From about 1877 to 1913 immigration was responsible for half of all urbanization. The era was big enough to contain Booker T. Washington, Emma Goldman, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas
Profiles twenty-five people important to the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, including author Mark Twain, activist Booker T. Washington, inventor Thomas Edison, and tycoon
Eighteen documents and collections of illustrations tell the story of the United States during the Golden Age and the Progressive Era, including a firsthand account of the sinking of the Titanic, exce
