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| 1 | 1836 | Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm-The Oxbow, oil on canvas, 1836 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text7/visions.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 2 | 1846 | Frederic Edwin Church, Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636, oil on canvas, 1846 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text7/visions.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 3 | 1865 | Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, oil on canvas, 1865 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text1/homer.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 4 | 1867 | Horatio Alger, Jr., Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York, novel, 1867, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text3/alger.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 5 | 1867 | Kansas Pacific Railway Co., Senatorial Excursion Party over the Union Pacific Railway, 1867, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text6/kprailway.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 6 | 1869 | Does not such a meeting make amends?, engraving, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 29 May 1869 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text6/amends.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 7 | 1869 | Albert Bierstadt, The Oregon Trail, oil on canvas, 1869 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text7/visions.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 8 | ca. 1870 | Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Mountains, oil on canvas, ca. 1870 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text7/visions.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 9 | 1873 | Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, novel, 1873, Ch. 7-8 https://www.mtwain.com/The_Gilded_Age/index.html |
The Complete Works of Mark Twain (mtwain.com) |
| 10 | 1874 | Frank Bellew, The American Frankenstein, drawing, New York Daily Graphic, 14 April 1874 https://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6755 |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 11 | 1875 | Edward King, The Great South, 1875, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text8/king.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 12 | 1875 | Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, oil on canvas, 1875 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text5/eakins.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 13 | 1876 | Machinery Hall, The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876 (online exhibition) https://libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol/tours-machineryhall.htm |
Free Library of Philadelphia |
| 14 | 1880 | Thomas Anshutz, The Ironworkers' Noontime, oil on canvas, 1880 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text3/anshutz.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 15 | 1880 | Robert Ingersoll, The Wall Street Speech, 1880, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text5/ingersoll.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 16 | 1881 | Walt Whitman, "Song of the Exposition" ["After All Not To Create Only"], poem, 1881 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text1/whitman.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 17 | 1882 | The Curse of California, drawing, The Wasp, 19 August 1882 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text1/octopusimages.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 18 | 1883 | "The Celebration To-morrow," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 23 May 1883 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text2/celebration.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 19 | 1883 | William Graham Sumner, What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883, excerpts
https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4998/ |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 20 | 1885 | Richard T. Ely, "Pullman: A Social Study," Harper's Magazine, February 1885, excerpt https://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/pullman.htm |
John W. Reps, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University |
| 21 | 1886/ 1889 |
Henry W. Grady, "The New South," Address delivered in New York City (1886) and Boston (1889), excerpts https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5745/ |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 22 | 1886- 1907 |
Studio portraits of Native Americans by white photographers, 1886-1907 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text3/natamericans.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 23 | 1887 | Joel Chandler Harris, "Aunt Fountain's Prisoner," short story, March 1887 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text3/harris.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 24 | 1888 | The Forty T — s [Thieves], drawing, Harper's Weekly, 17 March 1888 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text1/octopusimages.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 25 | 1890 | Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, 1890, Introduction, Ch. 6 https://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html |
Yale University, American Studies Program |
| 26 | 1891 | Hamlin Garland, "The Return of a Private," short story in Main-Travelled Roads, 1891 https://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER2/Garland/private.htm |
University of Virginia, American Studies |
| 27 | 1892 | The Populist Party Platform [Omaha Platform], 1892 https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5361 |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 28 | 1892 | U.S. House of Representatives, Report of the Select Committee on Immigration, 1892, excerpt https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text9/1892report.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 29 | 1893 | William F. Cody & John M. Burke, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, program, 1893, excerpt https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text4/buffalobill.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 30 | 1893 | Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Address to the American Historical Association, Chicago, 12 July 1893, excerpts
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text1/turner.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 31 | 1893 | The Dream City, A Portfolio of Photographic Views of the World's Columbian Exposition [1893], 1893-1894 https://columbus.gl.iit.edu/dreamcity/dctoc.html |
Illinois Institute of Technology, Paul V. Galvin Library Digital History Collection |
