Carnegie

Calendar for this Unit


Lectures and Course Materials for the Carnegie Humanities Unit

 

 

General Information and Biography

 

Some Key Dates and Events In the Life of Andrew Carnegie
Compiled by Professor Spoerl

 

The PBS/American Experience Carnegie website:

Carnegie Timeline from PBS Site

Meet Andrew Carnegie from the PBS site

Virtual tour of the Newport Mansion from PBS site

 

Andrew Carnegie
Very Short Biography.
Brad Delong UC Berkeley

Carnegie, Andrew
Biographical articles and excerpts and a link to his writings from arhswebsearch.com.


Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Pennsylvania Department, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Informational links from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg.

Carnegie Started as a Bobbin Boy
The New York Times Obituary from August 12, 1919.

Twain speaks at dinner for Andrew Carnegie
From The New York Times, March 18, 1909

Andrew Carnegie Image Collection
From Carnegie-Mellon University

 

Andrew Carnegie Friend or Foe
Term Paper by Marjorie A. Renick

Annotated Bibliography For Andrew Carnegie
from the above paper. Nicely annotated.

Index to the above Bibliography

Andrew Carnegie: Evaluating a Capitalist Icon
Michael J. Swogger’s article from January 25, 2003 from the Suite101 website.

Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie - by Frederick Lynch
Entire text of the book from the
University of Virginia Library.

 

Anti-Carnegie: Scraps and Comments
By M. F. and J. C. Campbell, on The Anti-Imperial movement of 1898

 

Carnegie for Kids
from Carnegie.org site.
Useful Biography.



Andrew Carnegie’s Writings

Carnegie reads aloud from the Gospel of Wealth
Real Audio recording. From History Matters site


Round the World
Carnegie’s journal of his 1878-1879 trip around the world from the Blackmask Online website.


Andrew Carnegie's Collected Writings
Links to his works from the dmoz open directory website.

Writings

Collection of links to Carnegie’s writings from arhswebsearch.com.

The Gospel of Wealth and other essays
1900 edition. Introduction and twelve essays. Baha'i website; some essays have commentary added in separate column

 

WEALTH by ANDREW CARNEGIE
An essay from the North American Review published in June of 1889.

The Gospel of Wealth

One of Carnegie’s essays from the American Studies at the University of Virginia website.

 Carnegie’s Biography Of James Watt



 Information on Steelmaking and its Impact on Society

 

Professor Joseph Spoerl, “A Brief History of Iron and Steel Production
includes bibliography and list of links

Bibliography on Steelmaking
From the above paper.

 

Carnegie’s Ode to Steel
A poem on steel. From the History Matters site.

 

Stubbles, John. “The Basic Oxygen Steelmaking Process.” 
American Iron and Steel Institute Steelworks Learning Center.


A good way to learn about the iron manufacturing process prior to its transformation in the Industrial Revolution is to visit the Saugus Iron Works, an authentic recreation of the first integrated iron works in North America (1646-1668), run by the National Park Service in Saugus, MA.  http://www.nps.gov/sair AND http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/30saugus/30facts1.htm

An index of sites on iron, steel, and Carnegie

Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
From Ohio State’s website.


Homestead Strike

 

Pittsburgh Survey of 1910
Study of the living conditions in the
Homestead mill town from Patrick Hall’s website.

 

Period Pieces on Steel making and the mill town

Ohio State website. Includes pieces on Homestead.

 

Ohio State Page on Homestead Strike
Has many of the Carnegie articles

 

Musical Saga of Homestead
Worker written song from History Matters site

Emma Goldman: “I Will Kill Frick.”
from History Matters site


Carnegie’s Endowments
1) The Carnegie Corporation of New York: http://www.carnegie.org

 

2) The Carnegie Institution of Washington: http://carnegieinstitution.org

 

3) The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: http://www.ceip.org

 

4) The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org

 

5) The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland: http://www.carnegie-trust.org

 

6) The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust: http://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk

 

 

 

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