Name/Title
American Experience: The Gilded Age: Gilded is not GoldenEntry/Object ID
2015.4.224Description
According to the back cover of the DVD box:
"In the closing decades of the 19th century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. the nation became the world's leading producer of food, coal, oil, and steel, attracted vast amounts of foreign investment, and pushed into markets in europe and the Far East. As national wealth expanded, two clases rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. These disparities sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked in our own times: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Does government exist to protect private property or provide balm to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system? Should the government concern itself chiefly with economic growth of economic justice? The battles over these questions were fought in Congress, the courts, the poling place, the workplace, and the streets. the outcome of these disputes was both uncertain and momentous, and marked by a passionate vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans today. "The Gilded Age" presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history.'
The front cover features the introductory photo of the video.Collection
ScarmuzziAcquisition
Accession
2015.4.0Source or Donor
Patricia A. ScarmuzziAcquisition Method
Gift