The History of America in the 1880s -- The Decade That Changed America

The History of America in the 1880s is a 60 minute DVD that brings this important decade in America to life. Certainly life then was nothing like today, yet many of the things we so cherish now had their roots during this significant and often time neglected decade in history. Just like a time machine, we transport you back to discover the people and events that shaped this exciting decade: the Brooklyn Bridge Washington Monument Statue of Liberty Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Oklahoma Land Rush Johnstown Flood Thomas Edison Mark Twain Baby Doe Sitting Bull Sarah Bernhardt John Philip Sousa Buffalo Bill Gilbert and Sullivan Wyatt Earp Jesse James and Billy the Kid .Alexander Graham Bell .John D. Rockefeller .Andrew Carnegie .Samuel Gompers .Susan B. Anthony .Lillian Russell .and many more! You will learn about fashion, politics, sports heroes, famous inventors, Wall Street financiers, railroad expansion, buffalo extinction, Indian resettlement, Civil Rights, union organization, urbanization, the music of the times, and much, much more! Through the use of live re-enactments, rare historical photographs and drawings, and award-winning photography you will be amazed, amused, entertained and educated about many little known facts and some life changing events that have become part of the foundation of our society today. As a special bonus feature, we also present an archival documentary film about the life of Alexander Graham Bell, his work with the deaf and the invention of the telephone! Recommended by Landers Film Review.

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• history
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