Introduction : gilded excesses, multiple progressivisms / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger -- Reconstructing the Gilded Age and progressive era / Heather Cox Richardson -- Precursors to Gilded Age and progressive era reforms / James M. Beeby and Brian M. Ingrassia -- Urban America / Michael B. Kahan -- The south / Amy Louise Wood -- The midwest and far west during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Thomas J. Jablonsky -- Environment : nature, conservation, and the progressive state / Benjamin Johnson -- Gender / Kimberly A. Hamlin -- Inventing sexuality : ideologies, identities, and practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Leigh Ann Wheeler -- African Americans / Omar H. Ali -- From dispossessed wards to citizen activists : American Indians survive the assimilation policy era / Alexandra Harmon -- Race, immigration, and ethnicity / Julie Greene -- Art and architecture / Alan Lessoff -- Religion in the Gilded Age and progressive era / Matthew Bowman -- Journalism / Bruce J. Evensen -- Popular culture / Julia Guarneri -- American capitalism : from the Atlantic economy to domestic industrialization / Noam Maggor -- Nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and civil society / David C. Hammack -- Labor and class in the GAPE : fruitful opposition and the specter of the middle class / David Huyssen -- Science and technology / Alan I. Marcus -- The rise of a modern concept of "health" / David G. Schuster -- Gilded Age presidents / Justus D. Doenecke -- Political movers and shakers / Karen Pastorello -- Changing interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the progressive era / Kathleen Dalton -- Woodrow Wilson / Lloyd E. Ambrosius -- Pivotal elections / Sidney M. Milkis and Anthony Sparacino -- Congress in the Gilded age and progressive era / Mark Wahlgren Summers -- Revising constitutional history / Logan E. Sawyer III -- Radicalism and conservatism / Cristina V. Groeger -- Connections, networks, and the beginnings of a global America in the Gilded Age and progressive era / Ian Tyrrell -- Empire, expansion, and its consequences / Allan E.S. Lumba -- The United States in the world during the Gilded Age and progressive era / Katherine Unterman -- Decades of upheaval and reform / Maureen A. Flanagan -- Influential works about the Gilded Age and progressive era / Robert D. Johnston -- Why the Gilded Age and progressive era still matter / Michael Kazin.