By noted historian and teacher Richard Jensen (January, 2008) provides an annotated guide to web-based materials including both primary and secondary sources.
Online Resources
"Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraska explores the development of towns and cities on the Great Plains through the lens of a murder case in the 1890s that evolved into a fascinating story that drew the attention of nearly everyone in town and people from across the region and country." The project is directed by Prof. Timothy R. Mahoney
The online forum of the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
A Northern Illinois University Libraries' digitization project with special features on the Haymarket Bombing, Ida B. Wells, Frances E. Willard, and the Pullman Strike.
"Railroads and the Making of Modern America explores the dynamic social change that came between 1850 and 1900 with the growth of railroads, telegraphs, steam ships and other technologies. We concentrate on the railroad network, the nation's first major system. The railroad's expansion and development brought profound economic, social, and political changes. This project aims to collect documentary materials on the railroads' social consequences and to create network visualizations that allow users to explore sources, compare digital objects, and manipulate data." Directed by Will Thomas, John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
(Curated by Carl Smith, Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University), a joint project of the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University, provides a narrative and a wealth of documentation concerning the events leading up to and away from the Haymarket Square bombing of 1886.
Through a Glass Darkly: Images of Race, Region, and Reform is an online exhibition documenting conflicting representations of African-Americans, white Southerners, and reformers during and and immediately after the Civil War. In particular, it looks at the stereotypes popularized in the northern press, and the ways that these depictions were countered--or in some cases, reinforced--in the letters written for northern readers by freedmen's teachers and freedmen themselves.
