A timeline of scientific discoveries and theories of the ancient Greeks. It covers the period from 585 BC to 150 AD, with three additional entries for related events in the 1900s. Each entry has links to additional content on the website...

Breakfast without toast? It wasn't until the early 1900s that this amazing invention was discovered. Learn interesting and fascinating facts behind the invention of the toaster while viewing pictures of the many different designs through...

This teacher's guide accompanies 'Emily: Across the James Bay Bridge', one in the Our Canadian Girl series. The novel looks at the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the early 1900s.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using primary sources, young scholars will form their own conclusions as to why African-Americans moved north in large numbers during the early 1900's. Included in this lesson plan is a PowerPoint to...

This section of the exhibition gives the history of the discovery and study of space starting with the Greeks and Romans through to the early 1900's.

In the late 1800's and most of the 1900's countries made many efforts to help Jews in the Soviet Union gain freedom to practice their faith. Countries such as the United States and Israel offered exile to many Jews to escape the...

American writers and intellectuals played an important role in articulating the changes taking place in Industrial America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Learn about some of the prominent writers, scientists, and philosophers at that...

A learning module on immigrants who arrived in New York in the mid-1800s and early 1900s that includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics...

Given broad categories that describe the major goals of the progressive movement and general information about selected issues of the late 1800's/early 1900's, students will categorize the issues according to corresponding progressive...

This site provides a detailed biography of Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist leader and peace activist during the early 1900s.

This site provides a detailed biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the United States, social reformer, politician, and diplomat of the early- to mid-1900s.

This entry from the Catholic Encyclopedia traces the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada from New France to discussions of state-funded schooling. Please note that the Catholic Encyclopedia is a historic reference document...

An article by a British Member of Parliament that traces the history of the welfare state in Britain. It examines its beginning in the early 1900s through its overreaching problems at the end of the twentieth century. Archived.

This extensive site provides a detailed biography of Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate of the 1900s. Web page links to additional academic resources are particularly comprehensive.

Trading cards were popular in the 1800s and 1900s as a way of advertising health and beauty products. This exhibit shows examples of various types and discusses the advertising techniques used. Younger children will especially enjoy the...

Learn about the history of clothing in the 1900's. Includes images, a discussion of prominent designers and the impact of cultural events upon fashion.

What do you know about the invention and the history of hybrid cars? Here's a look at its beginnings in the early 1900's, modifications made over time, various kinds of hybrids, and finally, the events that lead to the present growth and...

This excerpt from The Great Republic by the Master Historians, published in the early 1900s, provides a near-contemporary discussion of one of the many financial panics, depressions, and bank runs that plagued the American economy in the...

American cities in the 19th century were walking cities-most residents worked and shopped close to where they lived. But as electric streetcar (trolley) systems were built in the 1880s, 1890s, and early 1900s, cities expanded. Many white...

An overview of the life of John Smith, and his relationship with Pocahontas, who supposedly saved his life. Features a portrait, a photograph of the John Smith Memorial, and a fresco from the early 1900's.

A collection of over 25,000 black and white architectural photographs that were discovered in a dilapidated house owned by the Indiana Limestone Company in Bedford, Indiana. These images of residences, churches, universities, museums,...

This poem is currently engraved on a bronze plaque and displayed on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal. The statue stands across from the historic Ellis Island, through which millions of immigrants came into the U.S. in the late 1800s and...

Marcel Duchamp was an artist in the early 1900s and worked in the style of the Dadaists (and Surrealists). He was very conceptual and used mathematical equations at times within his artwork.

View a selection of animated films from the early 1900s, each with corresponding notes and commentaries from the archive's historian and preservationist.