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Comments/Reviews Description: Extending from the 1870s to World War I, the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era mark a a major turning point in American history. During this colorful period the country transformed itself from an isolated, rural, agricultural nation into an urban, industrial, multicultural world power. It was an era marked by bigness: Big Business, Big Labor, and big ideas. These forces changed people's everyday lives as a technical revolution swept the country, giving birth to such inventions as the telephone, light bulb, automobile, airplane, radio, and motion pictures. It was an era punctuated by disasters such as the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, and the San Francisco Earthquake, as well as two presidential assassinations. The same era also brought us ragtime, vaudeville, Coney Island, and Major League Baseball.
Symbolized by larger-than-life figures--Teddy Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Mark Twain, Emma Goldman, and W.E.B. Du Bois to name just a few--the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era set the stage for the United States to become the world's industrial powerhouse and gave birth to the modern world.
This illustrated encyclopedia provides definitive coverage of all the social and cultural developments of the period as well as its political and economic history. Edited by distinguished historian John Buenker and librarian Joseph Buenker, the set features original documents, sidebars, and in-depth essays on major themes and developments, as well as hundreds of detailed entries on issues, events, people, and ideas. Selected Contents: Technology and Systematization; The Economy; Urbanization; Immigration and Ethnicity; Women and Gender; Labor and Industrial Relations; African Americans; American Indians; Politics; Government; Foreign and International Relations; Leisure and Popular Culture; Art and Architecture; Music; Literature; Children and Youth; Religion Abbott, Edith, and Grace Abbott; Adams, Brooks; Adams, Charles Francis; Adams, Henry; Adamson Eight-Hour Act (1916); Addams, Jane; Adler, Felix; Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth; Aldrich, Thomas Bailey; Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Act (1908); Alger, Horatio; Alien Land Law (1913); Alliance Movement; Allison, William B.; Altgeld, John Peter; American Association for Labor Legislation; American Association of University Professors; American Association of University Women; American Civil Liberties Union; American Federation of Labor; American Forestry Association; American Free Trade League; American Protective Association; American Red Cross; American Social Science Association; American Society for Municipal Improvements; American Society of Equity; Americanization; Amusement Parks; Anarchists; Anderson, Sherwood; Angell, George T.; Animal Protection; Anthony, Susan B.; Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902; Anti-Catholicism; Anti-Imperialist League; Anti-Monopoly Parties; Anti-Saloon League; Anti-Semitism; Antismoking Movement; Antitrust Legislation; Anti-Unionism; Antivice Crusades; Armory Show (1913); Armour, Philip D.; Arthur, Chester A.; Arts and Crafts Movement; Asian Americans; Atlanta Compromise (1895); Atlantic Monthly, The ; Australian Ballot; Automobile; Aviation; Azusa Street Revival (1906-1909) Back to Africa Movement; Back to the Farm Movement; Bailey, Liberty Hyde; Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922); Baker, Newton D.; Baker, Ray Stannard; Balch, Emily Greene; Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy; Barnum, Phineas T.; Baruch, Bernard Mannes; Baseball; Basketball; Baum, L. Frank; Beard, Charles Austin; Bell, Alexander Graham; Bellamy, Edward; Berger, Victor, and Meta Berger; Bergh, Henry; Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah; Bierce, Ambrose; Birth of a Nation (1915); Black Elk; Black Sox Scandal; Blaine, James G.; Blanc, Marie-Therese (Theodore Bentzon); Bland-Allison Act (1878); Blatch, Harriot Stanton; Bliss, William D.P.; Bly, Nellie; Boas, Franz; Bok, Edward William; Bonnin, Gertrude; Borah, William E.; Boston Police Strike (1919); Bourbons; Bourne, Randolph; Boxer Rebellion (1900); Boy Scouts of