America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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Call Number: BOCD 973.8 O'D
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 973.8 O'D	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"Course No. 8535" --disc surface.
24 lectures, 30 minutes each lecture.
Compact discs.
Disc 1. Lecture 1. 1865: "Bind up the Nation's Wounds " -- Lecture 2. The Reconstruction Revolution -- Disc 2. Lecture 3. Buffalo Bill Cody and the Myth of the West -- Lecture 4. Smokestack Nation: the Industrial Titans -- Disc. 3. Lecture 5. Andrew Carnegie: the Self-Made Ideal -- Lecture 6. Big Business: Democracy for Sale? -- Disc. 4. Lecture 7. The New Immigrants: A New America -- Lecture 8. Big cities: The Underbelly Revealed -- Disc 5. Lecture 9. Popular Culture: Jazz, Modern Art, Movies -- Lecture 10. New Technology: Cars, Electricity, Records -- Disc 6. Lecture 11. The 1892 Homestead Strike -- Lecture 12. Morals and Manners: Middle-Class Society.
Disc 7. Lecture 13. Mrs. Vanderbilt's Gala Ball -- Lecture 14. Populist Revolt: The Grangers and Coxey -- Disc 8. Lecture 15. Rough Riders and the Imperial Dream -- Lecture 16. No More Corsets: The New Woman -- Disc 9. Lecture 17. Trust-Busting in the Progressive Era -- Lecture 18. The 1911 Triangle Fire and Reform -- Disc 10. Lecture 19. Theodore Roosevelt, Conservationist -- Lecture 20. Urban Reform: How the Other Half Lives -- Disc 11. Lecture 21. The 17th Amendment: Democracy Restored -- Lecture 22. Early Civil Rights: Washington or Du Bois? -- Disc 12. Lecture 23. Over There: A World Safe for Democracy -- Lecture 24. Upheaval and the End of an Era.
Lecturer: Professor Edward T. O'Donnell.
"This course examines the half century defined as the Gilded Age (1865-1900) and the Progressive Era (1900-1920), one of the most important periods in American history."-- p. 1 of guidebook.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Excellent course submitted by valentina on November 10, 2023, 1:51pm Very interesting and in some aspects eye-opening. Very interesting period of time, good lecturer. It gives me hope that America will be back on track.