Web Links: The Gilded Age, 1877-1898
Dr. Chris Schutz, Tennessee Wesleyan College

 
 
Industrialization in the Late 19th Century
Great Uprising/Great Railroad Strike of 1877, including images and documents (Maryland State Archives)
National Museum of American History's website on the shifting
understanding of marking time (to better understand the emergence of
"time-work discipline" in the age of industrialization)
National Museum of American History online exhibition on the history of
sweatshop labor in industrial America

 
 
 
Reforms
Women's Christian Temperance Union Address, 1893
Museum honoring Jane Addams' famous Hull House which addressed the problems of working class immigrants during turn-of-the-20th-century industrialization

 
 
Race in the Gilded Age
1896 U.S. Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision establishing the
precedent for Jim Crow segregation for the first half of the 20th century

 
 
The West and the Frontier
text of Frederick Jackson Turner's highly influential 1893 essay, "The
Significance of the Frontier in American History"