Maggie+Historical+and+Social+Context


 * Primary Sources - Google Books**

[|How the Other Half Lives] : Studies among the tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis, 1902.

[|The Battle with the Slum] by Jacob August Riis. Sequel to //How the Other Half Lives//. Compelling real-life tales, accompanied by rare photographs and engravings, report on the status of living conditions among New York City's poor and exploited, including successful efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime and the removal from power of Boss Tweed and the Tammany organization. [|Children of the Tenements] by Jacob August Riis.


 * Database Research**

[|History Study Center](a smaller database within Bigchalk). Scroll down to **History Study Center.** Click on the **Study Units.** Enter a **keyword search. "New York" AND "slums"**

[|ABC-Clio] This link takes you to the **American History** database within ABC-Clio. Click on the **Explore an Era** link (top left corner of image). Scroll down to **A Growing Nation, 1850 - 1900**, **Urban Life**, and select "Shame of the Cities." Also try, **The Progressive Era**, and select "Reforming Government" or "Moral Reform."


 * Internet Resources**

by Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein
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[|City Life in the Late 19th Century]