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Other Sessions 1. New World Encounters 2. The Coming Revolution 3. The New Nation 4. Expansion and Reform 5. Civil War and Reconstruction 6. The Settlement of the West 7. World War I 8. The Progressive Era 9. The Great Depression and the New Deal 10. The Civil Rights Movement

Additional Resources

Content Resources

A Biography of America: A Vital Progressivism
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog19/index.html
On this site, you can view the Biography of America video (or read the transcript) for Program 19: A Vital Progressivism. You can also access maps, listings of key events, and Web links on this topic.

Modules on Major Topics in American History: Progressivism
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module14/index.html
In the Progressivism module, you can access a brief overview of the era, primary source documents, learning tools, visual aids, and additional resources.

The Learning Page
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/theme.html
Scroll down to the section entitled "Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929" to find over 20 lesson plans related to the Progressive Era.

Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/ progress.html
This site features an overview of various topics related to the Progressive Era, and includes a variety of relevant primary source documents.

Digital History: Progressive Era
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=20
This site includes readings, primary sources, audio and visual materials, and teaching resources related to the Progressive Era.

Websites for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (U.S. History, 1865-1920)
http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm
This site contains an extensive collection of links related to the domestic politics, foreign policy, cultural movements, and daily life of the Progressive Era.

Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources
http://www.tntech.edu/history/gilprog.html
This site provides a large collection of links subdivided into categories such as "The New Immigration and Urban America" and "Progressive Reform, 1901-1917."

TeachingAmericanHistory.org Document Library
http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?category=3
This site provides a number of primary source documents written by Progressive Era figures such as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. DuBois.

Best of History Web Sites: Progressivism
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Progressivism.shtml
This site provides an extensive annotated list of links related to the Progressive Era.

Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. 1^st Vintage International ed.

Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925.

Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.

Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.

James, Henry. The Ambassadors. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994.

James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1995. 2^nd Norton Critical Edition.

Kloppenberg, James. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives. New York: Hill and Wang, 1957.

Sears Roebuck and Company. 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalogue. New York: Chelsea House, 1968.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Buccaneer Books, 1984.

Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2004.

Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.

Strategy Resources

You Be the Historian: For Teachers
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/
This site features an activity that encourages students to think about history on a personal level and can serve as an introduction to units on primary and secondary sources and on life in the 1700s.

Voices Across Time: American History Through Music
http://www.voicesacrosstime.org/Resources/Resources.htm
This site includes a list of resources for exploring American history through music.

AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: Black History
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_sampler.html
This site features an activity that encourages students to connect emotionally to topics in African American History so that they feel more engaged with the material.

Lewis and Clark: Classroom Resources
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/class/idx_les.html
The activities on this Web site focus on the study of Lewis and Clark in the subject areas of science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts.

Child Labor Module
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/CSSAP%20Modules/CSSAP%20First%20Phase%20Modules/ childlabor/ activity3.html
On this site, you will find strategies for teaching about child labor in the early 1900s that focus on the Campaign to End Child Labor, songs for the working children, and political cartoons and cartoonists.

Evanski, Jerry. Classroom Activators: 64 Novel Ways to Energize Learners. Thousand Oaks, CA: The Brain Store/Corwin Press, 2004.

Singer, Allan J. and the Hofstra New Teachers Network. Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching To Learn, Learning To Teach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.