America; Brady, "Diamond Jim"; Brandeis, Louis Dembitz; Cable, George Washington; Cahan, Abraham; Camp, Walter; Canadian Reciprocity; Cannon, Joseph G.; Carnegie, Andrew; Carver, George Washington; Cassatt, Mary; Cather, Willa; Catt, Carrie Chapman; Cattell, James McKeen; Chain Stores; Chandler, William E.; Chaplin, Charles; Charity Organization Societies; Chautauqua Movement; Chicago School of Sociology; Child Labor Legislation; Child Saving; Children's Bureau, United States; Childs, Richard S.; Chinese Exclusion Act (1882); Churchill, Winston; Circuses; City Beautiful; City Manager; City Planning; Civil Rights Cases (1883); Civil Service Reform; Clark, James Beauchamp "Champ"; Clark, John Bates; Clay, Laura; Cleveland, Grover; Coal Mining Safety Legislation; Cobb, Tyrus Raymond; Cochise; Cody, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill"; Colby, Clara Bewick; Dana, Charles Anderson; Daniels, Josephus; Darrow, Clarence S.; Darwinism; Davis, Richard Harding; Dawes, Henry Laurens; Dawes Severalty Act (1887); De Forest, Lee; De Leon, Daniel; DeBernardi, Giovanni Battista; Debs, Eugene V.; Dell, Floyd; Department of Commerce and Labor; Department Stores; Depression of the 1890s; Dewey, John; Dewey, Melvil; DeWitt, Benjamin Parke; Disfranchisement; Divorce; Dixon, Thomas, Jr.; Dodd, William Edward; Dollar Diplomacy; Donnelly, Ignatius; Dorr, Rheta Childe; Douglass, Frederick; Dowie, John Alexander; Dreier, Mary Elizabeth; Dreiser, Theodore; Du Bois, W.E.B.; Duke, James Buchanan; Dunbar, Paul Laurence; Dunne, Edward F.; Dunne, Finley Peter; Durant, William C. Eastman, Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa); Eastman, Crystal; Eastman, George; Eastman, Max; Eddy, Mary Baker; Edison, Thomas Alva; Education; Efficiency; Eight-Hour Workday; Einstein, Albert; Election of 1876; Election of 1880; Election of 1884; Election of 1888; Election of 1892; Election of 1896; Election of 1900; Election of 1904; Election of 1908; Election of 1912; Election of 1916; Election of 1920; Elections, At-Large; Elections, Nonpartisan; Elections, Primary; Eliot, Charles W.; Elkins Act (1903); Ely, Richard T.; Espionage Act (1917); Eugenics; Everybody's Magazine Fairbanks, Charles W.; Farmers' Union; Federal Aid Road Act (1916); Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; Federal Farm Loan Act (1916); Federal Reserve Act (1913); Federal Trade Commission; Field, Marshall; Field, Stephen J.; Filene, Edward Albert; Fisher, Dorothy Canfield; Fisher, Irving; Flint v. Stone Tracy Company (1911); Flower, B.O.; Folk, Joseph Wingate; Food Administration, United States; Football; Ford, Henry; Ford, Henry Jones; Forest Service, United States; Fortune, T. Thomas; Foundations; Frank, Leo Max; Freud, Sigmund; Freund, Ernst; Frick, Henry Clay; Frost, Robert; Fuel Administration; Fundamentalism Gale, Zona; Galveston Hurricane (1900); Garden City Movement; Garfield, James A.; Garfield, James R.; Garland, Hamlin; Garner, John Nance; Garvey, Marcus; Gary, Elbert H.; Gary Plan; Gaston, Lucy; General Federation of Women's Clubs; General Slocum ; Gentlemen's Agreement (1908); George, Henry; Geronimo; Gerry, Elbridge T., III; Ghost Dance; Gibbons, James; Gibbs, Josiah Willard; Gilman, Charlotte Perkins; Gilman, Daniel Coit; Girl Scouts of America; Gladden, Washington; Glass, Carter; Godkin, Edwin L.; Goldman, Emma; Goldmark, Josephine Clara; Gompers, Samuel; Gompers v. Buck's Stove and Range Company (1911); Good Roads Movement; Goodnow, Frank Johnson; Gospel of Wealth; Gould, Jay; Grand Army of the Republic; Haley, Margaret A.; Hall, G. Stanley; Hall, Prescott Farnsworth; Hamilton, Alice; Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918); Hancock, Winfield Scott; Handy, W.C.; Hanna, Marcus Alonzo; Hard, William; Harding, Warren G.; Harlan, John Marshall; Harmon, Judson; Harper, Ida Husted; Harper, William Rainey; Harper's Weekly ; Harriman, Edward Henry; Harriman, W. Averell; Harris, Joel Chandler; Harris, William Torrey; Harrison, Benjamin; Harrison, Carter Henry, I, and Carter Henry Harrison II; Harvey, George; Hawaiian Annexation (1898); Hay, John; Hayes, Rutherford B; Haymarket Affair (1886); Haywood, William Dudley; Health Insurance Legislation; Hearst, William Randolph; Hendrick, Burton Jesse; Henri, Robert; Hepburn Act (1906); Herron, George D.; Hickok, James