Unit V: The Gilded Age (1865-1900)

From Revolution to Modern Times (Hypertext)

 

The Gilded Age

• The Gilded Age (Special Topics)
• The Gilded Age (Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies)
• H-SHGAPE Syllabi and Teaching Materials
• Discussion Link
• The Gilded Age: Documenting Industry in America (Web Quest)
• Gilded Age Resources on the World Wide Web
• "The Public Be Damned" A Thematic and Multiple Intelligences Approach to Teaching the Gilded Age (Nina Mjagkij and E. Antonio Cantu)
• Chicago: City of the Century (American Experience)
• Down the Drain: A History of Chicago's Sewers
• Modern America: Gilded Age & Progressive Era
• Gilded Age Power Point Presentations(Google)
• Gilded Age Web Quest
• Transcontinental Railroad (American Experience)
• Gilded Age in America

   

  Andrew Carnegie

  • Andrew Canegie Birthplace Museum

  Cartoons

  • Cartoons by Horace Taylor
  • Frank Beard (Gilded Age Caricaturist)
  • Thomas Nast
  • Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Ohio State University)
  • January 9, 1875, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about monetary policy.

  Election of 1896

  • Election of 1896
  • 1896 Election: A Website of Political Cartoons
  • Little Egypt, Illinois
  • On July 9, 1896, William Jennings Bryan caused a sensation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with his "cross of gold" speech denouncing supporters of the gold standard. Bryan went on to win the party's nomination.

  Ellis Island

  • Ellis Island
  • Ellis Island (History Channel)
  • Tales of Ellis Island
  • Immigration, Ellis Island
  • Welcome to Electronic Ellis Island: A Virtual Heritage

  Events

  • The Chicago World's Fair
  • The Great Chicago Fire
  • Centennial Exhibition: 1876
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
  • Crime of 1873

  Immigration

  • The New Americans: The Immigrant Experience (PBS)
  • The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (American Experience)
  • The Irish in America (The Long Journey Home)
  • Ethnic Mosaic of the Quad Cities
  • Immigration (University Publications of America)
  • American Immigration
  • The Immigrant Experience
  • Immigration and the United States (American History)
  • Immigration Project: Who is American?
  • Naturalization Requirements
  • Migrations in History
  • Immigration Web Quest

  Industry

  • History of Armour Swift-Eckrich
  • Robber Barons
  • George Eastman (The American Experience)
  • Robber Barons (J. Bradford DeLong)
  • Flagler Built a Railroad, Invented Florida
  • Railroad History
  • Thomas Edison's Miracle of Light (American Experience)

  Labor History

  • Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
  • Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America: The Formative Era, 1890's-1916
  • In the Depths of a Coal Mine (Stephen Crane, Mcclure's Magazine)
  • United Mine Workers of America
  • Anthracite Advantages
  • Union Online
  • Labor History: Early 1900's
  • Child Labor in America: 1908-1912  (The History Place)
  • National Child Labor Committee
  • H-Urban
  • Labor Day (American History)
  • Child Labor Debate
  • Emma Goldman

  Mark Twain

  • Ever the Twain Shall Meet (Mark Twain on the Web)
  • Mark Twain Forum
  • Mark Twain (From the Mining Company)

  Muckrakers

  • Ida Tarbell and McClure Magazine

  People in General

  • Herbert Spencer: Principles of Sociology
  • David Ricardo (The Wage Theory)
  • Dwight L. Moody (Metacrawler Links)
  • The Life and Writings of Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones (Toledo's Attic Virtual Museum)
  • Edith Wharton and the Gilded Age Writers
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • EBay Cartoon of "Boss" Tweed
  • Jane Addams
  • Thomas Edison Papers
  • Secrets of a Master Builder: How James Eads Tamed the Mighty Mississippi (American Experience)
  • John Dewey
  • Victoria Woodhull
  • William Marcy Tweed
  • W.E.B.DuBois Papers
  • Horace Greeley (Google Links)
  • Horace Greeley Biography
  • Robert Lous Stevenson: 1850-1894
  • William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed
  • J.P Morgan: More than Money
  • Thomas Nast.com
  • Puck's Home Page

  Politics

  • Dick's Guide to The Dirty Politics of The Industrial Age: Local, State and National
  • 1890 Federal Census of North and South Dakota
  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: 1774-1873 (American Memory)
  • Finding Precedent: Hayes v. Tilden: The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877 (Harper's Weekly)
  • The Wormley Agreement
  • Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion (Mark Wahlgren Summers)
  • Excerpt

  Popular Culture

  • Casey at the Bat (Disney Collection)
  • A Mudville View of Clinton and Baseball
  • Talking Baseball
  • The Baseball Archive
  • History of Baseball Home Page
  • America 1900 (American Experience)
  • What is the Most Important Invention in the Past Two Thousand Years?
  • Urban Myths and Legends
  • Urban Legends and Folklore
  • Urban Legends Resource Center
  • Urban Legends: Language/Etymology
  • Urban Legends Reference Center
  • The AFU and Urban Legends Archive
  • Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920
  • American Sheet Music: 1870-1885
  • Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
  • Media Essays on Chicago and New York: 1870's-1930's
  • The Skyscraper Page
  • Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920
  • America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pcitures from 1894-1915 (American Memory)
  • Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York
  • Online Literature Library (Charles Darwin)
  • Man vs. Vermin: Let the Games Begin (History House)
  • 19th Century Readers and Primers
  • The 1900 House (PBS)
  • The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)

  Railroads

  • On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States

   

  Rockefellers

  • The John D. Rockefeller Home Page
  • Rockefeller Family Archives
  • The Rockefellers (American Experience)
  • John D. Rockefeller and the Cleveland Years
  • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Ron Chernow)
  • John D. Rockefeller (Cleveland History)
  • The Rockefeller Foundation
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  Standard Oil

