Orejarena: Spanish-Speaking Countries

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To search online, try these sites:

World Book en Español


Culture Grams Database (World Edition)

Atlapedia Online (Political and geographic maps, basic facts, and statistics about countries.)

CIA: The World Factbook

World Book Encyclopedia Online (Advanced)

World Book Encyclopedia Online (For students.)

Country Studies: Area Handbook Series (Library of Congress / Federal Research Division)

Autores Latinoamericanos

http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/cortes/My%20Webs/320/index.html

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Isabel Allende

Jorge Luis Borges & more Jorge Luis Borges

Pablo Neruda & MORE Pablo Neruda

Miguel de Cervantes

Ruben Dario

Rubinger: Progressive Era Project

The Website We're All Going to Look at Together -- Click here!!!

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OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)


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”

Science Databases and Websites

Science Websites recommended by the Los Angeles Public Library:
http://www.lapl.org/ya/homework/science.php

Khan Academy (free videos: mini-lessons in math & science)

Two databases with scientific articles & essays:

EBSCO Science (If that link doesn't work, click on this one, and then choose "Student Research - High School," and then click on "science.")

Facts on File - Scroll down to "Today's Science"