First Lecture for Module Two

In Module Two of the course we examine the age of Excess, America between the years 1877 and 1920. Domestic matters concern us, including the Gilded Age era, the problems of poverty, immigration and deflation in the age of the Economic Revolution. In the first lecture, we take a look at The Age of Excess in Overview. (Video iPod format)

Final Module 1 Lecture

The last lecture for Module 1 is a video podcast on the crucial turning-point decade for race relations, the 1890s, when Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois debated the best path for blacks to take to extricate themselves from the situation in which they found themselves. This debate had huge meaning for the future as this lecture explores.

Click for Video podcast on this watershed decade. (iPod video format)

The New South

Module 1 also introduces us to the New South. This lecture is reproduced in audio form only.

Click here for the audio podcast of the lecture on the "New South."

Reconstruction and Race Relations

There are three lectures for this module in the course. They are on the respective subjects of Reconstruction, the New South and the prescriptions for reform that came in the final decade of the nineteenth century. First, we have our lecture on "America's unfinished revolution," Reconstruction following the Civil War.

Click here to watch and listed to the lecture

About This Blog

This blog consists of a series of abstracts describing, and links providing, the audio and video recordings that constitute the lectures of the course. You can use this blog to subscribe to podcasts of the lectures, including an iTunes podcast.