SUGGESTED RESOURCES AND MATERIALSBaron, Robert and Thomas Locker. 2004. Hudson: The Story of a River. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing. Everett, Felicity and Struan Reid. Illustrated by Peter Dennis. The Usborne Book of Explorers. London: Usborne Publishing, Ltd. Flexner, James T. 1993. Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action. New York: Fordham University Press. Gillis, Jennifer B. 2004. Lives and Times: Robert Fulton. Chicago: Heineman Library. Macaulay, David. 1993. Ship. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Sale, Kirkpatrick. 2002. The Fire of His Dream. New York: Touchstone. Sansevere-Dreher, Diane. 1992. "Henry Hudson." In Explorers Who Got Lost. New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book. Sutcliffe, Alice Crary. 1909. Robert Fulton and the Clermont. New York: The Century Company.
Wineburg, Sam. 2007. Reading Like a Historian Toolkit. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
WEBSITES
Fulton's Own Account of His First Trip to Albany
Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807
Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River (Chapter 2: "The First Steamboat")
Photo of Robert Fulton
Steamboat on the Hudson
Maps and images - Industrial Revolution
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