Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest, 2007
Regional Learning Project, University of Montana
Web Resources
Unit Two: The Early Twentieth Century
General
U.S. History Timeline, Animated Atlas by Peter Mays
A detailed timeline of United States history from 1776 to the present, including
information on states and territories, wars, presidents, society, science, culture,
Native Americans, as well as what was going on in the world at the same time. A
great resource to which details of regional history could be added.
http://www.animatedatlas.com/timeline.html
Go to the Movies.
A searchable database of early silent movies by catagory and topic, as well as
information on how to watch them and their historical context.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~sbrennan/Progressives/movies.html
Week 6
After the Treaties: Administering Pacific Northwest Indian Reservations,
Robert E. Ficken, Oregon Historical Quarterly
This section of the History Cooperative website contains an essay on the
governmental administration of the reservations, including photographs and
sources.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/106.3/ficken.html
Edward Curtis in Context, American Memory, Library of Congress
Contains details of Curtis’ life and relationship to American Indians, as well as a
timeline, photographs, and maps.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/special.html
U.S. History and Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic
Images. Teacher resources from The Learning Page, Library of Congress,
including Curtis’ photographs and information on the Indians he photographed.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/curtis/history.html
The Myth of the Vanishing Race, essay by David R.M. Beck, U of Mt, 2001
An essay on the belief that Indians were going to vanish as they either died away
or assimilated into mainstream American life and the effects this belief had on
policy.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/essay2.html
Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian, Northwestern University’s
Digital Library Collections
A wonderful, searchable database of Curtis photographs.
http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/
Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest, 2007
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To the Totem Forests: Emily Carr and Contemporaries Interpret Coastal
Villages
The website for an exhibition of artists who created images of totem poles, with
historical information and bibliography.
http://www.emilycarr.org/totems/contents.htm
Evelyn Cameron, Frontier Photographer, Evelyn Cameron Foundation
Biographical information and photographs of and by Cameron.
http://www.evelyncameron.com/
Evelyn Cameron, Photographer, PBS
PBS video you can watch online (enter title in search window; play video).
American Field Guide site.
http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/index.html
Progressive Era History Resources
Links categorically by era/topic for 1890s – 1920s, from the IWW to women’s
suffrage.
http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/progressive.html
Political Cartoons of the Early 1900s, the Authentic History Center – Primary
Sources from American Popular Culture. Cartoons depicting American foreign
and domestic policy, political figures, and social issues.
http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1900s/cartoons/1900s_cartoons01.html
Woodrow Wilson, President of The United States, "Address to American
Indians, 1913”
Biography of Wilson, the text of his speech, and photographs.
http://www.authentichistory.com/1900s/speeches/1913_Woodrow_Wilson_to_Am
erican_Indians.html
Progressive Era: America’s Story from America’s Library, the Library of
Congress
A wealth of information on the Progressive Era, from sports personalities, artists,
musicians, and political figures to events, movements and causes of the time.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929. The Learning Page, American
Memory, LOC
Information, images and documents on politics, automobiles, and WWI, as well
as many classroom activities.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/progress.html
Progressive Era page, with categorical links to: Muckrakers, Social
Reformers, Political Reformers
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Links to websites containing information on many important Progressives and
reformers.
http://www.westirondequoit.org/ihs/library/prog2.htm
Teaching With Documents: Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism
and the Election of 1912. NARA
Lesson and activity ideas on the Progressive era and the use of political cartoons
as historical documents.
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/election-cartoons/
Learn About the Progressive Era. Digital History
Information on the Progressives and lesson plans on the time period, many using
primary documents.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/index.cfm
Panoramic Photographs, LOC
Photographs of “big” events and groups, including natural disasters, beauty
pageants, and more. 1851-1991.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/
Bio of Bill Cody (also find a bio of Annie Oakley here)
Biographical essay on Cody with links to bios of other Western figures, Western
artists, and aspects of Cody's Wild West Show.
http://www.bbhc.org/bbm/biographyBB.cfm
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Posters
A wonderful collection of posters advertising the Wild West Show.
http://www.bbhc.org/bbm/collections.cfm
Wanamaker Collection of Photographs of American Indians
A searchable database of the Indian photographs of Joseph Dixon, with images
of over 150 tribes from across the United States.
http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/collections/photos/wanamake.html
Inaugurating the National American Indian Memorial, American Journey,
Thomson Higher Education.
