Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources

General Resources on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era online (History Cooperative)
• The Nation magazine sin ce 1865: History Packs
• Course Syllabi and Teaching Materials (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progresive Era)
• The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1917 (K.A. Kerr, Ohio State University)
• The Gilded Age: Special Topics (Ohio State University)
• Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Ohio State University)
• Gilded Age home page (S. R. Nelson, College of William and Mary)
• The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Guide to Resources & Research on the Web
  (Department of History, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
• Association of Historians of American Art
• San Francisco State University History WWW site
• The United States in the Progressive Era (R. Bannister, Swarthmore College)
• Websites for the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era (R. Cherny, San Francisco State University)
• The Transformation of Modern America, 1912-1945
  (Patrick D. Reagan, Tennessee Technological University)
• History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
• Presentations of Public History Online: People, Places, Politics, and Social Movements of the Progressive Era [Public History Resource Center, January 12, 2004]

Political Leaders

• The Presidential Elections from 1860-1912 (HarpWeek)
• American Political Prints, 1766-1876: Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress (HarpWeek)
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (HarpWeek)
• Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden: The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877 (HarpWeek)
• Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (Fremont, OH)
• Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes
  Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, OH)
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia)
  [includes oral history interviews, secret recordings, and bibliographies of and about key U.S. political leaders]
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (American Experience, PBS)(
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Jump, Jim Crow or, What Differecne Did Emancipation Make? (Universisty of California, Berkeley)
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Ferris State University)
• The American 1890s (Bowling Green State University)
• 1896 Presidential Election (R. Edwards, Vassar College)
• William Jennings Bryan: Resources [mostly photographs]
  (Speer Memorial Library, Mission, TX)
• "A Righteous Cause: a film about William Jennings Bryan (Century VII)
• William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech, 1896
• William Allen White's What's the Matter with Kansas Speech, 1896
• The Era of William McKinley (Ohio State University)

Transformation of the West

• Native American History and Culture
• Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin (Lakota Information Home Page)
• Coalition for Western Women's History
• WestWeb: Western History Resource (C. Lavender, College of Staten Island, CUNY)
• New Perspectives on the West (WETA/PBS)
• The West and the Frontier in American Culture (American Library Association)
• Western History Collections: Photo Archives [focus on 1870-1940 period]
  (University of Oklahoma Libraries)
• American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming)
• Center of the American West (University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Autry Museum of Western Heritage
• Chisholm Trail (1867-1997)
• The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
  (International Museum of the Horse)
• Texas Buffalo Soldiers (Austin Learning Academy)

The Rise of Big Business and American Workers

• Picturing Business in America: Hedcuts from the Wall Street Journal (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
• The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie (The American Experience/PBS)
• Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum (Dunfermline Fife)
• James J. Hill Manuscript Services
• Thomas A. Edison Papers (Rutgers University)
• Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 (Duke University)
• Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Ohio State University)
• Cartoon of John D. Rockefeller (Horace Taylor, The Verdict, January 22, 1900)
• Labor-Management Conflict in American History (Ohio State University)
• Illinois Labor History Society
• Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
• The Dramas of Haymarket (Chicago Historical Society)
• America at Work, America at Leisure, 1894-1915 [American Memory, Library of Congr3ess)

Literary and Cultural Resources

• The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive (University of Virginia)
• Poet at Work: Recoevered Notebooks of the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Mark Twain (F.J. Zwick, Syracuse University)
• Mark Twain in His Times ((Electronic Text Center of Virginia)Horatio Alger, Jr. Resources (Washburn University)
• Nineteenth Century Studies Journal
• Nineteenth Century American Women Writers
• The Victorian Web (Brown University)
• The Nation magazine sin ce 1865: History Packs
• The Great Plains Chautauqua, Inc. (Bismarck, ND)
• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Ferris State University)
• The History of Jim Crow
• Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
• Godey's Lady's Book Online (University of Rochester)
• The Arts and Crafts Society
• World's Fairs and Expositions: Defining America and the World, 1876-1916 (J.W. Zwick)
• International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World's Fairs, 1851-1951: A Bibliography (A.C.T. Geppert, J. Coffey, T. Lau
• The Centennial Exhibition: Philadelphia 1876 (Free Library of Philadelphia)
• The Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory (Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University)
• Chicago Architects Oral History Project (The Art Institute of Chicago)
• The Chicago Architecture Imagebase (University of Illinois, Chicago)
• World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893)
• Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports (John W. Reps, Cornell University)

