Gilded Age

Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.

Charles W. Calhoun received his doctorate in history from Columbia University. He is professor of history at East Carolina University, and author of Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900, Benjamin Harrison, and Gilded Age Cato: The Life of Walter Q. Gresham.

Introduction Chapter 1: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business Chapter 2: Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900 Chapter 3: American Workers and the Labor Movement in the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter 4: The Immigrant Experience in the Gilded Age Chapter 5: Urbanizing America Chapter 6: Women in Industrializing America Chapter 7: The African-American Experience Chapter 8: Native American Resistance and Accommodation during the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter 9: The Influence of Commerce, Technology, and Race on Popular Culture in the Gilded Age Chapter 10: Cultural and Intellectual Life in the Gilded Age Chapter 11: The Political Culture: Public Life and the Conduct of Politics Chapter 12: Party Conflict: Republicans versus Democrats, 1877-1901 Chapter 13: Farmers and Third-Party Politics Chapter 14: Phases of Empire: Late Nineteenth-Century U.S. Foreign Relations Chapter 15: Law and the Constitution in the Gilded Age