Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a text excerpt and a link to the full-text audio of Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller. The essay applies the idea of the individual to the enlightenment of all mankind: allowing women as individuals to have...
Unknown Type
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Culture and Reform in the Early Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
Temperance, abolition, and a whole host of other reform movements sprung up in the early nineteenth century. Can you tell a teetotaler from a Transcendentalist? Test your knowledge here.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Jefferson's Presidency and the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy resource provides notes for American History. "Jefferson's Presidency and the Turn of the Nineteenth Century" is explained on this resource.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Edward Payson Roe

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1877, one publication is A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century. This story was written by Edward Payson Roe.
Graphic
Other

Stephen Luscombe: British Empire: Nineteenth Century Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline of the British Empire during the nineteenth century. Includes events related to empire building, to Britain itself, and to the world, as well as important advances in art and in science.
Article
Library of Congress

Loc: Performing Arts Encyclopedia: Nineteenth Century Cincinnati

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how family life in Cincinnati, as elsewhere in mid-nineteenth-century America, was fundamentally different from traditional family life in the eighteenth century.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Resources for the Study of Nineteenth Century Women's Rights Reformers

For Students 9th - 10th
The developers "Not For Ourselves Alone," a PBS documentary about the lives and work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, have compiled a collection of resources useful to any study of the history of women's suffrage in...
eBook
University of Maryland

Rome in the First and the Nineteenth Centuries

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of an 1824 essay attributed to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "Rome in the First and the Nineteenth Centuries."
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Spice Up the Nineteenth Century!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will make interactive outlines using the Internet of the reform movements, literature, trails, religion or technology of the early nineteenth century.
Website
Other

Economic History Services: The Us Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the coal industry in the United States across the entire nineteenth century. Halfway through the page there is information about the advent of unions to represent the coal miners doing such a dangerous job.
Graphic
University of Washington

University of Washington Libraries: 19th Century Actors Photographs

For Students 9th - 10th
Database of over 600 photographs of actors, actresses, and entertainers of the nineteenth century who performed in the United States.
Lesson Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Cult of Domesticity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that looks at the place of women in nineteenth century America. While their role that was constrained by societal expectations, they still wielded political power in subtle ways.
Article
Other

De Young Museum: Nineteen Century American Art (I Notice . . . I Wonder . . . )

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn nineteenth century American art and history in this multi-disciplinary analysis of various works of art from the period.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Steam Engine: Transportation 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the steam engine and transportation in the nineteenth century.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: 19th Century Schools for the Deaf, Blind

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the development of schools for deaf and blind students in the nineteenth century.
Unit Plan
The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Imagining the American West in the Late Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning modules with primary resources explores how the West has been imagined as both America's manifest destiny and a wild frontier and examines the ways American Indian art and literature challenge these popular narratives.
Article
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Needleword in the Eighteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful presentation of needlework from 1700s America, accompanied by an explanation of the type of education girls and young women received during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how fabric arts were a prominent part of...
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Song sheets, which containedonly lyrics, were a popular form of printed music. The Library of Congress holds over 4,000 of these from the 1800s that can be viewed online.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of how the steam engine transformed the railroad industry and played crucial roles in the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: New Modes of Transport in 19th Century America [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines how new technology and scientific advances of the nineteenth century changed America. Includes ideas for directing students through a...
Article
The College Board

Driven to the City: Urbanization and Industrialization in the 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th
Scholarly article discussing the trend towards urbanization in the United States and other industrialized countries in the nineteenth century.
Website
Other

Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia

For Students 9th - 10th
The Australian coasts where explored and established during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During the nineteenth century many explores trekked across the continent to find new areas to farm. Some of those explorers are listed...
Website
Other

Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia

For Students 9th - 10th
The Australian coasts where explored and established during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During the nineteenth century many explores trekked across the continent to find new areas to farm. Some of those explorers are listed...
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Home Sweet Home Life in 19th Century Ohio

For Students 9th - 10th
This site uses historically significant documents to paint a picture of family life in 19th century Ohio. Music plays a large role in this picture.

Other popular searches