General Works:

Auchincloss, Louis. The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age. NY: Scribner, 1989.

Barney, William L. A Companion to 19th-Century America. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.

Beals, Carleton. The Great Revolt and Its Leaders: The History of Popular Uprisings in the 1890s. NY: Abelard-Schuman, 1968.

Beer, Thomas. The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century. NY: Octagon Books, 1980.

Bergamini, John D. The Hundredth Year: The United States in 1876. NY: Putnam, 1976.

Brands, H.W. The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s. NY: St. Martin’s, 1995.

Buenker, John, ed. The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1920. Acton, MA: Copley Publishing Group, 2002.

Calhoun, Charles W., ed. The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996.

Cashman, Sean Dennis. America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. NY: New York University Press, 1984.

Chenetier, Marc, and Rob Kroes, eds. Impressions of a Gilded Age: The American Fin de Siecle. Amsterdam: Amerika Institut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1983.

Clark, Judith F. America’s Gilded Age: An Eyewitness History. NY: Facts on File, 1992.

Cochran, Thomas, and William Miller. The Age of Enterprise: A Social History of Industrial America. NY: Harper and Row, 1961.

Cohen, Nancy. The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Fink, Leon, ed. Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: Documents and Essays. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1993.

Garraty, John A. The New Commonwealth, 1877-1890. NY: Harper and Row, 1968.

Ginger, Ray. The Age of Excess: The United States from 1877 to 1914 . NY: Macmillan, 1975.

Gould, Lewis L. America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1914. NY: Longman, 2001.

Gregory, Alexis. Families of Fortune: Life in the Gilded Age. NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 1993.

Hays, Samuel. The Response to Industrialism, 1877 to 1914. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Hoogenboom, Ari. The Gilded Age. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Jackson, John B. American Space: The Centennial Years, 1865-1876. NY: Norton, 1972.

Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977.

Kent, Noel J. America in 1900. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.

Larson, Erik. Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. NY: Crown, 1999.

Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. NY: Pantheon Books, 1993.

Linden, Glenn M., ed. Voices from the Reconstruction Years, 1865-1877. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1999.

McCullough, David G. The Johnstown Flood. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

O’Leary, Cecilia E. To Die for: The Paradox of American Patriotism . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Rugoff, Milton. America’s Gilded Age: Intimate Portraits from an Era of Extravagance and Change, 1850-1890. NY: Holt, 1989.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Rise of the City, 1878-1898. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.

Smith, Page. The Rise of Industrial America: A People’s History of the Post-Reconstruction Era. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1984.

Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Gilded Age, or The Hazard of New Functions . NY: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. NY: Hill and Wang, 1968.

Weymouth, Lally. America in 1876: The Way We Were. NY: Vintage, 1976.

Young, John Russell. Around the World with General Grant. 1879.