The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America 9781250128874

The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America 9780226652023

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty yea

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To the Edge of the World : The Story of the Trans-siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad 9781610394536, 2014934189

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The Gilded Age 9780307432261

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The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America 9781501346873, 9781501346903

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health—is the thing!” Though recently

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The Gilded Age 9780313062216, 9780313322044

"While learning about government, great leaders, and war is obviously crucial to the study of history, learning abo

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Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America 9780814786536

From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist soc

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Work and Labor in the Digital Age

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Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 9781501771002

In Making Catholic America, William S. Cossen shows how Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model Am

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To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad 2014934189, 9781610394529, 9781610394536, 9780857890375, 9781782392040

It is the world's longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly

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A Greater Ireland: The Land League and Transatlantic Nationalism in Gilded Age America [illustrated] 0299301249, 9780299301248

During the early 1880s a continual interaction of events, ideas, and people in Ireland and the United States created a &

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