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Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Monopoly
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Primary Sources | Books |
Videos | Teacher Resources
Gilded Age
Gilded Age and
Progressive Era Resources Link collection from the Department of History,
Tennessee Technological University.
The Gilded
Age (1876-1900) Study guide from SparkNotes.
1890s
America: A Chronology By Dr. William Grant and Ken Dvorak, Bowling
Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
The
Rise of Big Business Links to articles from Gilder Lehrman History
Online.
Horatio Alger
Jr. Resources Links to texts, biographies of Alger, and other resources.
From the Washburn University School of Business, Topeka, Kansas.
John D. Rockefeller
The
Rockefellers Timeline,
teacher resources, and links from PBS's "The American Experience."
The
Rockefellers An
online book by Edward Jay Epstein.
Standard Oil -- a three part series by Brian Trumbore, president of StocksandNews.com.
Part
1
Part
2
Part
3
John D. Rockefeller
and the Standard Oil Company An online book by François
Micheloud.
I,
Monopolist An
imaginary interview with John D. Rockefeller. From Wired.com.
John D. Rockefeller Biographies:
John
Davidson Rockefeller Includes links. By Quentin Duroy.
John
D and Standard Oil Includes links. From Bowling Green State University.
John
D. Rockefeller
A short biography and links. From Spartacus Schoolnet.
Rockefeller and Standard
Oil . . . Rags to riches
A strongly anti-Rockefeller biography with links.
John
D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937 From the Rockefeller Archive Center.
John D. Rockefeller
Outline biography
with links. By Keith T. Poole, professor of political science, University
of Houston.
Columbia Encyclopedia
World Book Encyclopedia
Rockefeller
University
Wikipedia
History
Channel
New
York Times Book Review #1: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
New
York Times Book Review #2: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Columbia
Journalism Review: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
New
York Times Obituary (1937)
Yahoo
Directory
J. P. Morgan
Biographies:
Biograpy.com
Spartacus
SchoolNet
ABC
News
Wikipedia
Columbia Encyclopedia
Encarta
People
of Connecticut
Connecticut's
Heritage Gateway
New
York Times Book Review #1: Morgan: American Financier
New
York Times Book Review #2: Morgan: American Financier
Business
Week review of Morgan: American Financier
Christian
Science Monitor review of Morgan: American Financier
Booknotes:
Morgan: American Financier
History
Channel
Biography of America
Gilder
Lehrman History Online
PBS's
American Experience
Internet Obituary Network
Encyclopedia
Titanica
1911
Edition Encyclopedia
Museum
of American Financial History
Free
Pages
Ben Macri
Educate
Yourself
Google
Web Directory
Open
Directory Project
Quotes
of J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Biographies:
Columbia Encyclopedia
Biography.com
Spartacus
SchoolNet
PBS's "American Experience"
Keith T. Poole
Carnegie
Corporation #1
Carnegie Corporation
#2
Carnegie
Public Library
Carnegie Library
of Pittsburgh
Glenn A. Walsh
History
Channel
Carnegie
Club at Skibo Castle
Let's Talk Business
Network
Wikipedia
New
York Times Obituary (1919)
Google
Directory
Yahoo
Directory
Open
Directory Project
The Gospel
of Wealth Carnegie's text. From Modern History Sourcebook. (Primary
source document)
Leland Stanford
Biographies:
Columbia Encyclopedia
Biography.com
PBS's
"The West."
PBS's
"Transcontinental Railroads"
Building the
Pacific Railroad--A Narrative History
Stanford University
Wikipedia
Lee Altenberg
Schenectady
County Public Library
Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
American Dreams
Dawn
Emord and David Bushong
Douglas
Keister
American
Western History Museums
Central Pacific
Railroad Photographic History Museum
Yahoo
Directory
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Biographies:
Columbia Encyclopedia
World Book
Biography.com
Keith T. Poole
Student
at University of St. Francis
Wikipedia
History
Channel
Vanderbilt
University
Business
Biography
Simply
Biographies
Costa Rica
Net Guide
Dictionary
of American Biography
Ometepe and La Suerte
Yahoo
Directory
Jay Gould
Biographies:
Columbia Encyclopedia
Biography.com
Gilder
Lehrman History Online
By (Apparently)
an Ancestor
Wikepedia
Educate
Yourself
David M. Beach
Handbook
of Texas
History
Channel
World Book
Columbia Encyclopedia
U.S.History.com
Harp
Week
StocksAndNews
Part
1 (Even though it says "Part 3")
Part
2
Primary Sources
Gilded
Age Documents
Standard Oil Company
v. U.S. (1911) U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The
History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) by Ida M. Tarbell
Books
John
D. Rockefeller: Anointed With Oil by Grant Segall
Ragged
Dick, or, Street Life in New York With Boot Blacks by Horatio Alger
Jr.
Struggling
Upward, or, Luke Larkin's Luck by Horatio Alger Jr.
Full
Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad by Rhoda
Blumberg
Iron
Horses Across America: The Transcontinental Railroad edited by Jeanne
M. Bracken
The
Gilded Age: A History in Documents by Janette Thomas Greenwood
Andrew
Carnegie: Steel King and Friend to Libraries by Zachary Kent
Industry
and Business by Linda Leuzzi
The
Rise of Industry 1860-1900 by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln
Collier
Videos
The
Rockefellers A PBS film. A transcript
is available online.
"Andrew
Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World" From PBS's The American
Experience. A transcript
of the program is available online.
Transcontinental
Railroad A PBS film. A transcript
is available online.
Teacher Resources
Titan:
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
The
House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow
Morgan:
American Financier by Jean Strouse
The
Gilded Age Webquest From the Oswego City School District, New York.
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