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A study of The Gilded Age in US history a period from the 1870s to about 1900.
OLLI of Greater Birmingham presents The Gilded Age with instructor: James Day, Professor of History, University of Montevallo.
The Gilded Age in US history, from the 1870s to about 1900, is a term that came into use in the 1920s and 1930s derived from Mark Twain’s 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious problems masked by a thin gold gilding. Its beginning overlaps the Reconstruction Era (which ended in 1877), and it is generally thought to be followed ... view more »
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