Eclectic online exhibition highlights government's concern with the American diet from the Revolutionary War to the late 1900s.

An exhibition of the material belongings that were typical in a modern 20th-century living room. Covers furniture and furnishings, lighting, heating, ornamentation, domestic life, and the types of townhouses that were common. Each image...

This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...

The seven major economic indicators for the U.S. economy are listed here in an easy to read chart. The seven indicators are unemployment rate, change in hourly employment, average hourly earnings, consumer price index, producer price...

This timeline provides a big picture view of historically significant people, events, and data from the twentieth century, also known as the First Measured Century.

This site has a collection of government websites with links to all the major economic indicators. There are 19 different indicators listed.

Chapter from a novel that describes the workings of a charitable society. This chapter, "The Sewing Circle," illustrates some of the various functions that institutions, especially the benevolent and charitable societies, performed in...

An address, a declaration of principle, and the Black National Anthem illustrating differing approaches to political action. The texts examine how Washington and Du Bois turned their political objectives into action organizations in the...

The entire history of rocketry took place in 100 years! The early 1900's saw their first appearance, and by the end of the century, rocket technology took many forms with the most famous being the Space Shuttle. The brief, to the point...

Have you ever thought about your shadow? One way to learn about them is to make your own shadow box theater--once a very popular form of entertainment in Europe during the 1800s and early 1900s.

This site has the highlights of Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890-1980 CE). Site includes the female mathematician's career in teaching in the United States during the mid 1900's.

Read the biographies of dozens of women mathematicians who were important in the 1700's, 1800's, and 1900's.

Overview of the changing federal government role as it increased involvement and intervention in business and social welfare in the 1900s.

The Shumiatcher family, Russian Jews who emigrated to Canada in the early 1900's, grew to become successful business owners and professionals. This site outlines their history and details the making of a television documentary.

This fascinating site features the area around the East Kootenays in the early 1900s showing the pristine environment through photographs and text.

In this activity, students learn to solve a real-world problem comparing automobile travel in the early 1900's and travel today. They follow the route taken by Alice in 1909 from New York City to San Francisco and determine how long the...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work from the early 1900s is the third book from his Oz series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver, an early 1900s, conservation-themed narrative from the author Thornton W. Burgess, a man famously known as "Bedtime Story...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This early 1900's work is part of the Psammead series, a trilogy written by Edith Nesbit.

An online exhibition which documents a scientific expedition up the Congo river in the early 1900s. You can view the complete photos, documents, and equipment by clicking on the left side navigation bar.

This site contains a general overview of the BIA's impact on Native Americans in the 1900s.

Theodore Roosevelt's presidency had a focus on conservation. This site outlines the first five water projects begun in the early 1900s in the western United States that had a great effect on opening up land for agricultural production.

A short account tracing the migration of Japanese to Chile starting in the early 1900s, what they did there and how they were treated.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies, a book from Frank Gee Patchin's early 1900's series, "The Pony Rider Boys."