20th Century to the present
Turn of the century: social conflicts, territorial growth
- Photography and social reform (Riis and Hine)
- Child Labor around 1910 (photos by Lewis Hine) (Youtube)
- Poison Squad (PBS American Experience episode on government's first efforts to regulate food)
- National Child Labor Committee Collection
- Teaching with Lewis Hines' photos for the NCLC
- Child Labor in America (photos by Hine)
- Why build a canal? (Smithsonian presentation on the Panama Canal)
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911 (Youtube); The Triangle Factory Fire (with documents); 100 Years After (PRI); Triangle Fire (PBS); importance in labor history (AFL-CIO)
- Little Red Songbook (lyrics to famous labor songs)
- Child Labor Reform Panels (photographic primary sources from Library of Congress)
- Chinese in California (Library of Congress; on immigration)
- Century of Filipino-American History (visual, for students)
- It's not your nationality, it's what you do (song recorded in 1916)
- Early ads:
- Vintage ads
- Image collection, including advertising (Roland Marchand)
- Emergence of Advertising in America
- Early Advertising in the West
- Advertising (Library of Congress)
- US WWI Centennial Commission(to build a memorial in DC; educational material)
- Echoes of the Great War (videos about WW1 from Library of Congress)
- World War I propaganda (excellent slideshow of 23 posters)
- Manipulating minds: Propaganda in World War 1
- Anti-German propaganda; interview about anti-German feelings; another interview
- World War I Posters (Library of Congress)
- Getting the Rope (Anti-German sentiment, primary source)
- Alice Paul (suffragette)
- NAACP Interactive Timeline (remarkable multimedia overview of NAACP and its historical context)
- Jacob Lawrence: The migration series (Phillips Collection)
- Langston Hughes reading "The Struggle"
- The sounds of Art
- Great Migration in Library of Congress (primary sources)
- First movie (Al Jolson) and first radio broadcast (KDKA Pittsburgh); impact of radio on American life
- In motion: The African American migration experience
- Chicago's 1919 race riots (documents)
- "Eruption of Tulsa" (NAACP document, 1921); "Now Tulsa Does Care"
- Documents of the Great Migration: Time is Getting Hard (song); Seven Letters
- Great Migration (primary sources, Library of Congress)
- Black History Month: Biographies (Gale/Cengage); Teacher's Guide CD (all the tracks from CD made for PBS series on the Blues)
- Marcus Garvey speech, "If you believe the Negro has a soul"
- Blues Journeyand Musical Harlem (videos produced by ArtsEdge/Kennedy Center)
- Jazz in Time - timeline (ArtsEdge)
- Old Time Jazz Online
- Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s (primary sources)
- Jazz Greats (PBS KIds)
- Smithsonian Jazz
- 1920s radio and newspaper links
- Roaring 20s (fabulous collection of original movies and sounds recorded on the streets of New York City in the late 1920s and early 30s)
- FDR resources
- Living New Deal (project devoted to cataloging the buildings and structures created during the New Deal)
- New Deal for the Arts
- New Deal Network; New Deal photos
- Picture This: California perspectives on American history
- Surviving the Dustbowl (PBS)
- Great Depression (background articles in site on poetry of the Depression)
- Great Depression cartoons (2 parts, critical of government meddling)
- Surviving the Dustbowl (PBS movie)
- Dry Land (New York Times video about drought conditions in 2012; shows what drought is actually like)
- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt (letters from children)
- Hawaii and the history of Pearl Harbor
- After the Day of Infamy (interviews after the attack on Pearl Harbor)
- Tuskegee Airmen (museum)
- A more perfect union (Smithsonian site on treatment of Japanese during WW2)
- Densho Project (Japanese internment; oral histories); Sites of Shame
- Executive Order 9066 (Japanese internment)
- Japanese-American Internment: Ansel Adams Photographs
- Documents relating to the decision to drop the atomic bomb
- Herblock's History (political cartoons)
- Martin Luther King Encyclopedia (very informative short articles)
- The Making of African American Identity (primary sources)
- Black Civil Rights (primary sources)
- Finishing the Dream(original NBC TV clips about the civil rights era)
- Interviews with Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Meet the Press: Roy Wilkins, NAACP, and Martin Luther King, Jr. (interview with MLK days before the March 1963 March in Washington)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Look Here (1957 interview with Morton Agronsky; King reflects on nonviolence and the lessons of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott)
