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Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-19
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
Pamphlets and government documents covering the conservation movement, with particular emphasis on the Theodore Roosevelt Administration.
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.
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.
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.
On The Stump: Theodore Roosevelt in Stereographs
http://cmp1.ucr.edu/essays/edward_earle/tr/
Stereographic images viewable with red/blue glasses (which can be ordered by mail).
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 Emma Goldman Papers
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ Writings by and about the anarchist and feminist, including long sections of her books.
The Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
Writings (some illustrated), personal papers, and commentary.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/
Biography, stories, and links.
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