History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Next on American History television, pulitzer prizewinning author eic foner on the challenges of establishing civil rights for friedman in the reconstruction period and beyond. Eric foner. With that, i would like to introduce eric foner. Eric when iuntered was a College Student thinking about becoming an historian and had visions of riding a good book. Then i read freemen, free soil, maybe ir and thought ought to stop now. I will not be able to write a book that good. Whatis is his first book, is he going to write . I ran away from antebellum history. You cant compete with people like him. I have come back to antebellum history and slavery and since then, i have relied on many of erics more than 20 books. I would review the list, but we do not have that much time. I do want to say, and this is the fun of introducing a speaker, looking at his selected publications, i notice he has written a
Welcome back, everybody. As you know we have been in the gilded age for some time now. Weve already seen the Technological Innovations that made this economic expansion possible. We saw the economic transformations and the effect of those changes on the economy as far as lifestyles both for the very ritzy opulent robber baron lifestyles and also the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was the increasing problems of housing in the sanitation that came with this rapid and in many ways chaotic growth of the cities in the late 19th century. All of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. We saw in particular there was some frustration with this new gilded age regime. As we talked about the farmers in this. That could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one. Today we turn our attention mostly back towards industry and in some ways back toward the city as well. I want to look at different types o
Welcome back, everybody. We have been in the gilded age we have time now and already seen the Technological Innovations that made some of this economic expansion possible. Economicth the transformation and the effect of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles, these opulent robber baron lifestyles and the very poor, whether it was People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was when we explored the gilded age city, the increasing problems of housing and sanitation that came with this rapid and chaotic growth of the citys in the 19th century, all of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. Time, there was some this new gilded age regime as we talk about the farmers. That lecture could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one but today, we turn our attention back toward industry and back toward the cities as well. I want to let at different types of frustration with this new order in america. Eightarted with the song hou
Baron lifestyles and also the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was the increasing problems of housing in the sanitation that came with this rapid and in many ways chaotic growth of the cities in the late 19th century. All of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. We saw in particular there was some frustration with this new gilded age regime. As we talked about the farmers in this. That could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one. Today we turn our attention mostly back towards industry and in some ways back toward the city as well. I want to look at different types of frustrations with this new order in america. Song eightwith the hours which was a popular labor anthem in the 1880s. Youre the chorus eight hours for work eight hours for rest eight hours for what we well. In some ways that song speaks what we will be talking about today. Eight hours for work and eight hours for rest.
As far as lifestyles both for the very ritzy opulent robber baron lifestyles and also the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was the increasing problems of housing in the sanitation that came with this rapid and in many ways chaotic growth of the cities in the late 19th century. All of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. We saw in particular there was some frustration with this new gilded age regime. As we talked about the farmers in this. That could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one. Today we turn our attention mostly back towards industry and in some ways back toward the city as well. I want to look at different types of frustrations with this new order in america. We started with the song eight hours which was a popular labor anthem in the 1880s. Youre the chorus eight hours for work eight hours for rest eight hours for what we well. In some ways that song speaks what we will