Politics of the Gilded Age

President William McKinley

Assignments

Primary Sources

	The Farmer's Problems - From The Farmer's Side
	Ulysses S. Grant - Second Inaugural Address
	Rutherford B. Hayes - Inaugural Address
	L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
	Cain and Abel Revisited: A Case for Keeping Thy Brother
	James A. Garfield: Inaugural Address
	The Pendleton Act
	William Jennings Bryan - "Cross of Gold" Speech
	Temperance - Gerrit Smith to Hon. Henry Wilson
	Cartoon - Positively Last Awakening of the Democratic Rip Van Winkle
	Cartoon - Honest Republican Voter
	Cartoon - The Sacred Elephant
	Grover Cleveland - First Inaugural Address
	"Keep Off the Grass!" - Coxey's Army Invades the Capital
	Bryan's Mental Condition - One Psychiatrist's View
	The New York Times: "Is Bryan Crazy?"
	"Pitchfork Ben" Tillman Addresses the 1896 Democratic Convention
	Gold Standard Act of 1900
	Populist Party Platform - 1896
	Republican Party Platform - 1896
	Colored Alliance Demands - 1899
	Black Farmer's Strike - 1891
	Henry Demarest Lloyd - Wealth Against Commonwealth
	Gold Democrats Demand New Ticket - 1896
	Robert Smalls - Election Methods in the South
	1896 Campaign - Cartoons and Commentary

Web Links

	The Death of President Garfield
	1896 - The Grand Realignment
	The Charles Giteau Case
	Cartoons of the early 1900's
	The Crime of 1873
	The Era of William McKinley
	The Fall of Third Parties in the Gilded Age
	The Gentleman's Page - A Practical Guide for the 19th Century Man
	The Gilded Age in American Art
	Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
	Mark Twain in his Times
	Space of Desire - Department Stores in the Gilded Age
	RMS Titanic: The Official Archives
	Touring Turn of the Century America (Photographs)
	The Wizard of Oz - Parable on Populism
	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - An Examination of the Underlying Political Allegory