Historical
photo sets |
1.
A growing
concern for America's workers 2. Labor unions in the Gilded Age 3. The Homestead steel mill strike 4. Women's voting rights 5. The temperance movement |
| History
food feature |
How hot dogs
became an American favorite |
| Videos
and Internet sites  Students: Check with your parents for permission before visiting Internet links. |
Workplace safety -
1865 to 1920 (a short video about
workplace safety reform efforts) Life in a steel mill town (This is from a famous 1939 documentary titled The City. Watch from 4:50 to 9:40, the part of the film that shows a steel mill town. The points the narrator makes in this clip, and all through the film, show that social reform ideas were still very much alive.) School House Rock: Sufferin' Till Suffrage (this fun video explains in song and pictures how women won the right to vote. "Suffrage" means the right to vote.) |
| Consider also: | America:
The Story of Us TV
mini-series, Episode 7, "Cities," has good segments about
Jacob Riis' efforts to improve conditions in tenement neighborhoods in
New York City, and about the Triangle Factory fire in 1911. This
widely
praised production originally ran on the History Channel. Less
than $20 on Amazon for the 3 DVD set. Masses and Millionaires: The Homestead Strike (DVD, 26 min., The Phoenix Learning Group) is a good dramatization of the famous strike at a Carnegie steel mill in 1892. (Consider skipping the opening scene at a zoo, however, and start instead with the deadly accident in the steel mill to get students right into story.) Dear America: So Far From Home Students love this well done dramatization of the story an Irish immigrant girl who takes a job in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts. It's available on VHS from Amazon sellers (click on "See All Buying Options"), or as a digital video purchase, also on Amazon. |