| 32 | 1894 | National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage, "Some Reasons Why We Oppose Votes for Women," broadside, 1894 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text12/ antisuffrageassoc.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 33 | 1894 | Daniel De Leon, "A New Era," editorial, The People, 22 July 1894 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text5/newera.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 34 | 1895 | Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Speech, 1895, excerpts https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/ |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 35 | 1895 | Statement of the Pullman Strikers, in Report and Testimony on the Chicago Strike of 1894 (U.S. Strike Commission), 1895, excerpts https://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5307 |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 36 | 1895 | Reply of the Pullman Company, in Report and Testimony on the Chicago Strike of 1894 (U.S. Strike Commission), 1895, excerpts https://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5306/ |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 37 | 1896 | Abraham Cahan, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, novel, 1896, Ch. 3-4 https://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/cahan/yekl.pdf |
Eldritch Press online, via ibiblio.com |
| 38 | 1897 | Simon Pokagon, "The Future of the Red Man," Forum, August 1897, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text3/pokagon.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 39 | 1898 | Stephen Crane, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," short story, McClure's Magazine, February 1898 https://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CraBrid.html |
University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center |
| 40 | 1898 | Theodore Dreiser, "A Photographic Talk with Edison," Success, February 1898, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text6/dreiser.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 41 | 1898 | Mary Church Terrell, "The Progress of Colored Women," Address to the National American Women's Suffrage Association, Washington, DC, 18 February 1898
https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/murray: @field(DOCID+@lit(lcrbmrpt0a13div2)) |
Library of Congress, American Memory, African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907 |
| 42 | 1898 | Memorial Day, 1898, drawing, [Chicago] Inter Ocean, [May 1898] https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text10/twowars.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 43 | 1898 | The Twelve-Inch Gun, watercolor by Rufus F. Zogbaum and poem by James Barnes, in Barnes, Ships and Sailors: Being a collection of songs of the sea as sung by the men who sail it, 1898 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text10/twowars.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 44 | 1898 | Albert Beveridge, "March of the Flag," Address to a state Republican Party meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, 16 September 1898, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text5/beveridge.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 45 | 1898 | Gertrude Käsebier, photographs of Zitkala-Sa, 1898 https://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/zitkalasaimages.html |
Catherine Lavender, Dept. of History, The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 46 | 1899 | William Jennings Bryan, "Will It Pay?," editorial, New York Journal, 15 January 1899, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text5/bryan.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 47 | 1899 | The Menace of the Hour, drawing, The Verdict, 30 January 1899 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text1/octopusimages.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 48 | 1899 | Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," poem, McClure's Magazine, February 1899 https://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478 |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 49 | 1899 | Benjamin R. Tillman, Address to the U.S. Senate on U.S. foreign policy, 7 February 1899, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text7/tillman.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 50 | 1899 | H. T. Johnson, "The Black Man's Burden," poem, Christian Recorder, March 1899, as reprinted in the Cleveland Gazette, 8 April 1899 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text7/johnson.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 51 | 1899 | T. Thomas Fortune, "The White Man's Burden," editorial, New York Age, April 1899 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text7/fortune.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 52 | 1899 | Theodore Roosevelt, "The Strenuous Life," Address to the Hamilton Club, Chicago, 10 April 1899 https://www.historytools.org/sources/strenuous.html |
History Tools.org: Resources for the Study of American History; David Voelker, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay |
| 53 | 1899 | Charles G. D. Roberts, "Brooklyn Bridge," poem, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1899 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text2/roberts.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 54 | 1899 | American Missionary Assn., "The White Man's Duty," The American Missionary, July 1899 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text7/amermissionary.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 55 | 1899 | "Aguinaldo's Case Against the United States. By a Filipino," North American Review, September 1899, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text9/filipino.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 56 | 1900 | Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin), "The School Days of an Indian Girl," Atlantic Monthly, February 1900 https://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=ZitGirl.sgm&images =images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all |
University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center |
| 57 | 1900 | Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Wife of His Youth," short story, 1900 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text7/chesnutt.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 58 | 1901 | Mark Twain, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," North American Review, February 1901 https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/sitting.html |
University of Virginia, American Studies |
| 59 | 1901 | An English Country Seat . . . , drawing, Puck, 23 October 1901 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text1/octopusimages.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 60 | 1901 | Frank Norris, The Octopus, novel, 1901, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text3/octopusnorris.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 61 | 1902 | Booker T. Washington, Letter to the Birmingham [Ala.] Age-Herald, 24 November 1902 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text11/washington.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 62 | 1902 | Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, novel, 1902, Introduction, Ch. 1-3 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/memory/text8/wister.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 63 | 1902 | Mark Twain, "The Dervish and the Offensive Stranger," 1902 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text8/twain.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 64 | 1902- 1904 |
