Links used in class...

Films for papers... 

The Colossus of Rhodes

Andrew Carnegie

The Statue of Liberty

Links about the telegraph

Ellis Island, New York

Imperialism in China

"Crucible of Empire" (the Spanish-American War)

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

The Panama Canal

Timeline of the Standard Oil Company

The Theory of the Leisure Class

America at Leisure (archive film footage)

Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia (1876)

Ohio Building at the Centennial Exhibition

Photographs of the 1893 Columbian Exposition

U.S. Presidents

The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901 (including "footage" of the Execution of Czolgosz)

Who's Who in World War I

Vintage Video of World War I

The Treaty of Versailles

History of the Olympic Games (with useful links)

Maps of the Middle East after
World War I

The British Empire Map Room

More World War I Maps...

St. Louis World's Fair

Lyrics of "Meet Me in St. Louis"

 

 "Normalcy"

"Strategery"

Presidential Language

The Election of 1920

"The War and Workers"
by Rosa Luxemburg

Red Scare Images

Disney Theme Park Maps

CourtTV site about Fatty Arbuckle (search here for other famous criminal cases like Sacco & Vanzetti...)

Advertisements of the 1920s

Chicago Historical Society Exhibit on Fashion, Flappers n' All That Jazz

King Tutankhamun

U.S. Senate site about
The Teapot Dome Scandal

"Thrift and Prosperity"

Encyclopedia of Marxism

The Roaring 20's Music

Lyrics from 1920's songs

Music clips from the Jazz Age

How to Dance the Charleston (pdf)

More 1920's music...

Effects of the 1929 Stock Market Crash in:
Canada
Europe
Rural America

Headlines of 1929

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British Prime Ministers in History

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (June 1930)

The Maginot Line

The Abdication of Edward VIII

The British Commonwealth

Leaders during World War II

"The Great Arsenal of Democracy"

BBC site about Dunkirk

National Geographic site about
Pearl Harbor