From Robber Barons to Superconductors
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Join host Ed Leon as he chats with popular Great Courses professors. In this episode Professor and historian Edward O’Donnell talk about The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era - a time of tremendous change in America including: post civil war reconstruction, industrial and economic booms, taming the Wild West, the emerging women’s rights movement, and World War I.
And chemistry, it’s no longer a mystery! Chemist and acclaimed professor David Ball breaks down the entire realm of physical matter into three basic elements and explains how all matter contains particles that came from supernovas.
From Robber Barons to Superconductors