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Class Enrichment - Learn more about the things we are studying in class:

AMERICA BECOMES A WORLD POWER/WORLD WAR I

This great website at PBS is a companion to the documentary Crucible of Empire on the Spanish-American War.

Map of Panama and Panama Canal.

PBS's American Experience website on Theodore Roosevelt gives you TR's Legacy - Panama with a video time-lapse trip through the canal as well as other valuable information.

Excellent, brief explanation of William Howard Taft's Dollar Diplomacy at the U.S. State Department's website.

Listen to World War I Music - Here

First World War.com - Great site that is not academic.  It was created and is maintained by a WWI "buff" as a hobby.  This site should NOT to be used for any academic research but is good for some background information.

WWI - Trenches on the Web - Another great private, non-academic site.

Click here to hear Woodrow Wilson's voice (addressing Native Americans)

BBC World War I Website - Outstanding site - useful for academic research.

The Great War - PBS Documentary - companion website.  Much of the documentary footage we have watched in class comes from this film.

Chronology of WWI - At Spartacus Educational Website maintained by a history teacher in the United Kingdom.

WWI Maps - from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Collection of WWI articles and websites from Mount Holyoke College.

The National World War I Museum Website - at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri.

U.S. Government World War I Posters - at the library website at Georgetown University.

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points at the Avalon Project Website at Yale Law School.

PBS.org's Woodrow Wilson website.

A GREAT Interactive Timeline of important events in Woodrow Wilson's life at the PBS companion website to their documentary on Woodrow Wilson.

Great Infoplease.com article on the Treaty of Versailles.

Great History website from the United Kingdom - article on the Treaty of Versailles.

A German view of the Treaty of Versailles - from the German Foreign Minister at the time Brockdorff-Rantzau (from a History professor's website at John Jay College).

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Website - great article on the Treaty of Versailles.

THE GILDED AGE/AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY (AMERICA 1900)

The Breaker Boys - click on the photo to learn more about them.

Learn more about The Rockefellers:
PBS website on The Rockefellers

Learn about the wealthiest Americans in U.S. History:
This great website at the NY Times shows the fortunes of the richest Americans along with their pictures.

Learn more about Samuel Gompers:
AFL-CIO website bio on Samuel Gompers

Learn more about Ellis Island and Immigration at the Turn of the 20th Century:
Ellis Island National Monument website and the Ellis Island-Statue of Liberty Foundation where you can search for names of relatives who may have entered the U.S. through Ellis Island.

Learn more about Jane Addams:
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum website operated by the University of Illinois-Chicago

Learn more about the People's Party (Populist Party):
Interesting Vassar College website on the Populist Party in 1896.

Learn more about The Federal Reserve System:
Great website that gives an explanation of the Federal Reserve System that is easy to understand - click here.

Learn more about Theodore Roosevelt:
theodoreroosevelt.org - The Theodore Roosevelt Association

Click here to hear TR's voice.

Learn more about the Muckrakers:
Online version of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis at Yale University.

Slideshow of Jacob Riis's photos at this great University of Virginia website.

At the same University of Virginia website mentioned above - a slideshow of Lewis Hine's photos of child laborers. (Work he did for the National Child Labor Committee from 1908-1912)

Lewis Hine - Photos at The Library of Congress

All about who Lewis Hine was and what he did at the History Place.com

Online version of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair at the University of California - Berkeley.

Online version of Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company at the University of Rochester.

Learn more about the Recall mechanism in California:
Recall in California - UC-Berkeley

Annotated version of the New York State Constitution:
New York State Constitution online