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The Gilded Age
Illustrates how historical events appeared to those who lived through the Gilded Age. This book includes critical documents as well as capsule biographies of more than 100 key figures. It contains maps, graphs, and charts and each chapter provides an introductory essay and a chronology of events.
352 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2005
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November 29, 2025
More source material and a resource for finding things. Far from exhaustive, but it will point one to other sources and places to look at this era. I have read a fair bit on the Gilded Age. A lot of modernization happened then, also a lot of ugly tendencies continued or grew worse. It was a time of massive inequality, much like our own, with massive corruption and a racial backlash after rights were won. A lot of ugly backsliding and lots of oppression by rich white men, which is par for the course in American and Western history. And once the continent was taken over the imperialism started expanding outward as the US became a major power.
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