Films
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Newsies (Amazon Instant) - Loosely based on the 1899 newsboys' strike in New York City
- The Music Man - Musical, set in 1912
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Pollyanna - Based on the 1913 best-seller
- Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 - the newer version does not follow the book!)
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Mary Poppins (British)
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Iron Jawed Angels - 1912-1920 women's suffrage movement (Learning Guide available)
Documentaries:
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American Experience: America 1900
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Biography: The Kellogg Brothers: Cornflake Kings (Netflix)
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Project XX: The Innocent Years, 1900-1914 (Netflix)
Books
UPPER ELEMENTARY - MIDDLE SCHOOL
Nonfiction:
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Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman
- Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism by Ann Bausum
- With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by Ann Bausum
Historical Fiction:
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Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Patterson
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Billy Creekmore by Tracey Porter
- Selling Hope by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
- The Betsy-Tacy Series by Maud Hart Lovelace (This chart shows the time period each book covers)
- Father's Big Improvements by Caroly Ryrie Brink - A quick, fun, and light-hearted read!
- Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Carey Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
- All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Picture Books: (suitable for older children)
- If You Lived At The Time Of The Great San Francisco Earthquake by Ellen Levine
HIGH SCHOOL - ADULT
Nonfiction:
- Our Times, Vol. 1: The Turn of the Century by Mark Sullivan
- Our Times, Vol. 2: America Finding Herself by Mark Sullivan
- Our Times, Vol. 3: Pre-War America by Mark Sullivan
- Our Times, Vol. 4: The War Begins, 1909-1914 by Mark Sullivan
- Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform by Eric Goldman (1952)
- The Quest for Social Justice: 1898-1914 by Harold Faulkner
- The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. by Richard Hofstadter
- The Lords of Creation by Frederick Allen Douglas (1935)
- The Great American Novel by Clyde B. Davis - Covers events of the Progressive Era. (1938)
- The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos (1930)
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906)
- Adversary in the House by Irving Stone - Fictionalized life of Eugene V. Debs (1947)
Labels: The American Pageant, U.S. History
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