Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Wendy Martin is professor of American literature and American studies and director of the Tufts Poetry Awards Program at Claremont Graduate University.Cecelia Tichiis the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and professor of American studies at Vanderbilt University.

• Series Foreword,Chronology of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,Part I: The Gilded AgeIntroduction and Background: The Gilded Age,1 A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain, 1889),Synopsis of A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court,Historical Background: A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court in the Gilded Age,About Mark Twain,Why We Read A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court Today,Historical Explorations of A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court,Historical Exploration: The Gilded Age, The Middle Ages,Historical Exploration: Industrial Technology,Historical Exploration: Social Turmoil in Gilded Age America,Historical Exploration: Social Ills and Social Health in Gilded Age America,Documenting the Gilded Ages and the Middle Ages,Document: From The Bradley-Martin Ball, February 10, 1897 (reported in the New York Times),Document: From W[illiam] J[ames] Ghent, Our Benevolent Feudalism, 1902,Document: From Terence Powderly, The Path I Trod, 1940,Document: From Carroll D. Wright, "In Mediaeval and Modern Industry," in The Battles of Labor, 1906,Document: From Henry Adams, "The Dynamo and the Virgin," in The Education of Henry Adams, 1900,Documenting Industrial Technology,Document: From William Dean Howells, "Characteristics of the International Fair," Atlantic Monthly, October 1876,Document: From Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879,Document: From Rex Beach, The Iron Trail, 1913,Document: From Frances Willard, "Telegraph and Telephone Girls," in Occupations for Women, 1897,Documenting Social Turmoil in Gilded Age America,Document: From Jacob Riis, "The Down Town Back-Alleys" and "The Problem of the Children," in How the Other Half Lives, 1890,Document: Griffith J. Griffith, "San Quentin As I Knew It," in Crime and Criminals, 1910,Document: From Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "Lynch Law in America," in The Arena, January 1900,Document: Richard Le Gallienne, The Illusion of War, in The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems in War Time, 1915,Documenting Social Ills and Social Health in Gilded Age America,Document: From Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward—2000–1887, 1888,Document: From Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889,Document: From William Graham Sumner, "That It Is Not Wicked to Be Rich" and "Laissez Faire," in What Social Classes Owe Each Other, 1884,Document: From Henry George, "The Problem," in Progress and Poverty, 1879,Document: From Jack London, "What Life Means to Me," in Cosmopolitan, 1905,Suggested Readings,2 "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892),Synopsis of "The Yellow Wallpaper,"Historical Background: "The Yellow Wallpaper,"About Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Why We Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" Today,Historical Explorations of "The Yellow Wallpaper,"Historical Exploration: Women's Health,Historical Exploration: "Interiors,"Historical Exploration: Citizen Reformers in Gilded Age and Progressive America,Documenting Women's Health,Document: From S. Weir Mitchell, Fat and Blood, 1877,Document: From George M. Beard, American Nervousness, 1881,Document: From Lydia E. Pinkham, Treatise on the Diseases of Women, 1901,Documenting "Interiors,"Document: From M. E. Kenney, "Decorative Fashions and Fancies," in Good Housekeeping, 1890,Document: From Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses, 1897,Document: From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Home, 1903,Documenting Citizen Reformers in Gilded Age and Progressive America,Document: From Frances Willard, "Chances for Colored Girls," in Occupations for Women, 1897,Document: From Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics, 1902,Document: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper," 1913,Document: From Crystal Eastman, "Birth Control in the Feminist Program," 1918,Suggested Readings,Part II: The Progressive EraIntroduction and Background: The Progressive Era,3 The Jungle (Upton Sinclair, 1906),Synopsis of The Jungle,Historical Background of The Jungle,About Upton Sinclair,Why We Read The Jungle Today,Historical Explorations of The Jungle,Historical Exploration: The Workplace and the Progressive Era,Historical Exploration: Immigrant Voices,Historical Exploration: Officials for a Better World,Documenting the Workplace,Document: From Frances Willard, "Occupations that Kill," in Occupations for Women, 1897,Document: From Jack London, Martin Eden, 1909,Document: From Jack London, "The Apostate," in Woman's Home Companion, 1906,Document: From Mary Harris, "The March of the Mill Children," in The Autobiography of Mother Jones, 1925,Document: From Walter Rauschenbusch, "For Children Who Work," in For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910,Documenting Immigrant Voices,Document: From Sui Sin Far, "Mrs. Spring Fragrance," 1910,Document: From Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky, 1917,Document: From Walter Rauschenbusch, "For Immigrants," in For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910,Documenting Officials for a Better World,Document: From Theodore Roosevelt, The Man with the Muck-Rake, 1906,Document: From John Dewey, The School and Society, 1915,Document: From Walter Rauschenbusch, "For Employers," in For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening, 1910,Document: From Woodrow Wilson, The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics, 1907,Document: From Lincoln Steffens, "Introduction and Some Conclusions," The Shame of the Cities, 1904,Suggested Readings,4 A Lost Lady (Willa Cather, 1924),Synopsis of A Lost Lady,Historical Background: A Lost Lady,About Willa Cather,Why We Read A Lost Lady Today,Historical Explorations of A Lost Lady,Historical Exploration: Property,Historical Exploration: Propriety,Historical Exploration: America the Beautiful,Documenting Property,Document: From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," 1848,Document: From Hamlin Garland, "Under the Lion's Paw," in Main-Traveled Roads, 1891,Document: From Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now, 1875,Documenting Propriety,Document: From M.E.W. Sherwood, Manners and Social Usages, 1887,Document: From Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism, 1899,Document: From Boy Scouts of America: The Official Handbook for Boys, 1911,Documenting America the Beautiful,Document: From Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron," 1886,Document: From John Muir, "The Treasures of the Yosemite" and "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park," 1890,Document: From Theodore Roosevelt, "Wilderness Reserves," in American Big Game in Its Haunts, 1904,Suggested Readings,Index,

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