Useful Links for the Course
If you come across a useful web site, please e-mail the address to me and I will post it for
the benefit of all students in the course. marguello@palomar.edu
Timelines
The Century Timeline on the History Channel (click on "Choose a Decade")
20th: The Passing of a Century
Yahoo - US History Everyone should review this site.
Cycles of US History - 1943 to Present
US History - History 102 - University of Wisconsin
A great collection of links to related web sites. Check in particular the "Hitchhiker's
Guide to American History"
General 1865-1915
Britannica.com For biographical information
Encarta Also for biographical information.
American Memory (Library of Congress) A rich source of photos, movies, and
audio recordings
The West (PBS) Good timeline and biographical information, as well as graphics.
The Coinage Act of 1873 "The Crime of 1873"
Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech
African American Perspectives (Library of Congress)
1912: Issues of the Presidential Election
1915: San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition
John D. Rockefeller & Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell: The History of the Standard Oil Company
A Great Monopoly A very useful link to the magazine The Atlantic Monthly, with
comparisons of monopolies, past and present, that is, Standard Oil vs Microsoft.
Check out the article from 1881 by the muckraker Henry Demarest Lloyd.
John D. Rockefeller & Standard Oil Company
Urban Issues
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
A History of American Sweatshops
On the Lower East Side - New York Tenements
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt: "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
Theodore Roosevelt: "The New Nationalism" (1910)
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film (Library of Congress)
Theodore Roosevelt on Political Campaign Contributions (1892)
Conservation
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement (Library of Congress)
Imperialism
Make the Dirt Fly! - The Panama Canal
Anti-Imperialism in the United States
The Spanish American War in Motion Pictures (Library of Congress)
Irrigation
Cadillac Desert Link to "Mulholland's Dream"
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
1930s - 1990s
American Photography: A Century of Images
The American Experience: Featured Presidents - FDR, Truman, Eisenhower,
The 1930s
American Visions: Streamlines and Breadlines Art & Architecture of the 1930s
Federal Theatre Project 1935 - 1939 (American Memory - Library of Congress)
American Experience: Riding the Rails
Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood
America from the Great Depression to World War II (American Memory)
American Life Histories: Federal Writers' Project
Voices from the Dust Bowl (American Memory)
The 1940s
Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights (American Memory)
The War Page: World War II Thanks for the source, Lynn!
Washington DC As It Was (American Memory)
The 1960s
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis National Security Archive site
The Cuban Missile Crisis C-SPAN site
The Civil Rights Movement
Malcolm X - Compton's Encyclopedia
Malcolm X: A Research Site (University of Toledo)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Seattle Times)
Vietnam
Books on the Vietnam War - First Chapters:
Ward Just, To What End
Robert S. McNamara, Argument Without End
Jeffrey Record, The Wrong War
The 1990s
The Gulf War
Midterm Exam (Spring 2000)
Final Exam (Spring 2000)
News on the Research Paper Assignment (Spring 2000)
Over Spring Break, select a research topic and consult the section on
"How to Research a History Topic" in A Student's Guide to History
in the History Research Room of the web site for The American Promise
Suggested Topics for Research Assignment
For questions regarding Footnotes and Bibliography, refer to:
Part V. Documenting Your Paper: Citing Sources, in the section "How to
Write a Research Paper" of A Student's Guide to History