Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gilded Excesses, Multiple Progressivisms 1
Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger Part I Overview‐Definitions, Precursors, and Geographies 5
1 Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7Heather Cox Richardson
2 Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reforms 21James M. Beeby and Brian M. Ingrassia
3 Urban America 31Michael B. Kahan
4 The South 44Amy Louise Wood
5 The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 58Thomas J. Jablonsky
6 Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State 71Benjamin Johnson
Part II Sex, Race, and Gender 85
7 Gender 87imberly A. Hamlin
8 Inventing Sexuality: Ideologies, Identities, and Practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 102Leigh Ann Wheeler
9 African Americans 116Omar H. Ali
10 From Dispossessed Wards to Citizen Activists: American Indians Survive the Assimilation Policy Era 124Alexandra Harmon
11 Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity 137Julie Greene
Part III Art, Thought, and Culture 149
12 Art and Architecture 151Alan Lessoff
13 Religion in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 165Matthew Bowman
14 Journalism 178Bruce J. Evensen
15 Popular Culture 190Julia Guarneri
Part IV Economics, Science, and Technology 203
16 American Capitalism: From the Atlantic Economy to Domestic Industrialization 205Noam Maggor Copyrighted Material
17 Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy, and Civil Society 215David C. Hammack
18 Labor and Class in the GAPE: Fruitful Opposition and the Specter of the Middle Class 229David Huyssen
19 Science and Technology 243Alan I Marcus
20 The Rise of a Modern Concept of “Health” 255David G. Schuster
Part V Political Leadership 269
21 Gilded Age Presidents 271Justus D. Doenecke
22 Political Movers and Shakers 284Karen Pastorello
23 Changing Interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era 296Kathleen Dalton
24 Woodrow Wilson 308loyd E. Ambrosius
Part VI Government, Politics, and Law 321
25 Pivotal Elections 323Anthony Sparacino
26 Congress in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 339Mark Wahlgren Summers
27 Revising Constitutional History 350Logan E. Sawyer III
28 Radicalism and Conservatism 362Cristina V. Groeger
Part VII The United States and the World 379
29 Connections, Networks, and the Beginnings of a Global America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 381Ian Tyrrell
30 Empire, Expansion, and Its Consequences 399Allan E. S. Lumba
31 The United States in the World during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 410Katherine Unterman
Part VIII Major Works and Contemporary Relevance 421
32 Decades of Upheaval and Reform 423Maureen A. Flanagan
33 Influential Works about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 437Robert D. Johnston
34 Why the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Still Matter 450Michael Kazin
Bibliography 454
Index 507