Gilded Age/Progressive Era History (Teaching with Historic Places)

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

Here you’ll find place-based educational resources relating to the Gilded Age/Progressive Era history. Discover more resources at the Teaching with Historic Places homepage.

Colonel Young's Protest Ride

Learn about Colonel Charles Young , the highest-ranking African American Army officer in 1918.

Total Solar Eclipse of 1900

Learn about the eclipse's path over in Historic Wadesboro, North Carolina.

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