From Robber Barons to Superconductors
The Torch: The Great Courses Podcast
English - May 01, 2015 14:46 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MB - ★★★★ - 131 ratingsCourses Education Technology the teaching company interview academic university virtual professor learn course lecture education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.