Resource Guide:
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Selected Call Numbers
Call numbers are the shelving locations for each item. Browsing in the following areas of the library will help you find materials for your topic.
| Topic | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Late nineteenth century, 1865-1900 | E660-738 |
| Twentieth century | E740-837.7 |
| Labor disputes. Strikes and lockouts | HD5306-5474 |
| Trade unions. Labor unions. | HD6350-6940.7 |
| Immigrants | HV4005-4013 |
| Suffrage | JK1846-1929 |
| Alcoholism. Intemperance. Temperance reform | HV5001-5720.5 |
| Railroads. Rapid transit systems | HE1001-5600 |
| Railroad engineering and operation | TF1-1620 |
| Telecommunication industry. Telegraph | HE7601-8700.9 |
Selected Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- American Federation of Labor
- Tammany Hall
- Immigration stations–Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)–1900-1910.
- Suffrage–United States–History
- Social gospel
- Ragtime music
- Prohibition–United States
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935–Correspondence
- Income tax–Law and legislation–United States
- Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
- Eugenics–Social aspects–United States
- Populist Party (U.S.)
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Homestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892
- Muckraking–1900-1910
- Yellow journalism–1900-1910
- Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company–Fire, 1911
- Vaudeville United States
Selected Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The social philosophy of Jane Addams | HV 28 .A35 H37 2009 |
| Militant citizenship : rhetorical strategies of the National Woman’s Party, 1913-1920 | JK 1896 .S82 2011 |
| Treacherous texts : U.S. suffrage literature, 1846-1946 | JK 1896 .T74 2010 |
| The response to prostitution in the progressive era | HQ 144 .C66 |
| America’s Gilded Age : personalities in an era of extravagance and change, 1850-1890 | E 168 .R93 1989 |
| The progressive era and race : reaction and reform, 1900-1917 | E 185.6 .S68 2005 |
| The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt | CT 275 .V23 S85 2009 |
| A century of eugenics in America : from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era | HQ 755.5 .U5 C46 2010 |
| We are all Americans, pure and simple : Theodore Roosevelt and the myth of Americanism | E 757 .D67 2007 |
| A nation by design : immigration policy in the fashioning of America | HV 6483 .Z65 2006 |
| Next to godliness: confronting dirt and despair in Progressive Era New York City | TD 819 .N6 B87 |
| The Gilded Age press, 1865-1900 | e-Book |
| Domesticating drink women, men, and alcohol in America, 1870-1940 | e-Book |
| Populism : the humane preference in America, 1890-1900 | E 661 .C56 |
| American Catholic lay groups and transatlantic social reform in the progressive era | e-Book |
| Growing up in Boston’s Gilded Age : the journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874 | F 73.5 .B53 1990 |
| Muckraking and objectivity : journalism’s colliding traditions | PN 4888 .E8 M57 1990 |
| Rags and ragtime : a musical history | ML 3560 .J37 1989 |
Selected Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- America: History and Life
- ArchiveGrid
- Credo Reference
- Humanities International Complete
- Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- JSTOR
- Military & Government Collection
- OAISter
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
- http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://wass.alexanderstreet.com/
- Women’s Studies International
Selected Journals and Magazines
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. YOu can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Journal of the Gilded Age and Progessive Era
- Progressive Populist
- American History
- Journal of American History
- Journal of American Ethnic History
- Journalism History
- Economic History Review
- Eugenics Quarterly
Selected Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Early American Marxism
- Triangle Factory Fire
- Temperance and Prohibition
- Seattle General Strike Project
- Illinois during the Gilded Age
- Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Haymarket Riot Trial
- American Variety Stage Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment
- History of the U.S. Telegraph Industry
- Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
- Vaudeville!
- Theordore Roosevelt Association
- Reforming their world: women in the Progressive Era
- Institute for Research on Labor and Employment