| After-School Workshop, February 25, 2003 |
"America, Inc.: Factories, Cities, and the Rise
of the Corporate Nation"
Facilitator: Dr. Dan Lerner, Binghamton University
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the rapid pace of
industrialization dramatically shaped American economic, polticial,
social, and cultural life. In this workshop, we will explore a sampling
of internet resources that adddress many (but surely not all!) of these
issues, and we will share ideas on integrating these materials into the
classroom.
Consider the following as you visit and study these websites:
1) What is the source/who is hosting this website?
2) What are the documents that this website houses?
3) How might you use these documents in your teaching?
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I. General
resources - America's Industrial Age:
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Learner.org: "Industrial Supremacy" - A Webography
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog14/web/
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,
"1871-1903: The Making of Modern America" (Douglass, Anthony,
Yellowstone)
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/treasures7.html
H-SHAGPE, http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape
Pittsburgh Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy Project, University of
Pittsburgh.
http://www.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/index.html
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Dr. Maureen
Flanagan, Michigan State University, editor.
http://www.jgape.org
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II. Captains of Industry and technological pioneers:
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Andrew Carnegie Image Collection, Carnegie Mellon University
http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/78vanderbilt/78lrnmore.htm
"A Brief History of the Duke Family and Its Tobacco Empire."
http://www.ibiblio.org/maggot/dukehome/family.html
Thomas Edison's papers - Rutgers University,
A Document Sampler
http://edison.rutgers.edu/docsamp.htm
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
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III. Factories and the Impact on Urban Communities
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"Inside an American Factory": Westinghouse Works, 1904 (Films).
Library of Congress/American Memory Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html
Jacob Riis - sample photos, Dr. Dean Defino, Iona College
http://www.iona.edu/faculty/ddefino/riis_photos.htm
"Back of the Yards" (Packingtown, Chicago). Depaul University.
http://www.depaul.edu/~history/chicago/packtown.html
On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the
Turn of the Century.
http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Cornell University ILR.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
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IV. Organized Labor - Famous Leaders:
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Mother Jones Collection, Catholic University of America
http://slis.cua.edu/dkb/874/jones/
Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/
Samuel Gompers Papers, University of Maryland
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Gompers/web1.html
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V. Organized Labor - Famous Events:
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GREAT RAILWAY STRIKE OF 1877
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University of Pittsburgh, various images
http://www.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/rrstrike1877.html.
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"Emergence of a Wage-Earning Class," a powerpoint slideshow
by Dr. Robert Cherny, San Franciso State Univ. Dept of History.
Section on the 1877 strike:
http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/h426/Power%20Point%20for%20Lectures/Lecture%203,%20Emergence%20of%20a%20Wage-Earning%20Class/sld027.htm
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HAYMARKET SQUARE, 1886
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"The Dramas of Haymarket," Chicago Historical Society.
http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/index.htm
The Haymarket Affair Digital Collection,
Chicago Historical Society.
http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/index.html
Selected documents from this collection:
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HOMESTEAD, 1892
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"After the Battle of Homestead: Counting the Dead and Criminalizing the
Strikers," University of Pittsburgh.
http://www.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/homestead.htm
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PULLMAN, 1894
"Broken Spirits: Letters on the Pullman Strike"
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5363/
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