A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Notes on Contributors vii
 
Introduction: Gilded Excesses, Multiple Progressivisms 1
Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger
 
Part I Overview-Definitions, Precursors, and Geographies 5
 
1 Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7
Heather Cox Richardson
 
2 Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reforms 21
James M. Beeby and Brian M. Ingrassia
 
3 Urban America 31
Michael B. Kahan
 
4 The South 44
Amy Louise Wood
 
5 The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 58
Thomas J. Jablonsky
 
6 Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State 71
Benjamin Johnson
 
Part II Sex, Race, and Gender 85
 
7 Gender 87
Kimberly A. Hamlin
 
8 Inventing Sexuality: Ideologies, Identities, and Practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 102
Leigh Ann Wheeler
 
9 African Americans 116
Omar H. Ali
 
10 From Dispossessed Wards to Citizen Activists: American Indians Survive the Assimilation Policy Era 124
Alexandra Harmon
 
11 Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity 137
Julie Greene
 
Part III Art, Thought, and Culture 149
 
12 Art and Architecture 151
Alan Lessoff
 
13 Religion in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 165
Matthew Bowman
 
14 Journalism 178
Bruce J. Evensen
 
15 Popular Culture 19
Julia Guarneri
 
Part IV Economics, Science, and Technology 203
 
16 American Capitalism: From the Atlantic Economy to Domestic Industrialization 205
Noam Maggor
 
17 Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy, and Civil Society 215
David C. Hammack
 
18 Labor and Class in the GAPE: Fruitful Opposition and the Specter of the Middle Class 229
David Huyssen
 
19 Science and Technology 243
Alan I Marcus
 
20 The Rise of a Modern Concept of "Health" 255
David G. Schuster
 
Part V Political Leadership 269
 
21 Gilded Age Presidents 271
Justus D.

Christopher McKnight Nichols is Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University. He is author of the award-winning book, Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (2011), co-editor of Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (2008), and Senior Editor of the two volume Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (2013). Nancy C. Unger is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (2012) and the award-winning biographies Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (2000), and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer (2016).