• Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: A Colorado Success Story - A lesson based on primary sources explores women and homesteading in the late 19th century. From the National Park Service.
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/67hornbek/67hornbek.htm

• Alaska’s Gold - The State Library of Alaska presents student and teacher materials, including many primary sources, about the discovery of gold, gold mining, traveling to the gold fields, and daily life as a miner.
  http://www.library.state.ak.us/goldrush/

• American Cultural History: The Nineteenth Century - Decade by decade analysis of cultural trends, from the Kingwood College Library.
  http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury.html

• American President: An Online Reference Resource - While many of the presidents of this era are among the more obscure, those interested can learn a great deal at this site from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
  http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/

• Americans in Paris: 1860-1900 - This site presents the art created by American émigrés in Paris in the decades following the Civil War, stating that "The experience of Paris transformed American art."
  http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Americans_in_Paris/aip_gallery.asp

• The American West - Maps of the major overland trails, photos of frontier towns, population data on Native American tribes, and other information.
  http://www.AmericanWest.com/

• Amusing America - The San Francisco Public Library presents this exhibit on commercial entertainment—amusement parks, dance halls, international expositions, and the like—of the late 19th century.
  http://sfpl.org/news/onlineexhibits/amusing/

• Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online - This project of the Brooklyn Public Library provides more than 140,000 pages of primary source materials, providing insight into a Northern community in the period from 1841-1902.
  http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/

• Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Extensive collection of photographs related to building the Central Pacific Railroad, as well as its early years of operation. Includes some now (1997) and then (1868) comparison photos.
  http://www.cprr.org/Museum/

• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - An introduction to the literary genre that became popular in the second half of the 19th century. From Stanford University's library.
  http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html

• Down the Drain: Chicago’s Sewers - The Chicago Public Library provides a fascinating look at the development of an urban infrastructure.
  http://www.chipublib.org/digital/sewers/sewers.html

• Edison Papers - Extensive collection related to the work of Thomas Alva Edison.
  http://edison.rutgers.edu/

• Ellis Island Photographs from the Collection of William Williams, Commissioner of Immigration, 1902-1913 - The title describes well this collection from the New York Public Library. Included are photos of individual immigrants and of the facility at Ellis Island.
  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=history&collection_list=EllisIslandPhotograp&col_id=165

• Erik A. Hegg Photographs - More than 700 photographs of the gold rushes in the Klondike and Alaska (1897-1901), including many depicting life on the Alaskan frontier.
  http://content.lib.washington.edu/heggweb/index.html

• Flights of Inspiration - In-depth information and activities on the early history of flight from the Franklin Institute Science Museum and the Science Museum, London.
  http://www.fi.edu/flights/

• The Frontier in American History – The classic thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner.
  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/

• Frontier House – Background information and lessons on life on the frontier in 1883. Developed to support the PBS “reality” program of the same name.
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/

• Gilded Age Era Lesson Plans - Nine document-based lesson plans on such topics as civil service reform, lynching, temperance, and the gold standard. From the Illinois Historical Digitization Project.
  http://dig.lib.niu.edu/teachers/gilded.html

• The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory –The Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University present this detailed site about the Chicago fire.
  http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire/index.html

• History of Jim Crow - Teaching resources, numerous background essays, images, and links on segregation and discrimination from the 1870s to the 1950s.
  http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm

• History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 - Photographs of child workers in a variety of industries taken by Lewis Hines and reproduced with his original captions, plus a background essay on Hines and his work.
  http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html

• The Industrial Revolution: A Teaching Challenge - A useful article for teachers by historian Peter N. Stearns.
  http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/industrial/stearns.html

• Interactive Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition - Detailed information on the 1893 exposition. Maintained by Bruce R. Schulman.
  http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Columbian/columbian.html

• Mark Twain and the American West – A lesson plan looking at how Mark Twain became the nation’s first celebrity author and how his work shaped perceptions of the West.
  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson02.htm

• The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire – The National Archives presents primary source documents regarding the destruction of San Francisco as a result of the 1906 earthquake, as well as information about the rebuilding of the city.
  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/sf-earthquake-and-fire/

• Nineteenth-Century Technology – A themed issue of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s History Now journal presents lessons and essays on railroads, photography, medical advances, Edison, and women and the early Industrial Revolution.
  http://www.historynow.org/12_2006/index.html

• The Public Be Damned: A Thematic and Multiple Intelligences Approach to Teaching the Gilded Age - A teaching unit by teacher-historians Nina Mjagkij and D. Antonio Cantu.
  http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/gilded/cantuarticle.htm

• Progress Made Visible: American World’s Fairs and Expositions – The library at the University of Delaware highlights six expositions held between the Civil War and World War I, with the technological and economic prowess of the United States as a major theme.
  http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/index.htm

• Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South - This site provides narrative on life in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the early 20th century, as well as access to the historical data on which the narrative is based. From the University of Virginia.
  http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/raceandplace/

• Scribbling Women - This unique site presents several radio plays written by and about women at the turn of the century; the extensive teaching materials help teachers place the plays in their historical context and provide discussion questions and teaching strategies. A project of the Public Media Foundation.
  http://www.scribblingwomen.org/home.html

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Book excerpts, newspaper articles, photographs, audio survivor interviews, and other resources on the tragic fire that killed 146 workers, mostly young women, in 1911. A project of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, designed as a high school-level research tool.
  http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

• Turn of the Century Posters - Hundreds of posters created in the late 1800s and early 1900s provide insights into cultural history of the period.
  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=212

• Western Trails: An Online Journey – This collaborative site provides primary source documents related to Western history and organized around the theme of trails (Native American Trails, Settlement Trails, Railroad Trails, etc.)
  http://www.cdpheritage.org/exhibit/westerntrails/index.html

• Women Working, 1870-1930 - 1800-1930 - Primary source documents on women's role in the U.S. economy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. From Harvard University.
  http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/