• The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties
• Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches
• In today's era, often referred to as a 'second Gilded Age,' this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society
• Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections

Christopher McKnight Nichols is Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University. He is author of the award-winning book, Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (2011), co-editor of Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (2008), and Senior Editor of the two volume Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (2013).

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power.

* The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

* Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties

* Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches

* In today's era, often referred to as a "second Gilded Age," this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society

* Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections

Christopher McKnight Nichols is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is author of the award-winning book, Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (2011), co-editor of Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (2008), and Senior Editor of the two volume Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (2013).

Nancy C. Unger is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (2012) and the award-winning biographies Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (2000), and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer (2016).

• The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties
• Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches
• In today's era, often referred to as a second Gilded Age, this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society
• Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections

Omar H. Ali is Associate Professor of Comparative African Diaspora History and Interim Dean of Lloyd International Honors College at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his PhD in History from Columbia University and was selected as the 2016 Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year. His latest book, Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean, was published by Oxford University Press.

Lloyd E. Ambrosius is Emeritus Professor of History and Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition (1987), Wilsonian Statecraft (1990), and Wilsonianism (2002). He is the president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

James M. Beeby is dean of the College of Liberals Arts and professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana. He was previously professor of history and chair at Middle Tennessee State University from 2012-2016, and before that he taught at Indiana University Southeast and West Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901 (2008) and Populism in the South Revisited (2012). Beeby has published several articles and essays on grassroots politics, populism, and race relations in the Gilded Age.

Matthew Bowman is Associate Professor of History at Henderson State University. He is the author of The Mormon People: The making of an American faith (2012), and The Urban Pulpit: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism (2014).

Kathleen Dalton is a specialist in US history, though she has written about transnational history and taught world history. Her biography of Theodore Roosevelt was published in 2002. She has taught at Phillips Academy and Boston University.

Justus D. Doenecke is Emeritus Professor of History at New College of Florida. He has written extensively on the Gilded Age; American entry into World War I; the foreign policies of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S Truman; and isolationism and pacifism from World War I through the early Cold War. Among his books is The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (1981). He is grateful to Irwin Gellman, John Belohlavek, and Alan Peskin for their reading of this essay.

Bruce J. Evensen is the Director of the Journalism Program at DePaul University in Chicago. For a decade he was a reporter and bureau chief in the American Midwest, in Washington, DC and in Jerusalem. He's written and edited several books on journalism history, including Truman, Palestine, and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War (1992); When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum and Storytelling in the Jazz Age (1996); God's Man for the Gilded Age: D. L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism (2003); The Responsible Reporter: Journalism in the Information Age (2008); and The Encyclopedia of American Journalism History (2007).

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