Butler "Wild Bill"; Hill, James J.; Ickes, Harold L.; Immigrants' Protective League; Immigration Commission, United States; Immigration Restriction; Immigration Restriction League; Imperialism; Income Tax, Federal; Indian Boarding Schools; Industrial Commission, United States; Industrial Democracy; Industrial Workers of the World; Influenza Pandemic of 1918; Ingersoll, Robert G.; Initiative; Institutional Economics; Insull, Samuel; Insurance Companies, Regulation of; International Council of Women (1888); International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; Interstate Commerce Law; Interurban Railways; Ireland, John; Irrigation; Ives, Charles E. Jackson, Helen Hunt; James, Henry; James, William; Jameson, John Franklin; Johnson, Hiram W.; Johnson, Jack; Johnson, Tom Loftin; Johnson, Walter; Johnstown Flood (1889); Jolson, Al; Jones, Mother; Jones, Samuel M.; Joplin, Scott; Jordan, David Starr; Joseph, Chief; Junior Republics; Juvenile Courts Kallen, Horace M.; Keating-Owen Act (1916); Keller, Helen; Keller v. United States (1909); Kelley, Florence; Kelley, Oliver H.; Kellogg, Paul Underwood; Kellor, Frances Alice; Kern-McGillicuddy Act (1916); Knapp, Seaman Asahel; Knights of Labor; Knox, Philander C. La Flesche, Francis; La Follette, Belle Case; La Follette, Robert, Sr.; La Follette's Magazine ; La Follette's Seaman's Act (1915); Labor Legislation, State; Landis, Kenesaw Mountain; Lathrop, Julia Clifford; Lauck, William Jett; Lawrence Textile Strike (1912); Lawson, Thomas W.; Lazarus, Emma; League of Nations; Lease, Mary Elizabeth; Legislative Reference Library; Lenin, Vladimir I.; Lenroot, Irvine L.; Lewis, Sinclair; Lewis, William Henry; Liberty Loans; Libraries, Public; Lincoln, Robert Todd; Lincoln County Wars; Lincoln-Roosevelt League; Lindberg, Charles A.; Lindsey, Benjamin Barr; Lippmann, Walter; Little Bighorn, Battle of the (1876); Lloyd, Henry Demarest; Lochner v. New York (1905); Lodge, Henry Cabot; Loewe v. Lawlor (1908); London, Jack; London, Meyer; Macfadden, Bernarr; Macune, Charles W.; Magazines, Mass Circulation; Mahan, Alfred Thayer; Mail-Order Catalogs; Maine ; Mann Act (1910); Mann-Elkins Act (1910); Markham, Edwin; Marshall, Thomas R.; Masses, The ; Masters, Edgar Lee; Mayo, Charles H., and William J. Mayo; McAdoo, William Gibbs; McCarthy, Charles; McClatchy, C.K.; McClure, Samuel S.; McCormick, Cyrus Hall; McDowell, Mary Eliza; McGovern, Francis E.; McKelway, Alexander J.; McKinley, William; McReynolds, James Clark; Mead, George Herbert; Meat Inspection Act (1906); Mellon, Andrew W.; Mental Hygiene; Michelson, Albert Abraham; Military Reform; Minnesota Rate Case; Mitchell, John; Mobile Pledge; Modernism; Molly Maguires; Moody, Dwight L.; Morgan, John Pierpont; Moskowitz, Henry, and Belle Lindner Moskowitz; Nast, Thomas; National Afro-American League; National American Woman Suffrage Association; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; National Association of Manufacturers; National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage; National Board of Farm Organizations; National Catholic Welfare Council; National Child Labor Committee; National Citizens League; National Civic Federation; National Conference on Charities and Corrections..; National Consumers League; National Education Association; National Housing Association; National Industrial Conference Board; National Labor Union; National Monetary Commission; National Municipal League; National Negro Business League; National Park Service, United States; National Progressive Republican League; National Security League; National Tax Association; Ochs, Adolph S.; O'Hare, Kate Richards; O'Keeffe, Georgia; Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.; Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr.; Olney, Richard; Open Door Policy; O'Reilly, Lenora; Oshkosh, Reginald; Ostrogorski, Moisei Yakovlevich; O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney; Ouimet, Francis; Ovington, Mary White Page, Thomas Nelson; Page, Walter Hines; Page Act (1875); Palmer, Alexander Mitchell; Panama Canal; Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915); Pan-American Exposition (1901); Panic of 1907; Park, Maud Wood; Parker, Alton Brooks; Parker, Quanah; Paterson Textile Strike (1913); Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange); Patten, Simon