All About the Gilded Age

Great video! I’d love to see you cover Japan during the Meiji restoration period. I’ve always been fascinated about that era, there are lots of information about it on the internet but is never really portrayed correctly in any films or shows. I think you’d do a great job at it, going into details about the elites fashion vs the lower class Japanese, and how European countries and the US viewed Japan with their influence at the time. Maybe even go over Alice Roosevelt and her trips around Asia including Japan?

What I’ve always found fascinating about the Gilded Age is how it forces us to wrestle with a central question in American history: can democracy coexist with extreme concentrations of wealth and power? The industrial expansion of the era transformed the country, but it also triggered movements for reform, labor rights, and regulation that still shape American politics today. In many ways, the debates that began in the 1890s never really ended.

I was just about to mention 16 tons 😂😂

Im also pleased to know that despite all their evil work to obtain money, their kids and grandchildren blew all of it and now arent rich and respected anymore

Tweed must have been Trumps inspiration

31:46 Dolly Parton seems to be the only one doing this nowadays.

I've been fascinated by the Gilded Age ever since I started learning about dollar princesses. 👑 So this video was a very intriguing glimpse into The Gilded Age. 😊 Thank you for sharing this Mrs. Holiday. 💕 I hope there will be more videos about women from The Gilded Age, and The Gilded Age itself. It seems so fascinating. ❤

The crazy part is, most of these names are still HUGE in business today. Over 150 yesrs of these same assholes running things. Rockafellera
, Carnegie-Melon, DuPont, and many others.

15:17 That is the smoothest transition to an add I've seen in a LONG time!

So much like now. Still get away with murder..no prison. ICE killing everyone.

I appreciate that you know a lot about Victorian politics but I'll leave the politics to you and the others who you know politics😅

It seems there's a couple times a lifetime we are given the option to either redo the past or make a better future 😢look at the state of our government and economy

Well done - again! It was nice to see the robber baron breakdowns around the country. Usually, the east coast (New York) group is mentioned. Another enjoyable work.

Thanks for focusing on the truth of the dire situation instead of being wowed by the faux glam.

So, Gilded age = American Victorian era??

Way too positive about our current income inequality and the way trump and his cronies are determined to use tariffs that we pay for with higher prices, remove health care and food stamps from the most needy, and cut as many programs as possible to make up for not taxing the rich!!!!!! We need a revolution to stop the greed, the lies, the graft that have destroyed our democracy! It's time we take back what is owed us!!!

22:34 change doesn’t happen by asking nicely! Stand up for your first amendment right people

Thank you❤

Wonderful video!

Foundational Black Americans have been through so much and have such a great history!

I read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as a senior in high school and told my sociology teacher I read it and it made me believe socialism was the best system and the look on his face said so much 😅

He was one of my most liberal teachers, and he was shocked in a bad way. I was then reborn again after reading more about the libertarian movement back in 2012 (Thanks, Dr. Ron Paul!) and while the lesson of the story behind The Jungle was absolutely to indoctrinate people into accepting and believing in socialism, it definitely was a pivotal piece of literature that I am grateful to have read for myself!!

Well they say if we don’t learn from it, history repeats itself, we are now in the second gilded age, society is just a big stinking pig poo with a thin layer of shiny imitation gold over it. Which I guess beats having another Enlightenment with its age of revolutions and the un-aliving that went along with it. Maybe history needs to be emphasized a little more.

Don't forget the Copper Kings in Butte, MT where they owned the copper mines, and left our town the largest, Superfund site in the country...to the day. We also kicked Carrie Nation out of our town lol.

Lindsay - I just started "The Gilded Age" in October 2025.
Thank you for this video which was full of so much great historical information leading up to and during this period. 👏🏽
The more things change, the more they remain the same because human beings refuse to learn the lessons from history.
Then again, I wish more people were educated about history, but certain politicians and oligarchs don't want that and many people constantly allow themselves to be manipulated (through bigotry) to vote against their own economic self-interest.

There were no taxes back then although our billionaires do not pay taxes now!

BRAVO for explaining WHST IVE always wondered - how did we get out of this mess last time?

We need a new SQUARE DEAL and a new NEW deal and FAST

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That was just for White women. It wasn't until 1960s that women of color got the right to vote.

President Roosevelt is rolling in his grave spitting and vomiting in his grave of what Trump in his cronies is doing now

Julia C Collins was a relative of mine she is of mixed indigenous ancestry

Please do not forget that there was a black population or ready in New York prior to New York freeing their slaves in 1824 so by the time of the Gilded Age we had people like Anthony Jennings who created a dry scouring which became dry cleaning his daughter Elizabeth Jennings would be the first black woman to sue New York City's public Trolley system for unfair discrimination 100 years before Rosa Parks did it she did it in 1853 she was awarded I think about $200 there is a plaque for her a small one on Pearl Street so please do not forget that there were free people of color in New York City by the time the Gilded Age happened there was about two generations of free people of color in New York by the time of the Gilded Age besides the Great Migration from the south

Yes white women around the world because black women were not allowed to join the suffrage movement officially despite the whole basis of the suffrage movement was Harriet Tubman speech ain't I a Woman based on the poem of Phyllis Wheatley

John D Rockefeller helped establish the all girl historically black college Spellman so named after his wife maiden name

Put all of these points in history you're only speaking about Europe you can't speak of the child mortality rates in other areas such as the indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as Australia and all those other regions before European Conquest because many of those places still flourished even when Europe had a dark ages

1:54 I can’t be the only one who disagrees with Twain here. Not that the supposed Gilded Age wasn’t a time of wealth inequality but to say that that’s different from the Golden Ages of the past is simply incorrect. Take for example the Islamic Golden Age. A time of great wealth and scientific progress etc but it was also plagued by wealth inequality and the Zanj Rebellion, arguably the most violent slave revolt in history

The Reading Railroad is pronounced Redding.

Beautiful work! I am fascinated by this era. Two very small things, Mount Holyoke is pronounced like the words HOLY+OAK, not Holly-oak. Also the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory doors were locked shut from the outside to prevent breaks, yes, but mostly to keep out labor union organizers. Quite ironic, considering it ignited the labor union movement.

I absolutely luv this show

Learned a lot from this video mainly... tax the rich!