Thematic groupings of electronic resources
building connections among literary texts in the Heath Anthology and primary and secondary materials
online:
American Life at the
Turn of the Century
Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit
Publishing Company, 1880-1920 is an archive of
photographs from the period and can be searched by
subject or using keywords (from
American
Memory).
The
Gilded Page is an index of major works on-line
published between 1866 and 1901.
American
Variety Stage; Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment
1870-1920 includes sound recordings, playbills,
Yiddish and English playscripts, motion pictures, and
material on Houdini (from
American
Memory).
The
Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 is
a collection of downloadable motion pictures from New
York City (from
American
Memory).
African
American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the David A. P.
Murray Collection 1888-1907 (from
American
Memory).
Before
and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of
San Francisco, 1897-1916 provides views of San
Francisco from the turn-of-the-century (from
American
Memory).
The
Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920 is a
collection of electronic images, primary sources and
descriptive material on various aspects of the
conservation movement (from
American
Memory)
Anti-Imperialism
in the United States, 1898-1935 provides primary
materials from opponents of imperialism, including
essays, speeches and pamphlets, major literary works,
platforms of political parties and other resources.
On
the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower
Manhattan at the Turn of the Century provides
excerpts from primary sources on the Lower East Side on a
range of topics (like Russian Jewish immigrants, the
tenement problem, and child labor).
Metropolitan
Lives; The Ashcan Artists and Their New York
showcases the work of six major ashcan artists of the
1890s as well as information and primary source material
on various aspects of life in New York during the period
(from the Smithsonian Institute).
The
Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory uses primary
source materials to describe the Chicago fire and its
aftermath as well as the various myths and contextual
stories of the fire (from the Chicago Historical Society
and the Trustees of Northwestern University).
African American
Slavery and Abolition
Black
History: The African American Journey is an
encyclopediaic look at the major events and figures in
African American history (from World Book).
Documenting
the American South includes an index of on-line slave
narratives.
The
African-American Mosaic Exhibition: A Library of Congress
Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and
Culture surveys the full range of the Library of
Congress' African American collections.
The
Britannica Guide to Black History is chronological
index, spanning two hundred years of the African American
experience, and contains essays on major figures, events,
and groups from early slavery through abolition.
The
Valley of the Shadow; Two Communities in the American
Civil War provides material from Virginia and
Pennsylvania during the Civil War, including diaries,
newspapers, and public, church and military records.
Black
History provides primary source material on slavery
in Seacoast, New Hampshire
Connections:
A Culturally Historical Prospective of West African to
African American includes descriptive material and
electronic images of primary sources on the history of
West Africans, running from the kindoms of Mali, Ghana,
and Songhay, through the Middle Passage and into slavery.
The Woman
Question
Votes
for Women; Selections from the National American Women's
Suffrage Association Colleciton, 1848-1921 is a
collection of primary source material on many subjects in
women's suffrage history (from
American
Memory).
Distinguished
Women of Past and Present provides biographical
essays on many women authors and figures in American
history.
19th
Century American Women's Writers Web contains
material on and by many women authors, as well as links
to other pages on these authors; this extended electronic
library is scheduled to go off-line in May.
Women
in America, 1820-1842 includes texts by eighteen
female travelers to answer the question of how accurately
drawn is the picture of women in America in Beaumont's
and de Tocqueville's
Democracy in America.
Lesbian
Poetry is a selection of poetry containing lesbian
themes.
A
Celebration of Women Authors is an index of important
female authors with links to electronic texts of their
works.
One
Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview is a
timeline of suffrage history.
Gender
Matters: An Overview provides descriptive
material on Victorian gender issues and other fields that
relate to gender issues.
