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The first anti-imperialist organizations formed to oppose U.S. territorial and economic imperialism are introduced with essays, primary documents and contemporary cartoons and photographs from the Spanish-American War to the occupations of Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Nicaragua.

Lewis and Clark, the companion Web site to the Ken Burns film, 'Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery.' ...

The Discovering Lewis and Clark archive is a collection of research, stories, maps, multimedia, and cultural comparisons about the Corps of Discovery. This is a legacy web site focusing on persistent issues, core values, and changing visions from the decade of the expedition and the intervening 200 years.

The Autry is devoted to preserving and interpreting the rich history and traditions of the American West. With one of the most comprehensive collections of western history and art, its seven permanent galleries and special exhibitions offer material gathered from the many cultures and events that have shaped the legacy of this vast region.

The History and Development of the American West. Cowboys and Indians, Cody, western information, western products ...

The Overland Trail was established in 1862 by Ben Holladay, the Overland Trail went from Julesburg, Co to Ham's Fork, Wy. Pages describe the route, stations and landmarks, personalities, with many links to other western sites.

The Wild West, learn about American culture in the days of the old west and read about famous cowboys, lawmen and criminals as well as famous American Indians and their life at that time.

African-American Women On-line Archival Collections Special Collections Library, Duke University Elizabeth Johnson Harris: Life Story Elizabeth Johnson Harris was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1867 to parents who had been slaves. Her 85 page handwritten memoir provides glimpses of her early childhood, of race relations, of her own ambivalence about her place as an African-American in society, and ...

Central Pacific Railroad construction in the 1860's. Stereoviews, engravings, maps, and documents are treasures of western Americana that illustrate the history of the first transcontinental railroad, built from Sacramento, California over the Sierra Nevada mountains, the to end of track at the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory, Utah where the rails were joined on May 10, 1869 with the Union ...

A collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history. Categories include Western ancient peoples, Western Native Americans, Western Spanish borderlands, the Canadian West, European empires and expansion in the West, Western environment, Western spaces, the Frontier, women in the West, gender and sexuality in the West, Western culture, Asians in the West, Chicanos in the ...

Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Includes archival materials from the Library of Congress, the National Library ...

Passenger lists of 20, 000 immigrants arriving during California's Gold Rush, plus Captains, Ships, and San Francisco tales ...

Jewish-American History on the Web is an online archive of original documents, journals, books and literature on the subject of Jews in 19th-Century America.

On May 14th 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory. It has been nearly 200 years since then, and the bicentennial of their historic journey is rapidly approaching.

Historic Latta Plantation, circa 1800, once a successful cotton plantation, is now a living history farm.

Factual information on the Clanton's, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, John Ringo and the famous OK Corral gunfight.

The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Alphabetical Title List | Subject Index Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory ...

Archaeologists and historians rediscover a famous nineteenth-century New York neighborhood.

The Age of Imperialism: An On-line History. This history unit covers United States expansionism around the turn of the century, with many links to related sites on the Net.

A year in the life of America in 1900 and a look at the forces of change that would shape the 20th century.

The National Lewis and Clark Education Center engages educators in a dynamic understanding of The Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-1806) and the nature of the trail's historical and modern landscapes.

The Free Library of Philadelphia's Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection consists of over 1, 500 photographs and assorted material dealing with the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.

The History of the National Refining Company in Cleveland, Ohio 1882-1950. Produced White Rose Gasoline and EN-AR-CO motor oil.

Extensive site dealing with the raid on Harper's Ferry and the surrounding events.

Come browse our site and find information for your travels as you retrace the steps of Lewis and Clark.Experience the beautiful scenery along the expedition route.Enjoy whitewater adventure or fishing trip on the Snake, Clearwater or Salmon Rivers. ...

Home Bookstore Chapters Committees Email Events Images Links Membership News Officers Resources he Santa Fe Trail Association was formally established during the charter symposium held in Trinidad, Colorado, in September 1986. Its purpose is to promote public awareness of and appreciation for this scenic and historic highway connecting the young United States to the Southwest, which until 1846 ...

Listing of links to pages about the history of the Amistad, the Amistad incident, and its legacy.

Research and study of Confederate Major General Edward Johnson ...

James Healy was the first African-American Catholic Bishop.

Patrick Healy was the first African-American to be president of a predominantly white university.

Lewis and Clark events in pacific county, WA The Pacific County Friends of Lewis & Clark invite fans of the Corps of Discovery to...

Calico Ghost Town: This authentic silver mining town lives on as one of the few original mining camps of the Old West.

