Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, Democracy 1870-1920
FAIN: ES-288065-22
Chicago History Museum (Chicago, IL 60614-6038)
Crystal Johnson (Project Director: February 2022 to March 2025)
Charles Tocci (Co Project Director: February 2022 to March 2025)
Robert Douglas Johnston (Co Project Director: August 2022 to March 2025)
A three-week, Level II residential Institute for 30 K-12 educators on the
history and culture of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in Chicago, Illinois.
In partnership with Loyola University Chicago (LUC) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the Chicago History Museum (CHM) proposes to reprise and expand "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, Democracy, 1877 to 1920" for a sixth year. The program’s core is a three-week summer institute in Chicago for 30 resident teachers across grades 6-12 from July 9-29, 2023, plus a new virtual conference in fall 2023. Participants will deepen their knowledge and understanding of this crucial period through readings, discussions, lectures, inquiries into primary sources, and exploration of landmark historical and cultural resources in Chicago. The institute creates an intellectual space where teachers may contemplate and debate how individuals and groups defined, reformed, and contributed to visions for American democracy during a period when radically different perspectives often dominated the public political and cultural discourse.
Associated Products
Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Teaching Race, Capitalism, and Democracy (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Teaching Race, Capitalism, and Democracy
Author: Charles Tocci
Author: Michael Biondo
Abstract: Based on the work from six offerings of "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy, 1877-1920" NEH Summer Institute for Teachers, we share a bibliography of scholarly works, teacher-created lesson plans, and primary sources that help teachers reimagine how they teach this period under the broader theme of "renegotiating freedom."
Date: 10/13/2023
Finding, Analyzing, and Constructing Gilded Age and Progressive Era History (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Finding, Analyzing, and Constructing Gilded Age and Progressive Era History
Author: Michael Biondo
Abstract: This session was provided as a part of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources poster session at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference.
Finding, Analyzing, and Constructing History: A Research Guide for Students (FACH) is a FREE publication written by master teachers and co-produced by the Library of Congress and National History Day. FACH introduces students to tools that will help them engage in independent historical inquiry research. FACH includes resources for helping students learn search techniques, source analysis, historical context, reliability and relevance, multiple perspectives, source corroboration, and historical significance, with examples drawn from Library of Congress collections in Gilded Age and Progressive Era history. Specifically, the book includes examples of how to help students use photographs and prints, newspapers, maps, music, political cartoons, film and video, manuscript collections, and oral histories. Each chapter contains templates to use with students and examples drawn from the Library of Congress. This poster session will be led by Michael Biondo, a contributing author to FACH and master teacher for the Chicago History Museum’s TPS project by the same name. Biondo has also served as the Director of Teacher Support for the NEH summer institute Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms.
Date: 12/1/2023
Finding Rights and Responsibilities in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Article)Title: Finding Rights and Responsibilities in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Author: Michael Biondo
Author: Crystal Johnson
Abstract: This article was published in the National History Day Theme Book for the 2024-2025 school year for the theme "Rights and Responsibilities in History." The article introduces a variety of Gilded Age and Progressive Era topics suitable for exploring this theme and introduces analytical questions from the period.
Year: 2024
Primary URL:
https://nhd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NHD-2025-Theme-Book-FINAL.pdfAccess Model: Open Access
Format: Other
Publisher: National History Day