Many students of the Industrial Revolution rightfully criticize the era for its many negatives: child labor, worker abuse, the squaller of the slums and tenement houses of the era to name just a few. Yet this view often ignores the many positives that grew from the era including the expansion of women’s roles beyond the home into the halls of government (even before suffrage was granted), prison reform, compulsory education, and developments in public health and safety to name just a few. In this podcast I emphasize the growth of philanthropy with particular emphasis on the treatment of minority groups by industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie, Julius Rosenwald, and Madame C. J. Walker. I also talk about the contributions of the City Beautiful Movement to improvements in urban and rural environments. I conclude the seasons emphasis on the era with its basis in the spirit of BIG.

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