A bitter rivalry between two of the Founding Fathers -- Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr -- culminated in the most famous duel in American history.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers An On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library, Duke University Images and Transcripts from the Collection About Rose O'Neal Greenhow About the collection at Duke Read items from the collection More information about the Special Collections Library and related collections Statement on use and reproduction About the digitized version of this collection ...

The History of the First Locomotives In America From Original Documents And The Testimony Of Living Witnesses By William H. Brown New York: D. Appleton And Company, 549 & 551 Broadway. 1871. CONTENTS. Chapter I.-Dedication II.-Early Railroads III.-First Head of Steam IV.-First Steamboats V.-First Steam-Carriage VI.-Trevithick's Engine VII.-George Stephenson VIII.-Stephenson's Engine IX.-First ...

THE WILD WILD WEST Renegades, Rebels, & Rogues, the words to a popular Country & Western song, is just exactly what the twin territories of Oklahoma and the Indian Nations were full of in the later part of the 19th century. Known as the Robbers Roost, the territories became a safe haven for some of the old west's most desperate villains. With no law west of St. Louis and no God west of Fort ...

Ismail Egypt Ho! Gura Endgame Timeline C.-Long Colston Dye Lockett Loring MacIver Morgan Sibley Stone The Rest Links Credits Awards The unusual but nonetheless true tale of 50 U.S. citizens (mostly veterans of the late War of Secession) who donned the uniform of Egypt in the service of Khedive Ismail. They explored the African continent. Some helped build the Statue of Liberty. This is their ...

Take a step back into the Old West...where men and women were as raw and untamed as the country around them.

John Bell Hood was a brilliant tactician who reached his nadir when promoted to command of the Army of the Tennessee.

Maps, images and digital documents telling the story of the voyage of the schooner Amistad, the revolt of the Africans, and the court proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings which followed.

Women of the West And Every Day Life Along the Trail Annie Oakley She could shoot the head off a running quail when she was twelve years old. Baby Doe Elizabeth Baby Doe McCourt, lived out one of the most famous success stories, and tragedies, of the gold-rush days. The Ballad of Belle Starr Belle Starr, Belle Starr, With a bullet in your back, Are you lyin' there a-wishin' That you'd never ...

Text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

The American Experience presents the story of how the nation's first transcontinental railroad was constructed the costs and the rewards.

This is the World-Wide Web homepage for the Central Nevada Emigrant Trail Association (CNETA), headquartered in Battle Mountain Nevada. The Central Nevada Emigrant Trails Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the local community and the general public about the history of the Emigrant (or California) Trail across Nevada, through the establishment of an interpretive ...

Text of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

The Story of One Union Soldier Private Bernard McKnight - Massachusetts 3rd Cavalry 1838 - 1864 Early Life Coming to America Civilian to Soldier Action on the Mississippi Capture at Port Hudson Andersonville Prison Epilogue Documents / References Bernard was an Irish immigrant who came to America in the late 1850s. He brought his wife and young child with him and settled in Taunton, ...

They were designed to take their passengers to a better place, a fresh start. Climb on board on The Orphan Trains with The American Experience.

About the Lucretia Coffin Mott Project About Lucretia Coffin Mott Primary Sources Editorial Board How You Can Help Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) devoted her life to the abolition of slavery, women's rights, school and prison reforms, temperance, peace, and religious tolerance. Although a major figure in the reform movements of the nineteenth-century, Mott's importance has been under-estimated ...

An Internet newspaper in celebration of the Centennial of the Klondike Gold Rush, with articles honouring the pioneers of the Yukon and Alaska.

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Plan for the Pacific Railroad, by Theodore Judah Biography of Theodore Judah The Big Four Driving the Last Spike The greatest historical event in transportation on the continent occurred at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, as the Union Pacific tracks joined those of the Central Pacific Railroad. Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, ...

About the Trans Mississippi Map of the Trans Mississippi Calender of the Trans Mississippi Buildings of the Trans Mississippi Visit the Indian Congress Visit the F.A. Rinehart Photo Gallery &copy 1998 Omaha Public Library ...

HistoryCentral.com - Your Source for Everything History.

Short history of the Denmark Vesey's betrayed revolt, a planned insurrection that involved thousands of free and enslaved blacks who lived in and around Charleston.

Henry Clay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, was determined to find a solution. In 1820 he had resolved a fiery debate over the spread of slavery with his Missouri Compromise. Now, thirty years later, the matter surfaced again within the walls of the Capitol.

