History 332 (1877 - 1929)
Industrialism, the Progressive Movement, World War I and National Prosperity
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Reference (print)
The African American National Biography – vols. 1-8 – R920.009296 A258
American Decades (1900-1909,1910-1919,1920-1929) – R 973.92 A512
American Eras – vol. 6 – R 973.8 A5123
Annals of America – vols. 10-14 (primary sources) – R 973 A613
Encyclopedia of North American Railroads – R385.097 E563
Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era – vols. 1-3 – R 973.8 E564
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Student Companion – R 973.8 P4624 g
Historical Dictionary of the 1920s – R 973.91 O523 h
Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 – R 973.91 H6734
The Home Front Encyclopedia – vols. 1&3 – R 940.3 H765
Industrial Revolution in America – vols. 1-3 – R330.973 I426
Industrial Revolution in America – vols. 1-3 – R330.973 I4262
Industrial Revolution in America – vols. 1-3 – R330.973 I4263
Political Corruption in America – vols. 1&2 – R973.03 G8785 p 2008
Roaring Twenties – R 973.91 S9153
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political and Historical Encyclopedia – vols.1&2 – R306.362 S315
The United States in the First World War – R 940.3 U587
U.S.A. Twenties – vols. 1-6 – R 973.915 U841
Working Americans, 1880-1999 – vols. 1-8 – R305.562 D4337 w
World War I: Encyclopedia – R 940.3 E563
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Reference (online)
American National Biography (also in print) – Portraits of more than 17,000 American men and women.
History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, chronologies, primary sources, maps and charts, and images.
Salem History – Includes the complete content of Milestone Documents, The Decades (an American history series), Great Lives from History (worldwide coverage), and Great Events from History (worldwide coverage).
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Books/Monographs
The following books are non-reference sources that deal broadly with the subject of United States History 1877 - 1929 (sometimes referred to as overviews):
America in the Age of the Titans : The Progressive Era and World War I – floor 2 – 973.91 C3384 a
American Reformers, 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed – floor 2M –303.484092 P6627 a
The Bloody Shirt: Terror after the Civil War – floor 2 – 973.82 B9273 b
Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 – floor 2 – 973.89 T7833c
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived...– floor 2 – 973.91 K998 d, 2004
Discontented America – floor 2 – 973.91 G6184 d
A Fierce Discontent – floor 2M – 324.27327 M1454 f
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 – floor 2 – 973.91 K353 f
New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America – floor 2 – 973.91 M6496 n
Over Here: The First World War and American Society – floor 2 – 940.373 K354 o
Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 – floor 2 – 973.91 C7773 p
Rebellion Against Victorianism: ...Change in 1920s America – floor 2 – 973.915 C6553 r
Reinventing "The People" – floor 2M – 303.484 S9218 r
Standing at Armageddon : United States, 1877-1919 – floor 2 – 973.8 P1485 s
The Twenties in America: Politics and History – floor 2 – 973.914 P1753 t
A Very Different Age : Americans of the Progressive Era – floor 2 – 973.8 D5836 v
Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921 – floor 2 – 940.373 F3834 w
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Magazines and Newspapers
Below are magazine and newspaper sources that are available in databases online. An asterisk (*) indicates a database containing primary source material.
* American Periodicals Series Online – More than 1500 American magazines and newspapers published between 1741 and 1940.
JSTOR – Full text of more than 950 journals.
* The Nation Archive – The Nation magazine, 1865 on.
* ProQuest Historical Newspapers 
– Search the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Defender, Boston Globe, New York Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier.
* Reader's Guide Retrospective – Indexing only (no full text) for 370 magazines, 1890-1982.
Click here to find if the library has a specific magazine, journal, or newspaper.
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Web Sites
The websites selected here are reliable, relevant sources for researching the subject of United States History 1877 - 1929 and related subjects. An asterisk (*) indicates a site containing primary source material.
* American Leaders Speak – Library of Congress – Fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders from 1918-1920. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920.
* The Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850 to 1920 – Library of Congress – This site documents the development of the conservation movement and offers a collection of books, pamphlets, federal statutes and resolutions, prints and photographs, motion picture footage, and more.
* Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures – Library of Congress – The images in this collection were published in the Sunday pictorial sections of the New York Times and New York Tribune and track American sentiment about the war in Europe, week by week, before and after U.S. involvement.
* Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy 1921 to 1929 – Library of Congress - Features materials from the 1920s that illustrate the prosperity of the Coolidge era, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition.
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