Books

Bagley, Katie. The Early American Industrial Revolution, 1793–1850. Bridgestone Books, Mankato, MN: 2003.

Calhoun, Charles W., ed. The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996.

Cashman, Sean Dennis. America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York and London: New York University Press, 1984.

Clare, John. D. Industrial Revolution. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994.

Faler, Paul. Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981.

Foner, Philip S., ed. The Factory Girls. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Hindle, Brooke, and Steven Lubar. Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790–1860. Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

Kornblith, Gary J., ed. The Industrial Revolution in America. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

McCormick, Anita Louise. The Industrial Revolution in American History. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998.

Olson, James S. Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1995.

Rivard, Paul E. A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed New England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2002.

Ruggoff, Milton. America's Gilded Age: Intimate Portraits from an Era of Extravagance and Change, 1850–1890. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989.

Smith, Page. The Rise of Industrial America: A People's History of the Post-Reconstruction Era. Vol. 6. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.

Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Gilded Age, or, the Hazard of New Functions. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997.

Web Sites

"The Industrial Revolution." http://www.bergen.org/technology/indust .html (accessed on July 8, 2005).

"Rise of Industrial America, 1876–1900." The Learning Page. http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/ti meline/riseind/riseof.html (accessed on July 8, 2005).

"Technology in 1900." Way Back: U.S. History for Kids. http://pbskids.org/wayback/tech1900/ (accessed on July 8, 2005).

"Transcontinental Railroad." American Experience: PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/index .html (accessed on July 8, 2005).

"Wake Up, America." Webisode 4 of "Freedom: A History of US." http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web 04/ (accessed on July 8, 2005).