Heather Cox Richardson: How the Gilded Age Created the Progressive Era

The voices of the Progressive Era, including Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodore Roosevelt, and Zitkála-Šá, didn’t come from nowhere. Heather Cox Richardson explains how they articulated a vision for America that had its roots in the runaway capitalism of the Gilded Age.
Recorded at the Vermont Humanities Council's Fall Conference 2018, "The Ebb and Flow of Optimism through American History."