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-- Gilded age2018., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 973.8 AME Edition: [Widescreen format]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life"--OCLC.
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-- Traingle fire[2011]., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Edition: [Widescreen format]. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the employee unrest that preceeded the fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911 andforced the government to enact the most comprehensive workplace saftey laws in the country.
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-- Generals of the Civil War2011., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Profiles Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.
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2006., General, PBS Home Video Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Edition: Full screen version. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Go behind-the-scenes of one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century: the building of a transcontinental railroad across the United States. Completed in six years by entrepreneurs, brilliant engineers, and legions of dedicated workers.
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-- Tragedy that forever changed labor and industry.c2011., Distributed by PBS Distribution Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in the largest women's strike in American history, took to the streets of New York to protest working conditions. They gained the support of both progressives and leading women in New York's society.
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2011., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 974.7 TRI Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American experienceSummary Note: Depicts the tragic fire in the New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911 that resulted in public outrage against dangerous working conditions which eventually forced government action.