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	The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era The Long 19th Century http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook3.html The only thing you can't do is search for a particular topic. Scroll down this huge site. The Progressive Era 1890 -1913 America's Story http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress This site from the Library of Congress takes us back to a different time when things were changing quickly. Scroll down for all the stories. Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/internet/index.html http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm This site is a part of a network of various scholars with all different eras of American history. Click on the grid for this area or other areas that you need. Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources http://www.tntech.edu/history/gilprog.html Great list of sites divided by subject headings. The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture04.html The name "Gilded Age" was the title of a book written by Mark Twain. The name is taken to depict a society that despite the appearance of promise and prosperity, is marked with corruption and scandal. This lecture touches on many of the happenings of the era. There is information, images, and links to happenings of the time. Gilded Age Politics http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/gildedage.html Information in outline form. The Populist Movement http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/populism.html The collapse in agricultural prices that accompanied the Panic of 1873 gave impetus to the agrarian revolt that became the Populist Movement and informed the People's Party. Progressive Era http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/index.cfm This site has Recommended Documents, Maps, images, fact sheets (including problems of youth), Women Suffrage, books, films, and websites. Click on the primary sources on the left. Progressive Era Reform http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/reform/progressive.htm This site gives background information about the era and charts various reformers and reforms. Lists include Social Reformers, Muckrakers, City Reforms, State Reforms, Federal Legislation and new Constitutional Amendments. Women and the Progressive Era http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/prog.htm Places where women made history. Top The Muckrakers American Writers: A Journey through History: Upton Sinclair and the Muckrakers http://americanwriters.org/writers/sinclair.asp This site contains information about the author, his famous book which you can read, information about the time period, search for other authors famous in history, and look at different historical time periods. Lincoln Steffens, Introduction to the Shame of the Cities (1904) http://www.american.edu/kdurr/steffens.html This collection of articles was reprinted from McClure's Magazine "to further that same purpose, which was and is--to sound for the civic pride of an apparently shameless citizenship." The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/main.htm The eight chapters of Ms. Tarbell's book is reproduced on this sit Short biography of Sinclair Lewis http://www.bartleby.com/65/le/LewisSin.html Top Imperialism, Nationalism, Industrialism Adam Smith's Laissez-Faire Policies http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/laissez.html Smith's beliefs and his policies. Age of Imperialism http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html United States policy during the late nineteenth and early 20th century. White Man's Burden - Expansionism & Anti-Imperialism http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/imperialism/ The debate at the end of the century (1901). This site from Score, has all the questions links needed for the debate. Imperialism Roundtable http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/special.htm Writings presented at George Mason University on various aspects of Imperialism. Imperialism: The Highest State of Capitalism http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ Vladimir Lenin wrote about Imperialism in 1916. Internet Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook34.html General information about Imperialism on this site, but issues of China, India, Africa, Japan and America are also stressed. Industrial Revolution http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html Includes information going back to the Agricultural Revolution, revolution in power, engineers, social and political effects, and literary responses. Industrial Revolution http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/INDUSTRY.HTM Background information about the revolution and the origins in England. Industrial Revolution http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html Covers agriculture, textiles, coal mining, Iron, transportation, steam and the human aspect of the times. John Hobson http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1902hobson.html This English economist, wrote one the most famous critiques of the economic bases of imperialism in 1902. Nationalism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nationalism Definition of Nationalism from the Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Nationalism http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook17.html This is an analyses of Nationalism, and it covers Cultural, Liberal, and Triumphal Nationalism. Regents Prep http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/imperialism/index.cfm This site shows the relationship between these two "isms" and adds in industrialization. The effects of these on other countries are also highlighted. Theories of Imperialism http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/imperial.htm Conservative, Liberal, Marxist, Political, Social-Psychological Theories of Imperialism and links to their "authors". World Wide Imperialism http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/world/lectures/imperialism.html An economic explanation from Western New England College Top 19th Century Ideas and Inventions 19th Century Inventions http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111100a.htm Follow the inventions on this continuum, find out about them and thing about the progress technologically. 19th Century Contributions and the Impact on Computers http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/histsci/htmlform/lect4.html The math of the past leads to mechanical aids to computation and the development of algorithms. Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources http://www.tntech.edu/history/gilprog.html Links divided into General Resources, Political Leaders, Transformation of the West, Rise of Big Business and American Workers, Literary and Cultural Resources, Crisis of the 1890's, War with Spain and the Aftermath, Immigration and Urban America, Progressive Reform 1901-17, World War I, and the Road to Normalcy. A History of Information http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.htm A history in outline form with great images and illustrations. Information Age http://photos.si.edu/infoage/infoage.html This exhibition from the Smithsonian displays visually how electrical information of technology has changed our society over the last 150 years. Science and Technology http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/Science_and_Technology.htm There are many links to resources on scientific discoveries, inventions and the technology used at different points in history. Websites for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm Links of all kinds including Primary Sources, American Life, Domestic and Foreign Policies, Suffragists, Women and Social Movements and more. Back to the Gateway to History Page

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