• Library books and encyclopedias are good sources for background information. You can locate books by keyword, subject, author, or title with VIA.
• Some books on the Progressive Era have already been put on a cart in the Library. Please look at this cart before doing a VIA search.
• American National Biography Online will have almost every individual you are researching. Check it out!
• InfoTrac Student Resource Center Gold includes excellent biographical information under Reference and photos/drawings under Multimedia.
  See your resources handout for more info.
• World Book Online is another resource for your individual.
• Library bookmarks and handouts have the passwords for these resources so that you can access them from home.
• Ask Julie (CHS Librarian) for assistance. You can find me in the library or e-mail at vignoul@4j.lane.edu.

Primary documents:

• Choose "Primary Documents" from the results list of InfoTrac Student Resource Center Gold.
  Click for search suggestions.
• Explore the Web sites listed below.

For Access Outside of CHS, enter the user name & password on the library bookmarks or your project handout.

1. Go to American National Biography Online , or from the Library Homepage, select from the list of Subscriptions.
2. In the search window, type the name of the person you are researching.– spelling counts!
3. When you get to an article, scroll to the bottom of left-hand column to see the choices for printing and emailing.
4. Excellent biographical information on famous Americans!

For access from outside of CHS, enter the password. It's on the library bookmark.

1. Go to InfoTrac, or from the Library Homepage, select InfoTrac from the list of Databases.
2. Select Student Resource Center Gold.
3. Enter your search terms. Search suggestions for each group are below.
4. Results are categorized by Reference, Magazines & Journals, Newspapers, Primary Documents, and Multimedia. Results with matches are bright.
5. Related subjects that can expand your search are on the left sidebar.
6. Options to narrow the search are also listed on the left sidebar.
7. Watch for links. Sometimes Primary Documents have a link to "About this Document." Sometimes more links are included at the bottom of a document.
8. Scroll to the bottom of the article for its citation.

Social Reformers: temperance, prohibition; names (Carry Nation, etc.)

Muckrakers: muckraking movement; names (Ida Tarbell, etc. With Ida Tarbell, explore all parts of Primary Documents.)

Women's Rights: women's suffrage, names (Susan B. Anthony, etc.)

Political Reformers: names (Robert La Follette, Tom Johnson, not James Hogg)

Civil Rights: names (W.E.B.DuBois, etc. You'll find many Primary Documents.)

Primary Documents and Other Information on Web sites

Web sites for all groups
Web sites for groups researching women
Web sites for specific groups
Focused searching on Google
Click here for Citation Maker to get help with citing sources

Progressive Era Online Resources
http://www.westirondequoit.org/ihs/library/prog2.htm
From the Irondequoit High School Library Media Center, Rochester, New York

Progressive Era Web sites
http://faculty.moundsparkacademy.org/~mconway/Modern U.S. Webpage/progerawebsites.htm
A broad collection of links by Maureen Conway, a teacher at Mounds Park
Academy, Saint Paul Minnesota

Project Gutenberg: Online Book Catalog
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
Search by author for books.

A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Select “Search for Writers” and enter the name of a woman:
Carry Nation, Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, etc.

American Women’s History: A Research Guide
Digital Collections of Primary Sources
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-digcoll.html
Select the relevant category. Examples include: Women's Rights, Labor Unions, Social Reforms, Suffrage, etc.

Websites for specific groups

American Memory: Votes for Women
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
Books and Pamphlets (includes a document by Florence Kelly)

Digital History
Documents of the Progressive Era
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/documents.cfm
Scroll down to Prohibition and Women's Suffrage

American Treasures of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm140.html
Primary document by Ida M. Tarbell

Digital History
Documents of the Progressive Era
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/documents.cfm
Jacob Riis, others

Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

Ray Stannard Baker
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/Baker/index.html

Women's Rights

American Memory: Votes for Women
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
Includes 167 primary documents, with works by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and many by Carrie Chapman Catt

Digital History
Documents of the Progressive Era
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/documents.cfm
Scroll down to Woman's Suffrage

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/

Triptych: a digital initiative of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore College libraries
Catt Collection of Suffrage Photographs
http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/collections/catt.html
Select “Browse."

Digital History
Documents of the Progressive Era
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/documents.cfm
Robert La Follette, others

Library of Congress: Pioneering the Upper Midwest
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html
Search by Keyword for LaFollette

See suggestions for a focused Google search below.

About.com African-American Primary Text Index
http://www.afroamhistory.about.com/library/blprimary_text.htm

American Memory - From Slavery to Freedom:
The African-American Pamphlet Collection: 1822-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
Search for Booker T. Washington – scroll through all 13 pages of the document

http://www.google.com/

Evaluate the author/sponsor of the websites you find. Browse through the results
and look for reputable educational or government institutions and organizations.

Use “primary documents” as your first search term: primary documents james hogg Texas

Use your background research to focus your search terms: tom johnson "my story"

Use Google’s “Site Search” to search a website for a word or phrase
search term + site + URL of website to be searched:
political reformers site: http://www.h-net.org/~shgape/internet/

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