Child Labor: This explores the conditions under which so many
children worked in the early 1900s. Pictures by photographer
Lewis Hines included.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Counting on Grace - by Elizabeth Winthrop
This a comprehensive site which follows the history of child
labor and Winthrop's quest to learn the history of Lewis Hines,
the photographer who taught America about the unfair practice of
child labor. Excellent!
http://www.elizabethwinthrop.com/graceteachersguide.html
Ellis Island: Search for relatives!
Find the immigration procedure!
Very informative site!
http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp
Picture History of Immigration
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/c/230/p/10/mcms.html
Ellis Island History
http://www.ellisisland.com/indexHistory.html
Virtual Tour of an Immigrant coming to Ellis Island
History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html
National Park Service - Ellis Island
http://www.nps.gov/elis/
Scholastic site for Immigration
Some of this is the same as our other sites within our links
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/
American Immigrant Wall of Honor
Is your ancestor on it?
http://www.wallofhonor.com/
Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook
http://www.ellisislandcookbook.com/
WWII
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
WWII - BBC History of WWII
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/
WWII Memorial Washington DC
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=home.asp
Anne Frank Museum
Take a tour of the house in which she and her family hid.
Includes many
pictures.
http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2
The Museum of Tolerance
http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/pp.asp?c=arLPK7PILqF&b=249627
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington DC
Includes history, pictures, and online exhibits
http://www.ushmm.org/
Children and the Holocaust
A webquest with MANY links about the Holocaust
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webchildrensh.html
Holocaust Map of Concentration Camps and Death Camps
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blmap.htm
Holocaust Glossary of Terms
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa081997.htm
Pictures of the Holocaust
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blpictures.htm
Into the Arms of Strangers
The Story of the Kindertransport
http://www2.warnerbros.com/intothearmsofstrangers/
Holocaust Survivors
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/
The Atomic Bomb
Turman's Decision
http://www.pomperaug.com/socstud/stumuseum/web/msrhome.htm
Historic Speeches
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/
Great Speeches Collection
The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm
Interactive map of Europe (Current)
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/europe_map.htm
Sears Roebuck Houses
You can look at all the different house plans from 1908-1940!
Many were built right here in Downers Grove!
To see the actual houses in Downers Grove, look at the link
farther down on
this page.
http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1908-1914.htm
WWI - Choose a day in the timeline and learn what happened on
that
particular
day.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/onthisday/1915_05_08.htm
Roaring Twenties Music
http://www.biograph.com/
WWI
Article about life in the trenches
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm
Films of 1920s
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
WWII
Find the U-505 Submarine
Online Game
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/onlineactivities/find/index.html
WWII
Command the U-505 Submarine
Online Game
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/onlineactivities/command/index.html
Angel Island: "The Ellis Island of the West"
http://www.angelisland.org/
Propaganda from WWI era
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-43%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=WWI+propaganda
British Broadcasting - World War One
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/
WWI - History Central
http://www.historycentral.com/ww1/index.html
WWI - History Channel
A good overview of causes, political, and military operations.
http://www.historychannel.com/thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=226139
WWI - Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/
Timeline of Media History - Good for Radio Shows!
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/1920s.html
WWI - Document Archive
Good site for soldier accounts of experiences. Good pictures!
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
UpFront Magazine - New York Times Teen Magazine
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/
Old Time Radio Shows
Mystery, Comedy, Music, Drama, Variety, Sci-Fi, & Westerns
http://www.radiolovers.com/
More Old Time Radio Shows
The Shadow, Fibber McGee and Molly, Edward R. Murrow news
broadcasts, Buck
Rogers, Flash Gordon, War of the Worlds...and more!
http://www.otr.com/index.shtml
Sears Home Tour of Downers Grove! Includes maps, addresses and
pictures of
the known Sears houses in Downers Grove.
http://visitor.downers.us/searshomes/index.htm
WWI Map - 1917
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www3.eou.edu/hist06/images/KISH_26_593.gif&imgrefurl=http://www3.eou.edu/hist06/WWIoverview.html&h=176&w=208&sz=19&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=r-mkMsNbAJnLGM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWWI%2Bmap%26svnum%3D10
Classic Advertisements from 1900s
http://www.adclassix.com/
Look for ships your ancestors traveled on!
http://www.theshipslist.com/
Castle Garden Immigration site
http://www.castlegarden.org/
Great Depression - Roosevelt's New Deal Programs
A wonderful comprehensive site showing many photos of the
projects which
brought the U.S. out of the Depression. America at work!
http://newdeal.feri.org/library/index.htm
Life Magazine. This is a beautiful site which includes archived
Life magazines starting with 1936. A true piece of history...a
gem.
http://books.google.com/books?id=N0EEAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s#all_issues_anchor