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United States History, 1864-Present, Dr. Miguda

Focusing specifically on primary sources, this guide is to help students in Dr. Miguda's US History 1864-Present course find the resources they need for their assignments.

Politics in the Gilded Age

General Collections on the Gilded Age

Digital Public Library of America: Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age

Library of Congress Flickr: Gilded Age Humor

National Constitution Center:  Gilded Age Through New Deal

Project Gutenberg: Twain, Mark and Warner, Charles Dudley: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (published 1873)

  •  Audio version can be found for free downloand (or download app) at LibriVox here

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library: Gilded Age Cartoons (click on number beside cartoon name to view) 

The Presidents, Their Opponents, and the Elections

The American Presidency Project, search results for Politics, Jan 1 1860--Dec. 31, 1900

HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly) The Presidential Elections 1860-1912--to get to sources, hover mouse over the date of the election you're interested in and click Cartoons.  NOTE: ONLY THE POLITICAL CARTOONS ARE PRIMARY SOURCES.

Library of Congress: Digital Collections: Presidential Election of 1876: A Resource Guide

Library of Congress: Presidential Papers Collections.  NOTE: Some of these papers in these collections will precede the Gilded Age; check dates of individual sources carefully.

National Constitution Center: Historic Documents Library: Gilded Age Through New Deal

Primary Source Nexus: Primary Source Spotlight: 1876 Contested Presidential Election

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library: Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes.  Other primary sources can be accessed from choices on the left, including a few speeches from President Hayes and even recipes from President Hayes's wife Lucy, but please note that not all items listed are primary sources.

Thomas Nast Poltical Cartoon Collection: Presidential Election Losers

Amendments to the Constitution of the United States (1860--1900)

13th Amendment 

Library of Congress: Research Guides: 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History (Clicking Digital Collections on left opens more primary source options.)

 

14th Amendment

Library of Congress: Research Guides: 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History  (Clicking Digital Collections on left opens more primary source options.)

 

15th Amendment

Library of Congress: Research Guides: 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constituion: Primary Documents in American History  (Clicking Digital Collections on left opens more primary source options.)

Tammany Hall and Political Corruption

Library of Congress: Address of Tammany Hall to the Electors of the Country

Library of Congress: Newspapers Search Results: Boss Tweed

Primary Source Nexus: Today in History: William "Boss" Tweed

Thomas Nast Political Cartoon Collection:  Boss Tweed

Inflation and Issues of Wealth

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Carnegie, Andrew: The Gospel of Wealth (essay, 1889)

Project Gutenberg: Lloyd, Henry Demarest: Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)

Thomas Nast Poltiical Cartoon Collection: Inflation

Populists

Digital Public Library of America: The Populist Movement