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- The Gilded Age
- Most online resources are textual ones.
- For those who really like economic history
- A site with all sorts of documents on the period
- If you are looking for an excellent documentary check PBS The Gilded Age. Unfortunately,
you can only see it on a pay platform, the free access that used to
exist having been discontinued. On the same web page, however, you can
watch some (free) interesting shorts (see at the bottom of the page).
- Turn of the century
- Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives ; Lewis Hine, reform photographer
- New York in 1911. (restored film)
- The Melting-Pot by Israel Zangwill (...if you want to read the original play which gave its name to the concept.)
- Theodore Roosevelt on social and industrial justice, 1912 (original recording)
- The Model T and for those who like mechanical details (a difficult car to drive)
- Coney Island pictures and a short silent film
- The life of a City. Early films of New York
- Short movie on the Lower East Side 1902
- Movies (available from Amazon)
- Hester Street (Life in NY City Lower East Side at the turn of the century)
- Life With Father (Life in a NY upper-middle-class family at the turn of the century)
- Ruggles of Red Gap (One of the best movies on the American dream, excellent and very funny)
- The House of Mirth.
- The Age of Innocence.
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