University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Era of Expansion and Reform
This resource, a speech by Woodrow Wilson to Congress on April 8, 1913, gives a great review of how the United States transformed from from a rural country to an urban one. It includes a review of industrialization, new inventions,...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Inside a Cartoonist's World
From cave drawings to the Sunday paper, artists have been visualizing ideas- cartoons- for centuries. New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly walks us through the many stages every cartoon goes through, starting with an idea and turning into...
NASA
Nasa: Bibliography on Martian Exploration
This site from NASA provides a selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration presents classical Mars reading material from Percival Lowell and Alfred Russel Wallace from the turn of the last century, Werner von Braun and Willy...
Ibis Communications
Eyewitness to History: Eugene v. Debs, 1904
The resource investigates Eugene V. Debs. Debs was one of the major players in American politics at the turn of the 20th century. Students listen to Debs speak during the presidential campaign of 1904.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz
At the turn of the 19th century, scientists were beginning to gain a rudimentary understanding of electricity and magnetism, but they knew almost nothing about the relationship between the two. Baltic German physicist Heinrich Lenz took...
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: Tom L. Johnson
A biography of Progressive Cleveland mayor Tom Johnson, who fought for municipal reforms around the turn of the 19th century.
PBS
Pbs: The 1900 House
PBS transports a modern family back to 1900 so that we may learn, from their experience, what daily life was like at the turn of the twentieth century.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Dub by Ralph Henry Barbour
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published at the turn of the 20th Century, one work featured is the young adult sports fiction story called The Dub by Ralph Henry Barbour.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: A Death Bed Confession by Ralph Henry Barbour
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published at the turn of the 20th Century, one publication is "A Death-Bed Confession." This story was written by Ralph Henry Barbour.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Immigration: Racial Encounters in Colonial America
Copper plate engravings offer one example of the racialization of colonized peoples. At the turn of the 17th century, most Europeans' visual conceptions of the Americas came from the engravings of the workshop of Flemish print-maker...
Other
The University of Southern Mississippi: Kate Greenaway Digital Collection
The Kate Greenaway Papers Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the Kate Greenaway Papers located at The University of Southern Mississippi. The majority of materials in this digital collection date from the turn of the...
Other
New York Public Library: Small Town America
This site provides pictures to help you understand the way of life during the turn of the twentieth century. Enter the collection and click on "Browse" for a drop down menu of collections of photographs of "street scenes in cities,...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Concerning a Steeplechase Rider by Andrew Barton Paterson
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Concerning a Steeplechase Rider, a short story. Published at the turn of the 20th Century, this story was written by Andrew Barton Paterson, who was more...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Judas Iscariot and Others by Leonid N. Andreyev
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published at the turn of the 20th Century, one publication is Judas Iscariot and Others. This story was written by the Russian novelist, Leonid N. Andreyev
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Dual Control by w.w. Jacobs
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published at the turn of the 20th Century, one publication is "Dual Control." This story was written by W.W. Jacobs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Monumental Idea
This is a small-group project utilizing web research, cooperation, creativity and hands-on production in order to fully understand the impact of social reformers of the 19th century. Students will be responsible for building a monument...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fighting for Gender and Racial Equality
In this instructional activity students will examine the lives of key leaders and events in the fight for gender and racial equality at the turn of the 20th century. Through this inquiry study students will choose one of these leaders or...
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Trials of Giordano Bruno (1592 1600)
In the early morning light of Ash Wednesday, the primary day in the Church calendar for Christian penance, Giordano Bruno, one of the most original minds of the sixteenth century, rode into Rome's Campo de' Fiori on a mule. Stripped...
PBS
Pbs American Experience: How Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman Fought Nazi Spies
For 50 years, Elizebeth Friedman's contributions to WWII intelligence were a secret. Only when all of the original intelligence reports were declassified after the turn of the twenty-first century were Friedman's true role in the war...
California Institute of Technology
Benjamin Britten: Cal Tech Project Page
The focus of this project is Britten's War Requiem, but there are good photos, a bibliography, links and biographical information. The index page has information on many other Britten works.
Other
Music Web: Benjamin Britten (1913 1976)
Quite a bit of biographical information here at Music Web, a very complete listing of his compositions, and a good list of recordings as well.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Water Use: Tragedy in the Owens River Valley
Map the geographical area of a watershed, evaluate watershed use and describe land use practices of the people within one. Investigate the events surrounding the war over the Owens River in California at the turn of the 20th century.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Genseric the Vandal
History of Genseric, King of the Vandals, who ruled a Germanic tribe during the 5th Century, turning them into a powerful force of the Mediterranean Sea. Site includes links to worksheets, activities and quizzes.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. Yonge
Read the full text of "Beechcroft at Rockstone" by Charlotte M. Yonge which gives a glimpse of English aristocracy at the turn of the 20th century.