Uses a wide variety of documents to show how Americans dealt with an age of extremes from 1887 to 1900, including rapid industrialization, unemployment, unprecedented wealth, and immigration.
Content Note
Big business, industry, and the American dream; Immigration to a promised land; Sorrows of labor; Perils and promise of urban life; Jacob Riis and the power of the photograph; The new south; The west; Farmers' revolt; United States builds an empire; New women, strenuous men, and leisure.