Eco 24: Competing Philosophies in US Economic Policy
Winter, 2001
Mr. Klein


Economics 24  Other Links

 

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This page is under construction.  It represents my notes on potentially interesting sites to use with Economics 24, Competing Philosophies in U.S. Economic Policy.  Warning: some of these links may be broken.  This is not an official part of the course web-site.

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General references and history sources:

Today in history

Today in history - another site

Today in History - Scope Systems

The Library of Congress

National Archives and Records Administration Home Page

History in the Raw: Why Teach with Primary Source Documents, from the National Archives

American History Resources on the Internet

American History Project from the Netherlands, including many primary source documents, 1400-2000

ThinkQuest '97 Politics and Political Campaigns, including a timeline.
Written by students, and does not include Alexander Hamiltion!

19th Century Documents Project, from Furman.  Includes Bank Veto speech, Wealth,

Economic History site at Miami of Ohio

History 122 at Northern Virginia Community College.  Many documents at this site, plus links to other primary sources

The History Net a commercial history service.

University of Oklahoma Law Center links to documents in US history

American Economic History  course outline and notes, from CMU - Poole


Mercantilism and Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations from Bibliomania

Complete text in one file, U. of Virginia

Definition of Mercantilism, from a syllabus on Capitalism, Culture, and Technology

The Sugar Act, 1764, full text

founding.com, a guide to the Declaration of Independence, including Colonial and British documents,
see the part called Founders Library


The Federalist Program and the Constitution

These 2 are from Cornell Law School:

The Constitution of the United States, from the Cornell ILL

The Federalist Papers, and other early documents

The ILL Home Page

Thomas Jefferson's Autobiography, from Bibliomania


Women, Slavery, Labor, and Human Rights

Tocqueville web site

Tocqueville's view of women in america, winning web site

Documents on Womens Suffrage, from the National Archives

Introduction to Women's Suffrage from the American History website

Harriett Martineau web site

Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Address

Lives of Working Men and Women, a selection of readings.

Daily Lives of Working People: Includes the Following:
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
Memoirs of a Sweatshop Girl
Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities The Steel Mills of Pittsburgh
A Chinese Immigrant's Story


Money, Banking and Currency

Biography of Andrew Jackson, sections 16 and 17 are on the bank war, section 19 on nullification

William Jennings Bryan exhibition

The 1896 page, with a link to the Cross of Gold speech, another Cross of Gold site

Full text of the Cross of Gold speech.  A second source of the same

Wizard of Oz links  This site has lots of historical documents about a varitey of 1890s topics which would have been known to Frank Baum, author of  the Wizard of Oz.

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Big Business, Regulation, Antitrust

Course at Carnegie Mellon University on the History of Railroads. - Poole

Course at Carnegie Mellon University on ENTREPRENEURS AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH

Henry George, from Progress and Poverty, 1888

Carnegie, Wealth

Lessons of the Robber Barrons, written in 1997

Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890

Monopoly cases, including the Standard Oil case, 1911


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