Research

Print:

There are many books and printed magazine articles in the library.

General Websites 

• Digital History : The Gilded Age -- Great overview  - click on the links in the text

• Digital History: The Progressive Era --  Great overview  - click on the links in the text

• Library Of Congress: Progressive Era

• Library of Congress: Industrial Revolution

• History.com - use the SEARCH feature

More Focused Websites by Topic

• Environmental Preservation in the Progressive Era (lots of primary sources)

  • • History of the National Park Service and the Organic Act

• Robber Barons and Captains of Industry   (lots of links to other info)

• Cities and Progressives

  • • Urbanization (lots of primary sources - click on the links)

    • Urbanization and Its Challenges

• History of Ellis Island (immigration)

  • • The Challenge of Assimilation and the Rise of Nativism

• How the Gilded Age's Top 1% Thrived on Corruption

  • • Patronage in the Gilded Age (corruption)

• Ida B. Wells: Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement

  • • Overview of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois

• Women's Suffrage: Overview and Primary Sources

  • • Women's Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment (so many primary sources)