Mr. Durkin/Mrs. Despines/Mrs. Rentschler Dec. 2014

Gilded Age Pathfinder

Books:

There is a small selection of books available for you on the cart. Be sure to reference the index to search with maximum efficiency.

Databases:

EBSCO’s History Reference Center

From home and from school: 1. From the USCHS web site, go to STUDENT LINKS- HIGH SCHOOL. 2. Click on History Reference Center username: uschs Password: panther

POWER Library From school: 1. From the USCHS web site, go to STUDENT LINKS- HIGH SCHOOL. 2. Click on Power Library 3. Click on the link above that says, “PA Photos and Documents”

Excellent collections: Carnegie Mellon University -Andrew Carnegie Online Archive -CMU Historic Image Archive

State Library of Pennsylvania -ERIC Documents -Pennsylvania Documents Collections

*You can also select all the collections by conducting an advanced search.

 For home access: Go to STUDENT LINKS or go to the Township Library’s web page http://www.twpusc.org/library/index.html o You will need the barcode number from your TOWNSHIP LIBRARY CARD! o On the right-hand side of the screen, click onto ONLINE DATABASES. Click POWER LIBRARY under “Databases by Subject,” or “General Reference.” o Follow the directions and enter the barcode number on your Township Library card. If you need to use your password, it is the last 4 digits of your phone number. o Then click onto the database that you want to use.

1 POWER Library From home and from school: 1. From the USCHS web site, go to STUDENT LINKS- HIGH SCHOOL. 2. Click on Power Library 3. Scroll down and choose NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES and then MasterFILE Main Edition. 4. For home access, see above.

Points of View From home and from school: 1. From USCHS web page, go to STUDENT LINKS- HIGH SCHOOL. 2. Click on “Points of View” Username: uschs Password: panther

JSTOR 1. From USCHS web page, go to STUDENT LINKS- HIGH SCHOOL. 2. Click on JSTOR Username: uschs Password: panther

Gale Discovering Collection From home and from school: 1. From the USCHS web site, go to STUDENT LINKS- HIGH SCHOOL. 2. Click on Gale Discovering Collection password: panther

Websites:

Best of History Websites: The Gilded Age http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history/1800/gilded-age

PBS: The Gilded Age, Andrew Carnegie http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande01.html

Local Steelworker Markers and History Behind Them http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-246

Labor Legacy, from Pitt http://www.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/index.html

Timeline of Organized Labor in America http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Labor-History-Timeline

Women in the Gilded Age http://www.ushistory.org/us/39c.asp 2 Crash Course: The Gilded Age, by John Green http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spgdy3HkcSs

Department of Labor eBook http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/chapter4.htm http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/

Links to different articles http://www.laborhistorylinks.org/chronological.html#_Late_19th-Early_20th

Scholastic: The Gilded Age http://www.scholastic.com/browse/subarticle.jsp?id=1673

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Gilded Age by T. Jackson Lears http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/gilded-age/essays/gilded-age

Illinois During the Gilded Age Digitization Project: Women's Experience and Gender Roles by Drew VandeCreek, Ph.D. http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/women.html

The Newberry Digital Collections for the classroom: Chicago Workers during the Long Gilded Age by Hana Layson and Leon Fink http://dcc.newberry.org/collections/chicago-workers-during-the-long-gilded-age