THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1800s RESOURCES

     created by Peggy Beck Haines

SEE ALSO ONLINE RESOURCES.  Select GALENET, and scroll to HISTORY RESOURCE CENTER: US. and BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER.  See also PRINT RESOURCES.

NOTE: WE HAVE  AN EBOOK AVAILABLE. GO TO ONLINE RESOURCES. ENTER YOUR CHCLC USER NAME AND PASSWORD. SELECT GALE. SCROLL TO GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY. SELECT HISTORY--American Social Reform Movements Reference Library. Judy Galens, Ed. Detroit: U*X*L, 2007. 1043 pp. 5 vols. 

ABOLITIONISTS (SEE ALSO BLACK HISTORY RESOURCES.)

                "AIN'T I A WOMAN?" SPEECH OF SOJOURNER TRUTH
                AMERICAN SLAVE NARRATIVES: AN ONLINE ANTHOLOGY
                AMERICAN VISIONARIES: FREDERICK DOUGLASS
                THE DRED SCOTT CASE
                IMAGES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY)
                TUBMAN, HARRIET RESOURCES   SEE ALSO UNDERGROUND RAILROAD RESOURCES.
                        HARRIET TUBMAN
                        HARRIET TUBMAN & THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
                        THE LIFE OF HARRIET TUBMAN
                 UNDERGROUND RAILROAD RESOURCES
                        ABOARD THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
                        HARRIET TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
                        HISTORY HAPPENS: ON AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
                        NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PRESENTS THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
                        OUR VIRTUAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD QUILT (ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASS)
                        TAKING THE TRAIN TO FREEDOM
                        UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
                        THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD SITE AT UC DAVIS

ADVERTISING OF THE 19TH CENTURY

CENTURY OF THE MACHINE 1800-1900 (CNN)

CIVIL WAR RESOURCES

COMMUNICATION IN THE 1800s RESOURCES

                THE INVENTION OF THE TELGRAPH
                MORSE CODE
                PONY EXPRESS (US POSTAL SYSTEM) 
                PONY EXPRESS HOME STATION
                PONY EXPRESS INFORMATION

EDUCATION IN THE 1800s RESOURCES

                AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY TIMELINE: 1800-1899
                AMERICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE MID-1800s (THINKQUEST)
                A CHRONOLOGY OF FEDERAL LEGISLATION AFFECTING PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION AND EXTENSION
                COMMON SCHOOL PERIOD OF EDUCATION (1840-1880)
                EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD OF AMERICAN EDUCATION (1776-1840)
                HISTORY OF ART EDUCATION TIMELINE
                PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896) (PERMITTED SEGREGATION/OVERTURNED BY BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION IN 1954)
                PROGRESSIVE PERIOD OF AMERICAN EDUCATION (1880-1920)
                SCHOOL: THE STORY OF AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION (PBS)

1800s RESOURCES

                AMERICAN HISTORY 1800-1899 (LINKS)
                          1810s      1820s      1830s      1840s      1850s      1860s      1870s      1880s      1890s
                FOOD , 1847
                OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE 1830, MASSACHUSETTS
                PIONEER LIFE

THE GILDED AGE RESOURCES (CA. 1877-1920) (SEE ALSO PROGRESSIVE ERA.)

                  AFRICAN-AMERICANS, ASIAN AMERICANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, AND WOMEN: STRUGGLES DURING THE GILDED AGE (1876-1900)
                ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES, 1898-1935
                CARTOONS OF THE GILDED AGE
                DOCUMENTS RELATING TO AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1898-1914 --LINKS
                THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA, 1877- 1917
                THE GILDED AGE (LINKS)
                 THE GILDED AGE AND THE POLITICS OF CORRUPTION
                THE GILDED AGE: DOCUMENTS
                THE GILDED AGE (1890) TO WORLD WAR I: OVERVIEW (SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY TIPS: DR. ERIC MAYER)
                U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE GILDED AGE & PROGRESSIVE ERA RESOURCES

