1900-1909

Scope|Overview Sources|Personalities and Events|Notable Fiction|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Videos

SCOPE: The period from 1900-1909 brought an influx of immigrants to Ellis Island, New York. In 1907 alone, more than a million immigrants entered our country. The first airplane was developed and tested in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by Orville and Wilbur Wright. Henry Ford introduced the automobile into our society. This period was a decade of growth marked by new cultures and new inventions.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF E169.1.B248 2002 The 1900s

REF E 169.1.B664 1990 American Chronicle

REF E 169.12.A419 American Decades, 1900-1910

REF E 174.5.W46 1991 The U.S.A.: A Chronicle in Pictures

REF E 161.T55 This Fabulous Century 1900-1910

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection (located upstairs in the library)

PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS

Blair, Fredrika. Isadora: Portrait of the Artist as a Woman. New York: Quill, 1986.

Brady, Kathleen. Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckracker. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburg Press, 1989.

Chafe, William H. ed. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, 2001.

Decker, Jeffrey Louis. Made in America: Self-Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Foner, Nancy. From Ellis Island to JFK: New Yorks Two Great Waves of Immigration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Freedman, Russell. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane. New York: Holiday House, 1991.

Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1991.

Harlan,  Louis R. Booker T. Washington; The Making of a Black Leader, 1856- 1901. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Heyman, Neil M. Daily Life During World War I. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Jakab, Peter L. Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. Urbana: University if Illinois Press, 1982.

Wall, Joseph Frazier. Andrew Carnegie. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989,

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1996.

Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia. Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide. New York: New Press, 1997.

NOTABLE FICTION

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1920.

Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. Laurel: Lightyear Press, 1976.

James, Henry. The Ambassadors. New York: Heritage Press, 1963.

James, Henry. The Golden Bowl. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.

London, Jack. Novels & Stories. New York: Viking Press, 1982.

London, Jack. The Sea Wolf. New York: Heritage Press, 1961.

Norris, Frank. Novels and Essays. New York: Viking Press, 1986.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: New American Library, 1963.

Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives. New York: Vintage Books, 1936.

Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York: Scribner, 1905.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

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• United States History-General

Open Access Journals in History

VIDEOS

HD9515.3.C37 A5 1994 Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919: The Maverick Millionaire

Updated 08/22/2007