American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/
“The Nation’s Forum Collection consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders from 1918-1920. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920. Speakers include Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing. Speeches range from one to five minutes.”
The idea for this website came from Guy Golterman, who after visiting the Library of Congress commented “As I looked at the facsimile of Washington’s farewell and the original of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, I profoundly wished that the vitality of their voices could have been preserved.” Indeed! How fascinating would it be if we could hear such influential and significant speeches with our own ears. Fortunately, many sound recordings of more recent figures in U.S. history have been preserved. Listening to these speeches has a profound effect as emotion, emphasis and personality come alive through the spoken word. The audio files are provided in .wav format as well as for Real Audio. Text of the speeches are also provided along with some photographs.

The Spanish-American War: In Motion Pictures
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html
"This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role…”
Brought to you by the American Memory collection, The Spanish-American War: In Motion Pictures is a great way of incorporating technology in the classroom via primary documents. On this website one can find many short clips from the time period of the Spanish-American War, such as “Colored Troops Disembarking”, “Parade of Marines, U.S. cruiser ‘Brooklyn’”, “McKinley and Party”, and “President Roosevelt and the Rough Riders”, among others. As a means of better facilitating the learning process an Understanding the Collection section is available that helps briefly explain the chronology of the war, and a Working with the Collection section is available for the educator to help bring the technology to the classroom. These clips can be downloaded in Real Media, MPEG, or QuickTime formats, giving the visitor different options in terms of file size and software compatibility. The file sizes are rather large, but with high speed or broadband access the clips should not take long to download.

Suffragists Speak 1910-1920: A Multimedia Source
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/final-projects/suffragists/SuffragistsSpeak/Homeframecontracted.html
“Welcome to Suffragists Speak! The core of this site is a unique set of oral histories of women who both inherited and fulfilled the hopes of the suffrage movement's early pioneers such as Susan B. Anthony…To bring this critical period to life, a diverse mix of primary and secondary resources are available. These sources are suitable for scholarly researchers as well as those who are simply curious about this important period in our history.”
This website was developed by the Bancroft Library and graduate students from UC Berkeley’s School of Information Management and Systems. For background information it contains an excellent timeline that divides events into 3 columns: Suffragist Events, Historical Events and Politics, and Literature and Arts. This is a great place to start to gain a historical context for the primary sources on the website. The textual primary documents include Oral Histories, Periodicals, Correspondence, Books, Speeches (Text), Diaries, Ephemera, Photographs and Newsreels. There are also audio files of songs and interviews. This website helps add personality and put faces to the Women’s Suffrage movement. Ultimately, it is a fascinating subject and a fascinating collection of primary sources.

The Triangle Factory Fire
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
“The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The incident has had great significance to this day because it highlights the inhumane working conditions to which industrial workers can be subjected…This web exhibit presents original documents and secondary sources on the Triangle Fire, held by the Cornell University Library.”
This is an excellent web exhibit that incorporates historical analysis with lots of primary sources. These primary sources include documents, photographs, oral history audio files, illustrations and others. The significance of the Triangle Waist Company fire in the labor movement of the early 1900’s makes this exhibit all the more valuable. The fire broke out in the factory on March 25, 1911 and the near 150 deaths were blamed as much on the unsafe working conditions as on the fire. It led to public outcry and protest and remains today one of the prime examples of the dangerous side of early industrial America. This website provides both the primary sources and more than ample secondary analysis and discussion of the event and its consequences. Teachers and students interested in the Progressive Era, the Industrial Revolution or the labor movements of the early 1900’s will find this site interesting and useful.