Greed, Graft, and the Gilded Age Capitalists (RIT: Zoom)

Fall (2-3 hours) | This course is completed

Online Lebanon, NH 03766 United States
Online Meeting
11/11/2024 (one day)
11:15 AM-12:45 PM EST on Mon
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$30.00

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Greed, Graft, and the Gilded Age Capitalists (RIT: Zoom)

Fall (2-3 hours) | This course is completed

We will look at the men behind the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, their ruthless ambition, staggering greed, and ruthless ambition. Their battle to control the railroads sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes, and influenced presidential elections. These Gilded Age Robber Barons manipulated our economy in the decades before government oversight or control.

Note: This is an OLLI at RIT course.

Debbie Huff

A veteran presenter of narrative history courses at Osher at RIT, Debbie Huff is pleased to present a transformative story of a contemporary woman of the 1970s half a world away from us.