Gilded Age/Progessivism-1920s

Background and Context  --  HOLLIS Subject Terms  --  Periodical Articles  --  Document Collections

Background and Context  

The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion, by Elisabeth Israels Perry and Karen Manners Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 432 pages
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HOLLIS Subject Terms

  • Populism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • Progressivism (United States politics)
  • United States -- History -- 1865-1921
  • United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933

Periodical Articles 

For Newspapers, see the Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes

Finding Articles in General and Popular Periodicals (North America and Western Europe): 19th Century

Finding Articles in General and Popular Periodicals (North America and Western Europe): 20th Century

Document Collections

ProQuest History Vault: American Politics and Society includes

  • Progressive Era: Reform, Regulation, and Rights (1872-1934)
  • Progressive Era: Voices of Reform (1875-1945) (correspondence, speeches, diaries and photographs of John R. Commons, Charles R. Van Hise, Richard T. Ely, Edward A. Ross and Charles McCarthy)
  • Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930  Search this Module Browse Collections
  • Records of the Children's Bureau, 1912-1969  Search this Module Browse Collections

The Gilded Age (1865-1902) offers manuscripts, photographs, cartoons, government documents, songs, ephemera, etc., together with critical essays on selected primary sources.

Progressive Era (Miller Center)

Primary Resources: Progressive Era