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U.S. HISTORY - RECONSTRUCTION TO WWI

The Age of Imperialism - from the On-Line History of the United States; includes materials on expansion in the Pacific, the Spanish-American War, the Panama Canal, the Boxer Rebellion, and U.S, intervention in Latin America.

The American Experience - America 1900
    Images, information, and documents about American life at the turn of the century, including a timeline, people and events database, and teacher's guide.

America in the Gilded Age

The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 - United States Department of Labor site.

www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/coalstrike.htm -

Handbook of Texas Online - BLACK CODES

Black Cowboys

Boxer Rebellion - an overview from Small Planet Connections; see the Age of Imperialism site on this page for additional material on U.S. imperialism. 

Cartoons of Thomas Nast

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

Documents on Anit-Chinese Immigration Policy

The Dramas of Haymarket - Multimedia collection of sources and illustrations for the Haymarket Affair (By the Chicago Historical Association) 

Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920
    John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History, Duke University. 

The End of Reconstuction: an Outline of American History (1994), Chap.6, pt.14

Freedmen's Bureau

Goldman Papers: Emma Goldman Online Exhibition - a fine collection of her papers and of responses to her writings (ex: "Speech that Prompted Murderous Assault on the President" [McKinley], from the Chicago Daily Tribune of Sept. 8, 1901).  Includes a section of materials for high school students. 

. "Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics" Lecture Notes and a selected gallery of illustrations [jpeg format], including those of Nast and Keppler

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson - See also Impeachment in this Index

Trial of Andrew Johnson

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Jim Crow Laws

An Outline of American History

Politics of the Gilded Age

The Presidential Elections, from 1860-1884 - from HarpWeek.com; original stories and illustrations from Harper's Weekly

The Strike at Homestead, 1892 - American Experience. PBS  

Timeline of Reconstruction: 1865-1877
    Author: F.L.Carr, George Mason University

Timeline 1869-1921 - Progressivism and Populism  

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Mar. 25, 1911  
    The authoritative site from the Kheel Center for Labor/Management Documentation at Cornell.  Illustrated.

Websites for the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era Major Site

Earliest Voices--William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech, 1896

 

Last updated: January 2010