The Schlager Anthology of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era offers a modern, original sourcebook covering a pivotal era in U.S. history.

Table of Contents

• Reader’s Guide
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: “Let us have liberty, law, and justice”: Reconstruction, Post-Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow South
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Joseph R. Johnson: Letter from a Northern Teacher to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner
• Jourdon Anderson: Letter “To My Old Master”
• Sharecropper Contract
• Black Code of Mississippi
• Thaddeus Stevens: “Reconstruction” Speech
• “Information Wanted” Advertisements
• Thomas Nast: “Worse than Slavery”
• “The First South Carolina Legislature during Radical Reconstruction”
• Frederick Douglass: “On Remembering the Civil War” Speech
• Henry Grady: “New South” Speech
• Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors
• Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Jim Crow Laws
• W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
• Chapter 2: “Here in the shop the machines roar so wildly”: Industrialization, Immigration, and Labor in the City
• National Quarantine Act
• James Albert Wales: “Where Both Platforms Agree”
• Thomas Edison: Patent No. 223,898 for the Light Bulb
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Bernhard Gillam: “The Protectors of Our Industries”
• Haymarket Affair Announcement
• Lucy Parsons: “I Am an Anarchist” Speech
• T. Thomas Fortune: “The Present Relations of Labor and Capital”
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Leonora Barry: Report for the Knights of Labor
• Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House
• Andrew Carnegie: “Wealth”
• Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Bettie Gay: “The Influence of Women in the Alliance”
• Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”
• Frances Willard: Address before the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
• Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike
• “The Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles”
• Eugene V. Debs: “Liberty” Speech
• “What God Freely Gives to Man, Monopoly Appropriates”
• “The ‘Dayton’ 1896”
• William Jennings Bryan: “Cross of Gold” Speech
• Morris Rosenfeld: “In the Factory”
• Thorstein Veblen: “Conspicuous Consumption”
• Horace Taylor: “What a Funny Little Government”
• Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
• “What the Bottle Does: One Year’s Work”
• Eugene V. Debs: “How I Became a Socialist”
• John Mitchell: Organized Labor
• Emma Goldman: “A New Declaration of Independence”
• Anzia Yezierska: Bread Givers
• Chapter 3: “To sign away my country”: Westward Expansion and Imperialism
• Homestead Act
• John Gast: American Progress
• Chief Joseph: “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs”
• John Nicholas Choate: “Before and After”
• Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life among the Piutes
• “Wounded Knee Massacre”
• Richard H. Pratt: “Kill the Indian, and Save the Man” Speech
• Clara Barton: The Red Cross in Peace and War
• Victor Gillam: “Remember the Maine! And Don’t Forget the Starving Cubans!”
• Louis Dalrymple: “School Begins”
• Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
• Emil Flohri: “And, After All, the Philippines Are Only the Stepping-Stone to China”
• Charles Eastman: From the Deep Woods of Civilization
• Zitkala-Ša: “The Cutting of My Long Hair”
• Chapter 4: “The strong arm of the government”: The Progressive Era
• Theodore Roosevelt: Statements Pertaining to Conservation
• Florence Kelley: “The Child Breadwinner and the Dependent Parent”
• Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
• Jack London: “The Story of an Eyewitness”
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Theodore Roosevelt: Special Message to Congress on Worker’s Compensation
• Lewis Wickes Hine: “One of the Spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co., North Carolina”
• Lewis Wickes Hine: “Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina”
• Clara Lemlich: “Life in the Shop”
• Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime”
• Jane Addams: “Why Women Should Vote”
• Shirtwaist Advertisement
• “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”
• Progressive Party Platform
• Jane Addams: “Who Is to Blame for Child Labor?”
• World War I Propaganda Poster for Victory Gardens
• Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment”
• W. E. B. Du Bois: “Jesus Christ in Texas”
• List of Documents by Category