The Progressive Era: Resources

General information:
U.S. Progressive Era Outline l900-1920 (a great place to start)
America in the l890's ---A Chronology
Progressive Era (l900-l917)
The Guilded Age and Progressive Era
Industrialization and the Progressive Era
Progressive Era-The Learning Page
Who's Who in American Hy.
American History Search Engines--research sites
U.S. History Topics
Historical Text Archive
20th Century Cultural History
American Memory
Muckrakers
Muckrakers-The Columbia Encyclopedia
Treaties and Acts of Congress
Progressivism

Books
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Reiss
Ida Tarbell

Topics and Web-Sources

Labor

Labor related issue of era
Coal Mining
Anthracite Coal Strike
Economic Growth in the Guilded Age
Struggles for Labor
Rise of Industrialization
History of Labor and Management
Coal Strike Cartoons
 

Women's issues

Women's Day March l915
Women and Social Movements
Links to Women's Issues
American Women
Suffragette's Parade
Jane Addams

Minorities

W.E.B and Booker T.
African American Women
Lynchings and Ida B. Wells
African American History Time Line
Niagara Movement
African American and Progressivism l900 Events

Children

Child Labor
The Bitter Cry of Children

Housing
Home Work in the Tenements

On the Lower East Side
Tenament History

Immigration

History of Immigration
Immigrants and Immigration
Living Conditions for Immigrants

Politics

Corruption in U.S. Senate- Phillips, David
Boss Tweed
Tammany Hall
"Fighting Bob"
Corruption in Pittsburg
Teddy R.
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson

Big Business
The Lords of Industry
Competition v. Monopoly

Public Health
Patent Medicines
Harrison Narcotics Act