1904 World's Fair: http://www.inlink.com/ ~terryl/ index.html. This site is dedicated to the 1904 St. LouisWorld's Fair, celebrating the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. It describes some of the exhibits at the fair, reprints newspaper and magazine articles, provides maps of the fairgrounds, and offers photographs of the buildings in the fair. The web page provides students with an overview of the fair and a feel for the festive atmosphere surrounding it.
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920: http://memory.loc.gov/ ammem/vshtml/vshome.html. Part of the American Memory project, this page gives a description of some of the ways Americans entertained themselves during the Progressive Era. It explains the rise of variety theater and features the memorabilia of Houdini, theater playbills, and unpublished play scripts. Compatible computers can also download sound recordings and film clips. This source allows students to compare how forms of entertainment have changed in the twentieth century.
The Emma Goldman Papers: sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/. Emma Goldman (1869-1940) has come to symbolize turn-of-the-century radicalism and activism. This site offers a wealth of information on her life. Selections include Goldman's writings, letters, and photographs. An online exhibit of her life is also accessible. A curriculum guide offers lesson plans for middle and high school students and suggests ways to incorporate the site's material into the classroom.
The Great Chicago Fire: www.chicagohs.org/ fire/intro/gcf-index.html. Essays, an extensive photograph and illustration gallery, newspaper articles, letters, telegraphs, and other primary sources compose this comprehensive site on the Great Chicago Fire. The site, maintained by the Chicago Historical Society, covers pre-fire Chicago through the reconstructed city.
Hull House Museum: www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html. The home page for the Hull House Museum contains information on Jane Addams's background and the founding of Hull House. Visitors will find information on Addams's early life, her writing, and her political ideology. The site also provides a chronology of important events and a list of accomplishments and innovations that resulted from Hull House.
Labor-Management Conflict in American History: www.history.ohio-state.edu/ projects/laborconflict. Ohio State University maintains this online collection of original documents that pertain to labor conflicts of the Progressive Era. This site provides the viewpoints of authors who lived through the turbulent times of reform that produced these strikes. Articles describe particular events (such as the 1905 Chicago Strike, the anthracite coal strikes, and the Homestead steel strike), the key players, the responses to the events, and the messages sent to Americans. The pages are illustrated with several photographs.
Progressive Era Timeline, 1879-1920: www.northpark.edu/acad/ history/WebChron/USA/
ProgressiveEra.html. This web site provides a timeline of key events in the Progressive Era. The information focuses primarily on industry and politics.
Prohibition: www.history.ohio-
state.edu/projects/prohibition/contents.htm. This site, maintained by Ohio State University, examines the U.S. prohibition movement. The home page provides links to sites on the brewing industry, the Anti-Saloon League, women's roles in the prohibition campaign, and prohibition articles from the period. Drawings, pictures of saloons, and political cartoons illustrate the site.
Suffragist Oral History Project: library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html. Transcripts of interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the suffrage movement are available from this site as part of the Suffragist Oral History Project. The project features interviews with seven leaders of the movement along with five other women whom the site describes as "rank and file" activists. The site provides students with first hand accounts of the emotions and issues surrounding suffrage, as well as a glimpse at the potential of oral history.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/. This web site, presented by the Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives, depicts the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (1911) using a variety of media genres. Newspaper articles from the New York Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune detail the factual events of the fire, and follow up with stories of a nation trying to assign blame and survivors trying to cope. Photographs depict the horror of the fire and the scenes of the carnage it created. Political cartoons show that in the public's viewpoint, blame was certainly assigned to the factory owners. Students can even read a play that was originally put out over the radio. Letters, songs, and book excerpts are also available on this site. This is an excellent resource for students trying to understand and imagine the conditions faced by young men and women working in factories in the early twentieth century.
"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920: memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html. This American Memory site includes portraits of prominent suffragists, photographs of suffragist parades, and political cartoons. The site is a partner to the National American Woman Suffrage Association page. This site, located at memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html provides a timeline, original documents, and biographies of suffragist leaders.
Westinghouse Works: memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr /west/westhome.html. The Westinghouse Company, supposedly one of the most modern and progressive of its era, is the subject of this site, sponsored by the Library of Congress. One part of the site details the changes made by the Westinghouse Company to improve working conditions. It addresses efforts to give workers higher wages, shorter work weeks, adequate housing, and cultural and educational activities. The site also provides links to pages describing companies owned by Westinghouse and key people involved in the company. By examining a model company at the turn of the century, students can see what working conditions were like and how they have changed during the twentieth century.
Woman's Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment: www.nara.gov/education/teaching /woman/home.html. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) designed this site specifically for the classroom. A wealth of primary documents from the women's suffrage movement are provided, while lesson plans incorporate these documents into classroom activities. A play script is available for students to reenact the historic vote for suffrage, and NARA also provides links to related web sites.
Amanda Howenstein is majoring in English and history at Indiana University. She is currently participating in the Organization of American Historians undergraduate editorial internship program.
