Liberal Arts BlogNew Database: The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age ran from roughly 1865-1902, the latter part of the Victorian era. A new-to-CSU database The Gilded Age covers topics that include "[i]mmigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment." The collection contains "40,000 pages of full text, photographs, songs for listening online, and other primary materials, along with video interviews and twenty-five critical documentary essays. Each documentary essay poses an interpretive question and then illuminates it with dozens of annotated primary documents, introductions, and essays." Items in this database range from primary sources that were created in 1865 to contemporary (as in 2007) scholarship. The time period is the era just before World War I, so the resources in this new collection will be worth studying for possible hints of things to come. (See Web page on World War I http://lib.colostate.edu/research/history/wwi.html for resources on or about the War itself.) The Gilded Age database can be found under "G" on the "Research Databases" CSU Library Web page. Remote access is limited to CSU affiliates.