Skip to Main Content
Additional Research Databases (History)
Themes & Topics
Science & Industry
Invention and entrepreneurship fuel change
Cotton gin (Eli Whitney)
Interchangeable parts
Smelting, Steel (Bessemer)
Dynamite (Nobel)
Electricity (Edison, Faraday)
Theory of Evolution (Darwin)
Germ Theory (Pasteur)
Bacterium & microbes' role in disease (Koch)
Antiseptics (Lister)
Hospital nursing (Nightingale)
Sewers
Skyscrapers
Energy, Transportation and Communication
Coal and steam fuel the revolution
New modes of transportation and communication spread ideas and goods faster
Telegraph
Locomotive
Transcontinental & Transoceanic Transport
Canals
Refrigeration (late period)
Flight (late period) (Wright brothers)
Economic, Political and Social Thought
People organize in new ways to accomplish things
Shift from agrarian economy to industrial economy
Population growth and wealth redistribution
Shift from feudal structures to social classes
Rise of the Working and Middle classes
Labor unions, labor rights, child labor
Mutual aid societies
Safety brigades (fire, police)
Suffrage. Struggle for Women's Rights
Factories
Assembly lines
Mines
Cities
Corporations, stocks and capital
Literature & Theater
Romanticism
Victor Hugo
Charlotte Bronte
Lord Byron
Goethe
Realism
Upton Sinclair
Charles Dickens
Henrik Ibsen
Art & Music
Romanticism
Delacroix
Impressionism
Van Gogh
Renoir
Cezanne
Monet
Manet
Featured Titles: Non-Fiction
Good Girl Work: factories, sweatshops...
Growing Up in Coal Country
Concise History of Science and Invention: an illustrated timeline
The Industrial Revolution: Steam and Steel
On the Origin of Species.
by Charles Darwin
Featured Titles: Literature
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
A Doll's House.
by Henrik Ibsen
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Faust. Part One and Two.
Goethe
Featured Titles: Art History
