America in the 1890s: A Chronology

 

American Literature--Research and Analysis

 

American Rennaisance and Transcendentalism

American Slave Narratives--an online anthology at the University of Virginia's Crossroads Project (WPA oral histories)

 

Cartoons for United States History

The research collection of cartoons owned by Ohio State University includes Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era which offer anti-trust and anti-imperialist commentaries. It also showcases political cartoons on such topics as immigration, women, and wealth in the page devoted to The Ram's Horn., an interdenominational social gospel magazine" published late in the nineteenth century.

 

Divining America: Religion and the National Culture

 

Documenting the American South

A large number of resources for the study of life in the south including autobiographies and memoirs of slaves, slave-owners, and Confederate soldiers.

 

Furman University: 19th Century Documents

 

The Douglass Archives of Public Address

Archive of speeches and documents searchable by speaker or by topic. It includes a Controversy/Movement List of Speeches and Documents which groups materials under such headings as "Care for the Poor" and "Civil Rights of African Americans."

 

Gilded Age Documents

Essays and speeches grouped by topics: "Politics," "Social Problems," "Labor and Industrialization," "The West," "Imperialism," "Race Relations," and "Women."

 

History of North America

 

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Long 19th Century

 

Labor-Management Conflict in American History

This page at Ohio State University offers links to newspaper accounts and other contemporary reports of late nineteenth century labor conflicts.

 

The Lives of Prominent Americans, 1888

If you wish to get a better sense of how a particular individual was regarded by his or her nineteenth century contemporaries, you can use this work as a reference. 

 

Matthew Brady's National Portrait Gallery

 

MOA Journals Collection at Cornell

 

The Making of America Archive, The University of Michigan

"a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."

 

Online Nineteenth Century Books and Periodicals

Use this site to search: The Scientific American; The Penny Magazine;  Godey's Lady's Book; The London Gazette; Youth's Educator for Home and Society (1896); and Sir Henry Bessemer, An Autobiography  (1905).

 

Pioneering Women in American Memory

A special exhibit on women as pioneers in American life sponsored by the Library of Congress. Be sure to visit "California as I Saw It": First-Person

 

Texts and Documents: The United States, Hanover College

 

United States History Links, The UCLA History Department

 

US Historic Documents, 19th Century

This University of Kansas site has an unannotated assortment of primary texts.  Many inaugural speeches are included; there are also a number of speeches related to slavery and the Civil War.

 

Voices From the Gaps--Women of Color Web Site at the University of Minnesota

 

Women in America

This site allows you to read accounts of the lives of American women written by eighteen visitors from Ireland, Scotland, England, and France.

 

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