The Gilded Age
Civil Rights and Women's Suffrage Movements
Closing of the Western Frontier
Industrial America
Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Political Party Platforms and Campaign Literature
The American Empire
The Era of Machine Politics
The Politics of Dead Center
The Promise of America: Immigration and Ellis Island
The Spanish American War
About The Gilded Age
Primary texts covering the period dubbed by author Mark Twain as “The Gilded Age:” a postwar period of economic expansion and rapid industrialization, underscored by deep tensions between various identity groups of American society, 1877-1900.
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