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1865-1898

The modern American presidency

2003
Traces the history of the presidency in the twentieth century, discussing how the political atmosphere differed from earlier centuries.

The reckless decade

America in the 1890s
1995
A history of the turbulent final decade of the 1800s and the people and events that influenced the course of America.

The development of the industrial United States

2008
Examines the development of the industrial United States during the presidencies of Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and William McKinley. Also covers their early careers as well as their legacies.

Sooner

1998
With the realization that his father may not return now that the Civil War is over, thirteen-year-old Tyler finds himself the man of their Missouri farm and the master of a new dog, the strikingly colored Sooner.

Silent echoes

2007
When sixteen-year-old Lindsay hears the voice of a girl from nineteenth century New York in her head, she thinks she may be going crazy, while Lucy, the nineteenth-century con artist whose voice Lindsay hears, thinks she might truly be a spiritual medium after all.

The Gilded Age

2007
Vintage photographs, illustrations, and text describe the events and people associated with the Gilded Age in America from the end of the Civil War to 1900.

Reconstructing America

2005
Presents an overview of the important events in U.S. history during the Reconstruction period between 1865 and 1890, covering the Industrial Revolution, Transcontinental Railroad, Manifest Destiny, new technology and inventions, and much more.

Rebuilding a nation

picking up the pieces
2005
Chronicles the political, social, and economic events that shaped the development of the United States in the years following the Civil War.

West from Appomattox

the reconstruction of America after the Civil War
2007

New spirits

Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905
2006
Offers an in-depth analysis at what it meant to be an American in the Gilded Age, exploring the contradictions that seemed to define the era and their impact on the lives of everyday citizens.

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