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Tenement Museum: New York Tenement Museum
From the online home of the museum, take a virtual tour of the restored apartments in a tenement building located at 97 Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side. Learn about the lives of actual past residents and experience what life...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Women in the Gilded Age
The roles available to women increased during the urbanization of America. Find out how the women's sphere of the home expanded into the community. See what new jobs were availabe to single, middle-class women, and read about how...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Nativism in 19th C. America
For this lesson, learners explore the reasons people immigrated to America in the nineteenth century, the urban growth that resulted, the development of public education, the contributions of immigrants, the wave of nativism, and the...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Jane Addams
See a portrait of activist Jane Addams painted by American painter, George deForest Brush, and read a brief discussion of Addams' important role as a reformer.
University of California
The Bancroft Library: San Francisco Chinatown
Website explores the uniqueness of the oldest and largest urban Chinese American enclave, San Francisco's Chinatown.
Curated OER
Map of California's Central Valley
National Public Radio offers a multi-part article on central California, "Home to the greatest garden in the world." Topics include creeping urbanization, demand for less pesticide use, labor and immigration issues, and the central...
Curated OER
State Street, Chicago, 1905
Fifteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the lives of and the challenges faced by a variety of Americans. They include documents about Native Americans and immigrants, and focus on both...
Curated OER
Unesco: Israel: White City of Tel Aviv the Modern Movement
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting...