Website Spotlight: Illinois in the Gilded Age

Website URL: http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I ask the students to work through the following links:

Labor
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/labor.html

Race and Ethnicity
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/race.html

Religion and Culture
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/religionculture.html

Settlement and Immigration
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/settlement.html

Women's Experiences and Gender Roles
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/women.html

Panic of 1873
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/narr3.html

The Great Strike in 1877
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/narr4.html

Immigration, Labor, and Politics
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/narr5.html

Haymarket and Hull House
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/narr6.html

1893 Chicago's World Fair (Columbian Exposition)
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/narr7.html

Pullman Strike:
George Pullman and the Sleeping Car Business
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events1.html
The Town of Pullman
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events2.html
The Pullman Strike and Boycott
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events3.html
 
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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Industrialization

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: John D. Rockefeller

Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/index.html

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I ask the students to work through the following links:

Introduction
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/filmmore/pd.html

Biography of John D. Rockefeller, Senior
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_rock_jsr.html

Online Poll
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_1.html

Clash of Titans: Rockefeller vs. Tarbell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_6.html

Biography of Ida Tarbell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_tarbell.html

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Interview with economist Paul Krugman:

How does Rockefeller’s dominance compare to companies today?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3_krug_1.html

Do mergers occur in the same way today as they did then?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3_krug_2.html

Was Rockefeller’s monopoly necessary?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3_krug_3.html

Do you see a comparison with how Rockefeller and Gates leveraged their power?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3_krug_4.html

Who are the new robber barons?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3_krug_5.html

Rockefeller was a case study in developing antitrust laws.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3_krug_6.html

What is Rockefeller’s current status among experts?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3_krug_7.html

What do people not realize about Rockefeller?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_3_krug_8.html

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Industrialization

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: 1896 Presidential Campaign

Website URL: http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html#special

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I ask the students to work through the following links:

William McKinley
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/mckinley.html

The Republicans, Mark Hanna, and Labor
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/hanna.html

William Jennings Bryan
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/bryan.html

Political Parties in the 1896 Presidential election campaign:
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/parties.html

Bryan and the Bible
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/bryanreligion.html

McKinley Supporters and the Bible
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/goldbible.html

Racial Prejudice
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/prejudice.html

Antisemitism
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/antisemitism.html

Women in the Campaign
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/women.html

Bicycles
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/bicycle.html

The Currency Issue
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/currency.html

Economic Depression of 1893
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/depression.html

Immigration
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/immigration.html

Farmers and Laborers
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/labor.html
 
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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Industrialization

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: Transcontinental Railroad

Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I ask the students to work through the following links:

Introduction
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/tguide/tguideweb.html

Photo Gallery: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/tcrr-gallery/

The Race to Utah 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-race/

Flash Interactive: Race to Utah (Students will really like this one)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flash-interactive/tcrr/

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad (mostly Chinese)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-cprr/

Workers of the Union Pacific Railroad (mostly Irish)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-uprr/

Biography: Charles Crocker
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/tcrr-ccrocker/

Biography: Leland Stanford
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/tcrr-stanford/

Tunneling in the Sierra Nevada
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-tunnels/

Mark Twain's Observations of the Railroad
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/tcrr-twain/

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Industrialization

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: Haymarket Trial



Website URL: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/haymarket.html

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I recommend you begin your enjoyment of this website by reading Douglas Linder's overview essay. [middle of the home screen, underneath the picture]

Each of the websites in this "Famous Trials" series has standard sections on the left sidebar labelled (more or less) as follows:

A. Chronology
B. Biographies/Key Figures
C. Selected Images
D. Excerpts from trial transcripts/Summary of evidence
E. Bibliography and Links

Follow your interests in deciding what parts of this main material to use.

Going beyond these normal categories, I myself found the following items (on the left sidebar) particularly intriguing:

Attention: Workingmen
News accounts
Cartoons

~~For reviews of the Famous Trials website:

History Matters (The U.S. Survey Course on the Web)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4908/
TeachingHistory.org (National History Education Clearinghouse)
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/14636

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Industrialization

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT