Analyze primary sources in the media gallery and create an illustrated poem to learn how and why Chinese Americans were seen as threats to American society during the 1800s. This Anti-Chinese movement was one of the earlier incidents of...

The page gives an excellent summary of Costa Rican literature from the 1800s and 1900s. Authors and their works are described.

Follow the documentation of a nation through photographs from the FSA-OWI that spanned the years of 1935-1945. You can choose to view either black and white or color images. Find pictures by a keyword search of the collection or browse...

Enjoy this collection of over 4,000 panoramic photographs of America from 1851-1991. Each of the 50 states is represented as well as several foreign countries and U.S. territories. Highlights of the collection include disasters, sports,...

This is a background on the social reformer Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary fighting for the peasants and land reform. Includes a brief history, information on his beliefs and his accomplishments.

This lesson offers a brief history of public speaking drawing upon the Western thought from Greece and Rome with Aristotle and Cicero. It lists and discusses the periods and the major speakers of each period.

Images and stories of Immigrants to the United States in the early part of the 20th century. Tells why these people came to the United States and what effect that this had on US foreign policy.

A detailed biography on writer William Faulkner from the Mississippi Writers page.

Click on any decade from the 1900s to the present to see major news headlines in Australia for any year since 1900.

The kakapo is a New Zealand bird whose numbers have steadily declined for centuries. In the late 1900s, the few that were left were removed to an island where efforts are being made to ensure their survival. You will find some brief...

As the U.S. approached the new century, it was an appropriate time to reflect on the accomplishments and failures of the 1900s both within the country and internationally.

This is the text of the short story "A Bird in Hand" by George A. Birmingham, a story set in England in the early 1900s.

This page discusses the last few years of folksong writers Stephen Collins Foster's life. It provides a few photgraphs of the Bowery Theater in the 1800s and 1900s. (This theater was built by Tony Pastor, a proponent of Vaudeville style.)

Public Book Shelf offers a general description of the activities of the Sons of Liberty. Taken from an account published in the early 1900s.

This site contains information about nationalism in the Balkans from the early 1900's to the present.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This work, The Princess and Curdie, was written by the C.S. Lewis' mentor, George MacDonald, in the early 1900's.

This student paper offers a short overview of the impact of the 1900s factories on the educational system.

Read the full text of the western novel "Bucky O'Connor" by William MacLeod Raine set in the Southwest in the early 1900's.

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

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Rover Boys at College, the fourteenth book from the late 1800's through the early 1900's series, "The Rover Boys." This book is from the first series...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Rover Boys in Business, the nineteenth book from the late 1800's through the early 1900's series, "The Rover Boys." This book is from the first series...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Rover Boys in New York, the seventeenth book from the late 1800's through the early 1900's series, "The Rover Boys." This book is from the first series...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Rover Boys in the Jungle, the third book from the late 1800's through the early 1900's series, "The Rover Boys." This book is from the first series...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Rover Boys in the Mountains, the sixth book from the late 1800's through the early 1900's series, "The Rover Boys." This book is from the first series...