The Gilded Age to the Depression

Introduction Page
1. The Gilded Age
   1. Binding the Nation by Rail
   2. The New Tycoons: John D. Rockefeller
   3. The New Tycoons: Andrew Carnegie
   4. The New Tycoons: J. Pierpont Morgan
   5. New Attitudes Toward Wealth
   6. Politics of the Gilded Age
2. Organized Labor
   1. The Great Upheaval
   2. Labor vs. Management
   3. Early National Organizations
   4. American Federation of Labor
   5. Eugene V. Debs and American Socialism
3. From the Countryside to the City
   1. The Glamour of American Cities
   2. The Underside of Urban Life
   3. The Rush of Immigrants
   4. Corruption Runs Wild
   5. Religious Revival: The "Social Gospel"
   6. Artistic and Literary Trends
4. New Dimensions in Everyday Life
   1. Education
   2. Sports and Leisure
   3. Women in the Gilded Age
   4. Victorian Values in a New Age
   5. The Print Revolution
5. Closing the Frontier
   1. The Massacre at Sand Creek
   2. Custer's Last Stand
   3. The End of Resistance
   4. Life on the Reservations
   5. The Wounded Knee Massacre
6. Western Folkways
   1. The Mining Boom
   2. The Ways of the Cowboy
   3. Life on the Farm
   4. The Growth of Populism
   5. The Election of 1896
7. Progressivism Sweeps the Nation
   1. Roots of the Movement
   2. Muckrakers
   3. Women's Suffrage at Last
   4. Booker T. Washington
   5. W. E. B. DuBois
8. Progressives in the White House
   1. Teddy Roosevelt: The Rough Rider in the White House
   2. The Trust Buster
   3. A Helping Hand for Labor
   4. Preserving the Wilderness
   5. Passing the Torch
   6. The Election of 1912
   7. Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
9. Seeking Empire
   1. Early Stirrings
   2. Hawaiian Annexation
   3. "Remember the Maine!"
   4. The Spanish-American War and Its Consequences
   5. The Roosevelt Corollary and Latin America
   6. Reaching to Asia
   7. The Panama Canal
10. America in the First World War
    1. Farewell to Isolation
    2. Over There
    3. Over Here
    4. The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
11. The Decade That Roared
    1. The Age of the Automobile
    2. The Fight Against "Demon Rum"
    3. The Invention of the Teenager
    4. Flappers
    5. The Harlem Renaissance
    6. A Consumer Economy
    7. Radio Fever
    8. Fads and Heroes
12. Old Values vs. New Values
    1. The Red Scare
    2. The Monkey Trial
    3. Intolerance
    4. Books and Movies
    5. Domestic and International Politics