Rise of Industry
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
GENERAL SITES
OUTLINE: American Industrialization
OUTLINE: Industrial Revolution and Reform
TIMELINE: From Frontier to Factory 1845-1916
Industrial Revolution Highlights
Industrial Revolution - Second Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution - Impact
The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution
Rise of Industrial America Overview
The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Families
THE MARKET REVOLUTION, 1815-1860
Industrial Revolution - America and the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution and 19th century links
The Second Industrial Revolution
Resources - Nationalism, Industrialism, Imperialism
BBC - History - Industrialisation
LABOR & BUSINESS: THE WORKERS & "ROBBER BARONS"
THE WORKERS
The War between Capital and Labor
How labor won its day - The History of Labor Day
Life in a Factory: Westinghouse Works, 1904
Life and Labor in the Victorian Period
Life of Ninteenth-Century Workers
Victorian Social History: An Overview
Victorian Working Women: Sweated Labor & Victorian Women -- Economic Contexts
The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Servant-Master Relationships
The History Place - Child Labor in America
Photographs of LewisHine: Documentation of Child Labor
Picturing the Century: Portfolio: Lewis Hine
Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Photographer, Journalist, Social Reformer - BIOGRAPHY OF JACOB RIIS
Child Labour in the 19th Century
Child labor in Factories During the Industrial Revolution
Child Labor and Child Labor Reform in American History
Child Labor in New York City Tenements
Women's Work in the 19th Century
Open Collections Program: Women Working
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (Immigration & Sweatshops)
Newsboys - "Devils In Training"
The Life and Work of Coal Miners
A History of American Sweatshops, 1820 - Present
american history sweatshop exhibition
Lowell Mill Girls - Women's Factory Work and Organizing
Lowell Mill Girls and the Rhetoric of Women's Labor Unrest
Harriet Robinson -- Lowell Mills
Haymarket Affair (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Chicago Historical Society - The Haymarket Digital Collection
Governor John Peter Altgeld Pardons The Haymarket Prisoners
Labor-Management Conflict in American History
The Labor Movement in the Public Eye
Excerpt from Out of the Sweatshop: 'My First Job'
The Story of a Sweatshop Girl: Sadie Frowne
HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
National eight hour law : proclamation / U.S. Grant
A Mule Spinner Tells the U.S. Senate about Late 19th century Unemployment
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
George Pullman - 1894: Pullman Strike, The Pullman Strike, THE PULLMAN STRIKE: ITS CAUSES AND EVENTS
1877: Grand Army of Starvation - Railroad Strike
Samuel Gompers: First President of the AFL, 1886-1924
United States Labor and Industrial History Audio Archive
A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers.
Photos From The Triangle Factory Fire - The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial (1911, but fits with this topic)
THE ROBBER BARONS
Railroad Robber Barons: Jay Gould, James Fisk, & Daniel Drew - More Railroad History below.
Businessmen and "That Creature" the Corporation
The Lords of Industry, June 1884 by Henry Demarest Lloyd
The American Experience/Andrew Carnegie
Bridging the Urban Landscape: Andrew Carnegie: A Tribute
Andrew Carnegie: Gospel of Wealth
American Experience | The Rockefellers
THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY
John D Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company
JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER, JR., Personal Papers
Martin J. Sklar, "Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America"
Progress & Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions by Henry George
IMMIGRANT WORKERS FOR THE INDUSTRIAL MACHINE
The Rise of Industrial America 1876-1900: Immigration to the US
Immigration in the 19th and 20th Centuries
History Now & History Now. From the Teachers Desk - great primary sources on landmark Supreme Court cases relating to immigration.
Foreign Immigrants in Industrial America
IMAGES: Immigrants: North Dakota, Land of Opportunity - 1880-1920
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (Immigration & Sweatshops)
Documents on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy
The Migration to North America
Asian American Historical Timeline
Chinese American History Timeline
Chinese Immigration to the United States
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
History House: Eugenics Part I: You Can’t Keep a Good Idiot Down
History House: Eugenics Part II: License to Breed
Summary of Population of United States During 1800's
Encyclopaedia of USA History: Immigration to the USA 1860-1960
SnapShots - Immigration in the Early 20th Century
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial - Photos From The Triangle Factory Fire (1911)
CITY LIFE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
OUTLINE: The Rise of the American City
Five Points: nineteenth-century New York neighborhood
Tenement Museum: New York City 1870-1920
MOVING UPTOWN: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan
City Life in the Late 19th Century
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis
Urban Experience In Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
19th century Fashion - more sites available on my Fashion History page.
