American Progress by John Gast, 1872
Films*
Documentaries:
* Additional films can be found on the corresponding chapter posts.
Books
UPPER ELEMENTARY - MIDDLE SCHOOL
Nonfiction:
- Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy
- Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 by Deborah Hopkinson
- Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman
Historical Fiction:
- Mr. Mysterious and Company by Sid Fleischman - Patent Medicine Shows
- Fair Weather by Richard Peck - 1893 Columbian Exposition
- The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli (Study Guide)
Picture Books (suitable for older children):
- Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America by Carol Bierman
HIGH SCHOOL - ADULT
Nonfiction:
- The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West by Dee Brown (1958)
- Roughing It by Samuel L. Clemens (1872; Silver rush to Nevada)
- The Story of American Railroads by Stuart H. Holbrook (1947)
- The Octopus: A California Story by Frank Norris - Novel about railway abuses (1901; free here)
- This Is the West by Robert Howard West, editor - Essays about the Western frontier (1960)
- The Sod House Frontier, 1854-1890 by Everett Newton Dick (1937; review here)
- Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone - Tales of the West 1840-1900 (1956)
- The Politicos: 1865-1896 by Matthew Josephson (1938)
- Life In The Age of Enterprise by Robert H. Walker (1967)
- The Rise of the City by Arthur M. Schlesinger (1933)
- How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis (1890; free here, audio)
- The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 by Lewis Mumford (1931; free here)
Historical Fiction:
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1913)
- My Antonia by Willa Cather (1918)
- Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland - Short stories of life on the plains (1891)
- The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1940)
- Raintree County by Ross F. Lockridge (1948)
- Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rolvaag (1927)
- The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (1902)
- Looking Backward 2000 - 1887 by Edward Bellamy
- The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells (1885)
- The Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport - Rise of steel industry and unions (1942)
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