Session 13: The Progressive Era, Day 2

Date: Saturday, June 1, 2019

Location: The Annex at the Humboldt County Office of Education

Agenda

“Women Reformers: Zit-ka-la-Sa, Madam Walker, and Emma Goldman”

“Ida B. Wells and the Anti-Lynching Crusade”

“Conservation, Preservation, and the National Parks Movement”

“Wrapping It Up”

Required Reading, Viewing, and Listening

Ken Burns, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (6 parts, 12 hours)

Gilder Lehrman Institute Resources

Lesson Plans

To be uploaded shortly

Spotlights on Primary Sources

“Women’s suffrage poster, 1915”

Essays 

Barbara Winslow, “Sisters of Suffrage: British and American Women Fight for the Vote,” History Now 7 (Spring 2006)

Videos

Blair Ruble, “Reform Cities: Chicago, Osaka, and Moscow”