Era 6: The Gilded Age (1870-1900)

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

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Pinterest Board for this Era

Title: American progress Creator(s): Crofutt, George A. Date Created/Published: c1873. Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 37.6 x 49 cm (sheet) Summary: Print shows an allegorical female figure of America leading pioneers westward, as they travel on foot, in a stagecoach, conestoga wagon, and by railroads, where they encounter Native Americans and herds of bison.

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Presentations

American Indians in Photography slide Presentation from Professor Mick Gidley
The Photography of American Indians, Bibliography Handout
Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian
Looking at Photographs: A Selective Reading List
Elliott West: The Wild West; Bison and the West; Elliott's notes for the presentation (includes the quotes)
Mary Murphy: The New South; and Notes
The Industrial West: Act II by Dr. Elliott West
The World’s Convention by Dr. Elliott West
Water and Power in the West by Dr. Elliott West
Eastern Dudes and the Imagined West by Dr. Elliott West
Skull Wars by Dr. Walter Fleming
The Greater Reconstruction by Dr. Elliott West
Wired to the World by Dr. Elliott West
Chief Joseph and the Trials of Native America by Prof. Elliott West
The Dawes Act by Dr. Walter Fleming
Bonehunters and Tickpickers: Science on the Great Plains by Prof. Elliott West
Buffalo Bill at the World’s Fair by Prof. Bob Rydell

Curriculum

Labor of Sorrow: Ludlow by Master Teacher, Jim McNeill
All in the Family by Master Teacher, Jim McNeill
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? by Christine Sink (Powerpoint) and (Handout of Packet)
Living in Victorian America by Danice Toyias
Reconstruction Report Card by Christine Sink
The Freedman’s Bureau by Christine Sink
Progress and the Progressive Era by Danice Toyias
Creating a Primary Source Museum: The Progressive Era by Christine Sink
The Copper Revolution by Danice Toyias

Barney Old Coyote: Crow Treaties, Acts, and Executive Orders

The Gilded Age

“The Clarks: an American story of wealth, scandal and mystery” (article)

"The Homestead Strike" (from PBS)

P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting

Henry George, Progress and Poverty (Chapter 1)

Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (Introduction)

Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth

Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Problem of Negro Leadership (Lesson from Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute by Robert Gibson)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Also see Era 7 for additional resources and links

Bibliography of Western and Cowboy Literature in American History

Aquila, Richard. Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Athearn, Robert G. The Mythic West. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 1986.
Carlson, Paul H. The Cowboy Way: An Explanation of History and Culture. Lubbock : Texas Tech Press, 2000.
Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian. New Haven : Yale Press, 1998.
Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. Middletown : Wesleyen Press, 1985. (second in a series of books on this subject by Slotkin)