Health and Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth Century Social Dance
Memories of Pantall-Martin Store
Martin's Gen'L Store - Home Page
The Lost Museum - Introduction
RURAL LIFE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Agrarian Distress and the Rise of Populism
AGRICULTURAL DISCONTENT & the THE POPULIST MOVEMENT
Daily Rual Work for a 19th Century Man
Rural Life in the United States
Excerpts from 'Marvels of the New West'. - Guide to Illustrations
Little House in the Census: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder
IMAGES: Farming the Land - 1880-1920
IMAGES: Settling the Land - 1880-1920
PBS ONLINE: DEATH OF THE DREAM
BEGINNINGS OF THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
Liquor Control, Temperance, and Prohibition
WOMEN IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Housework in Late 19th Century America
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-1940
Browse Document Projects by Date, Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
Women's Work in the 19th Century
Mothers and Uncle Tom: Motherhood from 1830 - 1870
Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice - See how Parent's advice to their children has changed over the years.
Victoriana Library, Harper's Bazar, Vanderbilt Trousseau
Victoriana Study Center, Harper's Bazar Magazine
Victorian and Edwardian Photographs- Costume Research Library
Godey's Lady's Book Online Home Page - 19th Century Women's Magazine
MISC. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TOPICS
FRBSF Currency Exhibit: Industrial Revolution, First True National Currency
The Industrial Revolution and Transportation (1800-1870)
American Experience | Transcontinental Railroad - much more below in own section.
Nineteenth-century Regional Writing in the United States
Responses to Death in Nineteenth Century America
Digital History - Food in America
Welcome to Dime Novels - the pulp fiction of the 19th century.
Daze of Our Lives - 19th century humor, sort of.
From Travel to Tourism - people start going on vacation!!!
Progress & Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions
Yale Professor William Graham Sumner Prescribes Laissez-Faire for Depression
THE INCORPORATION OF AMERICA: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE GILDED AGE
19TH CENTURY INVENTION & SCIENCE
Industrial Revolution Inventors Chart
Google Patents - search historic patents
American Inventors and Inventions
BBC - History - Industrialisation - Industry and Invention
19th Century SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Online
America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
The American Experience | Edison's Miracle of LIght
Edison National Historic Site - Sounds - Home Page
TELEGRAPH, SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT & RADIO MUSEUMS
Tribute to the Telephone Home Page
Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
Launch Pad for Bell's Path to the Telephone
The American Experience/The Telephone
The American Experience | George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography
History House: Eugenics Part I: You Can’t Keep a Good Idiot Down
History House: Eugenics Part II: License to Breed
RAILROADS!!!
TIMELINE: Transcontinental Railroads
MAP: Railways of Southern States During the Civil War
The History of the First Locomotives in America
Railroads in the Late 19th Century
British Railways in the 19th Century
American Experience | Transcontinental Railroad
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Transportation History
Transcontinental Railroad - Driving the Last Spike
The Great Train Robbery of 1870, the first train robbery.
Robber Barons: Jay Gould, James Fisk, & Daniel Drew
George Pullman - 1894: Pullman Strike, The Pullman Strike, THE PULLMAN STRIKE: ITS CAUSES AND EVENTS
1877: Grand Army of Starvation - Railroad Strike
National Railroad Museum Home Page
The National Railway Museum of Britain
Jerry's Railroad Photo Album - Photo Archive
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
J. L. Toth Historic Railroads and Railroad Museums List
The American Experience/The Iron Road
KatyRailroad.org / Katy Railroad Historical Society
United Pacific Rail Road-History & Photos
A Harvey House Home Page: Hotels, Lunchrooms, Restaurants in the Old West
Fred Harvey Collection Exhibit - Welcome
The Industrial Revolution and Transportation (1800-1870)
Transcontinental Railroad Pictures and Exhibits - History
CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
The Great Railroad Race - Transcontinental Railroad Interactive Railroad Project
THE GILDED AGE - the term coined by Mark Twain
TIMELINE: Gilded Age - From Frontier to Factory 1845-1916
MAP: Territorial Growth of the United States by 1900
Academic Info: U.S. History - Modern America: Gilded Age
The Emergence of Modern America Virtual Library
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
History of the 19th Century in Political Cartoons
William McKinley in Political Cartoons
The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption
The Ten Major Characteristics of Republican During the Gilded Age
United States History: The Gilded Age (1890) to World War I
"Agricultural Problems and Gilded Age Politics"
The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
Reconstruction & the Gilded Age
Immigration in the Guilded Age and Progressive Era
1896 Presidential election: Cartoons & Commentary
Victoriana Library, Calling Card Etiquette
THE INCORPORATION OF AMERICA: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE GILDED AGE
Reconstruction, The Gilded Age, Progressivism & Imperialism
Welcome to Dime Novels - the pulp fiction of the 19th century.