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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)