Curated collections

Explore teaching resources provided by Gilded Age and Progressive Era historians and teachers on five essential themes: (1) Democracy and Civic Participation, (2) Identity and Community, (3) The American Dream, (4) Discrimination and Opportunity, and (5) Dissent and Debate. Each digital package contains a short video presentation by a scholar, suggested readings, and two lessons written by classroom teachers.
Democracy and Civic Participation in the GAPE

​The Problem of The People in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
by Prof. Robert Johnston, Professor and Director of Teaching of History Program  
University of Illinois Chicago Department of History
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Ida B. Wells and Intersectionality in the Progressive Era
Lesson by Nate Zuckerman, Highland School

​Black Activism and Philosophies of Empowerment: Racial Uplift in the Time of the Nadir
Lesson by Elizabeth Anderson, Flint Hill School
Identity and Community in the GAPE

Marching for the Vote: The Fight for Suffrage as a Mass Movement of Many Communities
by Dr. Cathleen D. Cahill, Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor in Middle-American History
Penn State University

Wallpaper, War, and Women
Lesson by Jacob Edwards, Hampshire Country School

​The Brownsville Affair: Invention, Innovation, and Reform in the GAPE
Lesson by Monica Avila, STISD Medical Professions School
The American Dream in the GAPE
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The Model Town of Pullman: Remaking Political Imagination in the Industrial Age
by Dr. Jeffrey Helgeson, History Department Chair and Associate Professor
Texas State University

Artistic Responses to the Gilded Age: Morris, Ianelli, and Torres
Lesson by Lisa Evans, University Laboratory High School

​Black Outside: Recreation and Race in the Land of the Free
Lesson by Heather Ingram, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy
Discrimination and Opportunity in the GAPE

Fighting Jim Crow
by Prof. Adriane Lentz-Smith, Associate Professor of History & African American Studies
Duke University

The Immigrant Experience: Racism toward Chinese and Mexicans during the GAPE
Lesson by Nancy Gomez, El Monte High School

​Indian Wars and Indigenous Conflicts in the West
​Lesson by Ashley Mitchell, Douglas High School
Dissent and Debate in the GAPE

Dissent and Debate in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Indigenous Resistance and Survival
by Prof. Boyd Cothran, Associate Professor of History
York University

Settler City: Simon Pokagon at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Lesson by Sam Rowe, Lane Tech College Prep

​Haymarket Historical Scene Investigation
Lesson by Carly Crittendon, Evanston Township High School