Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...

Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...

An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many original documents.

An excerpt from Andrew Carnegie's autobiography that describes his attitude toward wealth and an excerpt from the novel The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that suggests the giddy, unreality of an America caught up in...

This 1896, A Website of Political Cartoons site lists concerts, lectures, travelling shows, opera houses, circuses, and more as popular amusements during the Gilded Age

This 1896, A Website of Political Cartoons site lists concerts, lectures, travelling shows, opera houses, circuses, and more as popular amusements during the Gilded Age

A comprehensive site on Bret Harte, a Western story teller during the Gilded Age.

"1896 found the United States in the middle of a bicycle craze." Great site from Vassar College all about bicycles in the Gilded Age from 1896, A Website of Political Cartoons.

"1896 found the United States in the middle of a bicycle craze." Great site from Vassar College all about bicycles in the Gilded Age from 1896, A Website of Political Cartoons.

An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many original documents.

An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many original documents.

The lesser-known story of the Chinese building of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.

The lesser-known story of the Chinese building of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.

The lesser-known story of the Chinese building of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.

The lesser-known story of the Chinese building of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.

Quotations from contemporary figures and recent politicians depicting the value of the Chinese workers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Included are many pictures and graphs as well as links to additional information.

Quotations from contemporary figures and recent politicians depicting the value of the Chinese workers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Included are many pictures and graphs as well as links to additional information.

Quotations from contemporary figures and recent politicians depicting the value of the Chinese workers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Included are many pictures and graphs as well as links to additional information.

Quotations from contemporary figures and recent politicians depicting the value of the Chinese workers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Included are many pictures and graphs as well as links to additional information.

An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many original documents.

An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many original documents.

The lesser-known story of the Chinese building of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.

The lesser-known story of the Chinese building of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.

This Gilded Age mansion and country estate was designed by McKim, Mead & White, with landscaping by Fletcher Steele. Built in the 1880s for lawyer Joseph Choate, it was given by his daughter to The Trustees of Reservations, who...