The Crisis of the 1890s

• The American 1890s (Bowling Green State University)
• Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History
  Editor: Robert H. Bremner
  Associate Editors: John Barnard, Tamara Hareven, Robert Mennel
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) [Hypertext edition] (Yale University)
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) (hypertext edition by tenant.net)
• On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century (W. Crozier et al.)
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum (WNET)
• Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo, Ohio
  (University of Toledo)
• Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
• Jane Addams: Mother of the World (Swarthmore College)
• Jane Addams Manuscript Collection (Swarthmore College)
• Jane Addams' Hull House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Jane Addams Photographs (Swarthmore College)
• Ida Tarbell: Life and Works (Allegheny College)
• Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
• Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
• The Parable of Pullman (Illinois Labor History Society)
• Essay on Populism by Gene Clanton
• 1896 Presidential Election (R. Edwards, Vassar College)
• William Jennings Bryan: Resources [mostly photographs]
  (Speer Memorial Library, Mission, TX)
• "A Righteous Cause: a film about William Jennings Bryan (Century VII)
• William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech, 1896
• William Allen White's What's the Matter with Kansas Speech, 1896
• The Era of William McKinley (Ohio State University)

The War with Spain, 1898 and Aftermath

• U.S. Naval Historical Center (Washington, D.C.)
• U.S. Naval War College (Newport, Rhode Island)
• U.S. Naval Institute (Annapolis, Maryland)
• U.S. Army Center of Military History (Washington, D.C.)
• U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)
• U.S. Army War College and Military History Institute (Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania)
• The Age of Imperialism (Small Planet Communications)
• Chronology of the Spanish-American War (Library of Congress)
• The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
  (Hispanic Division, Library of Congress)
• The Spanish-American War Centennial Website
• Remember the Maine (Maine PBS)
• A Special Report, "What Really Sank the Maine,"
  edited by Thomas B. Allen Naval History magazine
• William McKinley and the Spanish-American War (Ohio State University)
• The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The U.S Army in the War with Spain (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
• Events--Spanish-American War (U.S. Naval Historical Center)
• U.S. Warships of the Spanish American War
  (American Military History Web Rng
• Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  (site of U.S.S. Olympia, Commodore George Dewey's flagship at Battle of Manila Bay
• 1898: La Guerra Hispano Americana en Puerto Rico
• Centennial of the War of 1898
  (Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá)
• A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish-American Conflict (New York Public Library)
• Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Perspectives (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Annexation of Hawaii: A Collection of Documents
  (University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries)
• Philippine History 101 (Tribung Pinoy)
• BoondocksNet.com (Jim Zwick)
• Philippine-American War Centennial Initiative
• The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, John M. Gates (Wooster College)

The New Immigration and Urban America

• Immigration & Ethnic History Society
• Port of Entry: Immigration (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
• Save Ellis Island
• Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway (International Channel)
• Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)
• American Jewish Historical Society
• History, Geneaology and Education (U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service)
• Urban History Association
• Society for American City and Regional Planning History
• H-Urban Web Links
• Three Cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: Literary and Visual Representations of Three American Cities, 1870s to 1930s
  (University of Nottingham and University of Birmingham, U.K.)
• Chicago Architects Oral History Project (The Art Institute of Chicago)
• Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 (Hull House/University of Illinois, Chicago)
• City Directories of the United States (sarting from 1859)) (Primary Source Media)
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) (hypertext edition by tenant.net)
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) [Hypertext edition] (Yale University)
• On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century (W. Crozier et al.)
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum (WNET)
• Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History
  Editor: Robert H. Bremner
  Associate Editors: John Barnard, Tamara Hareven, Robert Mennel
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Jazz Age Chicago: Urban Leisure from 1893 to 1934 (S.A. Newman)
• Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo, Ohio
  (University of Toledo)
• Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
• Association of Historians of American Art
• Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports (John W. Reps, Cornell University)
• The Jack London Collection (Sunsite Berkeley Digital Library)
• Theodore Dreiser: Discussion and Information (Fukushima Uiv., Japan)
• Philadelphia Trolleys Photographs from early 20th Century (Free Library of Philadelphia)

Progressive Reform, 1901-1917

• Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Inside an American Factory: The Westinghouse Works, 1904 (American Memory Project, Lib. of Congress)
• Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
  (Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University)
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
  (National Museum of American History)
• Children & Youth in America: A Documentary History
  Editor: Robert H. Bremner
  Associate Editors: John Barnard, Tamara Hareven, Robert Mennel
• Katharine Bement Davis: New York City's Suffragist Commissioner (New York City Dept. of Correction)
• La Follette School of Public Affairs (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• A History of the Socialist Party of America University of North Carolina)
• Eugene V. Debs Foundation
• In the Shadow of the I.W.W. (Walter P. Reuther Library)
• The I.W.W.: Its History, Structure and Methods by Vincent St. John
  