William Jennings Bryan's speech on imperialism in response to his nomination to the presidency by the Democratic Party, at Indianapolis, August 8, 1900.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

This site is dedicated to the mccoy family and the those who died in the feud ...

Louisiana Orphan Train Research list New York Foundling Hopital Orphan Train Heritage Society Crossroads Magazine New York Historical Society New York Vital Records La. church Records Other Orphan Riders Local Library This is Picture of Francis Wilson and Unknown Girl My Favorite Links Orphan Train Heritage Society of America Hall Of Pictures..Got to See!!! Kenneth Awards for my site Becky's ...

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This resource for teachers provides lesson plans in which students analyze issues related to industrialization and reform by exploring sheet music, they also create original lyrics and song covers that reflect the Progressive Era - from the Learning Page, the Library of Congres ...

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The Grand Tour in its American incarnati on took travellers up the East Coast. This site follows the tour through account s of early 19th century travellers.

Gilded Age What is the chief end of man --to get rich. In what way --dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. -- Mark Twain-1871 During the Gilded Age, every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before. In New York, the opera, the theatre, and lavish parties consumed the ruling class' leisure hours. Sherry's Restaurant hosted formal ...

United States History: The Gilded Age (1890) to World War I The Harrison Administration Harrison's administration brought a reversal of the financial policies of Grover Cleveland. Congress disposed of the Treasury surplus by making large appropriations for pensions, naval vessels, lighthouses, coast defenses, and other projects. It also passed the McKinley Tariff Act, which raised the already ...

History and text of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

Part 1: 1450-1750 Part 2: 1750-1805 --Part 3: 1791-1831 Part 4: 1831-1865 Narrative | Resource Bank | Teacher's Guide People & Events Gabriel's Conspiracy 1799 - 1800 Resource Bank Contents Gabriel was born in 1776, on Thomas Prosser's tobacco plantation in Henrico County, Virginia. When he was about ten, Gabriel and his brother Solomon began training as blacksmiths. Although almost nothing is ...

The Treaty of the Louisiana Purchase Jefferson Acts To Expand The Nation Largest Single Land Purchase in U.S. History In 1803 the United States negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. With a stroke of a pen America doubled in size, making it one of the largest nations in the world. The sale included over 600 million acres at a cost of less than 3 cents an ...

Each day an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections.

RailServe provides over 6, 000 railroad links, a search engine, railfan message forum, free classified ads, Microsoft Train Simulator Add-Ons, ICQ communication list, and much more!

Short history of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, with links to other opinions and information.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Fugitive Slave Act, September 18, 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act mandated the return of runaway slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be situated at the time of their discovery or capture. Along with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the ratification of Kansas' admission for free statehood, this legislation is part of the ...

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This is among John C. Calhoun's most famous speeches. He was too ill to deliver his condemnation of the Compromise of 1850 himself, so it was read by another senator with Calhoun present in the Senate Chamber. Calhoun, so ill he had to be helped out of the Chamber after the speech by two of his friends, died on March 31, 1850.

A sensational history recounts the face-off that altered the course of the nation.

Orphan Trains From about 1850 through the early twentieth century, thousands of children were transfered from the overcrowded orphanages and homes in the large cities in the northeastern United States, to live with families on farms throughout the middle West. The name orphan train originates with the railroad trains that transported the children to their new homes. While some of the children ...

An account of the Denmark Vesey Insurrection, as published in the June 1861 Atlantic Monthly.

Historian Eric Foner discusses the effects of the Fugitive Slave Law in the North.

This website is made possible by the generous support of Idaho Humanities Council, the University of Idaho Library, and the John C. Smith Memorial Fund This website requires Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape 4.0 browers. ...

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Treaty With the Potawatami, 1828 Art 1 Art 2 Art 3 Art 4 Art 5 Art 6 Appendix II Articles of a treaty remade and concluded at the Missionary Establishments upon the St. Joseph, of Lake Michigan, , in the Territory of Michigan., this 20th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, between Lewis lass and Pierre ...

H. D. Loyd tells the story of a great monopoly ...

This page is designed to be a supplement to Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land. The work here should not be confused with Smith's thesis; it is an analytical look at one portion of his argument. For further readings on this topic, I would suggest: Richard Slotkin's Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation; Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession; Cormac McCarthy's Blood ...

Study of the Gilded Age and Third Parties.

An authentic old west town in the Texas hill country near Austin, Texas ...

