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- African Americans History 1863-1877
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- Big business -— Government policy—United States—History
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- Industrialization -— United States -— History
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- Labor movement -— United States -— History
- Populism -— United States -— History
- Railroads -— United States -— History -- 19th Century
- United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918
- United States —- Economic conditions -— 1865-1918
- United States —- Emigration and immigration History 19th Century
- United States —- Foreign relations -— 1865-1921
- United States —- History -— 1865-1921
- United States —- Politics and government -— 1865-1900
- United States —- Social conditions -— 1865-1918
Selected Books
Beatty, Jack
Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
E661.B37 2007
Beatty claims that in the Gilded Age, corporations, not the people, ruled America.
Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
E661.B37 2007
Beatty claims that in the Gilded Age, corporations, not the people, ruled America.
Beatty, Jack
Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America
HD2356.U5 C65 2001
Beatty, a senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly, has gathered a wide array of documents with which he creates a history of the American corporation, from its beginnings in the 17th century to today.
Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America
HD2356.U5 C65 2001
Beatty, a senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly, has gathered a wide array of documents with which he creates a history of the American corporation, from its beginnings in the 17th century to today.
Livesay, Harold C.
Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
PENNA HD9520.C3 L58 2007
Incorporating the latest scholarship, this newly revised biography offers a compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most successful businessmen, while placing his life in the larger landscape of industrialism, capitalism, and the rise of big business.
Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
PENNA HD9520.C3 L58 2007
Incorporating the latest scholarship, this newly revised biography offers a compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most successful businessmen, while placing his life in the larger landscape of industrialism, capitalism, and the rise of big business.
Rayner, Richard, 1955-
The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
HE2752.R39 2008
Covers the lives of the Big Four: Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker. See also the 1938 book by Oscar Lewis: The Big Four; the story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the building of the Central Pacific.
The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
HE2752.R39 2008
Covers the lives of the Big Four: Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker. See also the 1938 book by Oscar Lewis: The Big Four; the story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the building of the Central Pacific.
Rauchway, Eric
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
E711.9.R38 2003
Rauchway's book begins with the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He explores turn of the century social conditions and whether Czolgosz was driven by his psychological state or by his anarchist ideology.
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
E711.9.R38 2003
Rauchway's book begins with the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He explores turn of the century social conditions and whether Czolgosz was driven by his psychological state or by his anarchist ideology.
Videos and DVDs
Around the World in 72 Days
(DVD) PN4874.C59 A85 2006x
Biographical documentary exploring the life of journalist Nellie Bly (who began her career in Pittsburgh), through her own words as well as through interviews with journalists, biographers, and historians. Special attention is paid to her ground-breaking investigative style, her exploits, and her highly publicized journey around the world in 1888.
(DVD) PN4874.C59 A85 2006x
Biographical documentary exploring the life of journalist Nellie Bly (who began her career in Pittsburgh), through her own words as well as through interviews with journalists, biographers, and historians. Special attention is paid to her ground-breaking investigative style, her exploits, and her highly publicized journey around the world in 1888.
Emma Goldman
(DVD) HX84.G64 E46 2004x
Covers the life of anarchist Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940), a Russian Jewish immigrant who was a champion of free thought, free speech, and free love and founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.
(DVD) HX84.G64 E46 2004x
Covers the life of anarchist Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940), a Russian Jewish immigrant who was a champion of free thought, free speech, and free love and founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Chiracahua Apaches tell their own story, a different story from the myths we have learned about the Apaches and about Geronimo (1829-1909).
Chiracahua Apaches tell their own story, a different story from the myths we have learned about the Apaches and about Geronimo (1829-1909).
Not for Ourselves Alone
(DVD) HQ1412.N668 2004bx
Documentary examining the friendship and working relationship between Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and lesser-known purveyor of women's rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902). Traces their efforts in the struggle for equality for women under the law and provides the story of a crucial era in the women's movement.
(DVD) HQ1412.N668 2004bx
Documentary examining the friendship and working relationship between Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and lesser-known purveyor of women's rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902). Traces their efforts in the struggle for equality for women under the law and provides the story of a crucial era in the women's movement.
One Woman, One Vote
Documents the 72-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
Documents the 72-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
The Orphan Trains
(DVD) HV985.O7759 2006x
Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
(DVD) HV985.O7759 2006x
Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
Transcontinental Railroad
(DVD) TF25.P23 T7325 2005x
This PBS American Experience video explores the travails of the entrepreneurs and engineers behind the building of the transcontinental railroad, discusses its effects on Native American and Chinese immigrant populations and describes how the railroad transformed the landscape of the American West.
(DVD) TF25.P23 T7325 2005x
This PBS American Experience video explores the travails of the entrepreneurs and engineers behind the building of the transcontinental railroad, discusses its effects on Native American and Chinese immigrant populations and describes how the railroad transformed the landscape of the American West.
Web Sites
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Across the Generations: Exploring US History Through Family Papers
This is an online collection from the Smith College Libraries of the papers of the Bodmans, Dunhams, Garrisons, and Hales -- white, middle-class, traditional families -- whose experiences represent a portion of American society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -
America's Story from America's Library: The Gilded Age (1878-1889)
This Library of Congress web site for students notes that the Gilded Age was marked by the growth of industry and a wave of immigrants. The site includes additional readings on the period. -
American Cultural History: the 19th Century
Print and internet resources for studying the cultural history by decade from 1800-1890s by the librarians at Kingwood College Library. -
The American Experience: Andrew Carnegie
This is the companion website to the PBS documentary on Andrew Carnegie which deals with the "Gilded Age" of the late 19th century. -
Library of Congress: American Memory
Digital collections -
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age
These are special web projects created by the Ohio State University Department of History. -
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Check out this Stanford University site about the popular reading material during the second half of the 18th century. Read about Nick Carter-Detective, Buffalo Bill, California Joe, Jesse James, Fred Fearnot and Deadwood Dick. -
The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
An online exhibit from the National Museum of American History about the depletion of many bird species at the end of the 19th century due to feather hunters and the resulting development of conservation societies such as the Audubon. -
Gilded Age Documents
This is a collection of electronic texts written by US authors or widely read by Americans in the Gilded Age (loosely defined here as 1866-1901), used in Scott Nelson's post-bellum US History class at the College of William and Mary. -
The Great Chicago Fire (1871) and the Web of Memory
from Northwestern University and the Chicago Historical Society. Photographs and essays on the fire and the rebuilding of Chicago. -
H-Net: Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)
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HarpWeek
A website that provides information about the 19th century from articles in its leading illustrated newspaper, Harper's Weekly. -
How the Other Half Lives, Studies among the tenements of New York
This hypertext edition of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York reproduces the full text and all the illustrations from the original print edition of this classic of photojournalism, first published in 1890 by Charles Scribner's Sons. -
Library of Congress American Memory
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The Evolution of the American Conservation Movement 1850-1920
documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage - National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection - 1848-1921
- Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920
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The Evolution of the American Conservation Movement 1850-1920
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Lowell, Massachusetts, National Historic Park
Information on the growth of the textile industry in early and mid 19th century as exhibited in Lowell Massachusetts. -
Making of America
Cornell University's digital library offering primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monographs and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. -
Mark Twain Papers
The Mark Twain Papers contain the private papers of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) that he himself segregated and made available to his official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. This digital collection is at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. -
New York: Lower East Side Tenement Museum
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is "to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway to America." -
PBS: Not for Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
The companion website to the documentary on the woman suffragists. Includes writings, biographies, lesson plans.
