Website List

Content Resources

World Wide Web Virtual Library, The Gilded Age (1876-1900) (WWW-VL: History)

(Contains a Timeline with links)

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/gilded.html

Chronology of Chicago History (Chicago Public Library)

http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/chihist.html

Chicago, City of Neighborhoods, 4 chapters (Chicago Public Library)

http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/social/cityofneighborhoods/con_toc.html

The Dramas of Haymarket (Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University)

http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/

Haymarket (LOC & Chicago Historical Society)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html

Haymarket, Brief Narrative (Chicago Historical Society)

http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/intro.html

Haymarket Digital Collection (Chicago Historical Society)

http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/index.html

Haymarket, Photos (Chicago Historical Society)

http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/visuals/phototoc.htm

Haymarket, Newspaper engravings

http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/visuals/engratoc.htm

Altgeld’s Reasons for Pardons (Chicago Historical Society)

http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/books/b06/B06.htm

First Labor Day, 1882 (Library of Congress)

http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/sept03/labor.html

World’s Columbian Exposition, including virtual tour (University of Virginia)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html

Interactive Guide to World’s Columbian Exposition (Bruce Shulman)

http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Columbian/columbian.html

World’s Columbian Exposition, Digital Collection (Paul Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology)

http://columbus.iit.edu/

World’s Columbian Exposition, Digital Collection (Boston College)

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/1893fair.html

World’s Columbian Exposition, Overview (The Internet 1996 World Exposition)

http://park.org/Pavilions/WorldExpositions/chicago3.text.html

Frederick Douglas, 1893 Speech at Columbian Exposition (America’s Story from LOC)

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/progress/jb_progress_douglass_1.html

African American Women at World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/ibw/doclist.htm

At Home in the Heartland Online (Illinois State Museum)

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/welcome.htm

Immigrant Boys’ Clothing, photos by country of origin

http://histclo.com/country/us/imm/us-imm.html

Know (No) Nothing Party (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web08/segment5.html

Nativism in the U.S. (Houghton Mifflin Readers’ Companion)

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_063900_nativism.htm

Jane Addams, Her Family and Hull House, photos (Swarthmore College)

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Exhibits/janeaddams/addamsindex.htm

Jane Addams, Biography (University of Illinois, Chicago)

http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ja_bio.html

Jane Addams Hull House, Summary & Bibliography (Chicago Public Library)

http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/hullhouse.html

Jane Addams (America’s Story from LOC)

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/all/addams

Maps and Photographs (UIC, Jane Addams and Urban Experience)

http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/

Text of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Berkeley Digital Library)

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair/TheJungle

Jacob Riis Collection (The Museum of the City of New York)

http://www.mcn.org/Exhibitions/riis/riis2.htm

Hypertext Edition of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis (Yale University)

http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

Two Fires, Oct. 1871 (America’s Story from LOC)

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_fires_1_e.html

Read an Excerpt from The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)

http://www.scholastic.ca/titles/thegreatfire/

Chicago Landmarks (City of Chicago)

http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/List.html

Bricks and Mortar, Architecture

http://www.photography-museum.com/destr.html

Tall Office Buildings, Steel Frame Skyscrapers (MIT)

http://web.mit.edu/museum/chicago/buildings.html

Steel Frame Skyscrapers (Boston College)

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/19_sky.html

Home Insurance Building (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/home_insurance.html

Links to African American History Sites (ecuip – Digital Library, CPS & University of Chicago joint project)

http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/afam/guide/index.html

Links to Chicago History Sites (ecuip – Digital Library, CPS & University of Chicago joint project)

http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/chicago/index.html

Reading, Writing, Research, and Presentation Resources

Writer’s Handbook (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/

Evaluating the Sources of Information (Colorado State University)

http://writing.colostate.edu/references/trad_research/eval/index.cfm

Sources of Census Information

http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/por/features/2003/censusmflm.html