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SOCIAL STUDIES: AMERICAN STUDIES: 1910-1919 - Accurate as of May 2005
Information on major events happening from 1910-1919. Overlaps with some of the info discussed in the time period 1900-1909. Additional information on Babe Ruth and the Titanic.
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Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Images of 7,000 ads printed in the US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955; subject areas are radio, TV, transportation, beauty & hygiene, World War II
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
BabeRuth.com
http://www.baberuth.com/
Biography, photographs, statistics, links
Dismuke’s Virtual Talking Machine
http://www.dismuke.org/
Streaming RealAudio recordings of the late 19 th and early 20 th century music
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
Influenza 1918
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza
Victims, letters, photos, maps, timeline, and more
Influenza Epidemic of 1918
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/influenzaepidemic/index.htm
Links to all kinds of information on this disastrous flu
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/trfhome.html
104 short films about his life
The Titanic
http://www.discovery.com/guides/history/titanic/Titanic/titanic.html?00000
Interactive voyage throughout the Titanic
The Triangle Factory Fire: March 25, 1911
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
Documents, photographs, audio clips and secondary sources
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 US , 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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