Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Information: Three volumes; Thematic essays; A-Z entries; illustrations; sidebars; documents; chronology; bibliography; multiple indexes.

A project web-site is maintained at http://www.west.asu.edu/jbuenke/encyclopedia/

Description: Extending from the 1870s to World War I, the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era mark a a major turning point in American history. During this colorful period the country transformed itself from an isolated, rural, agricultural nation into an urban, industrial, multicultural world power. It was an era marked by bigness: Big Business, Big Labor, and big ideas. These forces changed people's everyday lives as a technical revolution swept the country, giving birth to such inventions as the telephone, light bulb, automobile, airplane, radio, and motion pictures. It was an era punctuated by disasters such as the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, and the San Francisco Earthquake, as well as two presidential assassinations. The same era also brought us ragtime, vaudeville, Coney Island, and Major League Baseball.

Symbolized by larger-than-life figures--Teddy Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Mark Twain, Emma Goldman, and W.E.B. Du Bois to name just a few--the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era set the stage for the United States to become the world's industrial powerhouse and gave birth to the modern world.

This illustrated encyclopedia provides definitive coverage of all the social and cultural developments of the period as well as its political and economic history. Edited by distinguished historian John Buenker and librarian Joseph Buenker, the set features original documents, sidebars, and in-depth essays on major themes and developments, as well as hundreds of detailed entries on issues, events, people, and ideas.

PART 1. THEMATIC ESSAYS

Technology and Systematization; The Economy; Urbanization; Immigration and Ethnicity; Women and Gender; Labor and Industrial Relations; African Americans; American Indians; Politics; Government; Foreign and International Relations; Leisure and Popular Culture; Art and Architecture; Music; Literature; Children and Youth; Religion

PART 2. A-Z
* Comprised of approximately 900 entries.
See http://www.west.asu.edu/jbuenke/encyclopedia/entries_all.html

PART 3. DOCUMENTS

Treaties and Foreign Policy Declarations
Invitation to Pan-American Conference (1881); The Independence of Cuba (1898); Annexation of Hawaii (1898); William McKinley's Message on the Philippines (1898); Treaty of Peace with Spain (1898); Senator Beveridge Advocates Imperialism (1899); Open Door Policy (1899); Platt Amendment (1902); Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904); President Roosevelt's Letter to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on Japan (1905); Root-Takahira Agreement (1908); Gentlemen's Agreement on Japanese Immigration (1908); Report of the United States Commission on Immigration (1911); President Taft Proclaims Dollar Diplomacy (1912); President Wilson's Mobile Pledge (1913); President Wilson's Special Message on Mexican Relations (1913); President Wilson's Panama Canal Tolls Message (1914); President Wilson's Appeal for Neutrality (1914);
Secretary of State Bryan's Note on the Sinking of the Lusitania (1915); American Occupation of Haiti (1916); The Sussex Pledge (1916); Zimmermann Note (1917); President Wilson's Peace Without Victory Speech (1917); President Wilson Asks for Declaration of War (1917); Senator Norris Opposes American Intervention in World War I (1917); Lansing-Ishii Agreement (1917); President Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918); Archangel Expedition Aide-Memoire (1918); President Wilson Advocates the League of Nations (1919); Senator Lodge Opposes the League of Nations (1919)

Political Statements
Speech of Senator Blanche K. Bruce to the U.S. Senate (1876); President Chester A. Arthur's Proclamation on Civil Service (1883); William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech (1896); President Theodore Roosevelt Advocates the Conservation of Natural Resources (1907); Appeal of Seven Governors to Theodore Roosevelt (1912); Roosevelt's Response to Seven Governors (1912); Theodore Roosevelt Proclaims the New Nationalism (1912); Pujo Committee Report: Concentration of Control in Banking and Credit (1912); First Inaugural Address of President Wilson (1913); United States Commission on Industrial Relations: Concentration of Control in Industry (1915); President Wilson's Appeal to the Voters to Return a Democratic Congress (1918); Warren G. Harding Proposes a Return to Normalcy (1920)

Political Party Platforms
Greenback Party (1884); Anti-Monopoly Party (1884); Prohibition Party (1884); Union Labor Party (1888); Socialist Labor Party (1892); People's Party Platform (1892); Republican Party of Wisconsin Platform (1912); Socialist Party Platform (1912); Progressive Party Platform (1912)

Acts of Congress and Constitutional Amendments
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882); Interstate Commerce Act (1887); Dawes Severalty Act (1887); Sherman Antitrust Act (1890); United States Constitution, Article XIV (1913); United States Constitution, Article XVII (1913); Federal Trade Commission Act (1914); Clayton Antitrust Act (1914); Adamson Eight-Hour Act (1916); Immigration Literacy Act (1917); Espionage Act (1917); Sedition Act (1918); Railway Administration Act (1918); Child Labor Act (1919); Volstead Act (1919); United States Constitution, Article XVIII (1919); United States Constitution, Article XIX (1920)

Court Decisions
Munn v. Illinois (1877); Civil Rights Cases (1883); Ex parte Yarbrough (1884); In re Jacobs (1885); Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company (1895); United States v. E.C. Knight Company (1895); In re Debs (1895); Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904); Lochner v. New York (1905); Adair v. United States (1908); Muller v. Oregon (1908); Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States (1911); Bunting v. Oregon (1917); Wilson v. New (1917); Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918); Schenck v. United States (1919); Abrams v. United States (1919)

Declarations and Principles of Organizations
Knights of Labor Platform (1878); Eight-Hour Association Declaration of Principles (1886); American Federation of Labor (1887); American Economic Association Platform (1887); Farmers' Alliance Ocala Demands (1890); Woman's Christian Temperance Union Do Everything Policy (1893); Anti-Imperialist League Platform (1899); National Association of Manufacturers Declaration of Principles (1903); National Association of Colored Women (1904); National American Woman Suffrage Association Declaration of Principles (1904); Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles (1905); Industrial Workers of the World Manifesto (1905); National Progressive Republican League Declaration of Principles (1911); International Congress of Women Manifesto (1915)