What are the most important words or ideas for your topic or research question? Spend 3-5 minutes brainstorming synonyms or other possible words or phrases that people might use to discuss your topic. Write down as many words as you can before you start searching the databases. Use Google to help if you can't think of any synonyms! 

• Industrial Era Age of Industry Industrial Revolution Industrial development

• Gilded Age Progressive Era  (together = approx. 1870-1918) also called Age of Reform

• cause effect affect change improve

• automation mechanization development industrialization strategies

• Invention idea technology advancement machine

• mass production factory manufacturing

• Economy economic growth

• record player phonograph Victrola radio broadcast "the wireless"

• business businessmen entrepreneurs monopolies "robber barons" "Captains of Industry"

• urban urbanization

• mail order catalog Sears Roebuck

• steam steel iron mining coal mining/mines

• Black towns black townships black settlements All Black towns freedmen freedmen's bureau free Boley, OK Nicodemus, KS Greenwood (Tulsa), OK  *other names of specific towns* "Great Migration" migrate West

Try different combinations of your keywords in the search box in each database. You'll get different results, so experiment with your keywords. Enter your keywords in the search box. All your results will show in a list. You can narrow down your search further by selecting a document type, publication title, or subject using the menus on the right side of your results.

Login Note: Many of these are Douglas County Library databases. If you are not on campus, you will need a library card number to log in. 

Gale Databases (eBooks, Biography in Context, Science in Context)

Search: type your keywords in the search box.

Your results will be organized into categories:

• References: reference books (or chapters/sections of books)

• Academic Journals: articles from specialized scholarly journals; usually highly reliable for research

• Primary Sources

• Images

• Biographies

• Statistical Resources

• Magazines: full text articles from popular magazines

• Newspapers: full text articles from newspapers with multiple perspectives

After you click on a result, LOOK at the right side of the screen for similar articles/chapters and other keyword ideas.

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eBooks Tips:

• The title in blue at the top of the pag3 is the book you are looking at. You're actually looking at a chapter or section in that book that matches your search results. 

• If you click on the blue title, you can see the entire book. 

• Check the table of contents or index to see if other sections of this book have the information you need. Just click to go straight to the section or page you want!

American History Online (and the other Infobase history databases): 

Categorizes search results by Articles, Primary Sources, Images, Videos, and News. Look at the tags on articles to find new keywords and search ideas. 

SAVE your results to NOODLETOOLS. Then email yourself the article, or download it and upload it to your Google Drive. (Do NOT use the URL to save your results!)

(Save to Google Drive button doesn't work very well here--try it out, but test it to see if it works before you move on.)

List of Social Studies websites: TRHS Library

List of Government websites: TRHS Library

American Enterprise Exhibition - Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Many artifacts, images and other primary sources with descriptions of business in the US from the 1770s to now.

Industrial Revolution: Primary sources at the Library of Congress

The Gilded Age: Overview and stories about technology, daily life, suffrage, and more at Library of Congress

The Gilded Age: Primary Sources at Digital History Univ. of Houston  (use the tabs across the top to navigate)

The Gilded Age: short videos from Khan Academy

The Gilded Age: search on PBS, many articles. Use the search bar to find more topics

Politics in the Gilded Age (PDF)

Robber Barons (Captains of Industry)

Robber Barons: Britannica

Andrew Carnegie: PBS series of articles

The Rockefellers: PBS series of articles

All-Black Towns

All-Black Towns in Oklahoma : Oklahoma Historical Society

All-Black Towns: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
All-black towns across America: Life was hard but full of promise: Washington Post
Founded by Former Slaves, Oklahoma’s All-Black Towns Struggle to Survive: (video) Voice of America

Photos: The 13 historic all-Black towns that remain in Oklahoma: Tulsa World

Texas Freedom Colonies Project

Seneca Village: Smithsonian Magazine

Suffrage

A scrap of suffrage history: National Museum of American History

National Women's History Museum: bios of Jane Addams, Florence Kelly, and information about the suffrage movement.

Technology

Charles Babbage Page, (1791-1871) [At Exeter University]  Babbage was a major pioneer in computing

How Electric Refrigeration Shaped the "Cold Chain": 

Keeping your (food) cool: From ice harvesting to electric refrigeration: National Museum of American History

Smithsonian Bicycle Collection: National Museum of American History

Electric Streetcar:  Encyclopedia Britannica

What did 1889 sound like? National Museum of American History

Bumping into new technologies: Hey, that's not what a light bulb is supposed to look like!: National Museum of American History

The Lives of Workers

• • Childhood Lost: Child Labor during the Industrial Revolution

  • Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794, excerpts

  • The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England [At Victorian Web]

  • Edwin Chadwick (1803-1890): Report on Sanitary Conditions, 1842 [At Victorian Web]

  • Women Miners in the English Coal Pits, 1842 

  • Texts on the Physical Effects of Factory Work [At Victorian Web]

  • Harret Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls, 1834-1848 

  • History of the American Steel Industry and its People - click the links for photos and other primary sources from steel workers and their families

Urban Life: New Social Classes

• • The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 

  • Friedrich Engels: Industrial Manchester, 1844, excerpts
    From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844.

  • Andrew Ure (1778-1857): The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835, excerpts 

Social Reformism

• • Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): Rural Hygiene 

The Process of Industrialization

• Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization,

• Spread of Railways in Europe 

The Revolution in Power

• A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine by  Robert H. Thurston, 1878
  Full texts of many books on the history of the Steam Engine. A splendid resource.

• The London Museum of Water and Steam [In the UK]

• Richard Guest: Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture, 1823, excerpts
  On the application of steam power to cotton looms and the social effects.

• William Radcliffe: Origin of...Power Loom Weaving, 1828, excerpts
  On the application of steam power to cotton looms.

• Leeds Cloth Merchants' Letter, 1791 Defending machinery.

Mining

• Coal Mining and Labor Conflict

• The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century

• Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

• The Gold Rush and Westward Expansion - Smithsonian

• The Anthracite Coal Strike

• Workers and Managers - Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Great source for visual aids: photos and artifacts 

• History - Mine Safety and Health Administration

• What You Probably Didn’t Know About the Role of Black Miners in U.S. History

• West Virginia Humanities Council: "African American Coal Miners"

• The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums: "African Americans in the Lead Mining District"

• Wyoming Historical Society: "The Forgotten Town of Dana, Wyoming: A Story of Black Legacy and Miners' Rights"

• The Mining Industry in Colorado

Steam Ships

• • Line of American Packets Between New York and Liverpool, Evening Post, New York, October 27, 1817 [At AMDOCS] Not steam ships, but an indication of the growth of a market.

  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859): The S.S. Great Britain, 1839 [At History UK] The first ocean-going steam propeller ship.

  • Two Steamboat Disasters at a Time, The U.S. Nautical Magazine and Naval Journal Vol. IV (1855), p 259. [At AMDOCS]

Culture

• The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

• America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 to 1915

• Industrial Revolution - National Gallery of Art