Anti-Social Studies

Anti-Social Studies


US History Ep. 8: The Gilded Age or, “Imagine Newsies… but no one’s dancing.”

November 20, 2019

Last episode we talked about the end of Reconstruction and the rise of the Jim Crow South. But don’t worry! Because today we’re traveling North to see the glitz and glamor of city life in the era of industrialization! Electric lights! Millionnaires! Skyscrapers! Oh yeah, and also poverty, inequality, and corruption. Dang it! Can’t we …