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TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN LIFE: 1870-1900 -- HIS 4545
WEB RESOURCES

General History

• SPU Library History Resources
• 19th Century U.S. History Sites Online
• Academic Info: U.S. History -- Modern America: Gilded Age & Progressive Era
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Gilded Age (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
• Gilded Age: The Worth Collection, 1860-1918 (Museum of the City of New York)
• Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Gilded Age 1866-1901: 19th Century Industrialization
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources
• Great Homes of America's Gilded Age
• SHGAPE Bibliographical Essays (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
• WWW-VL: History: USA: The Gilded Age 1876-1900

Biographies

• Biography of America
• Lives: The Biography Resource

Primary Documents

• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
• Gilded Age Documents
• Historical Text Archive
• Making of America (includes images of Cornell U. books & periodical articles)
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• Making of America (includes images of U. of Michigan books & periodical articles)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
• World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (includes 4 docs: The Dream City, ...)
• WWW-VL: History: USA: The Gilded Age 1876-1900

General World's Fair Sites

• ExpoArchive 1850-1899
• World's Fairs and Expositions: Defining America and the World, 1876-1916

Centennial Exhibition, 1876 (Philadelphia World's Fair, 1876)

• Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection: Philadelphia 1876
• Digital Archive of American Architecture: 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia
• NGA Photo Archives: Philadelphia Exhibition 1876
• Special Collections Library: 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition (photographs)

World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 (Chicago World's Fair, 1893)

• 1893 World's Columbian Exposition: Romancing the City
• Digital Archive of American Architecture: 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
• Interactive Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition
• World's Columbian Exposition
• World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Collection

Plagiarism & Style Manuals

• Plagiarism--How to Avoid
• Style Manuals (both MLA & APA)