1865-1898

A history of the Gilded Age offers biographies of the period's leading figures, primary source documents, and coverage of places and terms to introduce industrialization in America, muckraking investigative journalism, and the era's legacy.

Angelina Petrosino dreams of getting an education, but her parents have insisted that she work full-time at the Sidowski sweatshop in New York City.

In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States' centennial.

Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.

Covers African-American advancements during the period of the federal government's management of the defeated Southern states.

Primary source materials present life on the Western frontier, urbanization, immigration, social reformers, and contemporary technology.

Chronicles the lives of African-Americans during the late 1800s.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on notable people, events, ideas, organizations, and movements in the history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, from 1877 to 1920, and includes an introduction to the period, thematic essays, and a selection of documents.

Presents photographs (and their stories) that became almost as famous as the history-making events they depicted. Includes Lincoln, Nixon and Krushchev, Iwo Jima, Kent State, and others.