2008 - 2009 Theme
The Making of Modern America, 1820 - 1900: Patterns of Economic Development
Fall 2008 Book Discussions
How did economic development and the Industrial Revolution transform work and life in American during the 19th century?
Internet Resources
Industrial Revolution—General
The Industrial Revolution in the Connecticut River Valley
Articles on the Flow of History website.
Overview
Industry and Commerce, 1790-1870
Transportation, 1790-1870
Tourism and Recreation, 1790-1870
Industrial Revolution Timeline
Edsitement
A National Endowment for the Humanities site chock full of well-designed lesson plans, each geared to a certain grade level.
Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work Before the Civil War
The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
The Panic of 1837 and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
Textile Mills, Factory Work, the Labor Movement
A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers
Good content overview and timelines.
Reminiscences of a Lowell Mill Girl
A very interesting excerpt from Harriet Robinson's Loom and Spindle, published in 1898.
Tsongas Industrial History Center, Lowell, MA
Downloadable curricula on the Industrial Revolution.
Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American History
This excellent Smithsonian site is all about teaching the history of textile industry in the U.S. It's a teaching site, complete with well-designed units, student activities, teacher and student essays, bibliographies, glossaries, timeframes, outcomes, etc. Geared to middle and high school students.
Child Labor in the United States
This site offers a classroom activity based on links to websites displaying Lewis Hine's famous photographs of child laborers (1908-1912), and an exhibit about Southern mill towns (http://www.ibiblio.org/sohp/scholarship/bamberger/bamberger_closing.html).
Women Working, 1800-1930
Thousands of digitized books, manuscripts, and photographs about women and work, from the Harvard University Library.
Westward Expansion
New Perspectives on the West
The web version of a PBS series that includes images, documents, and lesson plans.
History Now: The American West
This online journal from the Gilder Lehrman Institute features recent articles (September 2006) by leading historians on: Women of the West, A New Look at the Great Plains, The Myth of the Frontier, and American Indian Autonomy.
Vermonters in the West: Pioneer Letters of Gershom Flagg
The Vermontville Colony
Library of Congress resources about a town established by a group of transplanted Vermonters in Michigan under the leadership of a Congregational minister, c. 1836.
Joseph Savage and the New England Emigrant Aid party
http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/2004spring_clark.pdf
An article about Savage, who was from Hartford, Vermont, and other emigrants to Kansas in the mid-1850s.
Teacher Guide to the California Gold Rush
Lesson plans for teaching By the Great Horn Spoon, by Sid Fleischman (grades 4-6). Includes links to other useful resources about mining and the Gold Rush.
The American Experience: Gold Rush
Another good set of resources from PBS, in connection with the film aired in 2006.
The Impact of Westward Expansion on Indigenous Populations
A middle school unit developed through a Teaching American History project in Virginia. You can easily link to many other topics.
Agriculture
Growing a Nation: A History of American Agriculture
From the government's Economic Research Service, the premier source of research on American agriculture, comes this series of extensive timelines that can be searched by decade or by topic.
Immigration
Gilder Lehrman on Immigration
Gilder Lehrman has a typically great module for teachers and students on immigration, lots of information and resources.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Various digitized historical materials from the Harvard University Library: documents, photographs, also a very good timeline. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum website
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
The Tenement Museum site has lesson plans, primary sources, and a great encyclopedia on topics like immigrant groups, the labor movement, and urban life (http://www.tenement.org/Encyclopedia/index.htm).
How the Other Half Lives
The online, hypertext edition, complete with images, of Jacob Riis' 1890 classic about life in the tenements of New York.
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