The industrial revolution: key themes and documents

Engineer Horatio Allen's Description of the First Run (1851)

Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth," North American Review (1889)

Carnegie's Letters to Frick during Homestead Strike (1892)

McClure's Magazine Muckraking Expose on Standard Oil and Rockefellers by Ida Tarbell

Atlantic Monthly Article on Telegraph Technology (1860)

Harper's Weekly Report on Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad (July 27, 1867)

Chicago Tribune's Coverage of the 1871 Great Fire

Chicago Tribune's Article on the Haymarket Riot of 1886)

Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives (1890)

Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895)

Political Cartoon, "The Little Boy and the Big Boys" (1901)

Political Cartoon from Puck, "The Kind of Anti-Trust Legislation That Is Needed" (1902)

Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)

Charles Eliot Norton's "True Patriotism" (1898)

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906).