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Overview
The Gilded Age collection brings together 53,000 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. The critical documentary essays have been created by leading scholars in the field, including Samuel Thomas of Michigan State University, Christopher Reed of Roosevelt University, Kim Warren of the University of Kansas, and Daniel Thorp of Virginia Tech.
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The Gilded Age provides access to 53,000 pages of full text, photographs, songs for listening online, video interviews, letters, cartoons, government documents, ephemera, and twenty-five critical documentary essays from scholars.
The database is organized around more than ten historical themes, such as:
- Agriculture and rural life
- Arts, culture, and leisure
- Domestic life and families
- Economics, labor, and commerce
- Education and intellectual life
- Gender, sexuality, and women
- Government, law, and politics
- Immigration, migration, and expansion
- Race and ethnicity
- Religion and spirituality
- Science, technology, and medicine
- Social progress and reform
- Urban life
- War and military life
This collection covers issues that affected America from 1865-1902, including race and ethnicity, immigration, labor, women's rights, American Indians, political corruption, and monetary policy.
Alexander Street Press reports that this database is regularly updated, with a large number of primary materials being gathered from a number of libraries, museums, and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Illinois State Library.
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The interface includes Alexand Street Press' semantic indexing.
Terms
The Gilded Age is available on the Web, either through one-time purchase of perpetual rights or through annual subscription. All prices are scaled to library budget and institutional size. A library that purchases perpetual rights will also receive an archival copy of the data.
CRL is only providing an offer for the one-time purchase of perpetual rights.
Strengths and Weaknesses
The strengths of this database is the semantic indexing and the advanced search tool that allows user to search by: title, author, publisher, date, and document type (article, biography, critical documentary essay, diary, editorial, ephemera, essay/treatise, government/institutional documents, illustration/art work/photograph, interview, letter, memoir/autobiography, oral history, play, song, and speech). Users are also able to select the material type (audio, image, text, video). In addition, users are able to limit their search by selected terms by subject, such as: historical theme, event, person, place, or other topics.
Other strengths include the availability of static url links on all pages allowing users to return to that exact page or cite on documents, teaching resources, or on services such as WebCT and Blackboard. In addition, users are able to print pages of interest.
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Most of the information found on this tab was taken from the vendor's description of the product.
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