1. The Gilded Age Lecture Outline: feliciaviator.com/history7B/schedule or bcourses Now Playing: Tennessee Ernie Ford, “Sixteen Tons,” 1955 (original, ca. 1930)

2. Writers Mark Twain and Charles Dudley

3. Twain and Dudley, Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, 1873

4. Andrew Carnegie, U.S. SteelJohn D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil

5. McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1870s

6. Illustration from McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1877

7. “Charlie and Rob,” McGuffey Eclectic Reader, 1879

8. A modern schoolhouse in Boston, ca. 1890

9. Horatio Alger “rags to riches” novels

10. The Royal Path of Life: Aids to Success and Happiness, 1877

11. Albert Reid, “J.P Morgan”

12. C.J. Taylor, “King of the World”

13. “The Octopus,“ Puck

14. “Darwin’s Finches,” from Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859

15. “Funny Little Government,” The Verdict

16. Home of Alexander Stewart, department store magnate, New York, ca. 1890

17. Garment workers for Alexander Stewart’s department stores, ca. 1875

18. Andrew Carnegie’s Fifth Avenue mansion, New York City

19. Joseph Stella, “Painter’s Row,” charcoal on paper, ca. 1908

20. Middle-class diners in a cosmopolitan restaurant, ca. 1880

21. A Jewish immigrant family sewing garter belts for income, c. 1890

22. Laborer and his family in a one-room tenement