| Historical
photo sets for this topic  |
1. Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal 2. A bigger role for the U.S. in world affairs 3. Theodore Roosevelt and the Teddy Bear 4. Henry Ford and the Model T automobile 5. The Wright Brothers invent the first airplane 6. The fight against monopolies 7. Mother Jones - the Miners' Angel 8. The fight against racial segregation |
| History
food feature |
Pasteurized
milk - a Progressive Era success story |
| Videos
and Internet sites  Students: Check with your parents for permission before visiting Internet links. |
Industry
and inventors - early 1900s
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segment from The Century: America's Time - Seeds of Change (1 of
3). Watch from 8:00 to 14:59. American life - early 1900s (a short video with scenes of American life, rural and urban) The Model T automobile (a short video that shows the Model T in production and on the road in the early 1900s) The Wright brothers' airplane (a short video of one of the Wright brothers' airplanes, a few years after their first airplane flew successfully in 1903) Workplace safety - 1865 to 1920 (a short video about workplace safety reform efforts in the Progressive Era) Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children (a short video about the famous 1903 march for better laws against child labor, which was a key goal of Progressives) 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 Progressive Movement ideas were still very much alive.) Music: The Entertainer (the famous piano music in the style called ragtime, by African American composer Scott Joplin) |
| Also consider: | 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. This widely
praised production originally ran on the History Channel. Less
than $20 on Amazon for the 3 DVD set. Dear America: Dreams in a Golden Country Students really enjoy this dramatization of a family of Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City in 1903. You can quibble over some historical details, but the overall lesson of the story is very good. Available from Amazon sellers on VHS tape (Click on "See All Buying Options,"), or as a digital video purchase, also on Amazon. |