  • The History of the Standard Oil Company (Ida Tarbell)
  • A Great Monopoly: Comparing Rockefeller and Bill Gates (Atlantic Monthly)
  • Standard Oil Trust Company
  • Standard Oil of Ohio: An Outline history
  • The Oil War of 1872
  • The Trust Giant's Point of View
  • BP America
  • On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

  Statue of Liberty

  • Statue of Liberty Facts
  • Statue of Liberty National Monument: Bedloe's Island, New York
  • Statue of Liberty Facts
  • The Statue of Liberty Photo Tour

  Urban Life

  • How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis)
  • Tenement Museum
  • Historical Crime Statistics Link Guide
  • On the Lower East Side:  Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century

  William Jennings Bryan

  • William Jennings Bryan Resources
  • William Jennings Bryan's Grave
  • William Jennings Bryan (Nebraska State Historical Society)
  • William Jennings Bryan Photo (American History 102)
  • William Jennings Bryan Quotes
  • William Jennings Bryan Project

  Populism

  • Populism (Worth Robert Miller Department of History/Southwest Missouri State University)
  • Populist Cartoons
  • History of Populism

  Wizard of Oz

  • The Wizard of Oz (Book)
  • Jim's "Wizard of Oz" Website
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • David Parker's Page in History
  • The Rise and Fall of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a "Parable on Populism"
    (David B. Parker)
  • Oz: L. Frank Baum's Theosophical Utopia (David B. Parker)
  • The Rise and Fall of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a "Parable on
    Populism" (David B. Parker)
  • The Rise and Fall of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a "Parable on
    Populism" ii (David B. Parker)
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (An Examination of the Underlying Political Allegory)
  • Theories of Oz ( Was 'Wizard' a story for kids or a political satire?/CNN: September 1998)
  • Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism
  • Oz Populism Theory
  • Wizard of Oz (Yahoo)
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
  • The Wizard of Oz as a Populist Tale
    • Over the Rainbow: Once upon a time, The Wizard of Oz, was a populist fable
  • Oz and Ends
  • Wizard of Oz (IMDB)
  • Information
  • Links for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  Miscellaneous

  • Pluralism and Unity
  • The Constitution Community (NARA)
  • Harp Week *****************
  • 1900 v. Now (1998) (Time Magazine/and many more!)
  • America in the 1890s
  • Sicilian Culture: 1492-1998
  • The already scarlet record of Jefferson parish": Analysis of a Lynching Syndrome, 1892-1897
  • Infamous Lynchings
  • Vendetta (Google Search)

The Westward Movement

• American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
• The American West: A Celebration of the Human Spirit
• The West (PBS)
• The Adventures of Daniel Boone
• The Donner Party Home Page
• Photographs of the American West: 1861-1912
• Virtually Deadwood
• Pioneer Spirit
• The Oregon Trail
• Explorers of the West Sketchbook (Canada)
• America's West (History and Development)
• "C Bar T" (The American Cowboy)
• Adventures of Well's Fargo
• The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
• Explorers of the West Index
• Glidden's Patent Application for Barbed Wire
• Downey and Beyond
• Welcome to Deer Creek Schools "Our Town"
• Truimph and Tragedy: Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail
• California's Gold Rush Country: A Virtual Tour
• The Way West
• The California National Historical Trail Wagon Train
• Experience the Gold Rush
• California Gold Rush Treasure Hunt
• Pioneers
• Brainerd, Kansas (A History)
• The Gold Rush
• Nuggets of Fact and Fiction
• The California Gold Rush: Articles
• Gold Rush: California's Untold Stories, Oakland Museum of California
• New Light on the Donner Party
• The Donner Party (American Experience)
• Donner Online
• Frontier House (PBS)
• Old West Links
• African-American Cowboys
• Nat Love
• On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.

Native Americans

• First Nations Site
• Custer Battlefield (Historical and Museum Association)
• General George Armstrong Custer Net
• The Trail of Hope (The Story of the Mormon Trail)
• The Native American History Archive
• The Native American Navigator Project
• Peter d'Errico's Law Page (Native Americans)
• Ojibwa Indians
• The Native American Adventure
• Iroquois Confederacy Links
• Ishgooda Home Page
• The Red Road (Native American World Wide Web Store)
• The American Buffalo
• Links to North American Indian Map Pages (Phil Konstantin)
• On This Date In North American Indian History (Phil Konstantin)
• This Week in North American Indian History (Phil Konstantin)
• United Tribe of Shawnee Indians
  • Shawnee History
• Ishgooda Home Page
• Wounded Knee Home Page
  • Why Learn this History Stuff Anyway?
• Native American Political Issues
• Native American Internet Sources
• Sitting Bull (People in the West/PBS)
• Massacre at Wounded Knee
• African Native Americans
• Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
• The Lumbee Indians: People of the Dark Water
• AITLC Guide to Native Americans
• Native Web
• Chief Crazy Horse
• The American West: Multicultural Perspectives
• Marilee's Native American Links
• Native Culture.com
• Crazy Horse and Custer Virtual Tour
• Crazy Horse & Custer: The Sioux Wars and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• Native Village
• Wounded Knee: Past and Present
• WASHITA: Genocide on the Great Plains...Conclusion ©
• Hubbard Museum of the American West

Miscellaneous

• The Illustrated Traveler (1760-1895)
• 19th Century American History Links
• A Century of Law Making for New Nation (1774-1873)
• "The Gilded Age: The First Generation of Historians" (H. Wayne Morgan)
• H-SHGAPE Home Page
• Websites for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources
• The Republican Elephant
  • Metacrawler Search
• The Democratic Donkey
• Syllabus
• Out of this Furnace (Thomas Bell)

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