America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era « Series from 2015

Series from 2015

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Genres: Special Interest

Step back in time with America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Over six innovative decades marked by economic, political, social, and technological upheavals, the U.S. went from an agrarian, isolationist country to the greatest industrial power and a nascent geopolitical superpower.

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1865:

The Reconstruction Revolution

Buffalo Bill Cody and the Myth of the West

Smokestack Nation: The Industrial Titans

Andrew Carnegie: The Self-Made Ideal

Big Business: Democracy for Sale?

The New Immigrants: A New America

Big Cities: The Underbelly Revealed

Popular Culture: Jazz, Modern Art, Movies

New Technology: Cars, Electricity, Records

The 1892 Homestead Strike

Morals and Manners: Middle-Class Society

Mrs. Vanderbilt's Gala Ball

Populist Revolt: The Grangers and Coxey

Rough Riders and the Imperial Dream

No More Corsets: The New Woman

Trust-Busting in the Progressive Era

The 1911 Triangle Fire and Reform

Theodore Roosevelt, Conservationist

Urban Reform: How the Other Half Lives

The 17th Amendment: Democracy Restored

Early Civil Rights: Washington or Du Bois?

Over There: A World Safe for Democracy

Upheaval and the End of an Era