These Internet links will take you to Web sites where you can find additional information and resources that pertain to the material presented in this chapter. Census data, government documents, state and federal government Web sites, and other Internet resources not only offer the most current statistics and data available, they also enable you to gather alternative views of political issues, as well as look at special topics of concern to you.
- The American Experience: America 1900
Companion to the PBS documentary, this site includes audio clips of respected historians on the economics, politics, and culture of 1900, a primary source database, a timeline of the year, downloadable software to compile a family tree, and other materials.
- Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
This Library of Congress collection has thousands of photographs from turn-of-the-century America.
- World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath
This site has a virtual tour of the fair, along with contemporary reactions and modern analysis.
- United States History: The Gilded Age (1890) to World War I
This site consists of a good overview essay of the era.
- Chapter Three: American Socialists and Reformers
This site includes a fine essay about Edward Bellamy and some of the movements and ideas he inspired.
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
This collection includes writings of famous African Americans, including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
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