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The Gilded Age | Workers Revolt!
Season 24 Episode 5
As the century came to a close, labor unrest reached explosive new heights. Industrial expansion made businessmen and bankers rich. But workers faced…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Gilded Age | Exclusion
Season 24 Episode 4
Amid the glamor and growth of the Gilded Age, racism and anti-immigrant hostility swept the nation. With the end of Reconstruction, white communities…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Gilded Age | How the Other Half Lives
Season 24 Episode 3
In the spring of 1883, Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt threw the grandest party New York had ever seen, claiming her spot at the top of the city’s social hierar…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Gilded Age | Rise of the Robber Barons
Season 24 Episode 2
In the 1870s and 1880s, businessmen clawed their way to the top of the new industrial economy, accumulating staggering fortunes. Oil tycoon John D. R…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Gilded Age | Carnival of Corruption
Season 24 Episode 1
In 1869, America connected its vast, sprawling territory with its most ambitious project to date: the transcontinental railroad. The country had just…
5 years, 10 months ago
Stonewall | Eric Marcus Remembers the Voices of Stonewall
Season 23 Episode 5
When the events of Stonewall happened in 1969, Eric Marcus was just a boy away at a New Jersey summer camp. Nearly 20 years later, he would document …
5 years, 10 months ago
Stonewall | Pride
Season 23 Episode 4
After a late-night police raid on the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, the LGBTQ community fought back in the streets of Greenwich Village. Suddenly, the …
5 years, 10 months ago
Stonewall | Why Don’t You Do Something?
Season 23 Episode 3
Resistance at restaurants in San Francisco and Philadelphia showcased the building tension as trans activists challenged long-standing policies of di…
5 years, 10 months ago
Stonewall | Turbulence
Season 23 Episode 2
As the 1960s dawned, LGBTQ activists began to voice frustration with the gradual approach to civil rights advocated by groups like the Mattachine Soc…
5 years, 10 months ago
Stonewall | Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary
Season 23 Episode 1
In the summer of 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn sparked a riot on the streets of Greenwich Village. The protest marked a turning point in t…
5 years, 11 months ago