Battlefields to Ballrooms: How the Civil War Influenced the Gilded Age

Returning guest historian and author Connor Williams returns to The Gilded Gentleman table for the in-depth and insightful discussion of the Civil War's influence on the following age of extraordinary wealth and structural advancement for the country.  

Connor discusses how America's economic power centers reversed themselves following Emancipation and how the manipulation of wealth fueled the growth and wealth of the Gilded Age. In addition, Connor takes a look at some of the literature of the era including writers such as Mark Twain who captured a very new America in their work.   

Connor is the author of the just-published "The Confederacy Myth: How an Insurrection of Slaveholders Tried to Destroy the United States". 

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