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LIBRARY
The Progressive Era Resources |
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| NON-FICTION | |
| 200 WAC | Religion in nineteenth century America / |
| 306 SHR | The Gilded Age / |
| 385 AMB | Nothing like it in the world : the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 / |
| 391. MUL | Decades of beauty |
| 391.1 RAC | The historical encyclopedia of costume / |
| 608 IKE | Patents |
| 609 HAR | The book of inventions |
| 709.03 BAT | Nineteenth century art, |
| 720 LOW | Beaux arts New York. |
| 973 AMB | Witness to America |
| 973 AME | The American destiny: progress and poverty |
| 973 AME | The American destiny: the rise of the industrial giant |
| 973 BOY | United States history |
| 973 COO | Alistair Cooke's America |
| 973 HAK | A history of us: An age of extremes:1870-1917 |
| 973 HAK | Freedom: a history of us |
| 973 ZIN | A people's hsitory of the United States |
| 973.03 AME | America A to Z |
| 973.03 KOH | The encyclopedi of American history |
| 973.8 190 | The 1900s / |
| 973.8 GRE | The Gilded Age. |
| 973.89 BAC | The Spanish-Ameican War |
| 973.89 REE | The story of the Spanish-Ameican War |
| 973.89 WER | 1898-The Spanish-American War |
| REFERENCE | |
| REF 390 GRE | The Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life |
| REF 391 PEN | Fashion, costume, and culture |
| REF 920 ENC | Encyclopedia of world biography |
| REF 973 CHR | Chronicle of America |
| REF 973 GRO | The American years |
| REF 973.5 ENC V. 3 | Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century / |
| REF 973.8 AME | American eras: 1878-1899 |
| REF 973.92 AME | American decades 1900-1910 |
| DATABASES |
| ABC-CLIO American Government |
| American Government connects the issues of the day with the foundations of government and compares the political and economic systems of the United States with other countries. |
| www.americangovernment.abc-clio.com |
| ABC-CLIO American History |
| From the explorers of the Americas to today's headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. |
| www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com |
| AP Images |
| AP Images is a database of over 180 years of history as witnessed by The Associated Press.There are more than 5.5 million photographs from 1825 updated daily with about 3,000 of new photos added every day. Every photo contains a complete caption and citation. |
| https://www.apimages.com/uns/Logip.aspx |
| The American National Biography |
| A useful and dynamic source of information - updates quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. Search Tip: For a precise match, enter a name in the format Last Name, First Name. |
| http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
| GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| WEBSITES |
| 1896: The Presidential Campaign |
| This website provides an introduction to one aspect of the campaign: the hundreds of political cartoons published in newspapers around the country. |
| http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/depression.html |
| America in the 1890's |
| This Progressive Era chronology is sponsored by Bowling Green University. |
| http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/america.html |
| American Memory - Library of Congress |
| American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. |
| http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html |
| America's Story |
| Another Library of Congress sponsored site that allows the user to "Jump Back in Time." |
| http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/index.php |
| ERIC DOC: Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressiveism and the Election of 1912 |
| Four political cartoons of the era by Clifford. K. Berryman. |
| http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_sto rage_01/0000019b/80/29/ce/f8.pdf |
| The History Channel |
| The cable TV station that covers historical events is depth. |
| www.history.com |
| Library of Congress |
| The section of the LOC allows users to search historical newspapers from 1880 - 1922 |
| http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/ |
| PBS |
| PBS offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and online content. |
| http://www.pbs.org/ |
| Picture History |
| Find the pictures you need in this easy to use digital library of high quality images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history. |
| http://www.picturehistory.com/ |
| Southern Labor Archives |
| Lithographs and engravings of various illustrations and political cartoons of United States Labor from a variety of newspapers |
| http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages/pages.asp?ldID=105&guideID=510&ID=4223 |
Websites for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era |
| A portal site to primary sources and other sites related to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. |
| http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm |
| MLA SITES |
| Easybib |
| The free automatic bibliography composer.Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word. |
| http://www.easybib.com |
| NoodleBib Express |
| Generate citations in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. |
| http://www.noodletools.com/login.php |
