Themes: Gilded Age

Explore a historical timeline for the Gilded Age/Progressive Era, with links to historical newspapers connected to each major event.

A primary source collection sourced from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Additional resources related to Gilded Age/Progressive Era.

This database includes helpful background articles, timelines, and overviews, as well as a rich array of primary sources.

New York Times articles 1851-2018.

Digitized primary sources related to American history and culture. Collections include African American Newspapers; American Camp Newspapers during WWI; American County Histories; and Women's Suffrage.

Founded in 1865, The Nation is America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine. The archive includes the full run of the paper from that time. The Nation is frequently quoted and referred to in works of historical analysis. In the contemporary period, it is characterized by a liberal point of view.

The items have been collected at Brown for over three centuries for researchers and scholars at Brown and worldwide interested in American history, including the history of alcoholism, how the media was used for spreading ideas and information, and in how the arts presented various movements.

From the Illinois State Library. The collections include official records, objects and photographs, as well as personal memorabilia from the Fair, such as the Robbins Family Scrapbook containing hundreds of fascinating items collected during the family's seven visits to the Exposition. Official records from the Fair include the immense handwritten financial ledger - six feet across when opened - recording the operating costs of the Fair. Also included are a collection of 350 photographs that document the construction of the Museum's present building at 12th Street, at the foot of Grant Park between 1915 and 1919.

From the University of Maryland. The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates, and makes available, primary sources of American labor history. Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and eleven volumes of Gompers' papers.

An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented in this online research collection from Harvard University.

This site provides valuable primary source materials relating to the 1911 Triangle Factory Fire. From Cornell University's Kheel Center.

Primary sources from the Digital Public Library of America. Topics include immigration, yellow journalism, urbanization, women's suffrage, labor, and anti-lynching activism.

From Digital History, includes images (illustrations, broadsides, paintings, engravings) from the Gilded Age. Also includes useful description and historical context.

Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote. This guide compiles Library of Congress digital materials, external websites, and a print bibliography related to the women's suffrage movement.

Primary source set from the Library of Congress.

A guide for researching the topic of "yellow journalism” in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.

Search within these results from the time period 1890-1930.

Search results from DocsTeach (National Archives) focused on child labor from 1890-1930. Use search filters to modify or expand your results.

Search by presidential administration, the source of presidential documents on the internet. Hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Browse the digital collections, including presidential papers and photographs.