Ida M. Tarbell, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," McClure's Magazine, 1902-1904, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text2/standardoil.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 65 | 1903 | Lee Chew, "The Biography of a Chinaman," Independent, 19 February 1903 https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/41/ |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 66 | 1903 | Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Rube and Mandy at Coney Island, film, 1903 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.2725 |
Library of Congress, American Memory, Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920 |
| 67 | 1904 | American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., Steam hammer (Westinghouse Works, East Pittsburgh), film, 1904 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/westhpp.2206 |
Library of Congress, American Memory, Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920 |
| 68 | 1904 | "Next!", drawing, Puck, 7 September 1904 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text1/octopusimages.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 69 | 1904 | Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities, 1904, "Introduction and Some Conclusions"
https://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5732 |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 70 | 1905 | William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905, Preface, Ch. 1-7 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text7/plunkitt.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 71 | 1905 | Lewis W. Hine, photographs of immigrants, Ellis Island, 1905 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text4/hine.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 72 | 1905 | W. E. B. Du Bois, Letter to Oswald Garrison Villard, 24 March 1905 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text11/dubois.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 73 | 1905 | The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905
https://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1152.htm |
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Aboltion, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University |
| 74 | 1905 | "State Street, Chicago," photograph, 1905 https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text1/metropolis.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 75 | 1907 | Henry Adams, "Chicago," Ch. 22 in The Education of Henry Adams, 1907, excerpt https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text9/adams.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 76 | 1907 | John Sloan, Election Night, oil on canvas, 1907
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text8/election.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 77 | 1908 | Frederic Thompson, "Amusing the Million," Everybody's Magazine, September 1908
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text2/thompson.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 78 | 1909 | The Puzzled Citizen, drawing, Chicago Daily News, 3 February 1909
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text1/octopusimages.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 79 | 1909 | "Woman's Protest Against Women's Suffrage: To Members of the Illinois Legislature, April 1909," Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, broadside, April 1909
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text12/antisuffrageassoc.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 80 | 1909 | Jack London, "South of the Slot," short story, Saturday Evening Post, 22 May 1909
https://www.jacklondons.net/south_of_the_slot.html |
The World of Jack London, jacklondons.net |
| 81 | 1909 | John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences of Men and Events, 1909 (publ. 1933), excerpts
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text2/standardoil.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 82 | 1910 | Jane Addams, "Influence of Lincoln," Ch. 2 in Twenty Years at Hull-House, 1910
https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse-02.html |
Celebration of Women Writers, created and maintained by Mary Mark |
| 83 | 1910 | Theodore Roosevelt, "The New Nationalism," Address at a park dedication, Osowatomie, Kansas, 31 August 1910 https://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/31.htm |
U.S. State Department: infoUSA, Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy |
| 84 | 1910 | Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management, 1910, Ch. 2, excerpts
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text3/taylor.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 85 | 1910 | James H. Patten, American Purity Alliance, Testimony before the Joint Congressional Committee on Immigration, 1910, excerpt
https://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/nash5e_awl/ medialib/timeline/docs/sources/theme_primarysources_ Immigration_8.html |
The Pearson History Education Place |
| 86 | 1911 | U.S. Supreme Court, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey et al. v. U.S., 1911, excerpts
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text2/standardoil.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 87 | 1911 | George Bellows, New York, oil on canvas, 1911
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text1/metropolis.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 88 | 1912 | Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianizing the Social Order, 1912, excerpts https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text9/rauschenbusch.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 89 | 1913 | Jane Addams, "If Men Were Seeking the Franchise," Ladies' Home Journal, June 1913
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text12/addams.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 90 | 1913 | Marie Jenney Howe, "An Anti-Suffrage Monologue," 1913
https://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4963 |
History Matters, from George Mason University and the City University of New York (CUNY) |
| 91 | 1913 | Henry Glintenkamp, Voting Machines, drawing, The Masses, November 1913
https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/satire/glint/glint1.htm |
Marxists.org Internet Archive |
| 92 | 1913 | Christine Frederick, The New Housekeeping: Efficiency Studies in Home Management, 1913, excerpts
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text4/frederick.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 93 | 1920 | Anzia Yezierska, "The Lost Beautifulness" and "Soap and Water," short stories in Hungry Hearts, 1920
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text6/yezierska.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 94 | 1920 | Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, published 1933, excerpts
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text7/carnegie.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
| 95 | 1921 | Thomas Edison, Observation in his diary, 13 February 1921, with photograph of Edison and Charles Steinmetz, n.d.
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/progress/text6/edison.pdf |
National Humanities Center |
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