Political The Presidential Campaign: Cartoons & Commentary Hague Conventions The Avalon Project: Peace Conference at the Hague 1899 The Illinois Labor History Society Populism

Technology

• The Quadricyle: Henry Ford's First Car
• History of the Electric Car
• The Escalator Patent
• Escalator with Coin Guides: U.S. Patent 5876275

 Economics

• The Pullman Strike
• The Encyclopedia of Chicago: The Pullman Strike
• Gold Fever: Alaska 1898
• Alaska's Gold
• As Precious as Gold: Stories from the Gold Rush

Intellectual  & Cultural Life

• Turner:  The Frontier in American History
• The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair, 1893
• Gentleman's Page: A Practical Guide for the 19th Century American Man
• American History and Art from New England
• CitySites: Multimedia Essays of New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s
• Welcome to the Crystal City: 1890's in Bowling Green Ohio
• R.F. Outcault, the Father of the American Sunday Comics, and the truth about the Creation of the Yellow Kid
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
• The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement

Social Problems

• How the Other Half Lives
• Anti-Saloon League  1893-1933
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum Virtual Tour
• Chinese Exclusion (1898)
• A Historical Investigation into the Past: Lizzie Bordon/Fall River Case Study

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