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Good Starting Points
Progressivism: Primary Sources on Sinclair, Steffens, and others
History Teacher.NET: EXCELLENT SOURCE!!!
National Women's Hall of Fame
Progressive Era Link page
Spartacus Biographies
Distinguished Women
Women in American History
Progressive Era Resources
Progressivism Links
Gilder Lehrman Online
Progressivism
Progressive Reform
Great links
Brainbridge Tutor
 

City Conditions
On the Lower East Side: Primary Sources

Nellie Bly:
PBS: Around the World in 72 Days
Brief bio from women's hall of fame:
Nellie Bly family page

Jacob Riis:
Text of his writings:
Bio & images from the MCNY:
Life "Hero of the Week" profile:
Masters of Photography:
How the Other Half Lives: entire text

Jane Addams:
Hull House Museum Page (excellent!)
Good biography
"Why Women Should Vote"
 

Lawrence Veiller
Tenement House Exhibition, 1899
Document on Zoning plans
Homes of New Haven: findings in tenements
New York's New Building Code:

African American Rights

Ida B. Wells:
PBS Series:
Bio:
Passion for Justice:
Detailed Bio:
Another great bio:
Primary Source: Southern Horrors

Mary Church Terrell
A brief bio:
Voices from the Gaps:
A good bio:
Speech (Primary Source):

Homer Plessy
Separate but Equal:
Bio from Af-Am Almanac:
Plessy v. Fergesun:
Text of the case:

W.E.B. DuBois
A detailed bio:
Links – and tons of them!

Booker T. Washington
His writings
Bio:
 

Child Labor
Child Labor in the mines

Lewis Hine
Masters of Photography:
The History Place: Hine's Photos
Biography
Another Bio

Florence Kelley
Spartacus Bio
Sweatshop Reform
Primary Sources
"A Woman of Fierce Fidelity"

Mary Harris Jones
Bio from Mother Jones Magazine:
Great quotes from her:
Biography:
Autobiography:

John Spargo
"Bitter Cry of Children" Primary Source
Campaign vs Child Labor:

Education

John Dewey
Spartacus bio
Biography:
John Dewey Links:

Horace Mann
A detailed bio:
Primary source:
Giants of Education:

Prohibition / Temperance

Carry Nation
Carry Nation's Hammer:
Biography:
"She Carried a Nation"

Frances Willard
Bio, speeches, etc.
Speech to convention:
Biography:
 

Food and Drug Regulations
"Tainted Food and Fake Drugs"
Lost Men of American History

Harvey Wiley:
Bio & pics at Purdue:
Bio & his grave:
Bio:

Samuel Hopkins Adams:
Great American Fraud: Primary Source
Vanderbilt Medical Center: A good article
Scientific Detection: bio
 

Upton Sinclair
Bio & bibliography:
The Jungle: Digital Text
Upton Sinclair Links:
 

Women's Suffrage

Seeking the Right to Vote:
Votes for Women:
Primary Source Letters:

Alice Paul
About.com bio:
Fight For Suffrage:

Carrie Chapman Catt
Bio from LOC:
Carrie Catt homepage:
Bio:
Quotes:

Emma Goldman:
A Good Info Page
bio
Archive of writings and her life
full biography
quotes

Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony House:
Susan B. Anthony Page:
Stanton & Anthony papers:
 

Political Reform

David Graham Phillips
Impact, from US Senate:
"Treason of the Senate"
Primary Source:

Lincoln Steffens
Spartacus Bio:
Pittsburgh: A City Ashamed
Enemies of the Republic:
Essay about politics
:
Robert LaFollette
Bio:
LaFollette for Prez:
speech:
Related Links:
"Fighting Bob"

Institution Reform

Annie Laurie (Winifred Sweet Black):
PBS Series:
Brief Bio:

Working Conditions

Alice Hamilton
A brief bio
Chem.Achievers:
Summary / bio:
Some excerpts:

William “Big Bill” Haywood
New Perspectives on the West
biography
primary source
Reuther Library IWW collection
PBS bio

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
PBS Bio
Rebel Girl
primary source:
more primary sources:
the Rebel Girl

Bessie & Marie Van Vorst
Wearing Class – essay:
 

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