WEBSITES FOR THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA  (Last Updated January 2006)

General

Robert Cherny's links to the GAPE on the web (really good site)  http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Discussion, listserv, reviews etc)  http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape

National Archives Constitutional Community Page (teaching info for US history but has good GAPE docs and brief biblios)  http://www.archives.gov/education/constitution-community.html

American Memory Project (Library of Congress online documents, lotsa oral histories and great stuff on just about every subject)  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

(Thanks to Steven Mintz for the following sites)

Populism
Worth Robert Miller, who has written substantially on Populism, has a good site at http://history.missouristate.edu/wrmiller/Populism/texts/populism.htm

Rebecca Edwards 1896 page: this includes material on other Gilded Age topics: to date, the creation of Yellowstone National Park, the Chicago World's Fair, and documents on the debate over wealth and poverty ("Tramps and Millionaires"). There are also timelines, 1865-1905.   http://projects.vassar.edu/newspirits/

African Americans

African American pamphlets, up to 1907 (Library of Congress special collection, variety of subjects, rare primary materials)  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

African American Migration (Library of Congress Online Exhibit, click on next four pages too(p.8-12 =GAPE) http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html

Labor

Haymarket   Chicago Historical Society accounts, images etc http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/overview/over.htm

AFof L history of Labor Movement http://www.afl-cio.org/aboutus/history/history/index.cfm

Spanish-American War and Imperialism

Huge site on imperialism in the GAPE and Sp-Am War http://www.boondocksnet.com

Library of Congress on Sp-Am War (Chronology and accounts, documents) http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/


Immigration

Ellis Island Experience History Channel Online Exhibit (has interviews with immigrants and good historical accounts) http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/ellisisle/reopen.html

Ethnic Mosaic of Quad Cities (immigration to midwestern small cities, click on Special Collections) http://www.augustana.edu/library/index.html

World War I

World War I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

Links to various WWI memoirs diaries and other websites (scroll down to get to them.)
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~egl2r/wwi.html

Trenches on the Web   Highly acclaimed site with tons of basic reference info to get you started as well as some good documents you can use as sources for your papers.  http://www.ww1.com/reflib.htm

Miscellaneous

Coney Island  If you like Cheap Amusements you'll like this well done history site http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/index.html

Woman Suffrage  Chronology etc from Susan B. Anthony Papers http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html

Social Welfare Programs  A documentary history of social insurance programs in the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras that were precedents for similar programs in the New Deal. http://www.larrydewitt.net/SSinGAPE/main.htm

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