This website defines and explores the Progressive Era and various aspects of American society during that period of history. It contains fairly simple text and several images.

Information about the period in United States history between the Civil War and World War I. The United States was transformed from a rural republic to an urban state.

This article contains interesting facts and information about Urbanization in America in the late 1800s which was fueled by the Industrial Revolution and Industrialization.

View a series of extracts from eighteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this period of overseas expansion, urbanization, and early industrialization. Accompanying essays explain various...