Between 1865 and 1919, the United States emerged from the Civil War and became a
rising world power. Mass industrialization during the Gilded Age made it a powerhouse in the global economy but also raised myriad social and political issues that eventually transformed the United States during the Progressive Era. Consolidating control over its continental territory in the last quarter of the 19th century, the United States then expanded and intervened overseas in 1898 and beyond, eventually becoming embroiled in the cataclysm of the First World War in 1917-1918. Theodore Roosevelt's America: the Gilded Age, Progressive Era, and World War I analyzes these and related issues, with particular attention to connections between changes at home and abroad, and between changes in political, social, and economic dimensions
