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Photograph of Edison Machine Works in New York City, 1881. (GLC07616.05)

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Edison’s Laboratory

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The Empire Builders, by Bernarda Bryson, the Resettlement Administration (LOC)

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Entrepreneurs and Bankers: The Evolution of Corporate Empires

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, ca. 1865. (GLC05151)

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Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

On February 9, 1859, Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, said something strange about Cornelius Vanderbilt. Raymond...

Teenager operating machinery, 1913, by Lewis Hine. (LC-DIG-nclc-04898)

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History Times: The Industrial Revolution

A Changing Nation

The second half of the nineteenth century can be described as a time of...

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Born Modern: An Overview of the West

The present...

Joining of the rails, May 10, 1869, by Andrew Russell (GLC04481.04)

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Transcontinental Railroads: Compressing Time and Space

Many of our modern clichés about the impact of technology,...

Justice of the Plains: The Movement Westward, John S. Curry (LC-DIG-highsm-02850

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Women of the West

Women are like water to Western history. Both have...

The County Election, based on a painting by George C. Bingham, 1854. (Gilder Leh

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Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights

Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution

The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society.”...

Girls working in a box factory, Tampa FL, by Lewis Hine, ca. 1912 (NARA 523166)

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The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900

When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age, they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name....

Oath of Allegiance of Mikael Amerikian, 1931 (NARA ARC # 595054)

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Immigrant Fiction: Exploring an American Identity

Strictly speaking, all American novels (with the exception of those written by Native Americans) are in one way or another immigrant fiction. But we usually think of immigrant fiction more...