Edited by Charles W. Calhoun - Contributions by Eric Arnesen; Robert G. Barrows; Michael Les Benedict; Ballard C. Campbell; W. Bernard Carlson; Stacy A. Cordery; Ruth C. Crocker; Roger Daniels; Edmund J. Danziger Jr.; Leslie H. Fishel Jr.; Joseph A. Fry;

Introduction
Chapter 1: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business
Chapter 2: Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900
Chapter 3: American Workers and the Labor Movement in the Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter 4: The Immigrant Experience in the Gilded Age
Chapter 5: Urbanizing America
Chapter 6: Women in Industrializing America
Chapter 7: The African-American Experience
Chapter 8: Native American Resistance and Accommodation during the Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter 9: The Influence of Commerce, Technology, and Race on Popular Culture in the Gilded Age
Chapter 10: Cultural and Intellectual Life in the Gilded Age
Chapter 11: The Political Culture: Public Life and the Conduct of Politics
Chapter 12: Party Conflict: Republicans versus Democrats, 1877-1901
Chapter 13: Farmers and Third-Party Politics
Chapter 14: Phases of Empire: Late Nineteenth-Century U.S. Foreign Relations
Chapter 15: Law and the Constitution in the Gilded Age