N.; Paul, Alice; Peace Movement; Peirce, Charles S.; Penal Reform; Penney, J.C.; Penrose, Boies; Pentecostalism; People's Party (Populists); Perkins, Frances; Perkins, George W.; Pershing, John Joseph; Phelan, James D.; Phillips, David Graham; Phillips, Ulrich B.; Pickford, Mary; Pinchot, Amos R.E.; Pinchot, Gifford; Pingree, Hazen S.; Pittsburgh Survey (1907); Platt, Thomas Collier; Platt Amendment (1902); Quay, Matthew S.; Quintasket, Christine Race Riots; Railroad Regulation, Federal; Randolph, A. Philip; Rankin, Jeannette; Rauschenbusch, Walter; Readjuster Movement; Realism; Recall; Reclamation Act (1902); Record, George L.; Red Scare; Redeemers; Reed, James A.; Reed, John; Reed, Thomas Brackett; Reed, Walter; Referendum; Remington, Frederic; Revivalism; Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow; Riis, Jacob August; Robber Barons; Robins, Raymond, and Margaret Dreier Robins; Robinson, Edwin Arlington; Robinson, James Harvey; Rockefeller, John D.; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Roosevelt, Theodore; Roosevelt Corollary; Root, Elihu; Rosenwald, Julius; Ross, Edward A.; Royce, Josiah; Rural Free Delivery; Rural Post Road Act (1916); Russell, Charles Edward; Russell, Lillian; Ruth, George Herman "Babe"; Ryan, John A. Sabath, Adolph Joseph; Sabbatarianism; Saint-Gaudens, Augustus; Salvation Army; San Francisco Earthquake (1906); Sanger, Margaret; Santayana, George; Sargent, John Singer; Schneiderman, Rose; Schofield, John M.; School and Society ; Schurz, Carl; Schwab, Charles M.; Scientific Management; Scudder, (Julia) Vida Dutton; Sears, Roebuck and Company; Seattle General Strike (1919); Sedition Act (1918); Segregation; Selective Service; Seligman, Edwin R.A.; Sewall, May Wright; Seymour, William Joseph; Sharecropping; Shaw, Albert; Shaw, Anna Howard; Sheldon, Charles M.; Sheppard-Towner Act (1921); Sherman, John; Sherman, William T.; Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890); Shipping Act of 1916; Short Ballot; Sierra Club; Simkhovitch, Mary Melinda Kingsbury; Simons, Algie Martin, and May Wood Simons; Taft, William Howard; Taggart, Thomas; Tammany Hall; Tarbell, Ida Minerva; Tariff Reform; Tax Reform, State; Taylor, Frederick W.; Telegraph; Telephone; Teller Amendment (1898); Terman, Lewis M.; Terrell, Mary Church; Thomas, William Hannibal; Thorndike, Edward Lee; Thorpe, Jim "Bright Path"; Tiffany, Louis Comfort; Tillman, Benjamin R.; Tin Pan Alley; Titanic ; Track and Field; Tramps; Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (1898); Transportation Act (1920); Treaty of Portsmouth (1905); Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911); Trotter, William Monroe; Tumulty, Joseph P.; Turner, Frederick Jackson; Turner, Henry McNeal; Tuskegee Institute; Twain, Mark; Tweed, William "Boss" Underwood, Oscar Wilder; Uneeda Biscuit Company; Unemployment; Union Labor Party; Unions, Trade and Labor; United Fruit Company; United Mine Workers of America; United States v. American Tobacco Company (1911); United States v. United States Steel Corporation (1920); Urban League; U'Ren, William S. Van Hise, Charles R.; Vanderbilt, Cornelius; Vardaman, James K.; Vaudeville; Veblen, Thorstein B.; Veiller, Lawrence Turnure; Villard, Oswald Garrison Wages and Hours Legislation; Wagner, John Peter "Honus"; Wagner, Robert F.; Walker, Francis A.; Walker, Madam C.J.; Walker, Moses Fleetwood; Wallace, Henry Cantwell; Walsh, David Ignatius; Walsh, Francis P.; Wanamaker, John; War Industries Board, United States; Ward, Lester Frank; Warehouse Act (1916); Warner, Charles Dudley; Washington, Booker T.; Watson, Thomas Edward; Weaver, James Baird; Webb-Kenyon Act (1913); Webb-Pomerene Act (1918); Weber, Adna Ferrin; Wells, David A.; Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell; Westinghouse, George; Weyerhauser, Frederick; Weyl, Walter Edward; Wharton, Edith; Wheeler, Burton K.; Whistler, James McNeill; White, Caroline Earle; White, Edward Douglass; White, Sue Shelton; White, William Allen; Whitlock, Brand; Whitman, Walt; Wiley, Harvey W.; Yellow Journalism; Yellow-Dog Contract; Yerkes, Charles Tyson; Young Men's Christian Association; Young, Denton True "Cy" Ziegfeld, Florenz, Jr.; Zionism Treaties and Foreign Policy Declarations Invitation to Pan-American Conference (1881); The