Search for books in the BCCHS Library here:
OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
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| Police place victims of a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in their coffins on March 25, 1911. "Coffins of Victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire." Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. George Grantham Bain Collection. American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. |
Recommended Websites:
Progressive websites:
http://www.westirondequoit.org/ihs/library/prog2.htm#Temperance%20Movement:
Chicago Fire
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/
Losses of the Fire (primary source)
Chicago and the Great Conflagration (book)
141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire (NY Times article)
Child Labor
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html
Temperance
http://prohibition.osu.edu/
Carrie Nation
Prohibition (PBS)
Poverty
http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/eagle.html
Triangle Fire
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
"We Have Found You Wanting" (Speech)
Women’s
http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9803/suffrage.html
How the Other Half Lives
http://www.tenant.net/Community/riis/title.html
Databases:
- Facts on File - American History & Women's History
- (E.g., Ludlow Massacre, video: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Protests Alcohol , Child Labor - Keating-Owen Act, photo: Two Girls Protest Child Labor
- ABC-CLIO - American History
- Encyclopedia Britannica
Progressive Era Problems:
1. Temperance/Prohibition
2. Women’s Rights
- Suffrage Movement & 19th Amendment
3. Safety and Health Codes
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
- Meat Packing Industry/ Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”
4. Bad Working Conditions
- 1914 Ludlow Massacre
- Lowell Mill Textile Factory
5. Poverty, Urban living, and Child Labor
- Jacob Riis’s “How The Other Half Lives”
- John Spargo’s “The Bitter Cry of the Children”
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