The Jungle.
Using Sinclair's book students will understand how literature reflects life and can be used as a vehicle to bring about social change.

Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor

Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan:  Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912
 

Awesome Stories: Child Labor  A hyperlinked reading on child labor.  Links embedded in the text link to relevant pictures, maps, and websites.

Awesome Stories: The Road to Perdition.  The history of prohibition and gangsters behind the movie

Awesome Stories. A truly cool history resource.  The site has links to the "true" stories behind popular movies, hyperlinked narratives, and biographies

Hull House Museum

OurDocuments.org: 100 milestone documents in US History: Use as a resource for studying the Sixteenth, Seventeenth,  & Nineteenth Amendments, Sherman Anti-trust Act, Pendleton Act, Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, and Interstate Commerce Act.

Eyewitness to History: The 20th Century

America 1900 - PBS resource, includes free "Family Tree Maker" software click on "Special Feature"

Legends of Tuskegee (Interactive museum)

Triangle Factory Fire

Alabama Virtual Library

Best of History Websites

History Timelines (Alternatime)

Digital History Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research

History Matters  Designed for high school teachers of U.S. history courses. A gateway for web resources and other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

National Archives Digital Classroom

American Memory Primary source material from the collection of the Library of Congress.

Graphic Organizers

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