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| Introducing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era | |
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| Industrial Spring: America in the Gilded Age John Milton Cooper, Jr., Pivotal Decades, 19001920 | |
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| The Price of Progress: Capitalism and Its Discontents | |
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| Andrew Carnegie Hails the Triumph of America, 1885 | |
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| Henry George Dissects the Paradox of Capitalist Growth, 1879 | |
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| The Reverend Alexander Lewis Offers an Ode to Upward Mobility, 1902 | |
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| Mark Twain Satirizes the Great American Myth, 1879 | |
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| The Purposes and Program of the Knights of Labor, 1878 | |
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| A Trade Union Official Enunciates a Restrictive AFL Policy Toward Women Workers, 1897 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Machine as Deity and Demon Leon Fink | |
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| Class Consciousness American-Style | |
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| Behind the Bravura of the Wild West | |
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| A Buffalo Hunter Describes His Business, c. 1875 | |
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| President Chester A. Arthur Aims to Turn Indians into U.S. Citizens, 1881 | |
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| A Popular Account of the Death of Jesse James, 1882 | |
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| Miguel Antonio Otero Remembers the Land Wars of the 1880s | |
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| Black Elk Remembers the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 | |
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| Frederick Jackson Turner Praises the Frontier as the Source of American Democracy, 1893 | |
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| Catharine Calk McCarty Meets Her Cattlemen Neighbors, 1916 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Outlaw Gangs and Social Bandits | |
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| Western Women and the Uses of Domestic Ideology | |
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| Farming and the Northern Ute Experience | |
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| Trials of the New South | |
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| Sharecroppers' Contracts, 1876-1886 | |
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| Atlanta Constitution Editor Henry W. Grady Heralds the New South, 1886 | |
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| Historian Broadus Mitchell Describes a Benevolent Cotton-Mill Campaign of the 1880s | |
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| Labor Organizer Mother Jones Compares Southern Mill Life to Serfdom, 1901 | |
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| Frederick Douglass Describes a Legacy of Race Hatred, 1883 | |
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| A Teacher and Two Pupils Outline the Problems of a "Colored" School, 1883 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Mill and Mine Jacqueline Jones | |
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| Bent Backs in the Rural South | |
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| Rise of the Industrial City: New Places, New Peoples | |
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| Population Growth in Select U.S. Cities, 18701920 | |
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| Immigrant Distribution in Six Cities, 18701920 | |
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| A Visiting Rudyard Kipling Returns, Unimpressed, from Chicago, 1899 | |
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| Poet Carl Sandburg Extols the City of Big Shoulders, 1916 | |
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| Congress Takes Aim at the "Chinese Menace," 1892 | |
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| Huang Zunxian Expresses the Chinese Perspective in Poetry, c. 1884 | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois Denounces Racial Prejudice in Philadelphia, 1899 | |
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| An Advice Column for Jewish Immigrants, 1906,1907 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Technology and the Treadmill of Urban Progress | |
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| Families Enter America | |
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| Americanization of the Mexican Immigrant | |
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| Politics in the Gilded Age: Mainstream and Periphery | |
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| Three Cartoonists Interpret the Political Scene, 1880, 1888 | |
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| Thomas Nast Attacks the Democrats, 1880 | |
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| Joseph Keppler Ridicules the Third-Term Aspirations of President Grant, 1880 | |
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| Watson Heston Lampoons Parties and Their Corporate Patrons, 1888 | |
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| Free-Thinker Robert G. Ingersoll Waves the Bloody Shirt, c. 1880 | |
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| Virginia Activist Live Pryor Seeks Help for Her Downtrodden Black Sisters, 1880 | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Demands Suffrage as the Protection of Selfhood, 1892 | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Justifies the Woman's Bible, 1895 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Political Culture: Public Life and the Conduct of Politics Ellen Carol DuBois | |
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| The Limitations of Sisterhood | |
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| The 1890s: Economic Depression and Political Crisis | |
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| John W. Holway, a Pinkerton Guard, Views the Battle of Homestead, 1892 | |
