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 Gilded Age Information
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 In American history, the "Gilded Age" refers to major growth in population in the U.S. and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper-class during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, from the 1870s to 1900. The wealth... 
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 The New York Observer A Novelist Does History; Gilds a Gilded Age Tale
5/29/2005: 1,057 words, approx. 4 pagesMeet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America, by Les Standiford. Crown, 319 pages, $24.95. In Meet You in Hell, Les Standiford invites readers back to the days when capitalists were capitalists and workers were workers-and when... summary from source:
The New York Observer A 'Good Fellow' in Gotham- A Literate Gilded Age Thief
8/20/2006: 1,192 words, approx. 4 pagesIn the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—crooked barkeeps, cops on the take, sundry fences, countless thieves and gangs galore—who could...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Alan Trachtenberg
10,540 words, approx. 35 pages
 In the essay below, Trachtenberg follows the development of Realism during the Gilded Age as a reaction against the sentimentalism of earlier romances and dime novels.
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Critical Essay by Reginald Twigg
10,197 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Twigg argues that, in the Gilded Age, middle-class Americans sought to express their individuality, while conforming to the aesthetic ideal, through “tasteful” home decoration, which was documented in the various decorating texts popular among all levels of society.
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Critical Essay by James H. Dormon
9,918 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Dormon examines the popularity during the Gilded Age of ‘coon songs’ (songs about, and many times by, black Americans). Dormon suggests that the songs disseminated racist images and language in order to justify continued segregation and discrimination.
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Essay Grade: 88%Politics of the Guilded Age
632 words, approx. 2 pages
Explores American history at the end of the Reconstruction period and the beginning of the Guilded Age. Examine the corruptness and competitiveness that took over the United States government and society. Describes it as an intense competition for control between the Republicans and Democrats. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 89%Gilded Age
579 words, approx. 2 pages
A look at the Gilded Age (late 1800's) and the reason it is called Gilded Age
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