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The Battle with the Slum - Jacob Riis
This article is written by the famous photographer and journalist Jacob Riis who fought to improve the conditions of the slums in New York City. He believes that the slums are not the result of the people who reside in them. The result is of some…
Tags: Jacob Riis, tenements
Standard Oil
The Gilded Age, and the years leading up to it, introduced a new kind of wealth, one that was controlled by a select elite. These "Captains of Industry" were coined as Robber Barons by their critics and consisted of JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew…
Tags: 1890s, Gilded Age, Martin Dressler
Philanthropy
This source by George Iles from the March issue of The Century, George looks at the large gifts of the philanthropists and other business men of the time. The article opens by acknowledging that massive fortunes have been amassed by American…
Tags: philanthropy
"A Boychik Up-To-Date"
When I came across this particular booklet of sheet music for the common day "boychik," I thought that this was the perfect example of Eastern Jewish immigrants attempting to merge into American culture. The cover depicts a Jewish boy that is so…
Tags: Abraham Cahan, Americanization, Immigration, Jewish, Yekl
Skaters on the Lake in Central Park, circa 1890
This image shows people ice skating on the lake in Central Park around 1890. The image is in black and white and shows the Dakota, a famous luxury apartment building in New York City, in the background, surrounded by a wintery landscape. Central Park…
Tags: 1890s, Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted
A View on Success
This article written by Titus Munson Coan from the February publication of The Galaxy in 1871 is about what was believed to make individuals successful. The article takes a cue from the "theory" of evolution in its explanation of what makes people…
The Constitution of the United States
After researching more on the topic of mass immigration in America, otherwise known as the "Great Migration," I came across a very unique translation of the United States' Constitution. This translation caught my eye in particular because it was…
Einstein's Theory of Relativity
I came across an interesting document as began to look more into known Jewish people who immigrated to America. This document in particular happened to belong to none other than Albert Einstein, the founder of the general theory of relativity and…