The Gilded Age
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Vestavia Hills Civic Center 1673 Merryvale Lane, Vestavia Hills, Alabama 35216
OLLI, (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) presents James Day, Professor of History, Montevallo College. We will study the Gilded Age from the 1870's to about 1900. The term came into use in the 1920's and 30's and is derived from Mark Twain's Novel "The Gilded Age: a Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious problems masked by a thin gold gilding. It was an era of rapid economic growth and railroads were the major growth industry. The dominant issues were cultural especially prohibition, education and ethnic or racial groups). With the rapid growth of cities, political machines increasingly took control of urban politics. Dr. Day will guide us through the period and any comparisons to events today. See OLLI complete Catalog at www.ollibham.org