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  SOCIAL STUDIES: AMERICAN STUDIES: 1900-1909 - Accurate as of May 2005
Information on America from 1900-1909. Includes links on Ellis Island as well as sheet music and recordings from the time period.

 
  America 1900
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/
Documents and images are used to help us understand this time period and how it relates to our lives today

Anti-Saloon League: 1893-1933
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon
In-depth history of group’s struggle to win approval of national prohibition

Dismuke’s Virtual Talking Machine
http://www.dismuke.org/
Streaming RealAudio recordings of music from 1900 to 1939

Ellis Island
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/gateway/intro.html
All kinds of information on this site

EllisIslandRecords.com
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org
Immigrant names, ages, nationalities, hometown, and other information

Emergence of Advertising in America : 1850-1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
Illustrates the rise of consumer culture and the birth of the advertising industry in the United States

First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
Search by keyword or browse by subject, author, or title index to find the etexts

Historic American sheet Music
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
Digital images of sheet music published between 1850 and 1920; searchable and browsable in a variety of ways

Tinfoil.com
http://www.tinfoil.com
Music of the early 20 th century recorded on wax cylinder recordings

United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1900 to 1960; searchable by several variables

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1775-2000
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Editorial projects by students at SUNY that pose an interpretative question and provide a collection of 550 documents and 100 images that address the question.




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