American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 21: The Rise of Progressivism

Web Links

How the Other Half Lives

http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

Jacob Riis's 1890 expose of tenement squalor in New York City.

On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century

http://acad.smumn.edu/history/contents.html

Includes essays by Howells, Riis, and other observers.

Madison: A Model City

http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ModelCity/ModelCity_top.html
Electronic version of John Nolen's 1911 City Beautiful plan for Wisconsin's capital. The large, graphics-heavy pages can take several minutes to load over a dial-up connection.

The Jack London Collection

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
Writings (some illustrated), personal papers, and commentary.

The Emma Goldman Papers

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
Writings by and about the anarchist and feminist, including long sections of her books.

Eyewitness Account of a Titanic Survivor

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/dodge.html

Site also includes other Titanic-related stories from the San Francisco press.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

Thorough site with oral histories, photos, and accounts of the public response to and government investigation of the fire.

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