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| Eugene V. Debs Denounces the Role of Corporations and the Courts in the Pullman Strike, 1895 | |
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| Populist Principles: The Omaha Platform, 1892 | |
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| William Jennings Bryan Scorns Advocates of the Gold Standard: The "Cross of Gold" Speech, 1896 | |
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| The Republican Party Platform, 1896 | |
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| Puck Assails William Jennings Bryan and the "Popocrats," 1896 | |
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| McKinley Takes Credit for New Prosperity, 1900 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Depression of the 1890s Michael Kazin | |
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| The Righteous Commonwealth of the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| Professionalism and the Uses of New Knowledge | |
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| John Fiske Reconciles Evolutionism and Christian Doctrine (1882), 1902 | |
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| William Graham Sumner Elaborates the Principles of Social Darwinism, 1885 | |
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| Lester Frank Ward Attacks Laissez Faire in the Name of Reform Darwinism, 1884 | |
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| A Day in the Life of Thomas Alva Edison, 1885 | |
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| Jane Addams Explains the Need for Social Settlements, 1892 | |
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| F. W. Taylor Recruits the Ideal Worker with the Principles of Scientific Management, 1910 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Culture of Professionalism Robyn Muncy | |
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| The Female Dominion of Professional Service Edward Caudill | |
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| Social Darwinism: Adapting Evolution to Society | |
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| The Language of Empire | |
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| Alfred T. Mahan Proclaims the Importance of Sea Power, 1890 | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt Links War in the Philippines to the Ideal of the Strenuous Life, 1899 | |
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| William Jennings Bryan Opposes U.S. Occupation of the Philippines, 1900 | |
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| Alfred Beveridge Defends U.S. Imperialism, 1900 | |
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| The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The United States as New Kid on the Block | |
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| 18901940 Louis A. Perez | |
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| 1898: The Meaning of the Maine Gail Bederman | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt and the Strenuous Life | |
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| Race and Power Under Jim Crow | |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Segregation: Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | |
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| Congressman Frank Clark Praises Segregation, 1908 | |
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| Booker T. Washington Advocates Self-Help, 1895 | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois Rejects Washington's Strategy of Accommodation, 1903 | |
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| Mary Church Terrell Praises the Club Work of Colored Women, 1901 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Whiteness and Manhood Kevin K. Gaines | |
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| Uplift and the Decline of Black Politics | |
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| Consumer Culture and Commercialized Leisure | |
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| Theodore Dreiser's Carrie Discovers the Department Store, 1900 | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman Seeks to Extricate Women from the Trap of Consumption, 1899 | |
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| Amusement Park Promoter Frederic Thompson Creates the Carnival Spirit, 1908 | |
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| Democracy at the Movies, 1910 | |
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| Ring Lardner's Baseball "Busher" Writes Home, 1914 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Baseball and the Values of Industrial America Lewis A. Erenberg Steppin' Out | |
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| Progressivism: The Roots of the Reform Vision | |
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| John Dewey Advocates a Democratic Schoolroom, 1900 | |
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| Lincoln Steffens Exposes the Corruption of Municipal Politics, 1904 | |
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| New York City's Boss Plunkitt Defends "Honest" Graft, 1905 | |
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| Socialist Reformer Robert Hunter Decries Murder by Tenement, 1907 | |
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| Baptist Clergyman Walter Rauschenbusch Seeks a Social Christianity, 1912 | |
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| Two Suffrage Cartoons: "The Corn or the Cob--Which?" 1911 | |
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| "Double the Power of the Home," 1915 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Evaluating the Progressives Robert Westbrook | |
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| Lewis Hine and the Two Faces of Progressive Photography | |
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| Progressivism: Foundations for a New American State | |
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| The Supreme Court Accepts Limits on Working Women's Hours: Muller v. Oregon, 1908 | |
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| Charles McCarthy Inventories Wisconsin's La Follette-Era Reforms (19091911), 1911 3 | |