American History Since 1877

Resources selected to supplement American History Since 1877 (HSTY 202) taught at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Rise of the City

Books in Our Library

• Coney Island: the People's Playground [O-SIZE F129.C75 I46 2002] - Photodocumentary of the history of Coney Island amusement park from the early 19th century to 2001. Primary source material.
  
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America [HV6248.M8 L37 2004]
• Fun and Games in Twentieth-century America: a Historical Guide to Leisure [GV53 .G56 2003]
• The Great Bridge [TG25.N53 M32 1982] - Book tells the story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Contains primary source images and references to primary source documents.
  
• The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983 [O-SIZE TG25.N53 G68 1983] - Published by the Brooklyn Museum. Primary source for images.
• Harlem on My Mind; Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 [O-SIZE F128.68.H3 S3] - "This book is a hard-cover edition of the catalogue prepared for the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit 'Harlem on My Mind.'" Contains primary source materials, e.g. images and articles from newspapers 1900-1968.
• Harlem: the Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930 [HT123 .S3]
• The Other Bostonians; Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970 [HN80.B7 T45]
• Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City [HN65 .T45]
• The Rise of the City, 1878-1898 [HT123 .S3]
• Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913 [O-SIZE NA6232 .L36 1996]
• The Urbanization of America, 1860-1915 [HT123 .M23]

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating books and media in the TC3 Library Catalog. Material not owned by our library can be located and borrowed through the SUNY Union Catalog, a single search interface for 62 SUNY library catalogs and WorldCat, a wordwide database of library books and materials.

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on Rise of the City in the TC3 Library Catalog, the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• Cities and towns, United States
• New York, Social life and customs
• Urbanization, United States
• United States, Civilization, 1865-1918
• United States, Social conditions, 1865-1918

Other Media

You can request audio-visual materials from Media Services.

History Journals in Electronic Format

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals, also listed by subject (History & Archaeology).

Web Resources

• 141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire; Trapped High Up in Washington Place Building; Street Strewn With Bodies; Piles of Dead Inside - New York Times, March 26, 1911. Search for additional articles about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in The New York Times Archive.
• Baseball Cards ~ 1887-1914
  Library of Congress, American Memory Collection.
• Baseball Guides and Spalding ~ 1889-1939
  Library of Congress, American Memory Collection.
• Brooklyn Bridge Website
  Website created by Gary Feuerstein contains primary source news articles and images from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• George Grantham Bain Collection
  This online collection "represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies." Emphasis is on New York City ca. 1900-1920; however, "scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s." From the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
• Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
  Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University.
• How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
  Jacob A. Riis, c1890.
• Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
  Library of Congress, American Memory Collection.
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• Museum of the City of San Francisco
• Museum of the City of New York: Virtual Exhibitions
  Past exhibitions include Five Points, Manhattan's Infamous Slum, New York on the Rise, The City of Greater New York: the Story of Consolidation, Looking North: Upper Manhattan in Photographs, 1896-1939, and more.
• New York's Great Industries. Exchange and Commercial Review, Embracing Also Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the City, its Leading Merchants and Manufacturers ...
  Digital version of original 1885 document from the Making of America Books collection.
• New York Subway: Its Construction and Development.
  "The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment was first published in 1904 by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, as a commemorative celebrating the opening of the subway."
• Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
• Triangle Factory Fire
• Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
• U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971
• World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
  "Created to provide world-wide access to thousands of illustrations and full-text images of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 for purposes of teaching and research."