Independence of Cuba (1898); Annexation of Hawaii (1898); William McKinley's Message on the Philippines (1898); Treaty of Peace with Spain (1898); Senator Beveridge Advocates Imperialism (1899); Open Door Policy (1899); Platt Amendment (1902); Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904); President Roosevelt's Letter to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on Japan (1905); Root-Takahira Agreement (1908); Gentlemen's Agreement on Japanese Immigration (1908); Report of the United States Commission on Immigration (1911); President Taft Proclaims "Dollar Diplomacy" (1912); President Wilson's Mobile Pledge (1913); President Wilson's Special Message on Mexican Relations (1913); President Wilson's Panama Canal Tolls Message (1914); President Wilson's Appeal for Neutrality (1914); Secretary of State Bryan's Note on the Sinking of the Lusitania (1915); American Occupation of Haiti (1916); The Sussex Pledge (1916); Zimmermann Note (1917); President Wilson's Peace Without Victory Speech (1917); President Wilson Asks for Declaration of War (1917); Senator Norris Opposes American Intervention in World War I (1917); Lansing-Ishii Agreement (1917); President Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918); Archangel Expedition Aide-Memoire (1918); President Wilson Advocates the League of Nations (1919); Senator Lodge Opposes the League of Nations (1919) Political Statements Political Party Platforms Acts of Congress and Constitutional Amendments Court Decisions Declarations and Principles of Organizations Review(s): Here is an encyclopedia that accomplishes the rare feat of being focused, comprehensive, articulate, and accessible. ... A master bibliography ... integrates all entry bibliographies into an impressive, and perhaps unparalleled, knowledge base. ... useful for ready reference, this encyclopedia's greatest benefit is derived through in-depth exploration. ... A thorough chronology and meticulous indexing complement this superior work. ... Essential for all academic libraries, and highly recommended for large public libraries. Booklist ... with its pleasing, easy-to-read type, this encyclopedia is an indispensible reference source for all historical collections. Acquisitions librarians can be assured that readers of many different ages and educational levels will use it. Essential. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. Choice This reference tool provides an excellent overview of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era and will allow high school students, undergraduates, and the general public to learn more about this exciting period of American history. It would make an excellent addition to high school media centers as well as to undergraduate and public libraries. Library Journal Designed to fit high school curriculums, this guide will serve public library and undergraduate college collections. Gale Reference Reviews The entries are marvelously illustrated with historic photographs and accompanied by useful tables. Especially praiseworthy is the introductory section of "thematic essays" that help integrate the knowledge from specific entries on individuals, organizations, and movements. ... This multivolume encyclopedia is a boon to students of the Gilded Age and Progressive era, and announces to historians of other eras the significance of a period that shaped modern America. American Reference Books Annual, Vol.37 ...a welcome and important addition for its different conception and integration of essays and brief articles that tie the entire period together. The work will be useful to scholars, students and general readers. Reference & User Services Quarterly, Vol.45, No.3 The encyclopedia will be of interest to high school and undergraduate students as well as the general reader. Reference & Research Book News ...this encyclopedia is not only a massive accomplishment but a very good, useful, and helpful one. ...valuable and impressive. It will help greatly in placing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era before the public, and for that alone, all of us in the field will be grateful. It should be in reference libraries of virtually every kind and level. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era |
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