900:  Carrie Chapman Catt- Acceptance of the Presidency of NAWSA 1900:  Lynch Law in America - Ida B. Wells 1900:  "Signs of Progress Among the Negroes" - Booker T. Washington 1900:  The Strenuous Life:  Essays and Addresses - Theodore Roosevelt (full text) 1900:  "Women and the Alphabet" - a series of essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson     (entire text) 1901:  "The Evolution of Negro Leadership" - speech by W. E. B. Du Bois (7/16) 1901:  Food Poisoning - New York Press (10/29) 1901:  George H. White's Farewell to Congress (1/29) 1901:  Our Forests and National Parks - John Muir 1901:  Race Riot - New York Press (10/29) 1901:  "Speech That Prompted Murderous Assault on the President"- article in the Chicago Daily Tribune (9/8) - comment on speech made by Emma Goldman 1901:  Theodore Roosevelt on Conservation 1901:  Theodore Roosevelt on Trusts 1902:  "Of the Training of Black Men" - W. E. B. Du Bois in Atlantic Monthly (Sept.) 1902:  Woman Suffrage - Susan B. Anthony 1903:  Belle Kearney speaks on "the race issue" at the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention, New Orleans, LA (3/26) 1903:  "Industrial Education for the Negro" - Booker T. Washington (Sept.) 1903:  The Soul of Black Folk - W. E. B. DuBois (full text) 1903:  "The Talented Tenth" - speech by W. E. B. Du Bois (Sept.) 1903:  W.E.B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 1904:  The History of the Standard Oil Company - Ida M. Tarbell (full text) 1904:  "Make bank deposits safe" - reprinted from the Bankers' Magazine (Nov.) 1904:  Northern Securities Company v. U. S. 1904:  "Roosevelt vs. Roosevelt" - broadside 1905:  The Education of Henry Adams (full text) 1905:  Florence Kelley Speaks Out on Child Labor and Woman Suffrage, Philadelphia, PA (7/22) 1905:  The Great American Fraud - Samuel Hopkins Adams 1905:  "A Grim Warning against Patent Medicines" - poster in Collier's Magazine 1905:  Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt 1905:  The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (excerpt) 1905:  "Lincoln and Race Problem" - speech by President Roosevelt to the Republican Club of NYC (2/13) 1905:  Lochner v. New York 1905:  "Man and the Earth" - Nathaniel Southgate Shaler    (entire text) 1905:  "Peace King, Teddy. The white slaves battle cry of freedom" - song lyrics by Thomas W. Mizner, Detroit, MI (Sept.) - broadside 1905:  Stranger Than Fiction - The Reading Habits of Early Twentieth-Century Working Women 1905:  Swift and Company v. United States 1905:  "The Threat of Food and Drug Adulteration" 1906:  Antiquities Act 1906:  "Ballot Necessary for Women" - Jane Addams 1906:  The Bitter Cry of Children - John Spargo 1906:  Black Leaders Criticize Theodore Roosevelt - The New York Times (11/20) 1906:  Burke Act 1906:  "The Condemned-Meat Industry" - Upton Sinclair