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Showing posts with label Progressive Era Module. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Progressive Era Module. Show all posts

Friday, June 22, 2012

Website Spotlight: Women in the Progessive Era


Website URL: http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/home.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 my students to work their way through each of these brief essays presented by the National Women's History Museum.

Introduction to Women in the Progressive Era
The Status of Women
Introduction to Clubwomen
The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC)
Causes: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Causes: The Woman Suffrage Movement
Causes: The Birth Control Movement
Settlement House Women
Hull House
The Children's Bureau
The National Consumers League
African American Women During the Progressive Era
African American Women Reform Efforts
Racial Divisions in the Progressive Era
Working Women: The Women's Trade Union League
Women and the Peace Movement
Women in World War I
Legacy of Women in the Progressive Era

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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/Progressive+Era

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 

Friday, December 30, 2011

Website Spotlight: Triangle Fire


Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/triangle/

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:

1. Introduction: The Triangle Fire
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/triangle-intro/

2. Photo Gallery: The Price of Fashion (1910)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/triangle/

3. What is a shirtwaist?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/triangle-shirtwaist/

4. New York Times coverage of the fire (March 26, 1911)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/triangle-nyt/

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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/The+1920s

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

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Website Spotlight: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire


Website URL: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglefire.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:

Newspaper Accounts
List of victims (note victims' ages and the poignant comments)

~~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/The+1920s

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