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:
Holy Cross Note:Faculty author.
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1. 1. 1865: "Bind up the nation's wounds"
  • 2. The Reconstruction revolution
  • 3. Buffalo Bill Cody and the myth of the West
  • 4. Smokestack Nation: the industrial titans
  • 5. Andrew Carnegie: the self-made ideal
  • 6. Big business: democracy for sale?
  • Disc 2. 7. The new immigrants: a new America
  • 8. Big cities: the underbelly revealed
  • 9. Popular culture: jazz, modern art, movies
  • 10. New technology: cars, electricity, records
  • 11. The 1892 Homestead Strike
  • 12. Morals and manners: middle-class society.
  • Disc 3. 13. Mrs. Vanderbilt's gala ball
  • 14. Populist revolt: the Grangers and Coxey
  • 15. Rough Riders and the imperial dream
  • 16. No more corsets: the new woman
  • 17. Trust-busting in the Progressive Era
  • 18. The 1911 triangle fire and reform.
  • Disc 4. 19. Theodore Roosevelt, conservationist
  • 20. Urban reform: how the other half lives
  • 21. The 17th Amendment: democracy restored
  • 22. Early civil rights: Washington or Du Bois?
  • 23. Over there: a world safe for democracy
  • 24. Upheaval and the end of an era.
  • The Course Guidebook includes guides to the 24 lectures and a reading list.