Worksheet designed to stimulate critical thinking questions about Indian
education.
http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/ext/aj/pages/aj16.html
Reading Photographs, from the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana
University
Teacher's guide to the Dixon photographs, including ideas on how to use them in
the classroom and how to encourage students to think critically about historical
photographs.
http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/collections/photos/reading.html
Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest, 2007
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Teaching with Objects and Photographs, from the Mathers Museum of World
Cultures, Indiana University
Teacher resources for using photographs in the classroom, including guides and
worksheets.
http://www.iub.edu/~mathers/edu/top_index.html
Week 7
Northern Pacific Railroad’s “Wonderland” advertising campaign.
A collection of images and information on this campaign, which ran from 1884 to
1914.
http://www.sharinghistory.com/RR4.htm
The Discovery of Yellowstone Park, by Nathaniel Pitt Langford. Gutenberg
Project.
Read Langford’s journal text with images of the exploration and the people
involved.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11145/11145-h/11145-h.htm
William Henry Jackson
Information on the famous photographer who helped start the national parks
system.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/touring/detjack.html
George Bird Grinnell - Obituary notice by John P. Holman, Journal of
Mammalogy, 1938 American Society of Mammalogists
The obituary of George Grinnell, including biographical information and career.
http://www.jstor.org/view/00222372/ap050076/05a00210/0?frame=noframe&user
ID=96834895@umt.edu/01cce4406300501b5cedc&dpi=3&config=jstor
George Bird Grinnell, Father of American Conservation, Bugle, 2004
Article from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, including photographs, on
Grinnell’s life and legacy.
http://www.rmef.org/NewsandMedia/PubsTV/Bugle/2004/NovDec/Features/Grinn
ell.htm
Blackfoot Indian Stories, by George Bird Grinnell. Project Gutenberg eBook
The book by Grinnell depicting the traditions and myths of the Blackfeet.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13833/13833-h/13833-h.htm
Glacier Park History, American Park Network
Information on the history of the park from before contact to the present with
special emphasis on the place of the Blackfeet in the park.
http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/content.asp?catid=85&contenttyp
eid=37
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Great Northern Railway
The history of the railroad, as well as primary documents, from photographs to
menus and timetables.
http://www.gngoat.org/
Yellowstone’s Creation Myth, Paul Schullery, Montana: The Magazine of
Western History.
Essay on the value of the creation myth.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200304/ai_n9181338
Week 8
Rufus Woods, Wenatchee, and the Columbia Basin Reclamation Vision,
Robert E. Ficken
Article on the “civic improvement” of the Columbia Basin, the environmental
issues, and infrastructure developments. Includes photographs and maps.
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/PNQ Files/Sample
Articles/Ficken.html
History, Reclamation in the Pacific Northwest
Information on the homesteading of the West, including photographs, as well as
sections on dam building.
http://www.usbr.gov/pn/about/history/vale.html
Reclamation Photograph Database, US Dept of the Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation
A searchable database of photographs of dams, water usage, and reclamation.
http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g5000/photolab/photostart.cfm
Rediscovering Montana: The Expedition to 1910, by Katherine Mitchell
Montana Heritage Project
http://www.edheritage.org/HE_03win/1910.html
1872 Montgomery Ward-First Mail-Order House, Chicago Public Library
Information on the rise of Montgomery Ward' mail order business, including
bibliography
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/mtgmryward.html
Aaron Montgomery Ward, by John H. Lienhard, Engines of Our Ingenuity
Brief history of the man and the company.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1641.htm
Selected Bibliography: Mail-Order Catalogues and Cultural History by
Christina Bates. Canadian Museum of Civilization, March 2000.
http://www.civilization.ca/academ/bibgrph/cataloge.html
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Week 9
Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Genius, Viewzone.com
http://www.mondovista.com/tesla.html
The New Wizard of the West, Pearson's Magazine, May 1899
Article on Tesla from1899, including pictures of his inventions.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/tesla/tesla.htm
Nikola Tesla:Prominent Inventor, Electrical Engineer, and Scientist
Biography and career information on Tesla, as well as images and explanations
of the science he worked in.
http://www.patent-invent.com/electricity/inventors/nikola_tesla.html
Tesla: Life and Legacy. PBS
Information and images on Tesla’s inventions and ideas, as well as teacher
resources for discussing Tesla in the classroom.
