The Gilded Age | How the Other Half Lives | 3
In the spring of 1883, Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt threw the grandest party New York had ever seen, claiming her spot at the top of the city’s social hierarchy. The Gilded Age drove feverish growth in Americ...
5 Aug 202040min
The Gilded Age | Rise of the Robber Barons | 2
In the 1870s and 1880s, businessmen clawed their way to the top of the new industrial economy, accumulating staggering fortunes. Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller ruthlessly eliminated his rivals one by ...
29 Juli 202041min
The Gilded Age | Carnival of Corruption | 1
In 1869, America connected its vast, sprawling territory with its most ambitious project to date: the transcontinental railroad. The country had just emerged from the ashes of the Civil War, and the r...
22 Juli 202038min
Stonewall | Eric Marcus Remembers the Voices of Stonewall | 5
When the events of Stonewall happened in 1969, Eric Marcus was just a boy away at a New Jersey summer camp. Nearly 20 years later, he would document the voices of revolutionary LGBTQ activists like Ma...
15 Juli 202039min
Stonewall | Pride | 4
After a late-night police raid on the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, the LGBTQ community fought back in the streets of Greenwich Village. Suddenly, the LGBTQ rights movement found itself catapulted onto ...
8 Juli 202046min
Stonewall | Why Don’t You Do Something? | 3
Resistance at restaurants in San Francisco and Philadelphia showcased the building tension as trans activists challenged long-standing policies of discrimination. But leading gay rights groups continu...
1 Juli 202038min
Stonewall | Turbulence | 2
As the 1960s dawned, LGBTQ activists began to voice frustration with the gradual approach to civil rights advocated by groups like the Mattachine Society. If LGBTQ people wanted to make real progress,...
24 Juni 202043min
Stonewall | Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary | 1
In the summer of 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn sparked a riot on the streets of Greenwich Village. The protest marked a turning point in the gay rights movement. But the famed resistance in...
17 Juni 202038min