• I.W.W. Pamphlets: Selections from the Colorful and Stirring I.W.W. Chapbooks
  
• I.W.W. Songs
  
• George E. Mowy, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 (1958)
• Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Libary of Congress, 1759-1919
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace (New York City)
• Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural (Buffalo, New York)
• 1912: Competing Visions for America (Ohio State University)
• Essays and Speeches by Theodore Roosevelt in the Election of 1912
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
• Mapping the National Parks (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• National Parks and Conservation Assocation
• Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (1954, 1963)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Ferris State University)
• African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1880-1920 (Library of Congress)
• Martin Scorsese presents The Blues (PBS, 2003)
• Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
• Jackson Davis Collection (University of Virginia Library)
• Alcohol and Temperance History Group
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 (SUNY, Binghamton)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online (Rutgers University)
• The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (University of South Carolina)
• Women's History Resource Center (General Federation of Women's Clubs
• "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Votes for Women (Huntington Library, San Marino, CA)
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1860-1920 (Library of Congress)
• Susan B. Anthony University Center (University of Rochester)
• Women's Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls, NY)
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
  (class materials from National Archives and Records Administration)
• "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1860-1920
  (Library of Congress)
• Suffragists Oral History Project (University of California Berkeley Library)
• 95/75, 75th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage in America (University of Rochester)
• Jo Freeman, "The Rise of Political Woman in the Election of 1912" (2003)
• Margaret Sanger Papers Project (New York University)
• Temperance and Prohibition (K.A. Kerr, Ohio State University)
• The Anti-Saloon League, 1893-1933 (Westerville, Ohio Public Library)
• Image Archive of the American Eugenics Movements (Cold Spring Harbor Institute)
• American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Radicalism Collection: Titles in Subject Order (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Radicalism Collection: Titles in Alphabetical Order (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Digital Images from the American Radicalism Collection (Michigan State University)
• Emma Goldman (American Experience, PBS)
• Emma Goldman Papers (University of California, Berkeley)

The Great War, 1914-1918

• The Nations Involved in the Great War
  (World War I Document Archive, University of Kansas)
• First World War.com: The War to End All Wars
• Trenches on the Web
• The Great War: 80 Years on (BBC News)
• First World War Statistics (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
• The World War I Document Archive (WWI-L list and Brigham Young University)
• The First World War (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia, United Kingdom)
• Photos of the Great War: World War I Image Archive (University of Kansas)
• The Major Museums of Europe Commemorate the 80th Anniversary
  of the Armistice of 1918 [art of the First World War]
• French Posters from World War I (Library of Congress)
• In the Trenches: The Soldier's Experience in World War I (E.G. Lengel)
• Western Front Tourist's Guide (Trenches on the Web)
• Rememberance and Mourning: Literature of the Great War (Haverford College)
• World War I, 1914-1918 [Emphasis on British war poetry] (Oxford University, U.K.)
• Armenian National Institute
• Armenian Research Center (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
• The Great War Society
• The Western Front Association
• Western Front Association: United States Branch
• The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (PBS)

America and the Great War, 1917-1918

• Combined Arms Research Library (U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
• Conscientious Objection in America: Primary Sources for Research
  (A.M. Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
• First Division Museum at Cantigny
• American Battlefields in France: Chateau-Thierry and Bellau Wood Area (G. Lagin, France)
• The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Red Fighter Pilot by Manfred von Richthofen (1917)
• Fighting the Flying Circus by Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker (1919)
• The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary
  by Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, U.S. Army (1919)
• Pershings Doughboys (World War I US Army Living History Group)
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• Aftermath: When the Boys Came Home
• Sow the Seeds of Victory: Posters from the Food Administration During World War I (National Archives)
• Tennesseans in World War I
• World War I History Commission Questionnaires (Library of Virginia)
• Influenza 1918 (American Experience, PBS)

The Rough Road to Normalcy

• Influenza 1918 (American Experience, PBS)
• League of Nations Bibliography
  (League of Nations' Photo Archive, Indiana University Center for Study of Global Change)
• League of Nations' Photo Archive (Indiana University Center for the Study of Global Change)
• League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents (Northwestern University Library)
• Irish History on the Web
• Red Scare (Baruch College Library, CUNY)
• Seattle General Strike Project (Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington)
• Proseprity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s (Ohio State University)
• The Henry Ford [Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Benson Ford Research Center]
• Kulturkampfen ("Wars for Civilization") of the 1920s (Assumption College)
• The 1920s (K.P. Rayburn, University of Louisville)
• The Sacco-Vanzetti Case (University of Pennsylvania)
• Felix Frankfurter, "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti," The Atlantic Monthly, March 1927
• "Vanzetti's Last Statement: A Record by W.G. Thompson," The Atlantic Monthly, February 1928
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (University of South Carolina)
• The World of Gertrude Stein
• Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
• Tennessee vs. John Scopes: The "Monkey Trial"
  (Famous American Trials site at University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School)
• The Scopes Evolution Trial of 1925 (Rhea County, Tennessee site)
• Ku Klux Klan (American Radicalism Collection, Michigan State University Libraries)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
• Martin Scorsese presents The Blues (PBS, 2003)
• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
  [March 1925 Survey Graphic Harlem number] (Library of Virginia)
• Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
• The New Deal Network (Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University))

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