Website List - Governors State University



Website List

Content Resources

World Wide Web Virtual Library, The Gilded Age (1876-1900) (WWW-VL: History)

(Contains a Timeline with links)



Chronology of Chicago History (Chicago Public Library)



Chicago, City of Neighborhoods, 4 chapters (Chicago Public Library)



The Dramas of Haymarket (Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University)



Haymarket (LOC & Chicago Historical Society)



Haymarket, Brief Narrative (Chicago Historical Society)



Haymarket Digital Collection (Chicago Historical Society)



Haymarket, Photos (Chicago Historical Society)



Haymarket, Newspaper engravings



Altgeld’s Reasons for Pardons (Chicago Historical Society)



First Labor Day, 1882 (Library of Congress)



World’s Columbian Exposition, including virtual tour (University of Virginia)



Interactive Guide to World’s Columbian Exposition (Bruce Shulman)



World’s Columbian Exposition, Digital Collection (Paul Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology)



World’s Columbian Exposition, Digital Collection (Boston College)



World’s Columbian Exposition, Overview (The Internet 1996 World Exposition)



Frederick Douglas, 1893 Speech at Columbian Exposition (America’s Story from LOC)



African American Women at World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893



At Home in the Heartland Online (Illinois State Museum)



Immigrant Boys’ Clothing, photos by country of origin



Know (No) Nothing Party (PBS)



Nativism in the U.S. (Houghton Mifflin Readers’ Companion)



Jane Addams, Her Family and Hull House, photos (Swarthmore College)



Jane Addams, Biography (University of Illinois, Chicago)



Jane Addams Hull House, Summary & Bibliography (Chicago Public Library)



Jane Addams (America’s Story from LOC)



Maps and Photographs (UIC, Jane Addams and Urban Experience)



Text of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Berkeley Digital Library)



Jacob Riis Collection (The Museum of the City of New York)



Hypertext Edition of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis (Yale University)



Two Fires, Oct. 1871 (America’s Story from LOC)



Read an Excerpt from The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)



Chicago Landmarks (City of Chicago)



Bricks and Mortar, Architecture



Tall Office Buildings, Steel Frame Skyscrapers (MIT)



Steel Frame Skyscrapers (Boston College)



Home Insurance Building (PBS)



Links to African American History Sites (ecuip – Digital Library, CPS & University of Chicago joint project)



Links to Chicago History Sites (ecuip – Digital Library, CPS & University of Chicago joint project)



Reading, Writing, Research, and Presentation Resources

Writer’s Handbook (University of Wisconsin, Madison)



Evaluating the Sources of Information (Colorado State University)



Sources of Census Information



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