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Urban Crisis: Disease, Crime, and Space
Resource Type: E-Seminar

Relevant pages:
Central Park

Relevant texts:
Creating Valuable Land

Relevant transcripts:
The Most Important Park

Relevant interactive tools:
Central Park Bird's Eye View. Lithograph by Bachman (1863).
Design Element, Part 1
Design Element, Part 2
Central Park Bird's Eye View. Lithograph by Bachman (1863).
Design Element, Part 1
Design Element, Part 2

Urban Society: Central Park and Social Reform
Resource Type: Document-Based Question
This microhistory of Central Park in New York City provides students with a laboratory for learning how social reformers attempted to clean the city of its slums and promote the well-being of its residents. These tools can be applied to the study of any large city.

Railroad Ad
Resource Type: Primary Source
This Northern Pacific Railroad advertisement appeared in a 1900 issue of Harper's Weekly. The advertisement promotes travel to Yellowstone National Park.

Growth of Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Resource Type: Primary Source
This 1959 chart shows the growth in membership of women involved in the movement to prohibit the consumption of alcohol.



	Historical thinking Discovering primary sources (2) Interpreting and analysing (3) Narrating history (3) Resource types Video Transcripts (1) Text Excerpts (1)

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