U-X-L Gilded Age and Progressive Era reference library

Presents biographical profiles of twenty-five significant figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in such areas as politics, science, social activism, and entertainment.

Presents overviews of such aspects of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as industrialization, immigration, westward expansion, and invention, and includes a time line and a glossary.

Presents eighteen primary sources from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era including a survivor's account of the sinking of the "Titanic, " excerpts of writings by Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie, excerpts from Supreme Court decisions, examples of Sears mail-order homes, and other documents and collections of illustrations.