The Gilded Age Tea Party: Library Resources

Biographical and Background Information Reference Books:

* American National Biography.   REF 920.073 Ame 1999

                  The place to look for Americans of times past.  

*Gilded Age and Progressive Era.  REF 973.8 Gil 2007

Three volumes (and an index) of Gilded Age information, articles, biographies, primary documents, and more.

General encyclopedias:  Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book Encyclopedia.   REF 031

Encyclopedia of American Social History.  REF 301.0973 Cay

(Gilded Age article, v I, 157-172).  

American Women's History: A Student Companion.   REF 305.4 Mat

Encyclopedia of World Biography.   REF 920 ENC

Dictionary of American Biography.   REF 920.003 DIC

Multi-volume set; contains information on many of the people attending the tea party

Who Was Who in American Politics.   REF 920.003 MOR

Webster's American Biographies.   REF 920.003 VAN

Biographical Dictionary.   REF 920.02 MER

Notable American Women, 1607-1950.   REF 920.03 NOT

The The American history section in Reference   (REF 973) should be of assistance, especially the following:

Annals of America.   REF 973 ANN

Check the paperback index volume for your characters.   Set contains letters, speeches, diary entries, and other primary documents.

Reader's companion to American History .   REF 973 FON

Witness to America.   REF 973 Wit

Dictionary of American History.   REF 973.03 Dic 2003

Victorian America, 1876—1913.   Ref   973.8 Shi

Don't forget sources about "events specific" areas of history!

You may want to read about American economic or labor history if your character is involved in business or unions, or women's history if you are portraying a women's rights advocate.   Find your topic in the library's online catalog, encyclopedias, reference books, The Student Resource Center , or in the web links listed above.

Library Subscription Databases:

Available from the library home page: http://www.cdschool.org/library/LibraryHome.htm

* Biography Resource Center

Student Resource Center

•  Essays and background information on people and topics

•  Access from the library web site at school or at home!   Ask the librarian for the passwords.

The most important news on this webpage: If you can't find what you need, ask for help!   The librarian is happy to help you find information !                            

Internet Resources:

Biography.com.   http://biography.com/

The A & E network brings you this database containing biographies of people through the ages.

The Biographical Dictionary. http://www.s9.com/biography/

History Teacher Net's List of Gilded Age Links. http://www.historyteacher.net/APUSH-Course/Weblinks/Weblinks18.htm

HumanitiesNet Gilded Age Resources.   http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/ ~ shgap e /int e rnet/index.html

              Extensive list of Gilded Age resources.

History Index Links to Gilded Age Pages.   http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/gilded.html

Extensive list of links, timelines, biographies, essays, etc.

The Gilded Age : Documenting Industry in America.

http:/ / www.oswego.org/s t aff/tcas w ell/wq/gildedage/resources.htm

                  List of resources from a WebQuest assignment on the Gilded Age.

Zeeland High School's List o' Links. http://www.zeeland.k12.mi.us/jmielke/GildedAge.htm

American Memory. http://memory.loc.gov/

Available from the CDS Library's web page.   Fabulous Library of Congress collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history.   Go to the “Collection Finder” for a list of topics and historical time periods.

Circulating books:

• Some books are specific to only one character.  
• Others contain information about several party guests or background information about the period.
• Try your character's name as a keyword on the library catalogue to find books containing information about him/her.  I haven't listed all the biographies we own on tea party guests.

Muckraking: the Journalism that Changed America (Tarbell, Douglass,   Anthony, Stanton, Pulitzer, Riis ).   070.4 Muc   2002

Religion in Nineteenth Century America (Eddy, Dix, Stanton, etc.).   200.973 Wac

The Era of Reform, 1830 – 1860. (Whitman, Dix, Sumner).   303.4 COM

I Dwell in Possibility (Gilded Age women).   305.4 Luc 2001

Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era. 305.42 Ste 1992

Women's suffrage.   305.42 Wom 2000

The history of the great American fortunes (Astor, Field, Vanderbilt, Gould, Sage, Blair, Garrett, Morgan, Elkins, Hill, others--check the index).   339 MYE

Suppression of the African Slave Trade (by DuBois).   380.1 DUB

Negro Voices in American Fiction (DuBois).   813.09 GLO

Herstory:   Women Who Changed the World (Queen Lil, Dix, Stanton, Gilman, Addams, Goldman).   920 Her 1995

Fabricating Lives (Goldman, Addams).   920 LEI

Booknotes: stories from American history.   973.Boo 2002

America and the gilded age : 1876-1900. 973.8 BOA

America's gilded age : an eyewitness history. 973.8 Cla   1992

Words that Made American History (Carnegie, Steffens, Gompers).   973.8 CUR

The New Commonwealth: 1877 – 1890.   973.8 GAR

The Gilded Age : a history in documents. 973.8 Gil   2000

The Robber Barons.   973.8 JOS

The gilded age. Revised and enlarged. 973.8 MOR

This Fabulous Century: 1 870 – 1900.   973.8 TIM

Vanderbilt Era:   profiles of a Gilded Age.   974.7 AUC  

WEB DuBois: the fight for equality… B DUBOIS

Autobio of Lincoln Steffens.   B Steffens

At the LS/MS library:

Dorothea Dix.   JB DIX

Four Women of Courage (Dix).   J 820 Way

Peace and Bread: the story of Jane Addams.   JB ADDAMS MCPHERSON

Jane Addams. JB ADDAMS KITTRE

Cobblestone, vol 21 no. 4 (2000)

rev., K. St. Clair, 3-08