A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Content: Title Page 
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Notes on Contributors
 Introduction: Gilded Excesses, Multiple Progressivisms
 Part I Overview-Definitions, Precursors, and Geographies 
 Chapter One Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 
 Redefining the Era
 Writing a New Narrative
 The Universal Suffrage Years
 Restricting the Suffrage
 Defining the Government
 Reforming America
 Reconstructing America
 References
 Chapter Two Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reforms 
 An "Age of Reform": Mugwumps and Political Reformers "A Search for Order": Industrialization and its ConsequencesSocial Justice and the Settlement House Movement
 In Search of Progressivism: The Kaleidoscope of Reform Traditions
 The Transnational Debate and Precursors to Reform
 The Labor Movement and the Era of Reform
 Agrarian Discontent and its Legacies
 Conclusion: The Debate Continues
 References
 Chapter Three Urban America 
 "The Loop": Urban Downtowns
 "Little Sicily," "Deutschland," and "Chinatown": Ethnicity and Immigration
 The Black Belt: Race and the City The "Slum," the "Zone of Workingmen's Homes," and the "Commuter Zone": Class Divisions in the CityProgressivism, Women, and Urban Reform
 Cities of the South and West
 Future Directions
 References
 Further reading
 Chapter Four The South 
 The Rise of the "New South"
 The Rise of Jim Crow
 The Progressive Movement in the South
 Conclusion: National Reconciliation
 References
 Further reading
 Chapter Five The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 
 The Midwest
 Politics
 The Far West
 Conclusion
 References Chapter Six Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State References
 Further reading
 Part II Sex, Race, and Gender
 Chapter Seven Gender 
 Popular Culture
 Politics and Gender
 Labor and Gender
 Education and Gender
 Physical Appearance
 Gender Outliers
 The Origins of Gender Ideology in the GAPE
 Suggestions for Further Research
 Conclusion
 References
 Chapter Eight Inventing Sexuality: Ideologies, Identities, and Practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 
 Gilded Age Tensions and the Last Gasps of Victorianism: Keeping Sex Private and Spheres Separate Progressive-Era Trade-offs and Modern Sexuality: Making Sex Public in an Era of Reform and Consumerism Conclusion
 References
 Further reading
 Chapter Nine African Americans 
 References
 Further reading
 Chapter Ten From Dispossessed Wards to Citizen Activists: American Indians Survive the Assimilation Policy Era 
 Indians on the Margins of History
 Indians' Unique "Wardship"
 Indians' Significance for Non‐Indians
 Shared Economic History
 Shared Cultural History
 Indian Progressives
 Shared Religious Innovation and Fervor
 Conclusion
 References
 Further Reading