THE GILDED AGE
American Experience
DVD (widescreen)
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This compelling and complex chronicle of America in the transformative closing decades of the 19th century employs archival film footage and photos, insights from historians, and primary source quotes to reveal the positive and negative consequences of the country's stunning expansion of national wealth.
Stories of key figures—including Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Henry George, Mary Elizabeth Lease, and Alva Vanderbilt—augment descriptions of the innovations that spurred America’s growth, along with developments that divided the country. Topics include the spread of railroads, the Homestead Strike, Populism, the Panic of 1893, Coxey’s Army, immigration and urbanization, the gold standard, the election of 1896, high society, and more. Narrated by Oliver Platt.
| Copyright | 2018 |
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| Publisher | WGBH |
| Grade | 9 and up |
| Color | Color and black-and-white |
| Run Time | 120 minutes |
| ISBN | 9781531703950 |