US History - Choose Your Own Adventure - Gilded Age & Progressive Era: Locating Gilded Age & Progressive Era Primary Sources

Browse primary source documents from this era by selecting "Topics" in the green box on the right side of the page.

Browse primary source documents from this era by selecting "Topics" in the green box on the right side of the page.

Browse primary source documents from this era by selecting "Topics" in the green box on the right side of the page.

Browse the various digital collections related to the women's suffrage movement, including Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, etc.. Within each collection, look at the Featured Content first. You can also use the search bar at the top of the page to search within the collection you are viewing.

Browse primary source documents from this era by selecting "Topics" in the green box on the right side of the page.

Select "Advance Search" to search using more than one keyword. Also consider using the date limiting feature in this database to target newspaper articles from 1890-1920.

Each of the ebooks in this series represents a decade from the twentieth century (1900-1999). Each volume is organized by theme and each document has an introduction that helps to set the context.

In the "Featured Primary Sources" box on the homepage, click on "view all" located on the upper right side of the box to be connected with +9000 available primary source documents. Users can filter searches further via the menu on the right by subject or era.

Perform a keyword search or browse the "Topics" such as Business & Industry or Labor to find hand selected primary source documents on this topic.

Perform a keyword search or browse this collection of eBooks with primary source materials (especially American Decades and American Eras). Please note: if you search this database outside of this collection you will also get secondary and tertiary sources in your results.

Search this archive of Chicago's Black owned newspaper that began publication in 1905.

This archive of Chicago Tribune goes back to 1849.

Perform a keyword search or select "Browse Topics" and find the following Topic pages for valuable primary & secondary sources: Women's Suffrage; Progressivism & Social Reform; Gilded Age; and Rise of Organized Labor.

Latin provides individual subscriptions to digital New York Times for all students, faculty, and staff. Once you have created your account, you will have unlimited free access to the New York Times archives via the TimesMachine. Browse headlines or search for specific stories via the search box.

Select "The Emergence of Modern America" from the "Refine by Historical Era" drop-down menu to browse over 400 documents from this era of U.S. history (1890-1930) available from the National Archives. You may also search by keyword or phrase for a more specific search.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Search for documents via keyword, or browse collections created by university partners by clicking "collections" in the top menu bar.

Scroll to the bottom of this page and select the era you are concerned with (e.g. Gilded Age, Progressive Era). Within each era page, you can browse secondary source information as well as primary source documents.

Browse this collection of Illinois specific primary source documents from the Gilded Age.

Scholar-curated collections of the documents that tell America’s history in the words of those who lived it. Browse document collections by topic, theme, or thread.