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/
Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World
Two videos on Tesla’s life, including discussions of the science involved, his life,
the inventions, and his vision for the future.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=956328325858405664
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1006564101002301664
PBS Technology timeline
Timelines of technological inventions, including images.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/f_timeline.html
PBS gallery of 10 phones through history
Images of phones throughout the 20th century, as well as biographical
information on important inventors and their work. Includes a teacher’s guide.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/gallery/gallery1.html
ATT – 1st continental phone call
Article on the first continental phone call. This website also has information on
technological development throughout the 20th century.
http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/15tel.html
Telephone History Series, Privateline.com: Telephone History
History of the development of the phone and the science involved.
http://www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory/History1.htm
Telephones in the Montana Forest Service, Privateline.com: Telephone
History
Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest, 2007
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Images and information about the use of phones in the forest service.
http://www.privateline.com/Forest/foreststation.html
Engines of our Ingenuity, Learning Electricity, by John Lienhard . Essay on
early electricity and telephones, including a picture of a 1910 telephone
exchange in New York City and electrical wires across the city. This website has
many other pages on important events, developments, and people in the early
20th century.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1640.htm
The American Indian in the Great War: Real and Imagined, by
Diane Camurat
Essay on Indian involvement in the war and the government policies.
http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/Cmrts/Cmrt6.html
American Indians in World War I
Bibliographic references on Indian involvement and life during the war.
http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/h-amindian/bibs/wwi.html
Week 10
Seattle General Strike Project, a Pacific Northwest Labor History Project by
James Gregory and sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at
the University of Washington.
Information on the strike, including images, video, and links to related articles.
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/
A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers.
Sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society
Lesson plans, handouts, and documents to help you teach labor history.
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/curricul.htm
The Centralia Massacre, University of Washington Libraries
Essay on the massacre and a searchable database of primary documents
relating to labor history in Washington. Includes an online and text bibliography.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/iwwweb/read.html
When Toil Meant Trouble: Butte's Labor Heritage, by George Everett
Essay on early labor history in Butte, pictures, timeline, and map of historically
significant places in the city.
http://www.butteamerica.com/labor.htm
American Labor Studies Center
With history, images, songs, and lesson plans on labor history.
http://www.labor-studies.org/index.htm
and audio files
Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest, 2007
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http://www.labor-studies.org/labor_songs.htm
Pacific Northwest Labor History Photographs, from MOHAI (Museum of
History and Industry) Digital Archives
Searchable database of labor related photographs.
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/laborphotos/
Child Labor in America 1908-1912, Photographs of Lewis W. Hine. The
History Place.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. IV, Laws (Compiled to March 4, 1927)
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing
Office, 1929.
Selections from government documents relating to Indian citizenship.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/vol4/html_files/v4p1165.html
The Demise of the Ongwehoweh and the Rise of the Native Americans:
Redressing the Genocidal Act of Forcing American Citizenship upon
Indigenous Peoples, 15 Harv. BlackLetter L.J. 107-183 (1999), by Robert B.
Porter.
Essay on citizenship issues. This website also has links to information on Indiangovernment relations throughout American history.
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/native02.htm
Declaration of Allegiance to the Government of the United States, by
the North American Indians
The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums.
http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/decfrm.html
June 2, 1924: Indians become U.S. citizens today.
Native News Online
Essay on the Citizenship Act of 1924.
http://nativenewsonline.org/history/hist0602.html
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, Wikipedia
History of the act, including images and links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act_of_1924
1924 Indian Citizenship Act, Nebraskastudies.org
Information on the act, including photographs and classroom activities
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskast
udies.org/0700/stories/0701_0146.html
Cody and Wanamaker: The Foundation of American Indian Citizenship,
article by Katrina Krupicka
Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest, 2007
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An essay on the connection between W. F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Dr. Joseph K.
Dixon, and Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, and their influence on Indian Citizenship.
http://www.bbhc.org/pointsWest/PWArticle.cfm?ArticleID=149