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Welcome to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Here you will find access to the Journal of the Guilded Age & Progressive Era (or GAPE for short). After clicking on the link below you will be taken to the main page for this journal. Please note that if you are off campus you will be asked to sign in with your WSUID and password.

Journal of the Guilded Age & Progressive Era

Primary Sources

For this class you need to find 5 documents with a common theme written between 1865-1920. Below, is a list of resources you can use to find such primary documents from the required time period.

HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
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A growing partnership of over 70 libraries and research institutions, primarily university libraries, pooling their resources to create a digital library. The primary goals are long-term preservation of fragile collections, along with methods for making these records more readily accessible while still respecting in-copyright works. While WSU faculty, staff, and students can search across the entire digital library, they have full-text access to only the items in the Public Collections.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) This link opens in a new window
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A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focused on primary source collections of the "long" nineteenth century. Collections for this program are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.
Note: A gift of the Frank and Harvey Ablah Families Library Fund
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Current collections include: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; Children's Literature and Childhood; Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest; European Literature, 1790-1840: the Corvey Collection; Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature; Photography: the World Through the Lens; Religion, Spirituality, Reform and Society; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Parts I & II; and Women: Transnational Networks.
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Access to New York Times (2008- 3 months ago) and The Wall Street Journal (2008-3 months ago), historic American newspapers from ProQuest: Civil War Era, the Michigan Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, New York Tribune/ Herald Tribune,, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, historic British newspapers The Guardian and the Observer, and historic Black newspapers Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News. Terms of Use
ProQuest History Vault This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest History Vault gives researchers what they need — with access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history. Includes content from Women's Studies, Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle, Southern Life and African American History Plantation Records, and American Politics and Society: Temperance and Prohibition Movement. Terms of Use

HIST 505: The United States 1865 to 1900

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Welcome to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Primary Sources