Chapter 1 | The Gilded Age | American Experience | PBS

Miss K here...I have a question...whose fault is this????? They should fix it.

With public broadcasting destroyed nothing like this documentary again…

The future belongs to the innovative, it always will, change is the one constant.

thank you.

0:42 Oops...😂 I Bet That Hat Set Him Back A Whole Dime.😁

The architecture 🥰 everything is so tacky now. 😖

I wonder if there are documentaries about the Gilded Age from a Leftist perspective...

I’m not sure what this is about yet but saved to my watch later but from comments it’s sounds very interesting.
I’ve had it said to me recently by those closest to me ‘I’m up there, you’re down here’ but I feel truly grateful for all I have and feel blessed beyond imagination having faith and shelter.
Should it be that I ever lose my shelter then I trust that it’s leading me to blessings through hardship 🙏🏼

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Carnegie stood out from Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Carnegie had a sustainable industry.

Watching this in 2023. The parallels are stark.

History certainly repeats itself, doesn't it?

I hope we are not in another guilded age.

We've learned nothing.

It puts money back into the economy.

I would have loved to have a nannie for my kids.

Rodney Dangerfield had a joke about a grandfather who made the family fortune and his decedents were Putzes. It is so true today. When we had inheritance taxes, the successful people had their wealth taxed and plowed back into the country. This set the stage for the next group of smart, tough and lucky people to find financial success. Now we're like Europe. We have idle wealthy people leading our decline. If they had to work and compete to re-attain wealth they would grow the economy or make room for tougher, smarter, harder working people who find better ways to do things.

The Gilded Age is the product of the triumphant Federal armies under Lincoln. He was a wealthy railroad lawyer and one of the main disputes between the Northern and Southern senators was where to build a new railroad-the South wanted it to go through a Southern route, while the North wouldn't hear of it. After the War, the first order of business was the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, at taxpayer expense (costing thousands per mile through graft and corruption0 and the concomitant expansion of the wealth and "power" of the elite Northerners such as Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and even Carnegie, among others. Grant, the most aggressive Northern general of the war, laying siege to cities of civilians such as Vickburg, Atlanta and Richmond, and laying waste through Sherman to countless civilian homes and farms, became president, and was noted for the utter corruption of his administration. With this came the grinding poverty of new immigrants to Northern cities and of the sons of the Federal troops who helped the North, Lincoln and Grant win. The South, of course, while the wealthiest antebellum part of America, and with more .founding fathers and previous presidents from the South, became after the War the poorest part of the country, for both black and white

Car-neggy?

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3:05 if ever their was a Face to put to that ROT underneath you're looking at it...

The Gilded Age gave birth to the Robber Barons, who were simply pirates, thieves, and scoundrels by another name.

this is just a commercial for pbs streaming. tacky and greedy.

How does a pile of money signify success?

Wealth inequality is worse today. We are in a new guilded age. We need to wake up and stop with the culture wars and begin enforcing antitrust, strengthening the safety net we have annihilated, make the wealthy pay their taxes and work toward the common good.

My father was a secret-policeman: the dividing-line btw good+evil was NIXON's 1973 reforms, Kefauver 1951, women's suffrage, voter suppression + legalizing prostitution. The super-rich got MURDERED for their coats, hats, books, diaries + handguns.

not much of a different today, we they working class are struggling to live due to the economy.

The Marxist political misrepresentation always infuriates me. If you read diaries from the gilded age, even the poor in cities were actually much more happy and hopeful than anyone today. There was so much opportunity, and stable prices with the gold and silver coined money, people could literally build a meaningful, happy life and save for old age without having to worry about central bank engineered market crashes stealing reducing their pension funds to nothing, or central bank engineered inflation eroding the value away. Most people lived and worked their farms, and some land was FREE, granted to anyone willing to contribute to building this country. The past is cast in a negative light so people don't question the stressful life under heavy taxation, with little opportunity, and being unable to compete in business with multinational megacap corporations.

Where can one watch this documentary outside of the USA? South Africa to be specific....

It amazes me how anyone can seriously talk like this age ever really ended.

I want the history not left wing minded progressives simping for bombings and there divisive social campaigns.

The Gilded Age TV series brought me here..

One of my ancestors came to The US before the Civil War a 2 year old orphan, watched by the women on the boat, he started a small company through hard work and sacrifice the company grew and when he died 90 years later he was a multimillionaire. He alway said that if I can do it anyone can..

Such a waste and shame.

i'm here for school

Naprawdę wierzycie , że przy pomocy wozów konnych możnaby stworzyć te architektoniczne dzieła sztuki..? Haha O! Naiwności. Ja rozumiem, że Ameryka to ,,stan umysłu" ale żeby aż tak kłamać. Typowe dla anglo-sasów. 🤣🤣🤣

If you weren't rich you were nothing

My Caucasian teacher is making me watch this for my African American history 😐😐

I’m tired of paying for classes to learn about more YT people

We're all one and our one person

At five minutes into this damned video I had to stop--it was obviously made by leftists who have a grudge against the US, the most blessed nation in the history of planet Earth. To hell with PBS who takes taxpayer dollars to propagandize against this great nation.

Nothing has changed since then..

Unlike the past the present wealthy live all over the world. They don't just think of America. They are almost lawless.

Anybody see the guys hat being snatched away and the look of surprise he had? 😂😂😂

Why all the imagery off the french aristocrats in the 1700s to represent us in the late 1800’s. Its baiting

Posted 1yr later.... 2022*
SEE HOW DIMMING HISTORY LEADS TO DISASTER
FEEL KINDA FAMILIAR... RIGHT NOW HUH
Lmfao they just figured out How To Make It Not APPEAR.... NOW ITS ON SOME LET ME TELL EVERYONE HOW RICH I AM.... 🤔
AND SEEMS TO BE REPEATING ITS SELF... GAWD I HOPE THIS TIME. WE CAN RECOVER.
When the Needs Of a FEW TRUMP THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE. HAS GOTTEN US. SO MUCH MONEY AND PLANET IS SUFFERING STILL AND CANT CHANGE... BC THEN THATS A WHOLE NEW SET OF MONEY 💰 it's 1%for a REASON

Somethings do not change ... with the exception of learning to conceal you wealth.

This is what Biden and the Democrats are doing now to the people of the United States

5:03 It's simply not a documentary on American history if H.W. Brands isn't in it.