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The Civil War

• Civil War Women
  Online archives including correspondence and diaries from a spy, a schoolgirl and a southern Union sympathizer.

• Archeology at Andersonville
  Resources related to the Andersonville Historical site, the location of a Civil War prisoner-of-war camp.

• The Civil War @ the Smithsonian
  Civil War @ The Smithsonian is produced by the National Portrait Gallery and is dedicated to examining the Civil War through the Smithsonian Institution's extensive and manifold collections.

The Gilded Age

• The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
  Resources from The American Experience documentary include a time line of Carnegie's era, a photograph gallery of period architecture, and additional information on the people and events in Carnegie's life.

• Websites for Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  Includes links to the Library of Congress' American Memory Project and additional primary source information on politics, foreign policy and cultural expression.

Art and Literature

• American Transcendentalism Web
  Information Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Alcott and others

• American Impressionism
  Images from selected authors with brief biographical articles and historical context.

• The Ambrose Bierce Project
  A digital resource for the scholarly study of Ambrose Bierce, his life, writings, and culture.

• The Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society
  A clearinghouse of information on Bierce and his work, including bibliography, news, screen and stage interpretations of his writings.

Social Issues

• How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
  Jacob Riis's classic 1890 text with images and photographs.

• Hull House Museum, Chicago
  Educational Resources on the museum's website include bibliographies, chronologies and additional information about Hull House, Jane Adams and the urban experience in Chicago.

Videos

• Reconstruction The Second Civil War (VHS)
  E668 .R43 2004 ; General
• In search of Thoreau (VHS)
  PS3053.A5 I5 1999 ; General
• The world of Emily Dickinson (VHS)
  PS1541 .A6 1997 ; General
• The New England Transcendentalists (VHS)
  B905 .N49 1997 ; General
• Westward, the course of empire takes its way (VHS)
  F591 .W3 1995 pt.1 ; General
• Mark Twain American writer, 1835-1910 (VHS)
  PS 1331 .M3 1993 ; Circulation Desk
• The Presidents of a national struggle, 1829-1901 (VHS)
  E176.1 .P7 1992 pt. 2 ; Circulation Desk

Print Resources

• Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  edited by John D. Buenker and Joseph Buenker : E661 .E53 2005 ; Reference
• Victorian America, 1876 to 1913
  Crandall Shifflett : E169.1 .A5 1876-1913 ; Reference
• The Gilded Age
  Judith Freeman Clark : E661 .C575 2006 ; General
• Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900
  Julie Husband and Jim O'Loughlin : E168 .H965 2004 ; General
• Rude republic : Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century
  Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin : E337.5 .A48 2000 ; General
• Mugwumps : Public Moralists of the Gilded Age
  David M. Tucker : HN57 .T77 1998 ; General
• Inventing the Modern Artist : Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
  Sarah Burns : N6510 .B87 1996 ; General
• America in the Gilded Age : From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
  Sean Dennis Cashman : E661 .C38 1993 ; General
• A Very Different Age : Americans Of The Progressive Era
  Steven J. Diner : E661 .D56 1998 ; General
• Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America : from the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War
  edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler : E181 .D33 2007 ; General
• Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life
  Brian Black : GF503 .B53 2006 ; General

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