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| Series Editors' Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments to Sources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prelude: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, from the Gilded Age, 1873 | |
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| New Frontiers | |
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| The New South | |
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| Henry W. Grady, "The New South," 1886 | |
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| Henry McNeal Turner on African American Civil Rights, 1889 | |
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| William D. Kelley, from The Old South and New, 1888 | |
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| Lewis Hine, Photographs of Southern Textile Workers, 1908-09 | |
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| The New West | |
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| T.S. Kenderdine, from California Revisited, 1858-1897, 1898 | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, from Ranch Life and the Hunting- Trail, 1888 | |
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| Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton, from The Squatter and the Don, (1885) | |
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| Workingmen's Party, An Address from the Workingmen of San Francisco to Their Brothers throughout the Pacific Coast, 1878 | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| Zitkala-Sa, Native Americans and White Attempts to Assimilate, from "The School Days of an Indian Girl," 1900 | |
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| Chief Joseph, Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perc� Chief, 1877-79 | |
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| Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1896 | |
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| Photographs and Images from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, 1896-99 | |
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| Industrial Society | |
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| Big Business | |
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| Andrew Carnegie, "The Gospel of Wealth," 1889 | |
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| Herbert Spencer, "The Coming Slavery," 1884 | |
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| Henry Demarest Lloyd, "The Lords of Industry," 1884 | |
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| US Supreme Court, Slaughterhouse Cases, 1873 | |
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| Frederick Winslow Taylor, from The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911 | |
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| Russell Conwell, from Acres of Diamonds, 1915 | |
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| Gilded Age Society | |
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| Thorstein Veblen, from The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899 | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from "The Yellow Wall-Paper," 1892 | |
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| Henry George, from Progress and Poverty, 1879 | |
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| Photographs of Gilded Age Mansions | |
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| Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Woman's Building, from The Book of the Fair, 1893 | |
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| Working People | |
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| Stephen Crane, "In the Depths of a Coal Mine," 1894 | |
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| Walter A. Wyckoff, from The Workers: An Experiment in Social Reality, 1899 | |
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| Image from The National Police Gazette, 1879 | |
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| Edward Eggleston, Hardshell Preacher, from The Hoosier Schoolmaster, 1871 | |
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| Leon Ray Livingston, Tramping in America, 1910 | |
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| Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle, 1906 | |
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| Immigrants in the Industrial Age | |
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| Abraham Cahan, "The Russian Jew in America," 1898 | |
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| Treaty Regulating Immigration from China, 1880 | |
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| Samuel Bryan, "Mexican Americans and Southwestern Growth," 1912 | |
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| Jacob Riis, Photographs from How the Other Half Lives, 1890 | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Hyphenated Americanism, 1915 | |
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| The Emergence of Reform Judaism, 1883 and 1885 | |
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| Social Conflict | |
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| Populism | |
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| Annie L. Diggs, "The Women in the Alliance Movement," 1892 | |
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| The Omaha Platform: Launching the Populist Party, 1892 | |
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| Thomas E. Watson, "The Negro Question in the South," 1892 | |
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| William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" Speech, 1896 | |
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| The Coming of Jim Crow | |
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| Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in America," 1900 | |
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| U.S. Supreme Court, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | |
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| Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise, 1895 | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois, "Of Booker T. Washington and Others," from The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 | |
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| Images from the North Carolina White Supremacy Campaign, 1898 | |
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| Mary Church Terrell, "What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States," 1906 | |
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| Labor Protest | |
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| Roger O'Mara, Testimony on Railroad Labor Strikes, 1878 | |
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| United States Strike Commission, Report on the Chicago Pullman Strike, 1894 | |
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| Constance D. Leupp, "The Shirtwaist Makers' Strike," 1909 | |
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| Photographs of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 | |
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| Reform | |
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| Rebuilding American Institutions | |
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| John Dewey, from The School and Society, 1899 | |
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| Walter Rauschenbusch, from Christianity and the Social Crisis, 1907 | |
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| Charles Davenport, from Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, 1915 | |
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| Margaret Sanger, "Morality and Birth Control," 1918 | |
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| Frances E. Willard, from Women and Temperance, 1883 | |
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| Chicago Vice Commission, The Social Evil in Chicago, 1911 | |
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| The Political System | |
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| Robert M. La Follette, "Peril in the Machine," 1897 | |
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| Isaac F. Marcosson, The Dayton Plan, 1914 | |
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| Helen Valeska Bary, The Suffrage Movement in Southern California, 1910-11 | |
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| Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution (direct election of senators), 1913 | |
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| Marie Jenney Howe on Women's Public Role, 1910 | |
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| Imperialism and War | |
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| Imperialism and Anti-imperialism | |
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| Mayo W. Hazeltine, "What Shall Be Done about the Philippines?" 1897 | |
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| Platt Amendment, 1901 | |
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| Jane Addams, "Democracy or Militarism," 1899 | |
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| Photograph from the Tour of the Great White Fleet, 1907-09 | |
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| The Debate about World War I | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois on the Postwar Peace, 1918 | |
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| Eugene V. Debs, The Canton, Ohio, Anti-War Speech, 1918 | |
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| Espionage Act, 1917 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points Address, 1918 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |