Gilded Age and Progressive Era

by Valentine, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781414401959
• ISBN10: 1414401957
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-08
• Publisher: Uxl

Summary

Helping students relate to the significant social and culture changes that occurred in the years 1878-1913, Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reference Library has the details and vital connections largely missing in other references. Biographies profiles figures significant to the era, with coverage of Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, John D. Rockefeller, Ida B. Wells and many others. Throughout are numerous illustrations and interesting sidebars make it easy to understand the political climate, people and events that shaped the time. In addition to providing further reading suggestions and research and activity ideas, a chronology framing events in the wider context, words to know section for additional clarification, and a subject index making it easy to locate target information.

Table of Contents

Reader's Guide	vii
Timeline of Events	xi
Words to Know	xxv
Jane Addams	1	(10)
Grover Cleveland	11	(14)
Ty Cobb	25	(10)
John Dewey	35	(8)
Thomas Edison	43	(10)
Emma Goldman	53	(12)
Jay Gould	65	(10)
Edward Harriman	75	(8)
Benjamin Harrison	83	(10)
Lewis Hine	93	(12)
Scott Joplin	105	(6)
Jack London	111	(8)
William McKinley	119	(14)
John Muir	133	(8)
Thomas Nast	141	(10)
Theodore Roosevelt	151	(22)
Upton Sinclair	173	(10)
Sitting Bull	183	(10)
Hannah Solomon	193	(10)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	203	(8)
Mark Twain	211	(10)
Cornelius Vanderbilt	221	(8)
Booker T. Washington	229	(8)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett	237	(8)
Frances Willard	245
Where to Learn More	xxxv
Index	xlix