America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Professor Edward T.O'Donnell.

"America stands at a dramatic crossroads: Massive banks and corporations wield disturbing power. The huge income gap between the 1% and the other 99% grows visibly wider. Astounding new technologies are changing American lives. Conflicts over U.S. military interventionism, the environment, and...

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Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2015]
Series:Great courses (DVD). Modern history.
Subjects:
Progressivism (United States politics)
Videos > Dinand
United States > History > 1865-1921.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
Lectures.
Educational films.
Historical films.
History.
Holy Cross Note:Faculty author.
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Summary:"America stands at a dramatic crossroads: Massive banks and corporations wield disturbing power. The huge income gap between the 1% and the other 99% grows visibly wider. Astounding new technologies are changing American lives. Conflicts over U.S. military interventionism, the environment, and immigration dominate public debate. Sound familiar? You might be surprised to know that these headlines were ripped, not from today's newspaper, but from newspapers over 100 years ago. These and other issues that characterize the early 21st century were also the hallmarks of the transformative periods known as the Gilded Age (1865-1900) and the Progressive Era (1900-1920)"--Thegreatcourses.com.
Item Description:24 lectures, 30 minutes each.
"Course no. 8535"--Container.
Physical Description:4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in + 1 course guidebook (vi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Format:DVD.
ISBN:1629971227
9781629971223
Participant or Performer:Lecturer, Edward T. O'Donnell, College of the Holy Cross.

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