Web Sites

Digital History: Learn About the Progressive Era

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/index.cfm

Provides a quick introduction and background, plus a timeline of the era, some primary resources, and factsheets/explorations of some key Progressive themes: urban political machines, immigration, problems of youth, Progressive reforms and the Trusts, and World War I.

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Module Progressivism

Provides an introduction and background. The primary sources, learning tools, and visuals explore topics such as muckrakers and reformers, cities, conservation, prohibition, and women's suffrage

Includes a timeline.

See also"web sites" on the Resources page for further suggestions.

Best of History Web Sites>U.S. History>Progressivism

http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Progressivism.shtml

Visit this page for further recommended web sites.

About Jane Addams

http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/newdesign/ja.html

From the Hull House Museum, the most famous of the Settlement Houses. There are links to further resources.

America 1900

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/peopleevents/index.html

From PBS's American Experience, this site provideds a detailed timeline for 1900, information on People and Events, and transcripts of the film and interviews with historians. There are links to primary sources, including political cartoons.

Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/gildedage/

From Ohio State; includes an account of A Miner's Story (1902).

EHistory: Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/USCartoons/content/GAPECartoons.cfm

From Ohio State.

EHistory: Woman Suffrage

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/1912/womens_suffrage/default.cfm

Explores the debate over Women's Suffrage. The Site Map is useful in navigating these pages.

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html

The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement

http://americanhistory.si.edu/feather/index.htm

A virtual exhibit from the Smithsonian.

The History Place: Child Labor in America:1908-1912

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html

Photographs of Lewis W. Hine.

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

http://www.tenement.org/index_virtual.html

TR,The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tr/

From PBS's American Experience: timeline of Roosevelt's Presidency, biographical information and background on Roosevelt's legacy: the Panama Canal and the environment.

Books

• REF 338.0973 DEV Development of the Industrial U.S./ Reference Library, Cumulative Index , 2006. " Traces the development and history of American industrialization, and features information on major events of the industrial age, biographies of twenty-six significant figures of industrialization, primary source documents, and a cumulative index."

• REF 909.82 GRE Great Events from History, 2007. 6 vol. Covers 1901-1940; " Presents essays arranged in chronological order on key world events."

• REF 973.5 ENC Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century , 2001 3 vol. Includes many articles of interest: Jacob Riis, Cities and urbanization, immigration, health and disease, education, fires and firefighters, settlement houses, work+..

• REF 973 ENC Encyclopedia of American History, 2003. 11 chronological vols. See volumes VI and VII, which cover 1870-1899 and 1900-1928.

Databases

Biography Resource Center

Any prominent individual of the Progressive Era should be found in this database. For a "name search," it's often a good idea to set the search to "START OF LAST NAME" and then type LAST NAME FIRST in the search box, with a comma and a space before the first name. If you are unsure of the exact name, type only the last name and browse the results' list of names.

Use the TABS to move between result types: the "Biographies" tab contains full-text excerpts from reference sources; there are often web site suggestions and periodical articles under the "Magazine Articles" and "Websites" tabs.

An Infotrac database. To access from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click HERE FOR OUT OF SCHOOL ACCESS .

World Book Advanced

There are basic, introductory articles on the "Progressive Era" with links to related topics.

To view a special report "A Mirror on the Turn of the Century" use "Advanced Search," check the "Special Reports" box and type "Mirror on the Turn of the Century" in quotes in the search box.. The report highlights parallels between 1900 and our own time such as new technologies, politics and the need for reform, conservation, and social problems.

To retrieve information from this database from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click here for HOME ACCESS. You will need to select World Book from the databases list, once you are logged in.

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History

This is an electronic book, rather than a database. Try searching with keywords: "muckraker," "progressive," "tenements," "urbannization," etc. plus individuals such as Jane Addams, Robert Lafollette, Upton Sinclair and others.

There is an overview article "AN ERA OF ECONOMIC INSTABILITY, 1897-1920." [If this link is broken, go to advanced search, set the drop-down menu next to the search box to search full-text and type "era of economic stability" in quotes in the search box.]

An Infotrac electronic text. To access from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click HERE FOR OUT OF SCHOOL ACCESS .

Student Edition--Advanced Search

To retrieve information from this database from home, have your Dedham Public Library card handy, and click here for HOME ACCESS. You will need to select Student Edition from the databases list, once you are logged in.

PowerSearch

Use this database to search several Infotrac databases simultaneously if you are not finding enough information in Student Resource Center above. The search strategies outlined above apply to this database as well.

HOW TO SEARCH THE DATABASES

All the databases above offer "Help" buttons to assist you in finding relevant information.

Remember that the "Advanced Search" option usually allows you to combine search terms with AND, OR, and NOT.

Databases that include a mix of complete articles and citations allow you to limit your search to "full-text" only by checking the "full-text" box.

There are many ways to fine-tune results in most of these databases: by date, type of material, magazine or newspaper title, and more.

Search results often come back "tabbed" allowing you to "tab" between different types of results: magazine, academic journals, news items, books, etc.

If you would like help with a database search, please see Mrs. Davies in the DHS Library.