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN : The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism Source: Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention Held in Kansas City, Mo., July 4, 5 and 6, 1900, Chicago, 1900, pp. 205-227. IF IT IS RIGHT for the United States to hold the Philippine Islands permanently and imitate European empires in the government of colonies, the Republican Party ought to state its position ...

About the Letters Griffing & Goodrich Family Histories 1846-1852, College Years 1852-1853, Traveling in Midwest 1854, Starting Church in Indianapolis 1854-1856, Bloody Kansas 1857-1861, Territorial Life 1861-1865, Civil War 1866 - 1877, Reconstruction Period 1878-1882, Ministering to Freedmen This rare collection of letters and journal entries authored by James S. Griffing and J. Augusta ...

The Frontier In American History Frederick Jackson Turner Click here for larger version and citation Created by Michael W. Kidd, Summer 1996 University of Virginia Department of English 219 Bryan Hall Charlottesville, VA 22903 Last Modified: Tuesday, 30-Sep-97 09:46:49 EDT Another AS Hypertext ...

The site outlines the professionalization of baseball during the Gilded Age. Beginning with the rise of ...

This site contains excerpts from Volume II of The Great Republic by the Master Historians. The book was published in the early 1900's and edited by renowned American historian Hubert H. Bankcroft. It covers United States' history from the period preceding the American Revolution through the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Within the book, Bancroft comments on each historical event, as well as ...

Fugitive Slave Act, presented in The National Center for Public Policy Research's Archive of Historical Documents ...

A detailed account of Gen. James Longstreet's famous scout. However, historians are still trying to piece together the mystery of Harrison and continue searching for clues as to his earlier life and his whereabouts after the Civil War. ...

Social and Behavioral Sciences E-Campus H 101 - Lab Exercise: The Denmark Vesey Insurrection (1822) Denmark Vesey House at 56 Bull Street, Charleston, S.C. Narrative: Telemaque ('Denmark') Vesey, lived in Charleston, South Carolina and was a carpenter by trade. He is credited with organizing a massive conspiracy among the African-American peoples of Charleston designed to seize the city and ...

SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK July 19-20, 1848 Barker, Caroline Barker, Eunice Barker, William G. Bonnel, Rachel D. (Mitchell) Bunker, Joel D. Burroughs, William Capron, E.W. Chamberlain, Jacob P. Conklin, Elizabeth Conklin, Mary Culvert, P.A. Davis, Cynthia Dell, Thomas Dell, William S. Doty, Elias J. Doty, Susan R. Douglass, Frederick Drake, Julia Ann Eaton, ...

The Great Republic By the Master Historians Vol. III The following articles are excerpts from Volume III of The Great Republic by the Master Historians. The book was published in 1902 and edited by renowned American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. It covers United States' history from the War of 1812 through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Within the book, Bancroft comments on each historical ...

Historical Background of The Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt from Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts, new edition, New York: International Publishers, 1974, pages 219-226 (original edition: Columbia University Press, 1943). Probably the most fateful year in the history of American Negro slave revolts is that of 1800, for it was then that Nat Turner and John Brown were born, that Denmark ...

Explaining 1898: Conquest of Empire in the Gilded Age Garrett Moritz As the ink dried on the Constitution in 1787, the Founding Fathers--having just ended Britain's colonial hegemony--would have likely been very surprised to know that a little more than a century later the United States would have colonies of its own. From this perspective, America's Gilded Age imperialism is quite a shock. It ...

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For over 70 years the orphan trains carried close to 150, 000 children to new homes throughout the country. But by 1930, changing laws and changing attitudes saw the end of this most unique program.

Civil War And the Western Frontier General H. B. Carrington Henry Beebee Carrington served as Colonel and Brigadier General in the Union Army. He is best known for his role in the Fetterman Massacre, and also for his zealous pursuit of northerners disloyal to the Union. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Photographs of General Carrington With other ...

When he surrendered his twenty-six hundred man cavalry brigade on May 17, 1865 near Munford, Alabama, this individual, who had fought forty-two major battles and many minor skirmishes, became the last commander of a major unit to capitulate to Federal forces, thus ending the conflict in the states east of the Mississippi. He had privately stated prior to the war when visiting Washington and ...

HENRY CABOT LODGE: For Intervention in Cuba Source: Record, 54 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 1971-1972. I, UNITED WITH THE REST of the Committee on Foreign Relations, with a single exception, in reporting the concurrent resolution which is now before the Senate. I will say, however, with perfect frankness, that I for one should be very glad if the Senate should see fit to go further in this direction; for ...

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