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Magazine of History

The Gilded Age
Volume 13, no 4, Summer 1999

FROM THE EDITOR
Moving Beyond Stereotypes of the Gilded Age
Charles W. Calhoun

HISTORIOGRAPHY
Major Party Conflict in the Gilded Age: A Hundred Years of Interpretation
Charles W. Calhoun

ESSAYS
Politics as Social History: Political Cartoons in the Gilded Age
Rebecca Edwards

Understanding Economic Change in the Gilded Age
Ballard C. Campbell

Immigration in the Gilded Age: Change or Continuity?
Roger Daniels

LESSON PLANS
The Election of 1896
Rebecca Edwards

Ellis Island: The Immigrants' Experience
Rita G. Koman

Using Primary Sources to Teach the Rail Strike of 1877
Bruce Lesh

The Art Museum: Arts in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900
Ted Dickson and Chris Wallace

African-American Women Workers' Protest in the New South
Tera W. Hunter

"The Public Be Damned!" A Thematic and Multiple Intelligences Approach to Teaching the Gilded Age
Nina Mjagkij and D. Antonio Cantu

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
The Gilded Age: An ERIC/ChESS Sample
David Kelly

A Selection of Gilded-Age Resources on the World Wide Web
Alison Lewis

ON TEACHING
Congressional Politics in the Gilded Age: A Classroom Simulation
David L. Ghere

ON THE COVER
"The Real Connecting Link--This Looks Like Business,"
by Thomas Nast. Harper's Weekly (26 March 1881)