Great courses (DVD)

24 lectures, 30 minutes each

"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

"Course no. 8535"--Container

Lecturer, Edward T. O'Donnell, College of the Holy Cross

Disc 1.

1.

1865: "Bind up the nation's wounds" --

2.

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.

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