IMMIGRATION RESOURCES

INDUSTRIALIZATION (INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION) RESOURCES

MENTAL ILLNESS REFORM RESOURCES

                BRIEF HISTORY OF EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL AND THE TREATMENFT OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN AMERICA
                DOROTHEA DIX
                        BIOGRAPHY OF DOROTHEA DIX
                        DOROTHEA DIX 1802-1887
                        MEMORIAL OF MISS D. L. DIX TO THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES (1-5, 7-18, 21-22, 42, 49, 67, 150-154, 192-204).
                        MEMORIAL TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1843 ((1-8, 23-24, 28, 49, 55-56, 76-81)
                        A WOMAN'S CRUSADE: DOROTHEA DIX (LESSON PLAN)
                HISTORY OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN POORHOUSES
                MENTAL ILLNESS (SCROLL DOWN TO ALMOST THE END OF THE DOCUMENT TO HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF MENTAL ILLNESS, F. REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES
                MENTAL ILLNESS: EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE AND TREATMENT
                NELLY BLY
                        NELLIE BLY: DAREDEVIL REPORTER
                        NELLIE'S MADHOUSE MEMOIR (NELLY BLY)
                TIMELINE: TREATMENTS FOR MENTAL ILLNESS (PBS)

PRINT/GRAPHICS

                GRAPHICS IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA
                THE 19TH CENTURY IN PRINT

TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES

                AROUND THE WORLD IN 1890s
                BICYCLES IN THE 19TH CENTURY (LINKS)
                CABLE CARS IN THE 19TH CENTURY
                CANALS & CANAL BOATS IN THE 19TH CENTURY
                    CANALS & CANAL BOATS IN THE 19TH CENTURY (LINKS)
                    CYNDI'S LIST: CANALS, RIVERS, & ROADWAYS
                CYNDI'S LIST: MIGRATION ROUTES, ROADS, & TRAILS
                FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION
                LIGHTHOUSES IN THE 19TH CENTURY (LINKS)
                PANAMA CANAL RESOURCES
                    MAKE THE DIRT FLY! SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES EXHIBITION
                    THE OPERATION OF THE PANAMA CANAL
                    THE PANAMA CANAL
                    THE PANAMA CANAL (SMALL PLANET)
                    PANAMA CANAL HANDOVER
                    THE PANAMA CANAL HISTORY MUSEUM
                    THE PANAMA CANAL MUSEUM                
                RAILWAYS
                    CYNDI'S LIST: RAILROADS
                     HISTORY OF THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERICA
                    RAILROAD LINKS
                    RAILROADS IN THE 19TH CENTURY (LINKS)
                    SPREAD OF RAILWAYS IN THE 19TH CENTURY
                ROADS AND TRAILS IN THE 19TH CENTURY (LINKS)
                SHIPS AND BOATS IN THE 19TH CENTURY (LINKS)
                STEAM POWER IN THE 19TH CENTURY (LINKS)
                TRANSPORTATION IN THE 1800s
                WAGONS AND CARTS IN THE 19TH CENTURY (LINKS)

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE GILDED AGE & PROGRESSIVE ERA RESOURCES

WESTWARD EXPANSION RESOURCES

WOMEN'S RIGHTS RESOURCES (SEE ALSO WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH RESOURCES AND  AFRICAN-AMERICANS, ASIAN AMERICANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, AND WOMEN: STRUGGLES DURING THE GILDED AGE (1876-1900).)

  
                NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY PROJECT
                RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND THEIR HISTORIC ROLES
                SURF REPORT: WOMEN'S HISTORY
                SURFING THE NET WITH KIDS: WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
                TEACHERSFIRST.COM WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH RESOURCES
                TIMELINES OF U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY
                VOTING BOOTH: WOMEN WEREN'T ALWAYS EQUAL
                WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1775-2000
                WOMEN'S HISTORY RESOURCES

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