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Coins, Currency & American History

Ep. 22 – The Gilded Age: When Capital Outgrew Money

May 29, 2026 Season 1 Episode 22

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The end of Reconstruction left the future of the United States wide open. Historians would later call this period the Gilded Age. And for the first time since independence, Americans stopped measuring themselves against Europe. They started competing with it...

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