Doherty High School Media Center

Building America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts
This lesson plan is based on the national historic park that is the site of "mills built from the mid-1830s to the early 20th century, reflecting the early use of waterpower, steam power, and finally electric power." Discusses the Industrial Revolution, cotton mill equipment, the textile industry, and related topics. Includes images, maps, and related resources. From the National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places program.
url: http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/21boott/21boott.htm

 

An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
A collection of over 7,000 advertisements, catalogs, newspaper clippings, leaflets, menus, pamphlets, proclamations, programs, timetables, and other ephemera. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by author, title, genre, and originating location. Items "capture the experience of the American Revolution, slavery, the western land rush, the American Civil War, woman suffrage, and the Industrial Revolution from the viewpoint of those who lived through those events." From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html

E.H.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History This growing resource "is designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles" about economic and business history. Covers the Industrial Revolution, banking, labor, the Great Depression, and dozens of other topics. "Articles are written by experts ... and carefully edited" by a team of academics. EH.Net is supported by the Economic History Association, whose purpose is "to encourage and promote teaching, research, and publication on every phase of economic history." URL: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/

 

Causes, Innovations, Social Effects, Industrial Revolution elsewhere

        http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Industrial-revolution

The British Work Houses

        http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

Women working during the Industrial Revolution

        http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html

The Nineteenth-Century City

        http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ecity19c/viccity/home.html

Industrial Revolution Timeline

        http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/curricul.htm#6

PBS Industrial Revolution Webpage

        http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web04/segment1.html